g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 1 Posted on Advocate.com June 14, 2011 02:35:00 PM ET
Bankruptcy Court Says DOMA is Unconstitutional
By Michelle Garcia
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California Los Angeles
x390 (fair) | ADVOCATE.COM
A federal bankruptcy court in Los Angeles ruled Monday that the Defense of
Marriage Act is unconstitutional in relation to a case involving a gay
couple who filed for bankruptcy in February.
The ruling was signed by 20 of the 25 judges in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court
for the Central D... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 2 Posted on Advocate.com June 20, 2011 07:45:00 PM ET
Judge: Wisconsin DP Registry OK
By Advocate.com Editors
Julaine Appling of Wisconsin Family Action Wisconsin’s domestic-partnership
registry does not violate the state constitution’s ban on same-sex
marriage, a judge ruled Monday.
The decision is being touted as a victory for gay rights, although Dane
County circuit judge Daniel Moeser’s ruling cites the fact that domestic
partnerships, established in Wisconsin in 2009, convey far fewer rights ... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 3 Posted on Advocate.com June 30, 2011 06:25:00 PM ET
DOJ Gives Congress "Fair" Shot at DOMA Defense
By Michelle Garcia
The federal government has decided to appeal a bankruptcy court's decision
that found the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.
U.S. bankruptcy judge Thomas Donovan ruled earlier this month that gay and
lesbian couples should be able to file for bankruptcy protection together
and that DOMA is unconstitutional. The ruling was in reference to Gene Balas
and Carlos Morales, who ... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 4 Posted on Advocate.com July 08, 2011 01:55:00 PM ET
Govt. Withdraws Appeal in Bankruptcy Case
By Michelle Garcia
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California Los Angeles
x390 (fair) | ADVOCATE.COM
The federal government has requested to withdraw its appeal challenging a
bankruptcy court's ruling in favor of a gay couple who attempted to file
jointly for bankruptcy.
Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler told Metro Weekly that the
withdrawal reflects the new policy on suc... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 5 Posted on Advocate.com July 11, 2011 04:05:00 PM ET
Court Asks What Obama's Next Move Is on DADT
By Andrew Harmon
Although the Defense Department has confirmed that “don’t ask, don’t tell
” is going unenforced as a result of a court ruling last week, a key
question about the policy’s constitutionality remains alive.
And so a ninth circuit court clerk today ordered the Justice Department —
which has not appealed the ruling — to instruct the court on whether it
intends to defend the policy’s const... 阅读全帖 |
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m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 6 When Tim Pawlenty said the science was "in dispute” about whether being gay
is genetic, that sure came as surprise to molecular biologist Dean Hamer.
By Dr. Dean Hamer, op-ed contributor
In a recent interview, Tim Pawlenty was asked “Is being gay a choice?” The
presidential hopeful replied that “the science in that regard is in
dispute.”
As a working molecular biologist, that was certainly a surprise to me.
In fact, the scientific community has long regarded sexual orientation –
whether gay, str... 阅读全帖 |
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k*****e
发帖数: 22013 | 7 S.F. gay married couple loses immigration battle
Washington --
Citing the Defense of Marriage Act, the Obama administration denied
immigration benefits to a married gay couple from San Francisco and ordered
the expulsion of a man who is the primary caregiver to his AIDS-afflicted
spouse.
Bradford Wells, a U.S. citizen, and Anthony John Makk, a citizen of
Australia, were married seven years ago in Massachusetts. They have lived
together 19 years, mostly in an apartment in the Castro district. The... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 8 Same-sex marriage: The tortuous road to the Supreme Court
The Marriage Law Foundation’s William Duncan describes obstacles to U.S.
Supreme Court review of the constitutional claim for same-sex marriage and
explores the implications of the way these cases seem likely to be presented
to the Court.
The following essay for our same-sex marriage symposium is by William Duncan
, the director of the Marriage Law Foundation. He has represented amici in
Perry v. Schwarzenegger and Commonwealth v. U.S. De... 阅读全帖 |
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m******8
发帖数: 2153 | 9 Anti-gay bullying is a serious problem in Northern Ireland schools, a new
report says.
The Rainbow Project report, Left out of the Equation, says gay, lesbian and
bisexual pupils suffer severe inequality.
