Social Issues

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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)

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**FILE** Palestinians yell at a U.S. diplomatic vehicle on Oct. 4, 2011, during a protest against the United States in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, wants to cut funds to the U.N. as well as its Population Fund. (Associated Press)

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Angelina Jolie has accepted a position as Special Representative on the Afghan refugee situation, the U.N. announced Tuesday in Geneva. (Associated Press)

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Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema (center) first proposed to UNESCO in 2008 the awarding of a $3 million life-sciences prize, but objections to the central African strongman's involvement have prevented its adoption. (Associated Press)

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In this video grab photo released Oct. 4, 2011, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, A woman claiming that she is Zainab al-Hosni who the Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, and Syrian activists reported last month that was found dead and mutilated after she was detained in her hometown of Homs, shows her ID card during an interview with the Syrian state television, in Damascus, Syria. (Associated Press/SANA)

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano speaks on the department's enforcement of immigration laws on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011, at American University in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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President Obama, while speaking at Eastfield College in Mesquite College, Texas, entreats Congress to pass the American Jobs Act. "Right now, he won't even let this jobs bill have a vote," the president said of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican. (Associated Press)

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High school students chant slogans outside the Greek Parliament during a protest in central Athens on Oct. 4, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Syrians and Jordanians carry candles and posters depicting 18-year-old Zainab al-Hosni, believed to be the first woman to die in Syrian custody since the uprising began in mid-March, during a candlelight vigil in front the Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan, on Oct. 3, 2011. (Associated Press)