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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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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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Rocky Galloway (left) and Reginald Stanley hold their twin daughters after the two men were married by the Rev. Sylvia E. Sumter (center) on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, the first day that gay marriage was legal in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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This artwork by M. Ryder relates to the debate about President Bush's proposal to partially privatize Social Security.
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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 ** Copies of President Obama's fiscal 2010 federal budget are seen at the White House in Washington on Thursday, May 7, 2009.
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**FILE** An enormous crowd takes part in the Sept. 12 march on Washington to protest government spending and health care reform proposals. The field plan for a series of grassroots demonstrations Tuesday to push President Obama's health care agenda show the events will be tightly scripted with plans for "escalation," but organizers insist there is no comparison to rowdy town hall meetings and "tea party" protests challenging White House policies that they say conservatives staged. (Mary F. Calvert/The Washington Times)
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Phillip Dunham (left) of Washington and his partner, Allen Pittinger, who have been together for nine years, embrace after arriving at D.C. Superior Court in Washington to obtain a marriage license on Wednesday, March 3, 2010, the day gay marriage became legal in the District of Columbia. "Exciting, overjoyed — I think 'phenomenal' is the word," Mr. Pittinger said. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Norma McCorvey (bottom center) is confronted by police Sunday after marching on campus at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. At least five anti-abortion activists, including McCorvey, were led away in handcuffs Sunday from campus, where President Barack Obama was also to receive an honorary degree. (Associated Press)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (left), Kentucky Republican, listens as Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, talks to the media after the Senate Democratic caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Illustration: Misbehaving charities by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times.
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Former D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams (The Washington Times/File)
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**FILE** Ernie Getford holds a sign in support of the controversial SB1070 illegal immigration enforcement bill during a rally at the state Capitol in Phoenix on April 23, 2010. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Trays of printed Social Security checks wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management Services facility in Philadelphia in 2005. (Associated Press)
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In this file photo from Dec. 8, 2009, Senator Ben Nelson is surrounded by reporters asking questions about the health care debate on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. His amendment on abortion funding failed a floor vote late in the day. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** A lab technician at the Armed Forces Institute of Medical Science in Bangkok who works with the HIV Vaccine Trial Phrase Project in Thailand holds up a vial of AIDS vaccine in 2005 to check information and the manufacturing date printed on the vials. (AP Photo/Thai Public Health Ministry)
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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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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 **