Problems include bullying, teachers failing to tackle homophobic abuse, poor
sexual health information and schools’ failure to teach about stable and
fulfilling relationships.
Young LGB people are left to “suffer in silence” because they fear coming
out, the charity says.
The report says: “LGB ... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 10 http://www.towleroad.com/2012/03/nhmcguire.html
NH GOP Rep. Dan McGuire to Base His Vote to Repeal Marriage Equality on
Dictionary's Definition of Marriage
As I mentioned earlier, today the New Hampshire House is scheduled to vote
on the disgusting HB 437, which would repeal the state's marriage equality
law, replace it with civil unions, and introduce a non-binding ballot
measure asking people to vote on whether they approve of the new civil union
law.
And here's some of the logic we're up agai... 阅读全帖 |
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m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 11 By Andrew Harmon
Ryan Truman 390x | Advocate.com
Lucy Truman (left) and Kelli Ryan, who along with four other binational
couples filed suit against DOMA on Monday
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of married, same-sex binational couples has sued
the federal government, claiming that the Defense of Marriage Act, which
has long barred equal immigration sponsorship privileges, is
unconstitutional.
Five couples — one of whom first met more than 30 years ago, another who
had shuffled between the United Stat... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1047 | 12 Supreme Court Ruling Allows Strip-Searches for Any Arrest
NY Times今天很火爆的文章。但由于太火爆，被拿下US版面置顶头条（连图片都不在版
面上显示了）。
这篇报道中，原告人Florence位于副驾驶位置上，警察查出他有unpaid fine，于是
Florence被关进jail达一星期，并被裸体检查、被要求做出提起私处等各种"less than
human"的动作。（事实上Florence已经paid fine，而且相关资料显示Florence当时向
警察说明proof就在glove compartment里。) Florence就其在入jail (注意不是prison
)"less than human"的strip-search经历上诉。
报道中部分文字：
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, joined by the court’s conservative wing, wrote
that courts are in no position to second-guess the judgme... 阅读全帖 |
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m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 13 A federal judge in Hawaii ruled Wednesday that the state’s ban on same-sex
marriages is constitutional, and said that any changes to the law should be
made by lawmakers or voters through a constitutional amendment process.
U.S. District Judge Alan Kay issued a 120-page decision that said court
involvement at this point would “short-circuit” the legislative activity
that has taken place against the issue. A civil unions law took effect in
2011, but the co-plaintiffs in the suit, Jackson v. Abercr... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 14 NEW YORK — A divided federal appeals court in Manhattan struck down the
Defense of Marriage Act Thursday as unconstitutional, joining an appeals
court in Boston in rejecting the law that defines marriage as between a man
and a woman. The Supreme Court is expected to take up the case in the next
year.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its 2-to-1 ruling only weeks
after hearing arguments on a lower court judge's findings that the 1996 law
was unconstitutional.
The majority opinion writt... 阅读全帖 |
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k*****e
发帖数: 1235 | 15 这篇文章解释得比较详细，也就是说AZ和GA的宗教自由法案，将宗教自由的优先度提高
到了其它反歧视法案之上。如果这个法案通过，其他历史上曾经通过的各种反歧视法案
将变成一纸空文。任何公司都将可以援引宗教自由在雇佣，租房，服务业等等领域公然
进行歧视。和Kansas, Tennessee, South Dekota的类似提案不同的是，AZ和GA
的提案都没有提到LGBT，这也意味着其破坏性更大，这个法案将允许种族歧视，性别歧
视，等等。
http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/02/new-bill-georgia-would-al
Georgia Wants to Allow Businesses to Kick Gay People Out of Diners
—Dana Liebelson on Mon. February 24, 2014 2:44 PM PDT
Welcome center: DanTD/Wikimedia Commons; Plank: Nuttapong/Shutterstock.
