During the Bush era, places like Heritage or the AEI were hothouses for political appointees.

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When rain is not flooding the ramshackle tents and tarps, the summer sun turns them into hothouses.

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You might perhaps expect that the must-have executive gadget was unleashed on the world from somewhere inside one of the high-tech hothouses of Silicon Valley.

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