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发帖数: 4978 | 1 你太低估美国人对体操的热情了。
The U.S. women's gymnastics team wrote an almost perfect fairy tale in
London on Tuesday. And NBC made the most of it, earning more high ratings
with its Olympic TV coverage.
The American squad including star Jordyn Wieber, who was earlier eliminated
tearfully from the all-around competition, overpowered Russia and all other
rivals to take its first team gold medal in the sport since the legendary "
Magnificent Seven" in Atlanta in 1996.
NBC made the team's story the anchor of it... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 2 在某些花岗岩脑袋的梦里！！！！！！！
Posted on Advocate.com December 20, 2010
Antigay Group: DADT Will Be Back
By Neal Broverman
Mathew Staver x390 (fair) | ADVOCATE.COM
The head of the fiercely antigay group Liberty Counsel is steaming mad about
the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" and says he will push the next
Congress to bring the ban on openly gay soldiers back to life.
The lobbying group, with offices in Florida, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.,
sent out an action alert Monday. After thanking its members f... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 3 Posted on Advocate.com January 25, 2011
Obama: Mum on Marriage
By Andrew Harmon
Despite increased pressure from gay and lesbian advocates to “evolve” his
position on marriage equality a little sooner, President Barack Obama did
not delve into the issue for his Tuesday evening State of the Union address,
one that focused heavily on strengthening the economy and fostering
innovation in the face of a fiercely competitive global market.
The prepared remarks of Obama’s 6,757-word speech made mention ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2153 | 5 ALBANY — Much of the excitement over the approval of same-sex marriage in
New York last year centered on New York City, home to a large gay community
whose members flocked to city marriage bureaus starting last July. But
statistics released by the state on Wednesday show that more than 2,300 same
-sex couples have wed in other communities in the state since the Marriage
Equality Act took effect.
Of the same-sex couples who specified their gender, 1,393 were made up of
two women, and 983 of two m... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1235 | 6 http://www.lonestarq.com/judge-sets-hearing-february-lawsuit-ch
Dec. 11, 2013
A federal district judge has set a hearing for February in the lawsuit
challenging Texas’ bans on same-sex marriage.
Federal District Judge Orlando Garcia will hear arguments on the plaintiffs
’ motion seeking a preliminary injunction that would bar the state from
enforcing the bans pending a trial.
The plaintiffs — gay couple Mark Phariss and Victor Holmes of Plano, and
lesbian couple Cleopatra DeLeon and Nicole Dimet... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 22013 | 7 http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/07/21/obama_signs_histo
Obama Signs Historic LGBT Non-Discrimination Order
By Mark Joseph Stern
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Well done, Mr. President.
Photo by Martin H. Simon-Pool/Getty Images
On Monday morning, President Obama signed an executive LGBT non-
discrimination order, barring discrimination on the basis of sexual
orientation or gender identity among federal contractors. The order also
protects all federal employees from discrimination on the bas... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12853 | 8 罢免村官－基层民主实验遭遇剧烈抵抗
DWNEWS.COM-- 2008年9月7日11:51:0(京港台时间) --多维新闻网
多维社记者林桂明编译报导/中国的有关法令规定，村民委员会的成员通过直接民主选
举产生，如果达到一定比例的村民对他们失去信任，可以要求罢免他们的职位。但是，
近年来中国各地罢免“村官”的实践证明，罢免程序要启动和真正生效，极为困难。村
民们反对腐败“村官”的行动最后可能导致自己被虐待、被关押。前不久发生在天津郊
区一个小村庄里的故事就是一个明证。(chinesenewsnet.com)
村民：民主权限竟这么小(chinesenewsnet.com)
基督教科学箴言报9月3日刊登的驻中国首席记者付毕德（Peter Ford）题为“中国一个
民主实验遭遇剧烈抵抗”（A Chinese experiment in democracy meets fierce
resistance）的文章，报导了天津郊区这个小村庄里发生的基层“民主”发展的故事。
报导说，当村民房兆娟怀疑村领导犯有腐败行为，开始组织左邻右舍检举村领导时，她
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发帖数: 43 | 9 Modern increasingly heated campaign, in May 2007 mid-term elections in the
Philippines, more than 50 politicians and candidates in the election
violence killed. Now leave the United States for the 2008 presidential
election year and a half, several of the main candidates have broken fund-
raising records. Despite the increasingly fierce election campaign, but the
candidate's ability to govern is increasingly a problem, it is also
political dynasty has emerged. In a modern democracy, the politica |
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发帖数: 3620 | 10 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/what-china-can
By DANIEL A. BELL
Published: January 7, 2012
FROM the outside, China often appears to be a highly centralized monolith.
