Politics

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Josefina Vasquez Mota waves a Mexican flag at a rally last week in her campaign to win the presidency. (Keith Dannemiller/Special to The Washington Times)

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Rep. Don Young, Alaska Republican, stood up for wounded veterans who killed polar bears in Canada but have been unable to bring carcasses into the U.S. (Associated Press)

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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (left) chats with Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment Jr., James City Republican, outside the Senate Republican Caucus room at the Capitol in Richmond on Tuesday. The governor addressed the caucus before the debate and vote on the budget. The Senate failed to pass the budget. (Associated Press)

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Senate Minority Leader Richard L. Saslaw (center), Fairfax Democrat, talks with Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment Jr. (left), James City Republican, as Sen. Emmett Hanger (second from left), Augusta Republican, and Sen. Charles Colgen (second from right), Prince William Democrat, and Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Walter Stosch, Henrico Republican, listen prior to the debate on the budget conferees' report at the Capitol in Richmond on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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"I know this is sort of geeky stuff, but the hard reality is that the amount of time it takes to put together these plans is really daunting. This takes weeks and weeks and months and months of effort, and that's why I think it's important to begin." - Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, North Dakota Democrat

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Jon McNaughton created a YouTube video to explain the meaning behind "The Forgotten Man." In grouping former presidents, he focused on their adherence to the Constitution rather than their party, putting George W. Bush with FDR and Bill Clinton. (Jon McNaughton)

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Mr. McNaughton works in his Provo, Utah, studio on "One Nation Under God," in which Christ presents the Constitution to a group of Founding Fathers and archetypal Americans.

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CNBC analyst Rick Santelli is an ideal running mate for GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, according to Jeff Kahn, co-founder of Draft Santelli for President 2012. (CNBC)

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has signed laws that protect women's rights but also has made comments that have alarmed defenders of those rights. He ignited a firestorm last year when he attempted to bring all women's shelters under government control. (Associated Press)

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Washington Capitals defenseman Karl Alzner (27), top right, taunts Boston Bruins left wing Milan Lucic (17) during a scuffle in the third period as the Washington Capitals lose to the Boston Bruins in Game 3 of their first-round series, 4-3, at Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., on Monday, April 16, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Senate Finance Committee chairman, Sen. Walter Stosch, Henrico Republican, left, and Sen. Charles Colgan, Prince William Democrat, talk prior to a Senate budget briefing at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, April 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney listens on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, during a meeting with a group of Pittsburgh-area residents in Bethel Park, Pa. (Associated Press)

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Anti-regime activists in Syria cover their faces with scarves in the colors of the Syrian revolutionary flag last month as they prepare a protest banner that reads in Arabic, "How would a mother be happy in the Eid (mother's day) while in each home we have a martyr?" With 60 percent of the Arab world's population under 25, protesters say they are working not just for regime change but for the dreams of their generation, on hold for now. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Coup leader Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo (right) speaks March 29, 2012, during a walkabout at the airport in Bamako, Mali. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A trader works in the Goldman Sachs booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 15, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Police commandos stand guard on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, outside a house in Islamabad, Pakistan, where family members of the late al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden are believed to be held. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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** FILE ** In this April 2, 2012, file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks in Shawano, Wis. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

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U.N. observers, led by Moroccan Col. Ahmed Himmiche (left), leave the Sheraton Hotel in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, April 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

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Washington Capitals defenseman Karl Alzner (27), second from left, Boston Bruins left wing Milan Lucic (17), third from left, and Washington Capitals left wing Matt Hendricks (26), second from right, have to be separated during a scuffle in the third period as the Washington Capitals lose to the Boston Bruins in game three, 3-4, of National Hockey League first round playoff hockey at the Verizon Center, Washington, D.C., Monday, April 16, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Washington Capitals left wing Jason Chimera (25), Boston Bruins defenseman Johnny Boychuk (55), middle right, and Boston Bruins left wing Milan Lucic (17), top right, battle for the puck in the third period as the Washington Capitals lose to the Boston Bruins in game three, 3-4, of National Hockey League first round playoff hockey at the Verizon Center, Washington, D.C., Monday, April 16, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)