Social Issues

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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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President Obama speaks on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, at the White House about the sequester as he stands with emergency responders, a group of workers the White House says could be affected if state and local governments lose federal money as a result of budget cuts. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this July 7, 2012, file photo former first lady Laura Bush is seen in Arlington, Texas. Bush spokeswoman Anne MacDonald said Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, that the former first lady wants to be removed from a pro-gay marriage group's national advertising campaign featuring prominent people speaking on the topic. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

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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)