Unlike Europe’s cities, which have been able to preserve a certain identity
and cultural distinctiveness despite the homogenizing forces of
globalization, most Chinese cities suffer from a drab uniformity.
But China is more like Europe than it seems. Indeed, when it comes to
economics, China is more a thin politica... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3365 | 11 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020373530457716665
BEIJING—China has announced that people living in its towns and cities now
outnumber those in the countryside, making it a predominantly urban nation
for the first time in Chinese civilization.
Migrant workers and others line up for trains ahead of the Lunar New Year
holiday in Chengdu on Tuesday.
The milestone spotlights a trend that China's government says will be a key
driver of economic growth over the next two decades as hundre... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 918 | 12 Many Falun Gong media, nature is also very fierce competition, whose
performance is brilliant, who can be in Falun Gong and Li Hongzhi invited
there more familiar, more resources for survival. If all people talk about
the news occupation morals, Falun Gong media had already closed the door
locked, so the wheel will become fraud media appeared "false special skills,
you and I all false false, false is not really round of media spectacle. In
order to seize the power struggle between pet, get more ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 13 According to the Chinese cultural tradition, what is the family name at
birth, and what is left at the time of death? Is very important, it involves
a lifetime of fame. And those who work for Li Hongzhi's life, and the
backbone of Falun Gong untimely death, when they die, what are the benefits?
Li Hongzhi in order to his followers of the spiritual control, for the
treatment of the backbone of the disciples of death, it is nothing less. The
good point is to close the news. For example, the pro br... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3150 | 14 07-14-2012 www.sana.sy
The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) website on Saturday was attacked by
foreign sides which try to prevent the Syrian national media from conveying
the truth of events and unmasking the conspiracy hatched against Syria.
After the failure of several attempts to hack the website and publish
fabricated news on it, foreign sides targeted the website with a distributed
denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack).
In the same context, anonymous sides stole SANA logo from the website a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17544 | 15 这是Amazon上Lin的评论。存在这里做个纪念：
As a Chinese, I lived through that period of time in China. I have similar
family and educational background as hers and suffered during Culture
Revolution as a child. I think her experiences in China mostly, if not all,
are fabricated, imagined, overly exaggerated or deliberately miss leading.
If one just read the media reports about her book, he/she may think that
media might just pick the sensational parts of the book and exaggerated a
little bit to help her to sell ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 462 | 16 Man behind curtain is wizard of Rod, Rahm
John Kass December 12, 2008
When it comes to being the guy behind the guy, there is no one more
conspicuous than Rahm Emanuel.
As chief of staff for President-elect Barack Obama, he's usually at Obama's
news conferences, standing off to the side, glowering like some fiercely
loyal mini-me.
But Emanuel wasn't there Thursday when Obama faced reporters to answer
questions about federal charges against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-
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发帖数: 3833 | 17 Hilary was taking a tour of a hospital while working to reform healthcare.
As she is touring, a doctor is explaining all the different functions of the
hospital to her. Eventually, they pass an open room, where Hilary could
clearly see a middle aged man masturbating with great enthusiasm. She
fiercely looked at the doctor and said, "What kind of hospital are you
running here Doctor?"
The doctor calmly explained that the man had a very rare ailment, which
required him to ejaculate three times dai |
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发帖数: 2249 | 19 从成本上根本就不对等的，阿富汗农民放下锄头就是兵，薄饼就河水。美国兵连矿泉水
都得从外面运. 在阿富汗山区打持久战纯粹找死.以一个嫉妒教国家去占领一个最为保
守落后且好斗的穆斯林国家根本没任何胜算。 |
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发帖数: 1500 | 20 November 7, 2009, 10:53 am
Abortion Fight Erupts in Health Care Debate
By David M. Herszenhorn
After months of work by Congressional Democrats on major health care
legislation
, the floor debate on the bill was at risk of being overshadowed on Saturday
by a fierce internal dispute among Democrats over the issue of insurance
coverage for abortions.
