Social Issues

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“Is Cruz under attack because he’s Hispanic? Not at all … Cruz is under attack because he’s out-debating Democrats,” Powerline says of freshman GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. Statesman.com via associated press

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David and Francine Wheeler, parents of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Benjamin Wheeler, embrace during the gun violence conference in Danbury, Conn., on Thursday attended by Vice President Joseph R. Biden. Mr. Biden said politicians must speak for victims of gun violence who can no longer do so themselves. (Associated Press)

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden speaks at a gun violence conference in Danbury, Conn., on Feb. 21, 2013. The conference, held near the Newtown where 26 lives were lost in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, was organized by members of the state's congressional delegation is to push President Obama's gun control proposals. (Associated Press)

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Jeffrey Atkins, aka the rapper Ja Rule, served 20 months of a two-year state sentence for gun possession at the Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, N.Y., and was released directly into federal custody on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, to serve a 28-month sentence for tax evasion. (AP Photo/New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision)

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Secretary of State John Kerry delivers his first foreign policy speech on Feb. 20, 2013, in Old Cabel Hall at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** President Obama warned about the dire consequences of failing to avert budget cuts Tuesday in front of 17 uniformed firefighters and law enforcement officers, who he said could lose their jobs. (Associated Press)