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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is the birthplace of Gertrude Stein, the Duchess of Windsor, and Andy Warhol. Pennsylvania's largest urban conglomeration, Philadelphia, is known as the City of Brotherly Love, and it also gave its name to the movie for which Tom Hanks, playing a gay lawyer, won his first Oscar. A stone's throw away, in neighboring Camden, Walt Whitman, the poet of democracy and manly adhesiveness, spent his golden years. All of that is well and good. But let's not get any funny ideas.
Pennsylvania's junior United States Senator is Rick Santorum, who has lately earned himself a spot of trouble by talking about sex. Senator Santorum is widely regarded, not least by himself, as an up-and-comer. At forty-four years of age, he already holds the exalted title of chairman of the Senate Republican Conference. This makes him the No. 3 man in the Republican leadership, just behind the Majority Leader, Bill Frist, and the Assistant Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell. According to an official press release, which was headed "Statement of U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) regarding misleading Associated Press story,"and which was put out last Tuesday, "Senator Santorum recently sat down for an interview with the Associated Press with an understanding that a profile piece would be published...
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