Always a politically volatile issue, the fight over provisions related to
abortion coverage had simmered quietly for weeks. It had not always been
in |
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发帖数: 417 | 21 Though Democrats have discussed ways to fast-track the legislation so as to
send it to President Obama's desk before Brown gets sworn in, cracks in the
Democrats' resolve started to show Tuesday night.
Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., said it would "only be fair and prudent that we
suspend further votes on health care legislation until Brown is seated."
Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., a fierce advocate for health care reform, also
said it might be time to take a time-out on health care reform and focus on
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发帖数: 3299 | 22 Then tell me why GOP votes against Bill that shrink FED's function. Why does
GOP fiercely lobby against strip of consumer protection function of FED?
Why does GOP want to expand the role of FED? |
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发帖数: 3299 | 23 Your comment is so ridiculous. While GOP are fiercely against sueing Goldman
Saches, Democrats want to cut wall street's meat. I guess you enjoy to be
fucked by GOP. as you will always vote GOP, which is the protector of Wall
street. Enjoy yourselves. We are furious that GOP fuck this country again
and again. But I am amazed by their spin skills. They can recruit so many
idiots that will spin for them for free.
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 The boy brimming with pride, the fanatics burning with hate... two faces of
Armistice Day
By Paul Harris
Last updated at 10:07 AM on 12th November 2010
He was 3ft tall in his shiny black shoes and he wore his great-uncle’s
medals with pride as he stood to attention in the rain.
Jonny Osborne, seven, symbolised the face of a new generation yesterday as
he marched shoulder to shoulder with servicemen and women to honour those
killed by war.
But three miles across London from the Armistice Day cere... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 By Jay Clarke
Something is wrong with Barack Obama. We all know it. We all see it. When
he speaks about America, Americans cringe. There is a strangeness to his
manner, an unease when he talks about America. He appears awkward and
uncomfortable. His speech seems performed and practiced yet, oddly halting.
It's reminiscent of American POW's in Vietnam or Iraq reading a forced
confession. His eyes, expressions, and vocal tone are disconnected from his
words. The words themselves often so... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 By Mary Beth White
In 1977, newly married and certain that my new spouse could do no wrong, I
willingly followed him into an adventure of Tennessee farming. I was a city
girl, but my new husband said we were going to raise sheep, cattle, and
horses, make tons of money, and live happily ever after. Because of the
politics of the day, the Farmers Home Administration had taken on several
newly developed loan projects and low-income families like us were given a
rosy scenario of cheap money for ch... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 27 Washington (CNN) -- House Republicans and Senate Democrats stepped up their
game of legislative chicken over the expiring payroll tax cut Monday, with
Democrats flatly rejecting House Speaker John Boehner's demand to ditch a
two-month extension in favor of an immediate one-year continuation.
"It's time to stop the nonsense," Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters on Capitol
Hill. "Americans are tired of Washington's short-term fixes and gimmicks."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, responded ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 Egypt Court Ends Virginity Tests on Female Detainees
Tuesday, 27 Dec 2011 05:16 PM
The Egyptian woman who brought a case against Egypt's army for conducting "
virginity tests" on her and others hailed a court ruling on Tuesday ordering
the military to stop such actions.
Activists say the verdict is a victory for civilian courts over generals who
took charge when Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February and adds pressure on
the army to hold to account troops who have been rebuked by Egyptians and
maj... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 Paul A. Rahe · Feb. 10 at 5:21pm
You have to hand it to Barack Obama. He has unmasked in the most
thoroughgoing way the despotic propensities of the administrative
entitlements state and of the Democratic Party. And now he has done
something similar to the hierarchy of the American Catholic Church. At the
prospect that institutions associated with the Catholic Church would be
required to offer to their employees health insurance covering contraception
and abortifacients, the bishops, priests,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 By Sahar Issa | McClatchy Newspapers
BAGHDAD — The departure of al Qaida-affiliated fighters from Iraq to join
the rebellion against Syrian President Bashar Assad in Syria has had one
benefit, Iraqi officials say: Violence has dropped in this country, in some
areas by as much as 50 percent in just a few months.