Photoillustration by Mat... 阅读全帖 |
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k*****e
发帖数: 1235 | 16 这篇文章解释得比较详细，也就是说AZ和GA的宗教自由法案，将宗教自由的优先度提高
到了其它反歧视法案之上。如果这个法案通过，其他历史上曾经通过的各种反歧视法案
将变成一纸空文。任何公司都将可以援引宗教自由在雇佣，租房，服务业等等领域公然
进行歧视。和Kansas, Tennessee, South Dekota的类似提案不同的是，AZ和GA
的提案都没有提到LGBT，这也意味着其破坏性更大，这个法案将允许种族歧视，性别歧
视，等等。
http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/02/new-bill-georgia-would-al
Georgia Wants to Allow Businesses to Kick Gay People Out of Diners
—Dana Liebelson on Mon. February 24, 2014 2:44 PM PDT
Welcome center: DanTD/Wikimedia Commons; Plank: Nuttapong/Shutterstock.
Photoillustration by Mat... 阅读全帖 |
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c********i
发帖数: 1489 | 17 看来距美帝在2001年把Muslim塑造成为新法西斯恐怖主义分子之后，
新一轮的，基于“民主”“自由”“人权”的宗教-政治宣传的下一个目标就是中国了。
宗教这种东西，一和政治联系起来，就无比邪恶。
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080418/ts_nm/pope_usa_dc
In a major speech to the U.N. General Assembly, the pope also said that the
international community sometimes had to intervene when a country could not
protect its own people from "grave and sustained violations of human rights."
我真想让提醒那些满口人权的伪君子mind their own business. |
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发帖数: 1846 | 18 TORONTO (AP) — Canada has ordered the deportation of a female soldier who
fled the U.S. military in order to avoid the war in Iraq, officials said
Thursday.
War Resisters Support Campaign spokeswoman Michelle Robidoux said that
Citizenship and Immigration Canada has ordered Kimberly Rivera to leave the
country by Sept. 20.
Rivera is meeting with her lawyers to determine her next step and was
unavailable to comment, said Robidoux.
"We are very upset about this decision," said Robidoux. "The cases... 阅读全帖 |
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t***o
发帖数: 462 | 19 Blame Hillary for anything? sorry, not this time
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,337308,00.html
FOX News purchased the video recordings of Wright's sermons from the church.
"It's pretty clear an indirect endorsement of Barack Obama that's not some
thing you're supposed to do according to the tax code," said Andrew Walsh, a
professor at Trinity College who specializes in religion in politics.
The tax code bans churches from participating in or intervening in a politic
al campaign. Violations |
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D*V
发帖数: 3096 | 20 http://rt.com/news/syria-russia-iran-annan-741/
Syria is nothing but a pawn in a global geopolitical game, set to be
sacrificed in order to curb the expansion of China, Russia and Iran,
political analyst Jamal Wakim tells RT.
As the international community warily waits to see whether Kofi Annan’s
ceasefire plan is going to work in Syria, Lebanese International University
professor Jamal Wakim believes the West has still not given up its intention
to topple President Bashar Al-Assad.
Reports on c... 阅读全帖 |
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w******n
发帖数: 4955 | 21 发布日期：2014年09月17日 文章来源：凯风网
作者：清 风
【字体大小：大 中 小】
招远全能神杀人案在烟台市中级人民法院开庭审理。同日，英国《每日电讯报》发
表驻北京记者马尔科姆穆尔文章《中国最激进的的邪教》。穆尔记者采访了两家全能神
受害家庭成员，并揭露了全能神的邪教本质。
这是中国新年后的一天，28岁的计算机科学专业毕业生彭丽娟离家出走加入了中国
最激进的邪教。她的丈夫彭宝顺说：“我回到家发现汽车在，她的衣服和身份证以及其
他东西都在，但她却失踪了。”
这对夫妇新婚才一年，很少吵架。但七个月后，彭宝顺再也没有妻子的任何音讯。
彭宝顺夫妇所在的山东省，是邪教大红龙（全能神）总部所在地，全能神声称一名
40多岁的女子杨向彬，有时候也叫邓闪电，是耶稣的复活化身。
8月21日，5名全能神邪教成员因涉嫌在烟台招远麦当劳餐厅杀害一名37岁的女子受
审。受害人当时正在餐厅等待丈夫及7岁的儿子。从现场手机拍摄视频显示，现场没有
人站出来。嫌疑人张立冬是... 阅读全帖 |
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B*V
发帖数: 3365 | 22 Egypt Islamists call 'Friday of rejection' against coup
CAIRO | Thu Jul 4, 2013 12:30pm EDT
(Reuters) - An Islamist coalition led by the Muslim Brotherhood appealed to
Egyptians on Thursday to demonstrate across the nation in a "Friday of
Rejection" against a military coup that ousted elected President Mohamed
Mursi.
