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发帖数: 29846 | 1 December 24, 2011 | Filed under 2012 Presidential Race,Barack
by Michael Laprarie
So writes Timothy Dalrymple, who explores the interesting phenomenon of how
liberals are handling the stunning reversals in policies enacted by
President Obama, compared to the idealism of Candidate Obama:
[T]here’s no question that the Obama administration has been far less
different from the Bush administration than was promised during the campaign.
What’s so astonishing, though, is not that Obama has ext... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 2 By John F. Di Leo
We think of the world of transportation -- especially trucking and
automobile manufacturing -- as being one of the most fundamental of
Democratic Party constituencies. Detroit has long been a party stronghold,
with the UAW and Teamsters among Democrats' most powerful union supporters.
From the worker at the DMV to the driver he licenses, this is one solid
chain of Democrats.
But is this political loyalty deserved today, if indeed it ever was? Since
the Democratic Party was t... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 3 Changes Meant to Protect the Poor Are Mandating Bigger Alimony Payouts
By SOPHIA HOLLANDER
When New York adopted no-fault divorce in 2010 after decades of failed
attempts, lawyers and families praised legislators for eliminating the need
for one of the bitterest elements of a divorce: assigning blame.
More than a year later, critics say more troubling aspects of the reform
package have emerged.
A New York divorce law passed in 2010 set a strict formula for judges
awarding temporary alimony. Sond... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 4 By John O'Sullivan
March 14, 2012 4:00 A.M.
Where is conservatism heading in the English-speaking world? This question
is currently being answered in the four countries of the Anglosphere —
namely, the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Britain — in four distinctive ways.
THE UNITED STATES
I will assume that American readers have a rough grasp of the state of
conservatism in the U.S. as revealed in the Republican primaries. It is
currently — as it has been for many years — a struggle for dominance in
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 5 "This 2012 Obama is strident and mean, even deceitful, divisive"
Andrew Malcolm is wondering what happened to the 2008 Obama:
Has anyone seen Barack Obama recently?
You know, the optimistic hopeful fellow with the charming smile who
promised so many positive things four and five years ago, how he was going
to change the harsh, partisan tone of our nation's capital and bring the
country together as its first African American president.
Even allowing for political hyperbole, his empty resu... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 6 April 13, 2012 by Rick Rice
Mark Shea brings us to events taking place in Britain:
Whipped Christians, timid about appearing “judgmental”, often
capitulate to this sort of draconian post-Christian appeal to “judge not,
lest ye be judged” and back down. However, as this video demonstrates,
some Britons are beginning to get a little taste of what happens when watery
post-Christian secularism, accustomed to bullying meek Christians, meets
inflamed and diseased Islam:
Mark goes on:
Secular... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 7 Bonchamps at American Catholic cuts to the chase:
In the case of “gay marriage”, the big lie is that there is some
desire on the part of conservatives and Christians in this country to
actually deny some right, some liberty, some freedom to people who identify
themselves and live as homosexuals. As abhorrent, disordered and immoral as
I find the “gay lifestyle” to be, the truth is that – and here I speak
for virtually every conservative Christian I know or have read – we really
are not the l... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 8 “It’s almost as if there is no connection between the green policy agenda
and environmental progress”
July 1, 2012 by Rick Rice
And the Church of Chicken Little takes yet another hit:
Much to the surprise (and, one suspects, the chagrin) of the deranged
doomsaying wing of the environmental movement, new forecasts of US CO2
emission are out and they point to an even steeper drop than the last set of
predictions.
No cap and trade, no huge new taxes on oil, no draconian driver
restrictions... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 9 It may still be a little outside the box thinking, but you need to start
educating yourself about alternative energy sources for your home. I do
believe that at some point the country will get its energy act together –
but for the foreseeable future Washington's war against market-driven energy
options suggests significant disruptions ahead.
Energy is nature's currency – that's what a friend and colleague with a
physics degree said that to me the other day. I gave the notion some thought
, and i... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 10 Solutions: Michelle Obama Proposes Vegetable Offsets for School Lunch
Detractors
October 3, 2012 Warner Todd Huston
First lady Michelle Obama has been under fire since interfering in school
lunches, but through the power of her husband’s control over the Department
of Education, she has come up with a solution. Kids who don’t want to eat
the veggies in their school lunches can buy new “Vegetable Offsets” from
the DOE.
Teens are supposed to be fed up to 2400 calories a day, and new government
st... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1191 | 11 http://www.eatthestate.org/not-your-grandfathers-gop/
Not Your Grandfather’s GOP
By Lansing Scott • on October 18, 2012 5:55 pm
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One thing that gets lost in the 24 hour news cycle of political reporting is
a longer view of political developments—-not just for today, this week, or
this election cycle, but over a span of decades.
