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  • 'That's 1 MILLION times bigger than 9 TRILLION!'

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  • ** FILE ** Then-Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

    CPAC youths aim to change Republican image

    CPAC organizers have loaded with dozens of younger elected officials and activists in hopes of revamping a conservative brand that has been skewing older in recent election cycles.


  • Rick Majerus, college basketball coach, dies

    At Rick Majerus' final stop, the lone concession to the coach's health woes were the footstools stationed at each corner of the practice court.


  • Rick Majerus, college basketball coach, dies

    Rick Majerus, the jovial basketball-obsessed coach who led Utah to the 1998 NCAA final and had only one losing season in 25 years with four schools, died Saturday. He was 64.


  • GOP gains in Missouri over decade can aid Akin

    The Republican Party has been so successful at increasing voter turnout in Missouri over the past 10 years or so that Rep. W. Todd Akin still could win his bid for the Senate, even after his stumbles in his race against Democratic incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill.


  • Former President Clinton will make the rounds of Sunday TV political talk shows to make the case for re-election of President Obama. Mr. Clinton was widely praised for Democratic Party convention speech. (Andrew Geraci/The Washington Times)

    Obama pulls Clinton from his arsenal for help

    President Obama is turning to one of his most lethal political weapons — former President Clinton — as he tries to take advantage of some Romney missteps this week by having Mr. Clinton make the case for his re-election in some ways better than the president can himself.


  • Vice President Joseph R. Biden and his wife, Jill, arrive in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday for the Democratic National Convention. His enthusiasm and joviality are seen as assets. (Associated Press)

    Opposite Biden attracts Obama loyalty

    When explaining why President Obama has stuck by Joseph R. Biden for 3½ years of gaffes, overly exuberant flourishes and fumbles, political observers like to say the vice president is everything Mr. Obama is not: a garrulous, unscripted, yet seasoned political operator who loves to glad-hand and connect one on one.


  • Dan Pritchett, vice president of Marketing & Business Development for Logos Bible Software, stands behind a pair of computer monitors as he works April 9, 2009, in his cluttered office in Bellingham, Wash. (Associated Press)

    From Bill Gates to Thomas Aquinas: Bible software company spreads the Word

    Logos Bible Software might seem an odd company to bring the previously untranslated works of Thomas Aquinas to the masses. Indeed, it might seem an odd company to bring us holy books, period. Then again, perhaps it is only fitting that in the quest to bring ancient religious writings into the modern digital age, Bill Gates' progeny shall lead us.


  • The 1969 Plymouth Road Runner was not only striking because of its power but also its lack of chrome.

    First 1969 Plymouth Road Runner reincarnate

    In the summer of 1969 Tom Decker was between his freshman and sophomore years at St. Louis University when he purchased a 1969 Plymouth Road Runner. Since then other cars have come and gone, but Mr. Decker says, "When I dream about a car, it's always about that Road Runner."


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