Social Issues

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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)

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Republican Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is charging that the Obama administration has “falsified” deportation records to artificially boost numbers by adding Border Patrol apprehensions to the total. (Associated Press)

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A wooden bridge crosses over the Kok River in northern Thailand’s Chiang Rai province, where minority hill tribes live in villages where their culture is not undiscovered but also is not corrupted by tourism. (Associated Press)

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Chinese activist Henry Wong Fahman (center) greets supporters in Hong Kong last month. The activists were part of a group that evaded the Japanese Coast Guard. (Associated Press)

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Bree Coleman (right) wears a self-made t-shirt with a picture imprinted on of Chavis Carter, in Jonesboro, Ark., as Sakhiya Bell, 4, runs past on Aug. 21, 2012. About 20 people marched in protest of the July 28 death of Carter that was ruled a suicide in the back of a Jonesboro Police Department car. (Associated Press)