One of the most significant political developments over the past half
century has been the extreme rightwa... 阅读全帖 |
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c*****g
发帖数: 21627 | 12 By DAVID A. STOCKMAN
GREENWICH, Conn. -- The Dow Jones and Standard & Poor’s 500 indexes reached
record highs on Thursday, having completely erased the losses since the
stock market’s last peak, in 2007. But instead of cheering, we should be
very afraid.
David Stockman
Over the last 13 years, the stock market has twice crashed and touched off a
recession: American households lost $5 trillion in the 2000 dot-com bust
and more than $7 trillion in the 2007 housing crash. Sooner or later —
within a ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 13 by wheatington
For now, the alleged motive remains unclear, so said an anonymous someone
from the Boston Police.
Mr or Ms Anonymous was referring to a reason that would cause Muslims to
blow up kafirs. Even ignoring the odd word alleged, the statement shows a
total disconnect with the reality and teachings of Mohamed. Muslims are
commanded to kill kafirs, or to subjugate them to Muslim rule. Terror
attacks can accomplish both. Even now CAIR is asking for increased
protection of Muslims from th... 阅读全帖 |
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m******i
发帖数: 546 | 14 Two Black women who were drunk and disorderly entered into a McDonalds in
New York (Manhattan) and started an altercation with an employee (cashier).
One of the drunk women slapped the cashier after he questioned whether the
fifty dollar bill she gave him was real. One of the drunk women then jumped
over the counter and tried to attack the cashier who then grabbed a metal
rod and proceeded to beat her until he fractured her skull and broke her arm
. The other drunk female attempted to enter the ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 15 By M. Alex Johnson and Winston Wilde, NBC News
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor granted a last-ditch plea from
Catholic groups Tuesday night to block a birth control mandate in the new
health care law for religious organizations, just hours before it was to
have gone into effect.
Sotomayor issued the stay at the request of an order of Catholic nuns in
Colorado, the Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged. They are part of
a larger effort by Catholic-affiliated groups from around the na... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 16 Magpul Pulling Up Stakes in Colorado, Heading to Texas and Wyoming
Keeping good on its promise to leave Colorado in reaction to the draconian
gun laws passed in March 2013, "high capacity" magazine maker Magpul
Industries has announced it will relocate to Texas and Wyoming.
On March 4 of last year Breitbart News reported that Magpul was leaving
Colorado "if Democrats in the state house and senate [succeeded] in passing
a high capacity magazine ban."
The ban was passed, so Magpul is leaving and t... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 17 On Thursday, May 15, Sudanese Christian Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, 27, was
sentenced to death by hanging for the crime of apostasy.
Ibrahim, a physician who graduated from the University of Khartoum Medical
School, refused to renounce her Christian faith. The Islamist Khartoum
regime claims that Ibrahim is a Muslim because her father, who abandoned the
family when she was six years old, was a Muslim. Ibrahim, however, embraced
for herself the faith of her Ethiopian Orthodox Christian mother.
Independ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 18 A Look at the Facts on Gun-Free Zones
By John Lott — October 20, 2015
Some have a hard time accepting that criminals can be deterred from
committing crimes. They don’t believe that potential mass shooters have
second thoughts when faced with the prospect of armed citizens who can fight
back. They seem to think that everyday Americans can’t help stop attacks.
But it is getting hard to ignore that mass public shooters keep choosing to
attack locations where victims can’t defend themselves. It’s li... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 19 One of the greatest problems with the much-cherished “moderate/radical”
Muslim dichotomy is that it’s entirely based on Western assumptions that
have nothing to do with the realities of Islam.
This came out in a study published in Arabic (my recent translation here):
Islamic researchers are agreed that what the West and its followers call
“moderate Islam” and “moderate Muslims” is simply a slur against Islam
and Muslims, a distortion of Islam, a rift among Muslims, a spark to ignite
war amon... 阅读全帖 |
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g********2
发帖数: 6571 | 20 JJ 10 minutes ago
BARACK INSANE OBAMA WILL GO DOWN AS THE WORST, MOST DESCTRUCTIVE, COMMUNIST
PRESIDENT IN HISTORY AND HIS LEGACY WILL BE AS FOLLOWS:
1. Single handily destroyed the great economy of the U.S. with no jobs,
lowest GDP growth in history, overbearing regulation, stagnant wages and
disastrous Obamacare.
2. Will have increased the national debt by more than $10 trillion and a
total of more than $21 trillion and more than all other Presidents combined.
