Greg Sargent: Obama?s pushback on gas prices: Target the oil billionaires

My post colleague Aaron Blake has the scoop on a remarkable letter that the Obama campaign has just blasted in the direction of the billionaire Koch brothers.

The backstory: On Friday, Koch Companies ? angered by an earlier Obama fundraising letter citing the Kochs ? sent a letter to Obama?s advisers protesting that the Obama camp, by criticizing them, was squelching their right to grassroots political action.

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A moderate?s lament

A few months ago, Sen. Michael Bennet?s staff staged what the Colorado Democrat calls an intervention.

He had survived a brutal campaign in 2010 to win his first full term. But after a year of deadlock and partisanship in the Senate, he was wondering whether it had been worth the struggle. ?It was right after we managed to end our session with a two-month extension of the payroll tax,? Bennet told me Wednesday. ?I got to a point where I was referring to this place as the Land of Flickering Lights, because the standard of success was we kept the lights on for another two months.?

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Greg Sargent: Romney comes out against `Blunt-Rubio?

Jim Heath, a reporter for ONN-TV in Ohio, just Tweeted a remarkable piece of news: Mitt Romney told him he does not support the Blunt amendment, which would empower employers and insurers to deny health coverage they find morally objectionable.

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Mac and cheese: A macrocosm of variations

Start a pot of pasta water on the stove, and it boils down to this: You can make macaroni and cheese 365 days a year and never do it the same way twice.

With a nearly infinite array of potential components, this most American of comfort foods also can be Mexican, Indian, Italian, Greek, French or any cuisine in which cheese is a given. Even a modestly stocked pantry allows you to grab and get going. Flour and butter become a roux, the roux becomes a bechamel, the bechamel becomes a cheese sauce, and dinner is not far away.

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Book scores with the 2.1 seconds ?that changed basketball?

The story of the classic 1992 basketball contest told in ESPN senior columnist Gene Wojciechowski?s new book, ?The Last Great Game,? truly begins about four years earlier. That?s when Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski recruited Christian Laettner, the driving force in this book and in Duke?s transformation from contender to champion.

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The Blind Dog Cafe at Darnell?s

A pop-up restaurant is supposed to be temporary. But when business partners Noah Karesh, Jonas Singer and Cullen Gilchrist launched theirs the week of Valentine?s Day, they hoped the Shaw neighborhood would fall in love.

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Joel Achenbach: The authentic Mitt Romney

The Republicans have a problem, named Mitt Romney. He?s the guy the mainstream party bosses like, but no one truly loves. He?s solid on paper, but is a shape-shifter, with an unusual gift of gaffe that makes him seem like a character out of a cartoon ? a throwback tycoon. The other day, trying to sell himself as a Michigander, he talked about his memory of a parade in Detroit ? but it actually happened before he was even born. ?I love cars,? he said, running the grave risk of alienating the anti-car voters. He went to Daytona Beach and said he doesnt? follow the races but some of his best friends own NASCAR teams.

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