Social Issues

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Yin Shanshan, who plans to study for a master's degree in Canada, checks her textbook during a French course of Alliance Francaise, an organization that promotes French language and culture, in Tianjin, China. Thousands of people in China are trying to gain enough proficiency in French to emigrate to Quebec. (Associated Press)

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, holds her weekly news conference March 29, 2012, on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

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The Republican National Committee says Russian President Dmitry Medvedev should have a D after his name.

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Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II filed suit on behalf of the state against the federal government over the health reform act. He spoke to tea party activists gathered on the Mall on Saturday. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Virginia Lt. Governor Bill Bolling said that "governing has to be about more than breaking the dishes. It has to be about building consensus and finding solutions to problems." He is seeking the Republican nomination for governor.

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Thousands of unemployed workers marched in January 1932 from Pennsylvania to Washington to ask Congress and President Hoover for help.

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George Washington's reconstructed distillery in Mount Vernon, Va. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Three master distillers from Scotland take turns hammering a cork into a barrel of a single malt whisky made on colonial style stills at George Washington's reconstructed distillery with the help of Mount Vernon's historic distillers. The oak barrels will be aged for three years and then auctioned for charities around the world. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, speaks at a rally for opponents of same-sex marriage in Augusta, Maine, in August 2010. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Supporters of health care reform rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, the final day of arguments over the health care law signed by President Obama. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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People carry the body of a Pakistani acid attack victim Fakhra Younnus, at Karachi airport in Pakistan Sunday, March 25, 2012. Fakhra who committed suicide by jumping from the sixth floor of her flat in Rome, was a victim of an acid attack allegedly carried out 12 years ago by her husband. (AP Photo)

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Before the D.C. Council on Tuesday, (from left) Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi, Mayor Vincent C. Gray and budget director Eric Goulet arrive to testify on the mayor's fiscal 2013 budget. Mr. Gray's budget proposal would close a $172 million gap through $102 million in cuts and $70 million in new revenue. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Kathy Hansen, a family practice doctor in Houston, protests President Obama's health care law outside the Supreme Court on March 27, 2012. The justices were listening to arguments on the law's individual mandate. (The Washington Times)

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Demonstrators for and against President Obama's health care law march outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The Obama administration has argued Congress' taxing powers are a justification for the law's individual mandate. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Mitt Romney has said he won't abandon the conservative positions he took in the Republican primaries, including those on illegal immigration. (Associated Press)

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Daryl Parks (from left), president of the National Bar Association; the Martin family lawyer, Benjamin Crump; and Trayvon Martin's parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, stand during a moment of prayer for Trayvon during a House Judiciary Committee Democratic briefing on racial profiling and hate crimes on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, March 27, 2012. In front is Rebecca Monroe of the Department of Justice. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Alex Libby of Edmond, Okla., is one of the bullied students whose experiences are documented in "Bully." The filmmakers followed him at Sioux City East Middle School in Iowa to show the physical and verbal abuse he suffered from other students. (The Weinstein Co. via Associated Press)

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Katy Butler, who says she was bullied in seventh grade and suffered a broken finger as a result, started an online petition to try to get the MPAA to change the rating for "Bully" from R to PG-13 so the film could be shown in schools. (Associated Press)

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Lee Hirsch, writer-director of "Bully," says his interest came not just from having been bullied himself as a child but from his problems getting adults to help him. (Associated Press)

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Kathy Hansen, center, a family practice doctor in Houston, Texas, says she feels like Affordable Care Act takes away the ability for her to make decisions for her patients. She says that no one consulted doctors when they wrote the healthcare law, and that all doctors believe that healthcare reform is necessary, but that President Obama's plan is not the answer. She joined hundreds of protesters on both sides of the issue of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, March 27, 2012, while the court listens to arguments on the personal mandate part of Affordable Care Act. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)