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发帖数: 19713 | 1 Judge Throws Out Binational Couple's Lawsuit Challenging DOMA
By Andrew Harmon
IMMIGRATION GENERIC X390 (FAIR USE) | ADVOCATE.COM
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a married binational gay
couple in California who were denied a marriage-based green card by
immigration officials.
Handi Lui, a citizen of Indonesia who in 2009 married his American spouse,
Michael Ernest Roberts, in Massachusetts, sued the government after U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), an agency... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24887 | 2 http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/02/07/ugandas-anti-gay-bill-r
KAMPALA, Uganda -- The Ugandan parliamentarian who first introduced an anti-
gay bill that carried the death penalty for some homosexual acts
reintroduced the bill on Tuesday, raising concerns among rights activists
who have been fighting the legislation.
Parliamentarian David Bahati first introduced the bill in 2009 but it has
never come before the full legislative body for a vote. Though widely
supported in Uganda, the bill's prog... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 3 WASHINGTON -- Cancer patient Kathy Watson voted Republican in 2008 and
believes the government has no right telling Americans to get health
insurance. Nonetheless, she says she'd be dead if it weren't for President
Barack Obama's health care law.
Now the Florida small businesswoman is worried the Supreme Court will strike
down her lifeline. Under the law, Watson and nearly 62,000 other "
uninsurable" patients are getting coverage through a little-known program
for people who have been turned awa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 4 http://prospect.org/article/1st-circuit-rules-doma-unconstituti
One of the most striking examples of the progress made by supporters of gay
and lesbian rights can be seen with respect to the odious Defense of
Marriage Act. The bill, which denied federal marriage benefits to same-sex
couples and allowed states not to recognize same-sex marriages valid in
other states, had been signed by the second-most recent Democratic president
after passing both the House and Senate by veto-proof margins. A li... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 5 Gay rights petition under study by Secretary of State (AUDIO)
November 14, 2012 By Bob Priddy
The first petition issue for the 2014 ballot that might hit the streets is
about gay rights.
The legislature has refused to pass legislation banning discrimination
against gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender Missourians. Missourians
for Equality is hoping to start circulating petitions late next month
seeking a statewide vote banning that discrimination.
Executive Director Aaron Malin of Kirksvill... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 456 | 6 Sen. Rob Portman, who voted in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996,
says he has changed his mind on the matter since one of his sons came out
as gay in 2011.
CINCINNATI — Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman is now supporting gay
marriage and says his reversal on the issue began when he learned one of his
sons is gay.
Ohio's junior senator disclosed his change of heart in interviews with
several Ohio newspapers and CNN. In an op-ed published Friday in The
Columbus Dispatch, he said the deci... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1846 | 7 http://rt.com/usa/toxic-study-gmo-corn-900/
A leaked study examining genetically-modified corn reveals that the lab-made
alternative to organic crops contains a startling level of toxic chemicals.
An anti-GMO website has posted the results of an education-based consulting
company’s comparison of corn types, and the results reveal that genetically
modified foods may be more hazardous than once thought.
The study, the 2012 Corn Comparison Report by Profit Pro, was published
recently on the website... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3150 | 8 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title8/html/USCODE-201
8 U.S.C.
United States Code, 2011 Edition
Title 8 - ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
CHAPTER 7 - EXCLUSION OF CHINESE
From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov
CHAPTER 7—EXCLUSION OF CHINESE
Codification
Former chapter 7 of this title included the provisions of the several
Chinese Exclusion acts, beginning with the temporary act of May 6, 1882, ch.
126, 22 Stat. 58, which, as being then in force, were, by act Apr. 27, 1904
, ch. 1... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 Obama will have to produce birth certificate to run again
Posted: January 25, 2011
7:42 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2011 WorldNetDaily
U.S. President Barack Obama greets the media as he walks on the South Lawn
of the White House upon his return to Washington, November 14, 2010.
President Obama is back in Washington after a 10-day trip to Asia. UPI/Yuri
Gripas/Pool Photo via Newscom
It could be a game-changer.
A plan in Arizona to require presidential candidates to prove their
eligibility to o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 A federal judge ruled that Congress violated the Constitution by requiring
Americans to buy insurance as part of the health overhaul passed last year,
and said the entire law "must be declared void."