3. Bankrupted the middle class wi... 阅读全帖 |
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l***o
发帖数: 7937 | 21 明确表示不会对庇护城市的联邦资助采取严厉行动
——————————————————————
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has told officials at the
California-Mexico border that he won't make any "Draconian moves" regarding
federal funding for so-called sanctuary cities.
Kelly spoke Friday with federal, state and local law enforcement officials
at the San Ysidro port of entry.
President Donald Trump last month said he would cut federal grants for
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发帖数: 35261 | 22 学了个新词，draconian。lz对这词的翻译有问题吧。
(of laws or their application) excessively harsh and severe.
regarding |
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t******g
发帖数: 1667 | 23 Draconian = *excessively* harsh and severe
把他原话翻译成“不会（对庇护城市的联邦资助）采取严厉行动”，不知道是真傻还是
装傻
regarding |
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C*******h
发帖数: 6095 | 24 好几个城市已经跪了。而且不要光听他怎么说要看他最后到到底怎么做。他的
draconian 定义我们又不知道程度是啥。 |
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l***o
发帖数: 7937 | 25 “不会采取极端严厉措施”，这是泄漏底线哪，庇护城市吃定心丸了。
学了个新词，draconian。lz对这词的翻译有问题吧。 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 27 １９７４年以色列学校遭到袭击的时候, 以色列通过法律加强学校的保安, 而不是禁枪
. 这么common sense的问题还要讨论嘛?
When terrorists attacked a school in Maalot in 1974, Israel did not declare
every school a gun-free zone. It passed a law mandating armed security in
schools, provided weapons training to teachers and today runs frequent
active shooter drills. There have been only two school shootings since then,
and both have ended with teachers killing the terrorists.
Israel proves the NRA's arguments
In reality, Israel's gun policy is living p... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 28 I can think of one Economist whose works fairly accurately predicted the
cyclical, boom/bust nature of de-regulated Capitalism and free markets. He
was pretty accurate in forecasting that the desire to extract ever greater
levels of profit, by driving down wages and demanding ever-increasing levels
of output, would lead to a polarization of socio-economic groups, rising
Nationalism and the use of increasingly draconian measures to keep the
victims of the casino economy in check. Indeed, despite ... 阅读全帖 |
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W***n
发帖数: 11530 | 29 Financial Crisis Coming If U.S. Doesn't Deal With Long-Term Debt, Says Pete
Peterson
Posted Feb 07, 2011 12:14pm EST by Daniel Gross in Newsmakers
Peter G. Peterson, co-founder of the Blackstone Group, has long warned about
the threat that high deficits pose to the nation. In a stream of books, op-
eds, and articles, he has pushed for reform of entitlements and the tax code.
In recent years, Peterson, who served as Commerce Secretary in the Nixon
Administration, has stepped up his anti-deficit a... 阅读全帖 |
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s********n
发帖数: 26222 | 30 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: smokinggun (硝烟), 信区: Military
标 题: 美国统计局编造通货膨胀数据
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Jun 18 00:12:26 2011, 美东)
Williams points out that one of Greenspan's manipulations of the CPI
involved the consideration that when steak got too expensive, the consumer
would substitute hamburger for the steak. So, Greenspan argued, the
inflation measure should reflect the costs of buying hamburger, not steak.
NEWS ANALYSIS
What's America's real inflation rate?
If rate is so low, how come food an... 阅读全帖 |
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l********g
发帖数: 400 | 31 刚收到 FASEB President 下面这个 Email:
$1.6 Billion Cut Proposed for NIH: Call Your Representatives TODAY!
Dear Colleague,
For months the new House leadership has been promising to cut billions in
federal funding in fiscal year (FY) 2011. Later this week the House will try
to make the rhetoric a reality by voting on HR 1, a “continuing resolution
” (CR) that would cut NIH funding by $1.6 billion (5.2%) BELOW the current
level – reducing the budget for medical research to $29.4 billion!
