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...presidential hopefuls, candidates understandably must appeal to their party’s base. The majority of Americans are demanding universal health coverage, and the Democrats are on board. Republicans oppose socializing health care because it conflicts with their principle of small government. Since the solution to the healthcare problem does not appeal to the Republican’s base, Republican candidates choose to, at best, politically trivialize the issue, or, at worst, to completely ignore it. It is an assassination of a dire social need, and the perpetrator is partisan politics...
...CNN’s Bill Schneider points out, healthcare “could be the sleeper issue of the coming campaign.” Yet, absurdly enough, Romney’s own party has questioned his conservative principles because he provides a plan for this problem. In the Republican debates, John Harris, editor in chief of politico.com, reveals that Romney’s plan has been “criticized by conservatives as something Hillary Clinton could have devised...
...Later that day, Thabit expressed frustration over the episode to Ferris, whose compound adjoins the police headquarters. The forces from Baghdad were difficult to control, Thabit said. They had weak officers and undisciplined rank-and-file men. And Thabit feared that the incident would only worsen the image problem already troubling the predominantly Shi'ite national police in Samarra, an overwhelmingly Sunni city where the outsiders are widely suspected of ties to the Mahdi Army of militant Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al Sadr...
...relatively vulnerable against determined assailants, despite increased security measures around their observation posts and hill top bases in south Lebanon. Sources told TIME that the UNIFIL headquarters regularly receives unspecified intelligence warnings of possible impending attacks, such as bomb-laden cars entering the southern Lebanon border district. "The problem is that there's nothing hard enough for us to act upon," a UNIFIL officer told TIME a day before Sunday's fatal bombing. "We are a soft target and it's only a matter of time before we are hit." Immediately after Sunday's bombing, UNIFIL raised its alert status...
...that office alone is unlikely to remedy the broader problem of underpaid, undervalued work in urban restaurants. "They are not isolated, short-lived cases of exploitation at the fringe of the city's economy," writes Bernhardt in the report. "Instead, the systematic violation of our country's core employment and labor laws ... is threatening to become a way of doing business for unscrupulous employers. And yet from the standpoint of public policy, these jobs - and the workers who hold them - are too often off the radar screen...