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Family Research Council President Tony Perkins led the push for a strong anti-pornography plank in the GOP platform and introduced its language, calling for strict enforcement of federal obscenity laws. It broadens the 2008 platform. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Terri Doring lost her secretarial job at a Philadelphia law firm in 2009. She now is on the verge of losing much of what remains of her middle-class lifestyle and is scrambling to make mortgage payments on her town house. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Terri Doring lost her secretarial job at a Philadelphia law firm in 2009. She now is on the verge of losing much of what remains of her middle-class lifestyle and is scrambling to make mortgage payments on her town house. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, checks out the stage Aug. 27, 2012, at the Republican National Convention inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Fla. (Associated Press)
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Todd Hoffner, head football coach at Minnesota State University in Mankato, Minn., has been charged with two counts related to child pornography after authorities said they found nude images of children on his cellphone. (AP Photo/Blue Earth County, Minn., Sheriff's Office)
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Demonstrators chant and walk during a protest march in St Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Demonstrators chant and walk during a protest march in St Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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A demonstrator prepares for a protest march. Hundreds of protestors gathered in a park in downtown St. Petersburg to march in demonstration against the Republican National Convention. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Demonstrators chant during a protest march in St Petersburg, Fla. Hundreds of protestors gathered a park in downtown St. Petersburg to march in demonstration against the Republican National Convention. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Ron Paul supporters applaud for speakers at the "We Are the Future Rally". (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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“The Hope & the Change,” produced by Citizens United founder David Bossie and writer-director Stephen K. Bannon, is based on 40 interviews with swing-state voters concerned about President Obama. (Citizens United)
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In this Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 photo illegal immigrants are seen at detention center in Filakio village, northern Greece, near the borders with Turkey. Greece launched an aggressive campaign this month to try to seal its 200-kilometer (130-mile) northeastern border, as it faces a debilitating financial crisis that has caused a swell in joblessness and a surge in racist attacks against immigrants with dark skin. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)
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A Greek police officer keeps a close watch on the Turkish border at Likofito, part of an aggressive campaign this month to try to seal Greece’s 130-mile northeastern border during its financial crisis that has seen a swell in joblessness and a surge in racist attacks against immigrants, mostly from Afghanistan and Pakistan. The operation has sent nearly 2,000 additional border guards to the Turkish frontier. Some of the illegals caught at the border (below) wait at a detention center in Filakio. (Associated Press)