We must rally ev... 阅读全帖 |
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y******i
发帖数: 558 | 32 Ready to get butt f*ked everyone. If true, the EO is the most draconian in
years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-
circulates-more-draft-immigration-restrictions-focusing-on-protecting-us-
jobs/2017/01/31/38529236-e741-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html?postshare=
2611485889175975&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.b4742812be0a
Highlights:
The order would rescind (yes, rescind) any work visa provisions for foreign
nationals found not to be in “the national interest” o... 阅读全帖 |
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w*********s
发帖数: 2136 | 33 Open Letter to President Barack Hussein Obama & The National Prevention,
Health Promotion, and Public Health Council
By Catherine J. Frompovich | September 21st, 2010
(An Open Letter to President Barack Hussein Obama & The National Prevention,
Health Promotion, and Public Health Council As created under Executive
Order 13544 of June 10, 2010)
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Since voters, consumers, and taxpayers have NO input nor any ability to
accept, reject, or counter FORCED legislation as enacted by P... 阅读全帖 |
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u*****a
发帖数: 6276 | 34 New York (October 14, 2014, 5:07 PM ET) -- A former analyst for hedge fund
Two Sigma Investments LLC accused of stealing trade secrets lost a bid
Tuesday to escape a criminal trial when a New York judge found the grand
jury's proceedings to be legally sound, but won a reprieve on a hefty bail
that has kept him locked up.
While New York Supreme Court Judge Jill Konviser rebuffed the attempt by
Kang Gao to quash the criminal action against him in the pretrial stage, she
granted his request to cut ... 阅读全帖 |
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s********n
发帖数: 26222 | 35 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: smokinggun (硝烟), 信区: Military
标 题: 美国统计局编造通货膨胀数据
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Jun 18 00:12:26 2011, 美东)
Williams points out that one of Greenspan's manipulations of the CPI
involved the consideration that when steak got too expensive, the consumer
would substitute hamburger for the steak. So, Greenspan argued, the
inflation measure should reflect the costs of buying hamburger, not steak.
NEWS ANALYSIS
What's America's real inflation rate?
If rate is so low, how come food an... 阅读全帖 |
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w*********s
发帖数: 2136 | 36 【 以下文字转载自 Medicine 讨论区 】
发信人: whiteclouds (/ 参考消息 /), 信区: Medicine
标 题: 致美国总统欧巴马的公开信
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Nov 27 20:08:11 2010, 美东)
Open Letter to President Barack Hussein Obama & The National Prevention,
Health Promotion, and Public Health Council
By Catherine J. Frompovich | September 21st, 2010
(An Open Letter to President Barack Hussein Obama & The National Prevention,
Health Promotion, and Public Health Council As created under Executive
Order 13544 of June 10, 2010)
Ladies and Gentlemen:
S... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5600 | 37 Good call on both NOK & CSCO. Congrats
We debated on NOK. Now I feel more neutral about it. Aside from the
OS change, there should be a lot of cost cutting opportunity if the
management has the will and power to execute. If apple can become
apple today with 40% of the R&D, Nokia should be able save a lot of
the $4B if they adopt the right strategy. The CEO acknowledged the
problems, the question remains whether he is able to take draconian
measures and execute well. |
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M*****8
发帖数: 17722 | 38 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: smokinggun (硝烟), 信区: Military
标 题: 美国统计局编造通货膨胀数据
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Jun 18 00:12:26 2011, 美东)
Williams points out that one of Greenspan's manipulations of the CPI
involved the consideration that when steak got too expensive, the consumer
would substitute hamburger for the steak. So, Greenspan argued, the
inflation measure should reflect the costs of buying hamburger, not steak.
NEWS ANALYSIS
What's America's real inflation rate?
If rate is so low, how come food an... 阅读全帖 |
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T****k
发帖数: 1374 | 39 又有新风放出来啦：
Executive Orders - The President's tool for Quick Comprehensive Immigration
Reform
Tamanho da letra
A- A+
Executive Orders - The President's tool for Quick Comprehensive Immigration
Reform
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by Moses Apsan, Esq.
ew York - June 13, 2010 - Can an Executive Order provide immediate relief to
certain Draconian provisions of the current immigration laws even while
waiting for a comprehensive immigration reform? Let's take a close look at
an Executive Order and it's power.
his Januar |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 40 【 以下文字转载自 Family 讨论区 】
发信人: choi (choi), 信区: Family
标 题: Re: 我与乙肝歧视博弈的酸甜苦辣——乙人自述
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Oct 13 12:22:14 2008)
Originally from Taiwan, I have lived in US for more than two decades.
Chinese are silly, really, for one fifth of Taiwan population are hepatitis
B carriers. There is no draconian measure there in this respect and the
virus has not spread like wild fire. Life span of Taiwan are longer than
Chinese also. I am a carrier, for full disclosure.
I have reproduced the two paragrap |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 41 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: lczlcz (lcz), 信区: USANews
标 题: 很好, Magpul兑现诺言,离开科州去德州和怀俄明
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jan 2 17:18:48 2014, 美东)
Magpul Pulling Up Stakes in Colorado, Heading to Texas and Wyoming
Keeping good on its promise to leave Colorado in reaction to the draconian
gun laws passed in March 2013, "high capacity" magazine maker Magpul
Industries has announced it will relocate to Texas and Wyoming.
