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Jim DeMint Gets His Reward

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Senator Jim DeMint will step down to lead the Heritage Foundation.

Congratulations, Senator: at about $1 million per year, the Heritage president is the highest-paid think tank president in Washington, earning almost twice as much as the next runner-up. (Those are 2010 figures, likely much higher now.) And that's without counting the car-and-driver!

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David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of eight books, including most recently the e-book WHY ROMNEY LOST and his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.

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