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...Whatever the new procedures, Huckabee still lacks the basic building blocks that other campaigns take for granted. Few of Huckabee's domestic proposals, which he laid out in book he wrote himself, have been fleshed out in detail, with the notable exception of immigration, which is far more severe than his record as governor, including a call to set a 120-day deadline for illegal aliens to register and leave the country. He has only given one major speech on foreign policy, and he lacks a foreign policy advisory committee, though the campaign says one is being fast assembled...
...hasn't backed down from its game plan to force cable giants Cablevision and Time Warner Cable (which is controlled by TIME's parent, Time Warner), to pay up something like 70 cents a subscriber and make the NFL Network part of the basic programming tier. That would in turn prompt the cable companies to raise rates by at least as much. The cable guys have refused that price, leaving the NFL Network either without a channel or relegated to the sports tier by Comcast for a monthly fee, potentially depriving the league of hundreds of millions in revenue...
...education and job training to CLCs. But, as with many initiatives in Iraq, the jobs program will, in the end, depend on the Iraqi government. It has pledged $155 million of its own. But Iraq's corrupt and sectarian government has so far been unable to move forward on basic issues like how to share oil revenue. Its willingness and ability to administer a jobs program for Sunni men is questionable to say the least...
...Romney? Well, I had to set up criteria and that was: First, where are they on these basic issues? The border itself: will you secure it with a fence and whatever kind of resources that we have? No. 2: will you go after employers? Because that's the real magnet that pulls so many people here. Will you not give amnesty? Will you say that if they're here that they will have to return home? Now, [Romney has] got a plan that gives them a little more latitude than I would have. It's still a good plan...
...Your article asks what the cause of the bigger-families phenomenon might be. The answer is simple and relates to a basic aspect of of human nature. In the U.S. and here in Australia, the rich are anxious to maintain their position in society and are worried about being outnumbered by groups viewed as beneath them. This desire may be subconscious, but they feel they have much to lose unless they maintain the status quo. Dr. Rebecca Fanany, Vermont South...