Summaries.

1. Education.
Both President Obama and Governer Romeny have different views on education. The average debt of a college student with student loans are 25,000, they a oppose differebt things. Romney oppostion to publicy fubdin higher education at odds with his empahasis on the importance of education for maintaining America's global competitiveness. President Obama pushed a new bill called Race To The Top. However Romney and  President Obama propose to achieve a balance between the need for students to be able to choose to attend high performing institutions with the need to improve the public education system overall.

2. Enviroment
America's footprints are different for other countries. Republican and Democratic presidents have traditionally approached the issue of environmental protection. Many have questioned wether the President has done enough in protecting the environment and ensuring a sustainable energy future for the United States. Governer Romney's national energy agenda has earned him "wide popular support" with voters.

3. Marriage Equality
President Obama altered his postion on gay marriage since the 2008 presidental campagin. DOMA Defense of Marriage act has been constititionally challenged. President Obama made a statement that, "we have never gone wrong when we've extended rights and responsibilities to everybody. Governer Romney argues that individual states should decide on the rights and benefits of same-sex couples. This is impotant in up-coming election. Is marriage a civil act is the question being asked.

4. Healthcare Reform
Over the past 100 years healthcare has grown and gotten better for the citizens of America. President Obama has an individual mandate for a new healthcare reform. Certain organizations and advocacy groups take the government to the Supreme Court over the individual mandate. Governor Romney and the Republicans pro-pose a way to fix the healthcare system and reduce prices. Many wonder why there is an issue of reproductive healthcare and healthcare for women.

5. Public Safety and Civil Liberties
The U.S. incarceration rates compare are higher compared to other nations. President Obama and Governor Romney differ in the approach to managing the increasing prison population. The power the President of the United States influnces how drug crime is investigated and prosecuted. Governor Romney has a moral argument against the legalization or regulation of marijuana. Both candidates appear keen to cooperate internationally with Mexico to prevent drug crime.

6. Campagin Finance Reform
President Obama stated the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the right of corporations and unions to contribute to political campagins is a "major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and.. other powerful interest. There are differences in fundrasing rules between the 2008 and 2012 campagins. There are an importance that finanical contributions whether to super PACs or directly to the campagins are transparent to the the public. It maybe a danger in the current trend of greatly increased election campagin.

7.Immgration
There are 3 million estimated illegal immigrants living the United States. Arizona's Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhood Act of 2010 is affecting the Latino community in that state. Obama's DREAM Act rewards and encourages illegal immigrants. Republican leaders believed President Obama's use of executive authority in June 2012 to prevent the deportation of some illegal immigants to be an "overreach of authority." There are moral arguments for and against allowing foreign college students to remain within the United States after graudation, which President Obama has proposed.

8.National Debt
The issue of the national debt is related to the two biggest campagin issues of 2012: the state of the economy and the role of the government in the economy. The national debt is such an emotion charged issue for Americans. Governor Romney has an postion on how best to deal with the nationl debt. President Obama believes there are two main successes of the fedreal spending he has authorized.

9. Taxes
There are major expenese in the federal budget. The question is where should the next president cut spending. The merits of President Obama's approach to reducuing the deficit by increasing taxes on the wealthiest households and slashing military spending. Is is right the wealthier Americans are taxed more to pay the services that primarily benefit poorer Americans is beeing asked. Governor Romney plan is to cut spending, including saving 110 million by reducing foreign aid to developing nations. Candidates' policies on taxes reflect their broader political postions.

10. Unions and Public Employees
President Obama argues that workers need unions in order to ensure they receive fair wages and benefits. Public sectors unions are more controversial than private sector unions. Democrats' economis agrues that unions help the economy with Governor Romney's assertion that the opposite is true. Republicans have a political reason for keeping union weak.

11. Afghanistan
Events led then-President George W. Bush to authorize the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. In the midst of a domestic economic recession, voters out weight on the candidates' foreign policy stances, such as the military operations in Afghanistan. President Obama's announcement to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 is an election-year ploy. The United States have an obligation to ensure a stable transition to democracy in Afghanistan.