With his ruling, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson set up a clash over
whether the Obama administration still has the authority to carry out the
law designed to expand insurance to 32 million Americans.
A Florida federal judge on Monday ruled that a key plank of the health
overhaul passed last March ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 WASHINGTON—The Senate on Wednesday voted against repealing the health-care
overhaul but approved a measure eliminating a tax requirement that had irked
small businesses.
In a debate reshaped by this week's court strike against the law, the Senate
voted 51-47 against repeal. All of the chamber's Democrats who were present
and one independent who caucuses with them voted against it, and every
Republican voted for it. The measure, which Republicans tacked on to an
unrelated aviation bill, had been ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 By Howard Richman, Raymond Richman, and Jesse Richman
The latest house price data (the S&P Case-Shiller index) shows a clear
downward trend for the most recent six months, as shown in the graph below:
The next graph shows how this year's data fits in with the long-term trend.
It is clear that the house price bubble, which began in 1997 and peaked in
2006, has not yet finished popping:
How We Got Here
The black stars in the above graph highlight 1951 and 1997, the two years
when Congress changed ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 如果奥巴马医疗法案那么好，为什么人们纷纷选择不加入，包括大量民主党选区的人？
If you knew a dangerous virus was about to hit America and that you could
beg the government for a vaccine, you’d probably do it, wouldn’t you? That
’s just what states and businesses alike are doing right now in preparation
for Obamacare. But rather than seeking a vaccine, they’re asking for
waivers from the law’s onerous requirements.
To date, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has approved 1,
372 Obamacare waivers, covering 3.1 million Ame... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 Supreme Court: AZ Can Require Employers to Verify Citizenship Status of
Workers
Thursday, May 26, 2011
By Fred Lucas
Citizens of Hazleton, Pa., Support Anti-Illegal Immigration Ordinances
(CNSNews.com) – In an early test of state immigration reform laws, the
Supreme Court ruled on the side of enforcement regarding an Arizona
immigration law that allows penalties up to revocation of business licenses
for employers that knowingly hire illegal aliens.
The Arizona law in question in this case requir... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 Thirty percent of employers will definitely or probably stop offering health
benefits to their employees once the main provisions of President Obama's
federal health care law go into effect in 2014, a new survey finds.
The research published in the McKinsey Quarterly found that the number rises
to 50 percent among employers who are highly aware of the health care law.
McKinsey and Company, which identifies itself as a management consultant
that aims to help businesses run more productively and c... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 By William Sullivan
Ben Franklin's essay, "On the Price of Corn and the Management of the Poor,"
directly responds to President Obama's jobs proposals. And indeed, it
nearly encapsulates the entire message we conservatives have for our
president on the matter of taxing the wealthy and addressing poverty.
Suffice it to say, Benjamin Franklin would have been among the vilified rich
today. He was a private landowner who wanted the British government to
leave him to his own successful devices. ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
acknowledged Tuesday that legislation aimed at making U.S. funding to the
United Nations contingent on reforms lacks bipartisan support but said it
was important to make a stand for “the principles that we believe in.”
As she prepares to mark up her bill in committee, Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.)
faces mounting opposition from the Obama administration and advocacy groups
supportive of deeper U.S. engagement with the U.N.
The U.N. Trans... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 OTTAWA — In a move that's straining already stressed Canada-U.S. relations,
Canadians travelling by air or boat to the United States face a new $5.50
surcharge being implemented by the Obama administration.
As the Harper and Obama governments battle over Buy American rules in the U.
S. jobs bill and other irritants, the two trading partners are now at odds
over the surcharge on Canadians, Mexicans and others travelling stateside.
A provision in the U.S.-Colombia free-trade deal officially signed... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 By Sarah Palin
Updated 5d 17h ago
Thanks to the solid new research and recent revelations in Peter Schweizer's
book Throw Them All Out and the subsequent coverage on 60 Minutes, we have
concrete proof to explain how members of Congress accumulate wealth at a
rate astonishingly faster than the rest of Americans and have stock
portfolios that outperform even the best hedge-fund managers'. (Full
disclosure: Schweizer is employed by my political action committee as a
foreign policy adviser.)
