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Pledges on immigration Completed Cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities Suspend immigration from terror-prone regions Implement new extreme immigration vetting techniques Suspend the Syrian refugee program Create support program for victims of illegal immigration Expand and revitalize the popular 287(g) partnerships Issue detainers for all illegal immigrants who are arrested for any crime, and they will be placed into immediate immigration removal proceedings End “catch-and-release” Hire 5,000 more Border Patrol agents Restore the Secure Communities Program Triple the number of ICE agents To-do Build the border wall and eventually make Mexico pay for it Sunset our visa laws so...

Things that would make America Better List! Address the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Thinning the Heard of Seals around New England would Allow Forage Fish and Bait to grow and attract Tasty Predator Fish like Striped Bass and Blue Fish. A.T.F not needed as an Agency. Should be a Convenient Store.

I need to create a rather long,involved punch list for a volunteer event. I need to be able to add,move, and remove tasks. I need to be able to assign or re-assign tasks to individuals. Any suggestions on a simple software package for the not-so-computer-illiterate person ?

Sabbaticals for Dummies by: Malcolm A. Kline, January 16, 2008 Those of us who have long been curious about what professors do on sabbatical could glean one sort of an answer from Oregon Univrsity English professor Edwin Battistella’s tongue-in-cheek (we think) listing of “Twenty-Five things to do on sabbatical” that appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of The Montana Professor. Although Battistella was obviously in a whimsical frame of mind when he constructed the “to do” list, the suggestions look all too credible to some of us on the higher education beat. Some of us always thought that the answer...

SACRAMENTO - Energized by this month's landslide victory, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is assembling a wide-ranging 2007 agenda - hoping to help millions of Californians without health care, trying again to redraw the state's legislative districts and fixing the dysfunctional prison system. Some proposals could emerge soon after the new two-year legislative session begins Dec. 4. Others may come into focus in early January when Schwarzenegger delivers his State of the State address. Many details of the governor's plans - particularly health care - are still in flux. But the style in which he will pursue them appears clear. Schwarzenegger considers...

As House Minority Leader Nancy “which-side-am-I-on-today?” Pelosi (D-CA) and other “fine-upstanding-Democrats” continue to screech against what they call the Republicans’ culture of corruption, they conveniently forget that it is they who wrote the playbook and continue to gleefully indulge themselves in it. Hmmm. Wasn’t it Ms. Pelosi who in 2001, along with Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH—who is also on the House Ethics Committee…of all things!) and her family, took a party trip to the Puerto Rican island of Vieques—financed by lobbyist firm Smith, Dawson & Andrews? OOPS! Later, they attempted to back-track by saying they had made a “human...