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Damian Cox of Germantown, Md. helps fold up a huge photograph as part of a photographic art instillation created to bring attention to immigration reform, on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, June 18, 2014. The instillation is part of the Inside Out Project by photographer JR, which is a global participatory art project creating group actions on varied themes such as hope, diversity, gender-based violence, climate change, immigration reform and more. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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In this photo taken on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, vehicles are submerged under floodwaters in front of Baker College along Outer Drive near Interstate 94 in Allen Park, Mich. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has declared a state of disaster in the Detroit area after heavy rain caused major road closures, flooded houses and damaged infrastructure. (AP Photo/Detroit News, David Coates) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT, HUFFINGTON POST OUT, MAGS OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
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Texas is "a place where you give back to your community," says Gov. Rick Perry, who called for volunteer soldiers to protect the border. (Associated Press)
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FILE - This July 11, 2013, file photo shows Blake Beckett of West Central Cooperative as he sprays a soybean field, in Granger, Iowa. Faced with tougher and more resistant weeds, corn and soybean farmers are anxiously awaiting government decisions on a new version of a popular herbicide _ and on genetically modified seeds to grow crops designed to resist it. The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to rule in the fall of 2014 on Dow AgroSciences’ application to market Enlist, a new version of the 2,4-D herbicide that’s been around since the 1940s.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
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In this Monday, Aug. 11, 2014 photo tourists visit Panathenaic stadium in Athens. The old Olympic Stadium of Athens, a marble reconstruction of the city’s ancient stadium built for the first modern Olympics held in Athens is open to ticket-paying visitors who can also visit a small Olympic museum on the site. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (left) speaks to reporters while visiting C&L Aviation with Maine Gov. Paul LePage on Aug. 12, 2014, in Bangor, Maine. Christie returned to Maine to campaign for LePage's re-election campaign. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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A D.C. Water and Sewer Authority truck sits parked in the flood prone Bloomingdale neighborhood to monitor streets as heavy rain moves through the region causing flooding in some areas, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times) ** FILE **
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A voter can be seen in a voting booth Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014 in Honolulu. Despite the rains and winds from Tropical Storm Iselle that pounded the state Friday, Hawaii will hold primary elections today. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)
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A water conservation sign is shown displayed outside of City Hall in Santa Cruz, Calif., Tuesday, July 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Bay Area News Group, Patrick Tehan) ** FILE **
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FILE- This April 26, 2013 file photo shows the West Hercules drilling rig in the Skaanevik fjord in western Norway. Norway's government controlled Statoil oil company reported Thursday Aug. 7, 2014, that it has not found any commercial quantities of oil and gas at the northernmost wells it has drilled in the Arctic region, ending the exploration campaign for this year without indicating if drilling would resume next year. (AP Photo/Scanpix, Statoil, FILE)
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Onlookers view rocks and mud and downed power lines from a mudslide in the mountain community of Forest Falls in the San Bernardino Mountains Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. Crews cleared roads in an area where some 2,500 had been stranded after thunderstorms caused mountain mudslides in Southern California over the weekend, while authorities estimated that between six and eight homes were badly damaged and likely uninhabitable. One person was found dead in a vehicle that was caught in a flash flood. A group of campers spent the night at a community center near Forest Falls. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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This July 11, 2014, aerial photo shows boats sailing around the tip of Sandy Hook, N.J. as seen from an airplane operated by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry) **FILE**
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In this photo taken by cellphone and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, men search the rubble of buildings for survivors after an earthquake in Ludian County of Zhaotong City in southwest China's Yunnan Province. (AP Photo/Xinhua/Hu Chao)
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Illustration on the importance of coal generated electricity to American life by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Hughes MH-6 Little Bird, nicknamed the Killer Egg, and its attack variant AH-6, are light helicopters used for special operations in the United States Army. This little helicopter has proved its worth in Grenada, Nicaragua, Panama, Somalia and Iraq. They fulfilled a multitude of roles from observation, transport, to attack. Two US Army (USA) AH-6J Little Bird helicopters take off for a mission at a forward deployed location in southern Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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NUMBER 9. HUGHES MH-6 LITTLE BIRD, nicknamed the Killer Egg, and its attack variant AH-6, are light helicopters used for special operations in the United States Army. This little helicopter has proved its worth in Grenada, Nicaragua, Panama, Somalia and Iraq. They fulfilled a multitude of roles from observation, transport, to attack. Two US Army (USA) AH-6J Little Bird helicopters take off for a mission at a forward deployed location in southern Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.
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NUMBER 9. HUGHES MH-6 LITTLE BIRD, nicknamed the Killer Egg, and its attack variant AH-6, are light helicopters used for special operations in the United States Army. This little helicopter has proved its worth in Grenada, Nicaragua, Panama, Somalia and Iraq. They fulfilled a multitude of roles from observation, transport, to attack. Two US Army (USA) AH-6J Little Bird helicopters take off for a mission at a forward deployed location in southern Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.
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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez gives a speech to supporters from a balcony at an inside patio of Casa Rosada Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, July 31, 2014. The collapse of talks with U.S. creditors sent Argentina into its second debt default in 13 years and raised questions about what comes next for financial markets and the South American nation's staggering economy.(AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