USA... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 20 Almost 13 years ago, Mitt Romney left Bain Capital, the successful private
equity firm he had helped start, and moved to Utah to rescue the Salt Lake
City Olympic Games and begin a second career in public life.
Yet when it came to his considerable personal wealth, Mr. Romney never
really left Bain.
In what would be the final deal of his private equity career, he negotiated
a retirement agreement with his former partners that has paid him a share of
Bain’s profits ever since, bringing the Romney ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 Excerpt from Business week:
The House on Dec. 13 passed a bill that extends the payroll tax cut and
expanded unemployment benefits through 2012. It includes a provision that
would prevent doctors from seeing their Medicare reimbursements cut starting
in January.
House Bill
The $202.4 billion House bill provided a yearlong extension of the expiring
provisions. Republicans covered the cost to the Treasury with a variety of
spending cuts and revenue increases, including a pay freeze for federal
civ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 Feb 2011
Predictably, when something positive takes hold in America, and spreads
across the nation, eventually confusion will emerge. And that is nowhere
better illustrated than with how to deal with concealed carry, not in the
state where we reside, but across the country as we travel.
As it is now, individual states may reciprocate in accepting each other’s
concealed carry permits, but only under the laws of the state the permit
holder is physically in. Fine. What that leaves out is the permit... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 GALLUP: "Americans overwhelmingly believe the 'individual mandate,' as it is
often called, is unconstitutional, by a margin of 72% to 20%." (USA Today /
Gallup Poll, 2/20-21/12)
"Even a majority of Democrats… believe that provision is unconstitutional."
(USA Today / Gallup Poll, 2/20-21/12)
"As you may know, the Supreme Court will hear arguments next month
concerning a requirement in the healthcare law that every American must buy
health insurance or pay a fine. Regardless of whether you fav... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4321 | 24 http://healthcarereform.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID
History of the Individual Health Insurance Mandate, 1989-2010
Republican Origins of Democratic Health Care Provision
Heritage Foundation's 1989 report is considered to be the conceptual origin
of the health insurance mandate.
The concept of the individual health insurance mandate is considered to have
originated in 1989 at the conservative Heritage Foundation. In 1993,
Republicans twice introduced health care bills that contained an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 25 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 | 26 ‘Drop dead, Arizona. Drop dead and go away. We’re going to ignore you.’ (
UPDATED)
by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is ticked off... actually, she's pissed off, let
's face it... and if what follows is true, she ought to be... and so should
we all:
Before lawmakers could fully digest the court’s decision on Monday
upholding the “show me your papers” provision of the law, the Obama
administration announced that it was revoking agreements with Arizona police
over the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 On Labor Day, 1980, Jimmy Carter’s presidential re-election campaign was
ahead by 4 points. On November 4, 1980, the incumbent lost by 10 points. As
I learned firsthand back then, a lot can happen in two months.
Today, as the RealClearPolitics average shows Mitt Romney down by less than
a point in his White House bid, the challenger needs “the fierce urgency of
now,” to borrow a phrase often used by Barack Obama in 2008--although he
hasn’t used it much since. Ronald Reagan had that sense of ur... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 937 | 28 http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/11/pf/insurance/health-insurance-p
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The cost of employer-sponsored family health
insurance premiums jumped again this year, but the rate at which they rose
slowed to historic lows, according to a new survey Tuesday.
For insured workers, the cost of buying health insurance for a family of
four increased 4% to $15,745 in 2012, according to a survey conducted by
Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust.
Last year, premiu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 Health Care
CBO projects that federal health spending will continue to be one of the
fastest-growing areas of federal spending, increasing at an average rate of
7 percent per year over the next decade. In contrast, over that same time,
GDP is expected to grow at the rate of only 2.4 percent per year.
