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Nikki Haley and Bobby Jindal

For Indian-American pols, the “What are you?” test

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This video image provided by House Television shows Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. speaking on the floor of the House on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/House Television) (AP)

Defiant Rangel: “Fire your best shot”

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Chuck Todd

Polling company fires back at NBC, Chuck Todd

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Richard Santulli, chairman of the Intrepid Fallen Hero Fund, holding scissors at center, and Arnold Fisher, honorary chairman of the Intrepid Fallen Hero Fund, with scissors third from right, cut the ribbon during the dedication of the National Intrepid Center of Excellence at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Thursday, June 24, 2010. Also participating in the event is Assistant Veterans Affairs Secretary Tammy Duckworth, with cane. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (Susan Walsh)

Heroic healthcare innovators and their innovations

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This image captured from a classified U.S. military video footage shows Iraqis being shot from an U.S. Apache helicopters that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff on July 12, 2007, and released to Reuters on April 5, 2010 by WikiLeaks, a group that promotes leaking to fight government and corporate corruption. Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his assistant and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, were killed in the incident. The helicopter initially opens fire on the small group. Minutes later a van comes by, and starts assisting the wounded, and the helicopter opens fire on the van. REUTERS/WikiLeaks/Handout (IRAQ - Tags: CRIME LAW DISASTER MILITARY CIVIL UNREST) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS (Â© Ho New / Reuters)

McChrystal and WikiLeaks: A double standard?

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Rep. Bob Etheridge

Bob Etheridge responds to YouTube video

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North Carolina Rep. Bob Etheridge

Bob Etheridge’s Bob Knight moment

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Jerry Tarkanian chews on a towel in 1998.

“Tark the Shark” on the Nevada Senate race

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Paul Larudee

Captured and detained by Israel, an American tells his story

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Edward Peck, a former U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania, speaks to demonstrators in front of the White House in Washington June 1, 2010 about his experience aboard a Gaza aid ship as that was seized by Israeli commandos. Peck was sent back to the U.S. by Israeli authorities. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) (Â© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters)

Edward Peck: Israel “smearing” the opposition

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Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., speaks on women's issues in the health care bill on Saturday, March 20, 2010 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke) (Associated Press)

Harman challenger: Top Dem “in the pocket” of AIPAC

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Top House Republican: Support Israel’s right to defend itself

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Chair of foreign aid subcommittee: Don’t blame Israel yet

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Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-NY, during the House Rules Committee meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, March 20, 2010.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg) (Associated Press)

Weiner: No matter what, “the U.S. should stand up for Israel”

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