The National Coalition in Support of Legitimacy "calls on the Egyptian
people to take to the streets and mobilize peacefully" after Friday prayers
"to say 'No' to military detention... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2249 | 23 WASHINGTON — A top House Democrat confirmed Saturday that the government
is planning to intervene to stabilize troubled mortgage finance companies
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the chairman of the House Financial Services
Committee, said in a statement that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson "
intends to use the powers that Congress provided it" in a law passed in July
to enable Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to keep functioning.
But Frank, who spoke with Paulson late Friday |
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s*******u
发帖数: 2249 | 24 周一见两房股票
Obama, McCain Back Action to Rescue Freddie, Fannie (Update1)
By Kim Chipman and Edwin Chen
Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain
gave their support for federal action to rescue Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
while saying steps must be taken to ensure the mortgage giants don't keep
passing losses off to taxpayers.
``It looks like the Bush administration is going to intervene with a bailout
that could end up costing taxpayers billions of dollars,'' Obama, |
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t***o
发帖数: 462 | 25 Again Obama proved himself as a follower, not reformer.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/1159383,CST-NWS-leg12web.article
Obama ducks call to push reform in Illinois
ETHICS | Group wants him to intervene with Senate leader
Recommended (13)
Comments
September 12, 2008
BY DAVE MCKINNEY Sun-Times Springfield bureau chief
SPRINGFIELD -- While Barack Obama left an imprint on two major ethics
packages as a state senator, he ducked a plea Thursday to use his influence
to safeguard landmark state l |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 26 现场的一手报告：阿拉斯加的一个左派博客作者先使用暴力，骚扰Joe Miller。却反过
来诬蔑阿州的共和党候选人
http://www.redcounty.com/content/joe-millers-security-detail-vs-alaska-dispatch
Joe Miller's Security Detail vs. The Alaska Dispatch
On Sunday afternoon I attended the Joe Miller Town Hall and it was a good
event until it ended. When I attend these events, although I support Miller,
I will hold a critical eye.
I will also stay in the back to observe the audience to see their reaction
and I will also watch how the press act.
What I found in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2406 | 27 What has government intervention led to?
Who and what caused the Housing Bubble? In case you have too short a memory
span to remember the Tech
Bubble, the Russion Default, the Asian Financial Crisis, the Mexican Crisis,
the Brazil crisis, the Argintina Default, the
Saving and Loan Crisis, the Hyper Inflation at Jim Carter years?
free market worked well until governments start to intervene to redistribute
wealth, which inevitably causes crisis and
crisis.
That's what I said, Paris gets fed with... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1651 | 28 这个印度博后实在无耻：暗中破坏组员的实验半年终于被捕
Vipul Bhrigu，Toledo大学的博士，到Univ of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer
Center做博后。从09年12月开始“细致而系统”的暗中破坏同组博士女生Heather Ames
的样品。
这个印度博后实在无耻：暗中破坏组员的实验半年终于被捕
女博士渐渐发现了问题，开始还以为是自己犯了错误，采取了一些措施防止出错，
甚至拿到未婚夫的实验室去做，总是有各种各样的问题。怀疑有人破坏，说给朋友，导
师，学校相关部门听，都劝她是不是自己多虑了，甚至认为是她自己工作不顺利，试图
归结于其他原因。
这个印度博后实在无耻：暗中破坏组员的实验半年终于被捕
直到出现media上被洒酒精，并且接二连三的发生，终于正式由警方介入。女博士
被审问两次，测谎一次，才给实验室安装了两个摄像头，并且非常震惊（对于他们，对
于我肯定是理所当然）的发现实验室新来的，“和蔼可亲，友好，健谈”的印度博后
Vipul Bhrigu从冰柜中取出自己的样品，然后拿起擦桌子消毒用的酒精spray往里面一
阵乱喷。
庭审判了8.8K... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 29 Published on DickMorris.com
on January 27, 2011
Dear Friend,
Have we learned our lesson? Do we now know to nip aspiring, radical,
charismatic Chicago politicians in the bud? We missed our chance once. Now
a second chance is coming around again.