The new baseline incorporates provisions of the 2010 health care reform act
(the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—or PPACA) that would expand
Medicaid, provide subsidies for health insuran... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 30
今天的美国，不，北墨西哥，是不能由共和党白人来做这事了。
不过，黑暗里的曙光，菊然被老黑自己做了！
最近的新闻，北墨最黑的，最反安全的城市，新泽西CAMDEN的市政府官员终于
受不了公务员工会的长期折磨，准备对那些拿着工会肥薪的警察下手。
看看，还得自己养家，才知道柴米油盐贵啊。
纽约时报的标题是很含糊的，TMD还是力薄肉啊。
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/nyregion/overrun-by-crime-cam
To Fight Crime, a Poor City Will Trade In Its Police
Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Times
Janiah Rosas, 8, and her brother Jaden, 3, playing outside an abandoned
house in Camden, N.J., where crime is rampant.
By KATE ZERNIKE
Published: September 28, 2012
FACEBOOK
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 By Bloomberg News Service
December 13, 2012
Health insurance premiums may as much as double for some small businesses
and individual buyers in the U.S. when the Affordable Care Act’s major
provisions start in 2014, Aetna’s chief executive officer said.
While subsidies in the law will shield some people, other consumers who make
too much for assistance are in for “premium rate shock,” Mark Bertolini,
who runs the third-biggest U.S. health-insurance company, told analysts
yesterday at a conference... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 Health Costs on His Mind
Small Factory Owner Looks for Ways to Cope With New Law
By EMILY MALTBY And SARAH E. NEEDLEMAN
Sales at Automation Systems LLC, a parts-assembly factory in the Chicago
suburbs, dropped 60% following the 2008 financial collapse. Owner Carl
Schanstra was able to get the firm back on its feet by breaking into new
markets, such as the auto industry. Sales are up 12% this year, and are
likely to rise again next year, too.
But for the 34-year-old, the expected growth in sale... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 In the aftermath of the failure of gun control amendments in the Senate,
most attention has been focused on the defeat of the Manchin-Toomey
provision to expand background checks. While that provision wouldn't have
prevented Newtown or any other recent mass-shooting and made mostly cosmetic
changes to federal law, it went down to bi-partisan defeat. The bigger
story, however, is that Obama's signature proposal, a ban on assault weapons
and extended magazines, was overwhelmingly rejected by the S... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 Massachusetts Democrats To Force Governor To Seek Waiver From Obamacare
Provisions
Josh Archambault Josh Archambault, Contributor
An awkward future conversation between Governor Patrick and President Obama
about the ACA in MA?
A very interesting ACA development is taking place in Massachusetts today as
the state that “inspired” Obamacare tries to reconcile its current law
with the new federal law. Push back in the compliance effort is coming from
an unexpected source, the senior Democratic budge... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 Jeffrey H. Anderson
July 2, 2013 8:24 PM
In a blatant exercise of arbitrary rule, the Obama administration announced
this evening that it has unilaterally decided not to implement a key
provision of Obamacare on schedule. By law, Obamacare’s employer mandate
— its requirement that businesses with 50 or more workers provide federally
sanctioned health insurance — should go into effect next year. By
executive fiat, it won’t go into effect until 2015.
In addition to being a naked display of lawle... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 by Jammie
They knew for months and did what they do best: They covered it up.
As far back as March, a top IT official at the Department of Health and
Human Services said the department’s current ambition for the law’s new
online insurance marketplaces was that they not be “a Third-World
experience.” Several provisions had already been abandoned in an effort to
simplify the administration’s task and maximize the chances that the new
systems would be ready to go live in October, when customers... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 Christie vetoes 3 gun-control bills
By Matt Katz, Inquirer Trenton Bureau
Posted: August 18, 2013
Gov. Christie rejected three major pieces of gun-control legislation Friday
that Democrats passed following last year's fatal school shootings in
Connecticut.
Despite proposing a ban on purchases of the Barrett .50-caliber gun and
similar weapons in April, Christie vetoed a bill that would have done just
that.
He said Friday that the bill went too far, in that it would have
criminalized current and ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 UPS to End Health Benefits for Some Working Spouses of Employees
Company Says Move Is Prompted in Part by Federal Health Overhaul.
By TIMOTHY W. MARTIN
, BETSY MORRIS
and SCOTT THURM
CONNECT
United Parcel Service Inc. UPS +0.99% plans to cut off health benefits to
working spouses of thousands of employees starting in 2014, a move it said
is prompted in part by higher costs related to the federal health overhaul.
