Politics

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President Obama talks with his host between segments of an interview Tuesday on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno." Mr. Obama said he isn't paying very close attention to the GOP primary debates yet. He also addressed the recent killing for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and the NBA lockout. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry holds up the tax form he says that Americans would fill out as he outlined a broad economic proposal of a flat 20 percent income tax rate during a news conference Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, at the State House in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

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Gov. Chris Christie's popularity has dipped since the New Jersey Republican decided not to run for president and instead endorsed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

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Rep. Steve King, one of the most fiery opponents of President Obama's "executive amnesty" for illegal immigrants, backed away from his previous calls for impeachment. "I don't want to do the 'I' word. Nobody wants to throw the nation into that kind of turmoil," the Iowa Republican told CNN immediately following Mr. Obama's executive action. (Associated Press)

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Adam Healy, chairman of ANC 6A's Alcohol Beverage Licensing Committee, talks with Margaret Holwill, a resident of the H Street Corridor before a meeting last week to gauge the community's reaction to the capping of liquor licenses for the area. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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Members of the Montford Point Marines train with artillery in New River, N.C., in April 1945. The House voted 422-0 Tuesday to award the unit the Congressional Gold Medal. "They served with great valor and distinction and loved their country more than their country loved them at the time," Rep. Brad Miller, North Carolina Democrat, said. (U.S. Marine Corps via Associated Press)

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Illustration: Dependence on Government by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

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Goaltender Michal Neuvirth (30) of the Washington Capitals during warm ups in preseason hockey at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC, Monday, September 26, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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Decades of fraught relations between the Israeli government and Bedouin Arabs living in the hardscrabble Negev Desert are coming to a head over a state plan that would expel 30,000 of the nomads from unauthorized tent encampments and shantytowns and move them into some of the country's most destitute towns. (Associated Press)

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A Tunisian volunteer unseals a box containing election ballots in Ariana, Tunisia, on Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)

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** FILE ** Joseph Kony, pictured in 2006, leads the Lord's Resistance Army. (AP Photo/Stuart Price, Pool)

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Stephen Bosworth, U.S. special envoy for North Korea policy, leaves his hotel for the second round of rare direct talks between North Korea and the United States in Geneva on Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi)

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, speaks at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition presidential candidate forum in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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President Obama is greeted at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. An initiative he announced Monday is at least the 10th housing-relief program that the administration has introduced in the past three years. Nevada is the state hit hardest by foreclosures. (Associated Press)

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Presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry (right) poses with supporters after speaking at GOP forum Oct. 12 in Indianapolis. Barack Obama won Indiana in 2008, so to restore the state's reputation for producing conservative wins, the Republican National Committee plans to send staffers and funding to Indiana in the spring, says Rick Wiley, RNC political director. (Associated Press)