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  • Inside the Beltway: Mitt Romney in seven words

    Ann Romney told Fox News anchor Chris Wallace that her husband "would have been a fabulous president."


  • New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (Associated Press)

    EDITORIAL: Mayor Bloomberg's bloat

    At the Regal Potomac Yard 16, a movie theater in Alexandria, a "small" soda weighs a large 32 ounces. Such sodas, enough to quench the thirst of the entire family, may be available at other cinemas across the country, but beginning March 12, they won't be in New York City.


  • **FILE** Rep. Mike Rogers, Alabama Republican (Associated Press)

    Talk of pork revival tempts lawmakers on Capitol Hill

    When Rep. Mike Rogers publicly suggested last week that Congress reconsider its ban on pork-barrel spending, the Alabama Republican probably didn't know what he was stepping into.


  • YOUR TAX DOLLARS?  This Internet screen grab of an episode of "Diary of a Single Mom" features a guest appearance by actor Billy Dee Williams. (pic.tv)

    Online soap opera cleans up with stimulus broadband cash

    You may not have seen the show "Diary of a Single Mom" co-starring Billy Dee Williams, but your tax dollars helped pay for it.


  • FILE - A worker at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention sits at a station in the emergency operations center as the CDC monitors swine flu development in this April 27, 2009 file photo taken in Atlanta. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost or misplaced more than $8 million in property in 2007, losing track of items including computer and video equipment, government auditors say. The agency still hasn't explained what happened to the 15 pieces of missing equipment from 2007, auditors said. But a CDC spokeswoman on Wednesday Dec. 29, 2010 said all but four of the items _ including the two most expensive ones _ have since been accounted for. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

    Audit finds CDC misplaced $8 million in equipment

    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost or misplaced more than $8 million in property in 2007, losing track of items including computer and video equipment, government auditors say.


  • Audit finds CDC misplaced $8 million in equipment

    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost or misplaced more than $8 million in property in 2007, losing track of items including computer and video equipment, government auditors say.


  • Former Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, Delaware Republican, contributed two of the quotes on a Yale Law School librarian's "top-10 quotes of the year." (Associated Press)

    Inside the Beltway

    Christine O'Donnell's "I'm not a witch" quote from an Oct. 4 political ad was one of the "top-10 quotes of the year," according to Fred Shapiro, associate librarian at Yale Law School.


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