12. China
China is convenient boogeyment for presidential candidates. President Obama's povit strategy of containment of China influnce in Asia. President Obama has handled relations with China and Taiwan during has presidency not so well. China's influence in the world will increase in the 21st century.

13.Executive Power in Foreign Policy
Congress has limited President Obama's ability to use executive power to close the Guantanamo Bay facility.

14. Foreign Aid and Development

Word Of The Day. 12/10/12-12/14/12.

1. Moor
1. To fix firmly; secure.
2. To secure (a ship, boat, dirigible, etc.) in a particular place, as by cables and anchors or by lines.
3. To moor a ship, small boat, etc.
4. To be made secure by cables or the like.
noun:
1. The act of mooring.
Origin:
Though moor gained popularity in the 1490s, the term originates from the Old English more from the maerelsrāp rope used for securing or 'mooring' ships.
Then the divers will moor it to the bottom.

2. Cruciverbalist
1. A designer or aficionado of crossword puzzles.
Origin:
This young word was coined in the late 1970s and entered the vernacular in 1990. Cruciverablist is derived from two Latin roots crux meaning 'cross' and verbum, meaning 'word.'
In high school I was a closet cruciverbalist because working on crosswords seemed so uncool.

3. Adiaphorous

1. Doing neither good nor harm, as a medicine.

Origin:

Adiaphorous is derived from the Greek, adiaphoros , meaning 'indifferent.
Which participates of neither extreme, as for example, all those things which, as being neither good nor evil in themselves, we call adiaphorous, or indifferent.

4. Plication

1. The act or procedure of folding.

2. The state or quality of being folded; a fold.

3. Surgery. A. The folding in and suturing of tucks, so as to tighten weakened or stretched tissue. B. The folding of an organ, as a section of the intestine, and the attaching of it to another organ or tissue.

Origin:

Plication is derived from the Medieval Latin stem plicātiō , relating to a 'fold' or 'pleat.'  

Suture plication reduced intra-articular volume an average of 19.0 % .

5. Apopemptic

1. Pertaining to leave-taking or departing; valedictory.

noun:

1. Obsolete. A farewell address; valedictory.

Origin:

Rising to prominence in the middle 1700s, apopemptic derives from the Greek apopemptikós , pertaining to 'sending away.'

William Morris is going to give apopemptic to the graudating class of 2013.

Word Of The Day. 12/03/12-12/07/12.

1.Effervescent
1. High-spirited; vivacious; lively.
2. Effervescing; bubbling.
Origin:
Effervescent originated as a French verb in the 1650s meaning, 'the action of boiling up' (as in water), though it did not assume its figurative meaning relating to personality until 1748.
She has a lively, bubbly, effervescent personality.

2. Pontificate
1. To speak in a pompous or dogmatic manner.
2. To perform the office or duties of a pontiff.
3. To serve as a bishop, especially in a Pontifical Mass.
noun:
1. The office or term of office of a pontiff.
Origin:
Originating from the Latin pontificatus, meaning 'to speak in the manner of a pontiff,' pontificate fell into common usage in 1825.
My husband loves to pontificate on any subject, regardless of whether or not he knows what he's talking about.

3. Erinaceous
1. Of the hedgehog kind or family.
Origin:
Erinaceous originates from the Latin ērināceus for hedgehog, followed by the suffix -ous referring to the possession of a quality.
At times even more ruthless, their erinaceous fingernails used as claws, as dangerous as any blade.

4. Quench
1. To slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
2. To put out or extinguish (fire, flames, etc.).
3. To cool suddenly by plunging into a liquid, as in tempering steel by immersion in water.
4. To subdue or destroy; overcome; quell: to quench an uprising.
5. Electronics. To terminate (the flow of electrons in a vacuum tube) by application of a voltage.
Origin:
Quench originates from the old English cwincan, meaning 'to go out, to be extinguished.
Foul water will quench fire as well as fair.

5. Howdah
1. (In the East Indies) a seat or platform for one or more persons, commonly with a railing and a canopy, placed on the back of an elephant.
Origin:
Howdah has both Hindi and Arabic origins, both referring to the load carried by an elephant or camel: haudah in Hindi, and haudaj in Arabic.
Now she made a picture of an elephant, with four lines for the howdah, in which was seated a princess wearing a crown.