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** FILE ** This Oct. 13, 2011, photo shows Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Capitol Hill in Washington. McCain is recommending that a special committee searching for ways to slash the deficit consider some of President Barack Obama’s proposed changes to health and retirement benefits for the military. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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"We must stop looking at the drug cartels today solely from a law-enforcement perspective," said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida Republican. (Associated Press)
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Displaced families who fled famine in Somalia a couple of months ago take shelter in a destroyed building after moving out of their makeshift tents, which became flooded by rains, in Mogadishu, Somalia. Fighting broke out there over the weekend, killing at least 20. (Associated Press)
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Sen. Ben Nelson, Nebraska Democrat, arrives Tuesday at the Capitol for the vote on President Obama's jobs bill, which failed in the Democrat-controlled Senate. Nelson said he would not support the president on the bill. (Associated Press)
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Riot police stand guard outside the Greek parliament, seen through a Greek flag held by a protester, during a civil-servant protest in Athens on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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One of the protest organizers, pediatrician Margaret Flowers, M.D., of Baltimore, Md, (in green) talks with police officials about the outcome of the protest, during a protest affiliated with the "Occupy D.C." movement at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., Monday, October 10, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)
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Mary Ann T. Wright (center), president general of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, presents a wreath before the Columbus Memorial statue during a Columbus Day celebration at Union Station in Washington on Monday, Oct. 10, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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People start to move about Freedom Plaza in Washington, Monday, Oct. 10, 2011, among protest signs, as part of a protest against the war and corporate America. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Felicia Williams, community liason for Buffalo City Council member Darius Pridgen, holds a "Pot Pop" lollipop on Oct. 6, 2011, in Buffalo, N.Y. The marijuana-shaped candy that’s showing up on store shelves around the country won’t get kids high, but aghast city leaders and anti-drug activists say the product and grocers carrying it represent a new low. (Associated Press)
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer will attend the "Women Working For Change" conference next month. (Broadside Books)
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Holly Williams, granddaughter of Hank Williams, stands in the Williams family exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tenn. Miss Williams is one of the performers on "The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams." Behind her is a photo of Hank Williams and his family.
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Protester Jim Goodnow, a noncombat Vietnam veteran from Terlingua, Texas, has printed "End warfare, not healthcare" on his cast. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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ATF is under fire for a memo prohibiting gun merchants from selling firearms to anyone who uses medical marijuana. (The Washington Times)
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Protesters form a huge human number "99" to symbolize the 99% of americans they are representing in a large protest against corporate greed at Freedom Plaza, Washington, DC, October 6, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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One of several demonstrators is taken into custody by police after refusing to leave a Bank of America branch in downtown Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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Fred Doores takes part in an "Occupy Austin" protest, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011, in Austin, Texas. Concerns over Wall Street practices and economic inequality that have led to sit-ins and rallies in New York and elsewhere reverberated up to the White House on Thursday. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Protestors chanting "we are the 99%," march in downtown Tampa, Fla., in support of the Wall Street protest against financial greed and corruption, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. About 400 protestors gathered singing and waving signs at passing motorists. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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Brighton Wallace takes part in an "Occupy Austin" protest at Austin City Hall, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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T.J. KIRKPATRICK / THE WASHINGTON TIMES "Today we are a failed state," says Nzanga Mobutu, who wants to correct the ills if elected as president of Congo, where his father ruled for 32 years.
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Marchers with Occupy Wall Street lead off a march that included labor unions through Lower Manhattan Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011, in New York. Unions gave a high-profile boost to the long-running protest against Wall Street and economic inequality, with their members joining thousands of protesters in a lower Manhattan march. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
