Social Issues

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In this image made from video the U.S. Senate passes the health care overhaul bill Thursday Dec. 24, 2009. (AP photo/CSPAN)

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Former D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams (The Washington Times/File)

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** FILE ** Demonstrators hold a large U.S. flag at the state Capitol in Phoenix on Friday, April 23, 2010, to protest immigration bill SB1070. Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law the U.S.'s toughest legislation against illegal immigration Friday, a sweeping measure which critics saY could violate people's civil rights. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Mark Henle)

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**FILE** In this photo from Jan. 15, 2010, a candlelight vigil is held at South Hadley High School in Massachusetts for freshman Phoebe Prince, 15, who had killed herself the previous day. Nine teens were charged in the "unrelenting" bullying of Prince, originally from Ireland, who killed herself after being raped and enduring months of torment by classmates in person and online. (Associated Press)

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Illustration: GOP Health Care by A. HUNTER for The Washington Times.

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**FILE** President Obama participates in an AARP town hall on health care on July 28, 2009, in Washington. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Rep. Mike Pence, Indiana Republican, stresses the importance of state fiscal responsibility. (Michael Connor/The Washington Times)

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A group of illegal immigrants walk with bottles of water shortly before nightfall as they cross the desert between Sasabe, Mexico, and Sasabe, Ariz., in April 2006. (Associated Press)

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A box of syringes used in a needle exchange program is displayed in an RV outfitted as a "mobile health unit" in the Trinidad neighborhood of NE Washington D.C., Wednesday, December 9, 2009. The program, run by non-profti PreventionWorks! is the oldest and largest syringe exchange program in Washington, D.C. and also offers HIV testing, drug treatment referrals, wound care and safer sex kits, food and other services. (Allison Shelley/ The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, a Republican, filed the lawsuit to strike down the federal health-care law in defense of a new state law that prohibits the government from forcing state residents to buy health insurance. (The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** In this Nov. 15, 2006, file photo, a Toyota Tundra is inspected during the final stages of assembly at the Toyota Manufacturing Texas, Inc. in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, file)

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Washington Wizards owner Irene Pollin, left, and minority owner Ted Leonsis pose for photographers after winning the NBA draft lottery, Tuesday, May 18, 2010, in Secaucus, N.J. The Wizards moved up from the No. 5 spot to earn the top pick in next month's draft, when it will likely choose between Kentucky freshman John Wall and national player of the year Evan Turner of Ohio State. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

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Middle school students in Hacienda Heights, Calif., learn Chinese language and culture as part of the Confucius Classroom grant program. The middle-class town, about 16 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, has a history of racial tensions between longtime residents and relatively recent Chinese newcomers. (Associated Press)

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Who says the tea-party movement is divisive and limited to far-right-leaning activists? A new "tea" shirt from manufacturer Authentic GOP challenges that claim.

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Indian President Pratibha Patil (second left) puts her signature after being enumerated for the national census, at the presidential palace in New Delhi, India, Thursday, April 1, 2010. India kicked off the national census of its billion-plus population with a 2.5 million strong army of census-takers fanning out across the country to conduct what has been billed the world's largest administrative exercise. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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President Barack Obama points to the crowd before signing the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria Tuesday, March 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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In this file photo, a rally participant holds up a pocket-sized copy of the U.S. Constitution during an anti-health-care-reform rally by The American Grassroots Coalition and The Tea Party Express on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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The ban on MSM (men who have have sex with men) donations was established because in the early stages of the AIDS epidemic, during the 1980s, a major share of cases involved transmission by blood transfusion. Now such cases are rare — less than 1 percent of all new HIV infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Associated Press)