Rahm Emanuel - the most ruthless, aggressive, ambitious, radical, take-no-
prisoners politician in America - is running for Mayor of Chicago. The
bottom rung of his ladder. From there, it's the Senate and then the White
House. This time as the boss.... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 30 By Jack Curtis
Obama's being hassled because he's dropping bombs and bullets on Libyan
targets without Congressional permission, a clear violation of the War
Powers Resolution per some Republicans and Democrats. Some estimates say
that a year of it will cost $160 B. Obama says it's within his powers
because, though he can't declare war, this isn't war; it's a "kinetic
military action," whatever that means.
He goes on to say that ground troops aren't exchanging fire, which adds to
the non-waris... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 31 Washington (CNN) -- A federal appeals court has tossed out key provisions of
the sweeping health care reform bill championed by President Obama, setting
up a likely election-year showdown at the Supreme Court over the landmark
legislation.
A 2-1 panel of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta on Friday
found that the law's "individual mandate" section -- requiring nearly all
Americans to purchase health insurance by 2014 or face financial penalties -
- was an improper exercise of fede... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 32 Venezuela could become a haven for the Libyan leader
Sarah ChildressAugust 22, 2011 11:12
It’s always nice to see dictators sticking up for each other.
Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, has come out in support of
embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
To be fair, they both have a lot in common. They share a protracted hatred
of western powers generally, and the United States specifically. Both
countries are awash in oil. Chavez set up a program to distribute heating
oil to poor American... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 33 By George Boykin
Consider Darwin's attitude about the black race. Darwin dreamed of a
future for mankind when the black races of man will become extinct, thus
enhancing the chances for the evolutionary advancement of the more "
civilized" races of man.
"At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the
civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the
savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous
apes, as Professor Schaaffh... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 34 October 2, 2011 - 3:59 pm - by Victor Davis Hanson
The Parting of the Clouds
In every literary, historical or cinematic masterpiece, times must grow
darkest before the sunrise and deliverance. Tolkien worked that classical
theme to great effect. A sense of fatalism overtook a seemingly doomed
Gondor — right before the overthrow of Barad-dûr and the dawn of a new
age of men. The historian Herodotus, in literary fashion, also brilliantly
juxtaposed the Greek collapse at Thermopylae (the... 阅读全帖 |
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T**********1
发帖数: 2406 | 35 How much he gets paid is between him and his employer. You have no rights
to intervene. That is written in the Constitution. You dxxb Fxxxer! |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 36 By Patrick Goodenough
November 30, 2011
(CNSNews.com) – A religious freedom advocacy group is challenging all 2012
presidential contenders to sign a pledge committing themselves to promote
religious freedom at home and to make it a foreign policy priority.
As of late Tuesday, Republican former Sen. Rick Santorum had signed the Open
Doors USA pledge and the other candidates – including the Democratic
incumbent – were “considering” doing so, the organization said.
Signatories to the “pledge f... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 37 By Larry Bell
Barack Obama's and Rod Blagojevich's convicted felon fund-raiser, Tony Rezko
, has recently been sentenced to ten years minus 44 months for time served
in jail for wide-ranging corruption. Many people would like to ask him
about his connections to others who knew -- even participated in --
practices that helped to get him planted in the pokey. They are also
curious about why he was never subpoenaed to testify at trials of some of
those who were subsequently convicted of corrupt a... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 38 Headed for the Rocks in European Waters
By Daniel Hanson Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Filed under: World Watch, Culture, Economic Policy
A united Europe is impossible given cultural and economic mismatches.
The eurozone is going to split, whether through economics or politics.
Having had time to digest the latest round of euro rescue efforts, markets
do not seem to be terribly optimistic. The euro is down, equities markets
remain unsettled, and, after a brief reprieve, sovereign bond yields in
tro... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 39 https://www.judicialwatch.org/corrupt-politicians-lists/washingtons-ten-most
-wanted-corrupt-politicians-for-2011/
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes
government corruption, today released its 2011 list of Washington’s “Ten
Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The list, in alphabetical order, includes:
Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL)
Former Senator John Ensign (R-NV)
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL)
Attorney General Eric Holder
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)
President Ba... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 40 Crowded Public-Assistance Centers Interrupt Services as Demand for Aid Grows
BY MICHAEL HOWARD SAUL AND ALISON FOX
Growing numbers of New Yorkers seeking food stamps have created an unwelcome
spillover effect at some of New York City's job centers: overcrowding that
in some cases has grown so severe, benefits were jeopardized.
