ABC News? Matthew Jaffe reports: In the latest move by Senate Democrats to target Big Oil for high gas prices, Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-MO, and Chuck Schumer, D-NY, today called for the Federal Trade Commission to launch an investigation into...

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Every detail of elite U.S. troops' mission was planned, but team of 23 had to improvise from the beginning

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Ezra Klein, on last night's events in Wisconsin: It seems to me that the system worked. Democrats were able to slow the process down and convince both voters in Wisconsin and the national media that there was something beyond business as usual happening in Madison. National and state polls sh...

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As unbelievable as it might be from today's perspective, there was a lot of presidential campaign buzz in May 2009 surrounding a trip Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., was planning to the early caucus state of Iowa. Today, Ensign is no longer even a senator and, worse still, faces possible criminal charges in the wake of a scathing report issued Thursday by his former colleagues on Capitol Hill. Included are details not only about the former veterinarian's affair with his best friend's wife but his alleged attempts to cover it up. The report reads like a criminal investigation at times and recalls a sleazy dime-store novel at other points.

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Rep. Paul Ryan, Chicago Tribune
Despite Washington coming to grips with the fact that the debt threat is real, policymakers still are not having the debate Americans deserve. The talk is too often restricted to "shared sacrifice." This sets up a debate where we are really just arguing over whom to hurt and how best to manage the decline of our nation. It is a framework that accepts permanently higher taxes and bureaucratically determined access to health care as givens.

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A panel that hears misconduct complaints about federal judges in the Sixth Circuit said a bankruptcy judge could keep his membership at Belle Meade, an exclusive Nashville club.

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Last week, Newt Gingrich called Barack Obama the "food stamp" president and floated reimposing a Jim Crow-era poll tests:

You know, folks often talk about immigration. I always say that to become an American citizen, immigrants ought to have to learn American history. [applause] But maybe we should also have a voting standard that says to vote, as a native born American, you should have to learn American history. [applause] You realize how many of our high school graduates because of the decay of the educational system, couldn?t pass a citizenship test.

Now he denies blowing a racist dog whistle, saying he's "never said" anything at all "racist" about President Obama. And maybe he thinks talking about reimposing Jim Crow-era poll tests has nothing to do with race. But if that's the case than "Professor" Gingrich would have to admit that he himself doesn't know enough American history to vote, let alone run for President.

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George Will, Cokie Roberts and Amy Walter analyze the week in politics.

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A controversial move by New Hampshire Republicans to prohibit voting by many of the state's college students appears to be dead - at least for now.

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