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  • ** FILE ** In this June 21, 2010 file photo, a work boat pulls up to a line of barges anchored in Pass Abel on the coast of Louisiana near Grand Isle, La. Mired in a daily battle against the oil soiling Louisiana's shorelines, marshes and wetlands, locals in this barrier island town are pushing ahead with a novel plan to block the crude's path with a flotilla of barges. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file)

    Flotilla of barges used as La. oil barricade

    Anything and everything is being used to block oil from further infesting waters. Government officials are considering using a flotilla of barges to do the job.


  • Inside the Beltway

    It's not just Kaganville. Or Kagantown.


  • ASSOCIATED PRESS
BUCKING THE SYSTEM: South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint seeks some new allies in the Senate.

    DeMint expands clout all the way to Utah

    South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint has bet on the right horse in an impressive string of Senate primary contests this year, but the freshman Republican's biggest challenge will likely be how he and his band of conservative outsiders fit into the GOP establishment.


  • ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Obama is greeted by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist as he arrives at Louis Armstrong International New Orleans Airport in Kenner, La., on June 4. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson looks on. Conservatives vilified Mr. Crist for "the hug" - his embrace of Mr. Obama as the president pushed for the $787 billion stimulus package.

    Crist alliances upset GOP

    A Republican no longer, Gov. Charlie Crist just can't seem to get enough of President Obama or Democratic priorities.


  • President Obama speaks to military personnel at Naval Air Station Pensacola's Naval Air Technical Training Center in Pensacola, Fla., Tuesday, June 15, 2010, after his visit to the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

    Obama promises 'unprecedented response'

    On the last leg of a two-day visit to three Gulf states, President Obama on Tuesday said his administration is going to do "whatever it takes for as long as it takes" to deal with the devastating oil spill that has ravaged the local economy and threatens pristine wetlands.


  • Greene

    Greene not meek about Senate bid

    Boxer Mike Tyson was the best man at his wedding. Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss lived in his guest house. And the television ads for Jeff Greene's out-of-nowhere bid for Florida's Senate seat are financed by a fortune made from betting on the fall of the housing market.


  • John Adams

    Standing by for the booby prize

    Nobody has yet discovered what to do with the vice president. His only real duties are to attend funerals in far-off places abroad and to stand by for the only funeral he could enjoy. This isn't enough for an ambitious pol.


  • Crist

    Weekend at McCain's just the ticket?

    The presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain says it's purely coincidental, but three of the guests scheduled to drop by the senator's Arizona home over the Memorial Day weekend happen to be on the shortlist of vice presidential contenders.


  • Weekend at McCain's just the ticket?

    The presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain says it's purely coincidental, but three of the guests scheduled to drop by the senator's Arizona home over the Memorial Day weekend happen to be on the shortlist of vice presidential contenders.


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