The crush of people grew so large at one Brooklyn center in November that
the Fire Department intervened and prevented anyone from entering the
building.
That was an extre... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 41 By Richard N. Weltz
If one wants to explore what makes the minds of the left-liberal elites tick
, there is perhaps no better place to search than on the editorial pages of
the New York Times, which on the last Saturday of 2011 saw fit to bemoan
such little reductions as Republicans had been able to accomplish in the
Obama administration's ongoing runaway spending binge:
But that still leaves major reductions in the vital category known as
nondefense discretionary spending[.] ...
... Th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4050 | 42 Newt Gingrich is smarter than you. Don't feel bad, he's smarter than
everybody else, too. Just ask him. Or look at what he's done.
Repeated adultery with younger women, while each successive wife was
seriously ill --- and all along Newt was proclaiming himself a champion of
family values. Attacking mortgage lender Fannie Mae, while secretly getting
paid $1.6 million as a lobbyist for them – and claiming he was a "historian
," not a lobbyist. Attacking Congress for gridlock, when personally led t... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 43 Oh my: Majorities of liberal Democrats now support drone strikes, keeping
Gitmo open
posted at 6:46 pm on February 8, 2012 by Allahpundit
Pity poor Glenn Greenwald, who thought the left’s opposition to Bush’s
counterterror policies was based on something more profound than crude
partisan tribalism. Why he thought that, I don’t know: The writing was on
the wall when the anti-war movement started dying even as Obama geared up
for a surge of tens of thousands of troops in Afghanistan. In fact, I’ll... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 Egypt parliament to consider cutting off US aid
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's parliament has called for a vote on stopping U.S. aid.
Sunday's move by the People's Assembly was sparked by the March 1 departure
of six Americans defendants in a case of 43 employees of nonprofit groups
accused of using illegal foreign funds to foment unrest in Egypt.
The U.S. threatened to cut off aid to Egypt over the issue. Now the
parliament is moving to take the initiative, by voting to reject further
American aid.
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 04/10/2012
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell
before people catch on, and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?
Why should being in a professional sport exempt anyone from prosecution for
advocating deliberate violence? Recent revelations of such advocacy of
violence by an NFL coach should lead to his banishment for life by the NFL,
and criminal prosecution by the authorities. If you are serious about
reducing v... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 April 12, 2012 | Posted by David Robertson
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are bringing their game to the city of Tulsa.
According to a story published by the Tulsa World, Jackson was invited to
Tulsa by the State Legislative Black Caucus. The same story says that Al
Sharpton will also be making an appearance in Tulsa.
The newspaper story quotes statements that Jackson made during a conference
call. I will provide an excerpt from the story, but I should warn you that
you shouldn’t be drinking so... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4321 | 47 Hear you. So why do you want to intervene when a woman want to terminate the
pregnancy?
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 By Clarice Feldman
Whether he resigns or is removed or spends the rest of this year responding
to Congressional inquiries, Attorney general Holder has treated the
Department of Justice as a partisan arm of the Obama Administration. Now
and for the foreseeable future he is just another Albatross around Obama's
neck.
Fast and Furious
Let's review the case against Eric Holder.
In the forefront of the news is the Department's role in an operation known
as Fast & furious and his lies, obfuscation... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 Top doctor's chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients
every year
By Steve Doughty
PUBLISHED: 18:08 EST, 19 June 2012 | UPDATED: 08:20 EST, 21 June 2012
Worrying claim: Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use
of a controversial ¿death pathway¿ into the equivalent of
euthanasia of the elderly
Worrying claim: Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use
of a controversial 'death pathway' into the equivalent of euthanasia of the
elderly
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 June 23, 2012 by Charlie Quidnunc
People sometimes say that the Republicans are the pro-business party, and
the Democrats are the pro-consumer party. I would prefer to think of it,
perhaps naively, that the Republicans are pro-market, and the other guys are
pro-regulation. When given the chance many business people will do whatever
it takes to make money, skirting as close to the law as possible, seeking
favors from powerful politicians to defeat their competitors, and generally
trying to maxim... 阅读全帖 |
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