On March 4 of last year Breitbart News reported that Magpul was leaving
Colorado "if Democr... 阅读全帖 |
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S*******s
发帖数: 10098 | 42 Medicaid Eligibility Fact Sheet
http://www.lifecarefunding.com/whitepapers/treatmentoflifeinsur
Over 10 million Americans now require long term care annually. Medicaid is
the primary payor of long term care services in the United States. The
national average cost of a nursing home is $72,000 per year, for assisted
living it is $38,000, and for home healthcare services it is $21 per hour.
Most people will drain all personal savings and assets paying for long term
care in their first year of usage... 阅读全帖 |
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C***t
发帖数: 10731 | 43 2007年被ban了 据说可以去隔壁州(Indiana/Wisconsin)搞一搞
Chicago Bans Sparklers
CHICAGO (CBS 2) - The City Council on Wednesday unanimously voted to ban
sparklers.
Under the ordinance, passed unanimously with a voice vote, violators may be
fined up to $500, the Daily Southtown reported. But gone is the most
draconian provision in an earlier version of the ordinance, which would have
punished violators with vehicle impoundment.
Two years ago, a City Council committee passed a sparkler ban after an
emotional app |
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j******3
发帖数: 18319 | 44 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/world/asia/chen-guangcheng-se
Blind Chinese Dissident Leaves on Flight for U.S.
By ANDREW JACOBS
Published: May 19, 2012
BEIJING — Chen Guangcheng, the blind legal defender who made a dramatic
escape from house arrest and whose decision to seek refuge in United States
Embassy jolted American-Sino relations, left China aboard a commercial
flight bound for Newark on Saturday.
Mr. Chen and his family departed around 5:30 pm on United Airlines flight
after facing ea... 阅读全帖 |
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m*****5
发帖数: 23482 | 45 Little Rock school district will now make teachers wear underwear
The school district in Little Rock, Ark. has announced plans for a dress
code that will require teachers to wear underwear. Every single day. Female
teachers will have to wear bras, too.
An Aug. 29 letter from the Little Rock School District’s Office of the
Superintendent to all employees explains that the dress code will officially
go into effect in the fall of 2014.
“Foundational garments shall be worn and not visible with respe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7881 | 46 It’s a slowdown showdown.
At precincts across the city, top brass are cracking the whip on summons
activity and even barring many cops from taking vacation and sick days, The
Post has learned.
Throughout the city, precincts are being ordered to hand up to borough
commanders “activity sheets” indicating the number of arrests and
summonses per shift, sources told The Post.
“Police officers around the city are now threatened with transfers, no
vacation time and sick time unless they write summonses... 阅读全帖 |
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k*******n
发帖数: 2399 | 47 In the future, historians may likely mark the 2010 midterm elections as the
end of the California era and the beginning of the Texas one. In one stunni
ng stroke, amid a national conservative tide, California voters essentially
ratified a political and regulatory regime that has left much of the state u
nemployed and many others looking for the exits.
California has drifted far away from the place that John Gunther described i
n 1946 as "the most spectacular and most diversified American state .... 阅读全帖 |
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d**n
发帖数: 3172 | 48 洪晃在the dailybeast上插了一杠子。
The Beijing Backlash Over Crazy Chinese Moms
by Huang Hung
Amy Chua's parenting techniques say a lot about a Chinese culture that
glorifies suffering, lacks individual rights, and tells mothers they're only
as good as their kids.
I was dumbfounded when I read “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,” an
excerpt of Amy Chua’s book published in the Wall Street Journal one week
ago in which she details some of her draconian methods of child rearing. I
have to say none of the Chin... 阅读全帖 |
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S*********e
发帖数: 315 | 49 http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/161448.html
#1 The California state government is facing a potential state budget
deficit of 19 billion dollars this year,
and California debt is rapidly approaching junk status. One way or another
the taxpayers of California are
going to have to pay for this mess somehow.
#2 California Governor Jerry Brown recently unveiled a "draconian" budget
plan for 2011 that includes 12
billion dollars more in spending cuts and that maintains 12 billion dollars
in recent tax... 阅读全帖 |
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j*****I
发帖数: 2626 | 50 你狗的不够，回去再狗。
Just four days after the Supreme Court essentially struck down the City of
Chicago’s draconian handgun ban as unconstitutional, the City Council
unanimously approved a tough new gun-control regime — the strictest in the
nation, actually. The new rules went into effect on July 12. But they are
already being challenged in court.
你还真以为Chicago city council全体拥枪啊???
permit.
Monday,
jeopardy. |
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