Iraqi officials declined to provide precise figures for the drop-off or to
estimate how many al Qaida-affiliated fighters have left the country for
Syria. But the impact of the departure,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 By JEFF ZELENY
¶ SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Mitt Romney fought back a vigorous challenge
from Rick Santorum in Michigan on Tuesday, narrowly carrying his native
state, and won the Arizona primary in a pair of contests that reasserted his
control over the Republican presidential race as it advances to critical
Super Tuesday contests next week.
¶ His victory over Mr. Santorum here in Michigan was far from
commanding, but it was most likely sufficient to dampen the rising clamor
from across the ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 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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发帖数: 29846 | 33 BY CASSANDRA SWEET AND RUSSELL GOLD
First Solar Inc., once the dominant U.S. solar-equipment maker, is slashing
its work force by nearly a third and shutting a factory as it contends with
a solar-panel glut that the company called "the new market reality."
Much of the solar-power industry around the globe is struggling as the
market for clean energy has been upended by uncertain government support and
fierce competition from low-priced, well-financed Chinese manufacturers
that have grown quickly... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 By Andrew Higgins and Maureen Fan, Published: May 18 | Updated: Saturday,
May 19, 11:10 AM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When scholars gathered at Harvard last month to discuss
the political tumult convulsing China’s ruling Communist Party, a demure
female undergraduate with a direct stake in the outcome was listening
intently from the top row of the lecture hall. She was the daughter of Xi
Jinping, China’s vice president and heir apparent for the party’s top job.
Xi’s daughter, Xi Mingze, enrolled at Harv... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 Preference Cascade: Supermajority of Americans Believe Second Amendment
Protects Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms
June 3, 2012 by Rodney Graves
(73-26). A slightly smaller super-majority approves of the NRA (68-32).
Progressive gun grabbers, urban liberals, and LSM hardest hit.
It’s been fifty years in the making, but super-majorities now believe the
Second Amendment actually means what it says:
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state
, the right of t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 36 Supreme Court upholds key part of Arizona immigration law
Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a key part of Arizona's crackdown on
illegal immigrants on Monday, rejecting the Obama administration's stance
that only the U.S. government should enforce immigration laws in the United
States.
The nation's highest court, in an opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy,
unanimously upheld the state law's most controversial aspect, requiring
police officers to check the immigration status of people they st... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 Back in the day, when I was a newspaper columnist in Denver, representatives
of the local chapter of the Anti-Defamation League paid a visit. Over
coffee, they told the opinion editor and me that they had a program, “A
World of Difference,” that “celebrates America’s diversity.” They asked
for our editorial support. The editor and I had the same reaction: Would it
not be better to celebrate all the things we have in common, all the things
that unite Americans of whatever ethnic or religious back... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 July 11, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
Are you a patriotic American that thinks that our American way of life is in
danger? Are you a Tea Partier? If so, Obama’s Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) wants you to know that you might be a terrorist. Or, at least
, the DHS wants to characterize you as a potential terrorist, anyway.
Once again the DHS is warning that believing in American exceptionalism or
hailing from the right side of American politics is a dangerous thing, just
as they did in 2009... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO
SAN JOSE, Calif.—A federal court jury delivered a big win to Apple Inc.,
AAPL +0.09% finding that Samsung Electronics Co. 005930.SE -0.93% infringed
six of the Silicon Valley company's patents following a closely-watched
trial.
The nine-person jury found that several Samsung phones and tablets infringed
on Apple patents relating to touch-screen features, such as multi-touch
gestures and zooming. The jury also found Samsung devices infringed on Apple
design patents, such ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 By THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press
August 26, 2012
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — On the eve of their national party conventions, Barack
Obama and Mitt Romney are locked in a close race to amass the requisite 270
Electoral College votes for victory. And the contest is exactly where it was
at the start of the long, volatile summer: focused on seven states that are
up for grabs.
