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A pro-Syrian-regime demonstrator waves a Syrian flag as he stands in front of portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a protest against sanctions in Damascus, Syria, on Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
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Italian Premier Mario Monti talks to journalists at the Chigi Palace, the premier's office, in Rome on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/LaPresse, Mauro Scrobogna)
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Then-Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain announces he is suspending his campaign as his wife, Gloria (left), looks on, on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Tulis) ** FILE **
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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaks to supporters and volunteers during a rally Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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** FILE ** Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich speaks in West Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
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Illustration: Founding Fathers by John Camejo for The Washington Times
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FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents leave the scene after they served a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)
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FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents leave the scene after they served a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)
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FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)
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FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)
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FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)
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FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)
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FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)
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Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain hugs a supporter at a campaign event on Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, in Rock Hill, S.C. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro)
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Protesters carry symbolic coffins honoring those killed in recent clashes with security forces during a rally in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. Islamists appear to have taken a strong majority of seats in the first round of Egypt's first parliamentary vote since Hosni Mubarak's ouster. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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In this photo taken during a government-organized tour for the media, relatives of Sari Saoud a 9-year-old boy who was shot dead in Homs three days ago while he was buying cookies from a shop, shout pro-Syrian regime and unity slogans, in the village of Kfarbo in Hama province, Syria, on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. Georgina the mother of Sari blamed "armed terrorists" for killing her son. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures during her speech at the German Federal Parliament, Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
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** FILE ** In this April 26, 2011, photo, U.S. Army soldiers walk through Al Faw palace in Camp Victory Baghdad, Iraq. Victory Base Complex, as it's formally called by the military, started life as a country club for the Baghdad elite under Saddam. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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"The government doesn't create jobs - you do," said George Allen, a former Virginia Republican governor and U.S. senator seeking to return to Capitol Hill in 2012. (The Washington Times)
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"There is one attitude that says that the right strategy to take is to fight Washington ... I think we need to fix Washington," said Tim Kaine, a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
