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In what’s sure to set off another round of hand-wringing around Washington’s professional chattering class, Postie Howard Kurtz today broke the story of how the Bush administration paid ANOTHER columnist to promote its agenda.

Coming on the heels of the Armstrong Williams flap, evidently HHS paid syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher some $21,500 for work she did on Bush’s initiative to encourage marriage as a way of strengthening families. While she says the payment was for specific projects she did on behalf of HHS, she wrote at least one column