Neither candidate has a significant advantage in Colorado, Florida, Iowa,
Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire and Virginia, which offer a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21 | 41 http://economywatch.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/12/13830939-great
Some highlights below from the above article. You don't have to be lazy any
more to live miserably - you could live miserably because of your "out-of-
dated" skill set, your health, or just pure bad luck. Many people in this
country are not happy about this, understandably. In a democratic society,
I would not criticize those who want it changed through their votes.
Whether or not their votes would actulaly solve the problem imm... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1637 | 42 The Romney campaign is in trouble
Posted by Ezra Klein on September 17, 2012 at 10:54 am
There are two sure signs a campaign is in trouble. The first is that it
begins changing its strategy rapidly and erratically. The second is that it
begins attacking its strategists fiercely and
First came the changes in strategy. It went from doing everything possible
to assure a “referendum” election to picking Paul Ryan as the vice
presidential nominee and going for a choice election. It went from focusing... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 789 | 43 http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/
In a video posted yesterday, Mitt Romney slammed the people who support
President Obama, saying they are most likely "dependent on government."
Romney's comments were recorded as he spoke at to an exclusive group of
donors at a private meeting. Obama's fans think of themselves as "victims,"
he said. They believe they are "entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing,
to you name it." He added, "My job is not to worry about those pe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 44
and this election, I'm sure the tards will be lazier to walk
the walk to cast votes. Nobody is energized - the election just
turns to be one all for keep clown in house by all means, a partisan
war. Even fierce libtards admit the miserable past 4 years and their
shrinking welfare check - consider skyrocketing consumer prices. |
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发帖数: 1875 | 45 Polls show Obama edge in Iowa, New Hampshire and Wisconsin
(CNN) – With less than a week before Election Day, polls released Thursday
indicated a narrow edge for President Barack Obama in Iowa, New Hampshire
and Wisconsin, three states that are being fiercely contested in the final
stretch of the campaign.
In Iowa, Obama was at 50% among likely voters, and Romney at 44%, according
to the NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll. That's slightly tighter
than earlier in October, though the result ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1509 | 46 I decided to support Barack Obama pretty early in the Democratic primary,
around spring of 2007. But unlike so many of his supporters, I never
experienced a kind of emotional response to his candidacy. I never felt his
election would change everything about American politics or government, that
it would lead us out of the darkness. Nothing Obama did or said ever made
me well up with tears.
Possibly for that same reason, I have never felt even a bit of the crushing
sense of disappointment that at... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 John Kerry's Record in Latin America
It isn't that he opposes U.S. intervention. It's that somehow he often ends
up backing the bad guys.
By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY
With Susan Rice withdrawing her name for U.S. secretary of state, President
Obama last week nominated Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry for the job. Don't
expect applause from beleaguered democrats south of the border.
Mr. Kerry's record of promoting American values abroad is dismal. It isn't
that he opposes U.S. intervention—far fr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 By ADAM NOSSITER
BAMAKO, Mali — The four-day hostage crisis in the Sahara reached a bloody
conclusion on Saturday as the Algerian Army carried out a final assault on
the gas field taken over by Islamist militants, killing most of the
remaining kidnappers and raising the total of hostages killed to at least 23
, Algerian officials said.
Although the government declared an end to the militants’ siege, the
authorities believed that a handful of jihadists were most likely hiding
somewhere in the spr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 by Jammie
If the White House thought the image of Obama allegedly skeet shooting would
quiet critics they were sorely mistaken.
He’s full of skeet!
Gun owners lampooned President Obama as Elmer Fudd yesterday after the
White House released a photo — in the middle of a fierce national firearms
debate — of the commander-in-chief shooting clay targets at Camp David over
the summer.
While the president’s shooting skills were being mocked, his own gun-
control allies privately fretted tha... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 奥巴马选民受伤最深...奥巴马治下打击最大的5大奥巴马选民群体：黑人，单身女性，
工会，年轻人，西班牙裔
5 Groups Of Obama Voters That Are Being Crushed By Democrats
By John Hawkins
3/30/2013
Hollywood, the mainstream media and the public school system are all almost
entirely controlled by people and groups friendly to the Democrat Party. Yet
and still, even with that almost overwhelming advantage, Democrats can't do
any better than a rough parity with the Republicans. If the tables were
turned and the GOP controlled what you see on TV, in the ne... 阅读全帖 |
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