The Atlanta-based package delivery giant said in an internal memo to
employees last ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 September 30, 2013 - 11:35 AM
By DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — The state of Maryland faces a second challenge to a
gun control law set to take effect Tuesday.
On Friday, a collection of gun shops, firearm associations and people with
pending handgun permit applications filed the complaint in U.S. District
Court in Baltimore. They're challenging a provision requiring prospective
buyers to submit their fingerprints to obtain a handgun qualification
license.
The plaintiffs... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 by Peter Ferrara
Day 2 of the government shutdown, and look out the window. The sun is still
shining, and the sky is still blue. The birds are chirping.
The Great Government Shutdown is not that big a deal, even for the
government. The federal civilian workforce includes 2.9 million bureaucrats.
Out of that, only 800,000 are being furloughed, or just 27%. Even for these
workers, the shutdown just amounts to a paid vacation for a few days.
Just like the overballyhood sequester, average Americans ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 41 McConnell’s office told The Hill on Wednesday evening that the senator was
not responsible for the dam funding authorization increase, instead
referring to the White House and leaders of the Senate committee that is
responsible for appropriations.
“The process is that OMB (the White House) submits a list which is scrubbed
by chair and ranker (Feinstein/Alexander) of each subcommmittee (energy and
water in this case),” said Don Stewart, a spokesman for McConnell, in an
email. “We are not OMB or t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 Pants On Fire: PolitiFact Tries To Hide That It Rated 'True' in 2008
Obamacare's 'Keep Your Health Plan' Promise
On December 12, the self-appointed guardians of truth and justice at
PolitiFact named President Obama’s infamous promise—that “if you like
your health care plan, you can keep it”—its 2013 “Lie of the Year.” An
understandable choice. But in its article detailing why the President’s
promise was a lie, PolitiFact neglected to mention an essential detail. In
2008, at a critical point in t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 Judge hears arguments in health care lawsuit
July 7, 2014 - 4:35 PM
By TODD RICHMOND, Associated Press
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin senator on Monday argued that his
lawsuit challenging rules that call for congressional members and their
employees to seek government-subsidized health insurance through small-
business exchanges should be allowed to move forward.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, an Oshkosh Republican, contends the rules twist the
Affordable Care Act to ensure senators, representatives... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 by Ed Poll via LawBizBlog
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill last month that requires all smartphones sold
in California to include a “kill switch.” The purpose of this bill is to
enable an owner who loses his/her smart phone to, remotely, make a
smartphone worthless to a thief. By flipping a switch remotely, the owner
of the phone can “kill” all the data that is on the phone. As one has put
it, the phone will become a “brick” and nothing more.
However, the bill also contains a provision that all... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 House nearing vote on 1-year package of tax breaks
December 1, 2014 - 3:05 PM
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are moving to pass a one-year extension
of temporary tax breaks affecting millions of businesses and individuals.
Most of the more than 50 tax breaks expired at the end of 2013, so the
extension would only run through the end of the month. However, it would
allow taxpayers to claim the tax breaks when they file their 2014 tax
returns.
The tax b... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 刚说了要观望,马上就来个现行,天使们真是狗改不了吃屎.
AG Nominee Lynch: Illegal Aliens Have ‘The Right’ to Work In U.S.
January 29, 2015 - 9:44 AM
AG Nominee Lynch: Illegal Aliens Have ‘The Right’ to Work In U.S.
See More at: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/cnsnewscom-staff/ag-nominee-lynch-illegal-aliens-have-right-work-us
AG Nominee Lynch: Illegal Aliens Have ‘The Right’ to Work In U.S.
January 29, 2015 - 9:52 AM
By CNSNews.com Staff
Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch being sworn in at her confirmation
hearing on ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4150 | 47 Look at what Russia is doing:
The Russian government continues its steady persecution of LGBT citizens as
Russian transgender people no longer qualify for driver’s licenses in the
country under a new set of revisions to medical controls for drivers,
reports BBC News.
The Russian government says the new rules are to help cut down on the number
of car accidents. Although most of the provisions refer to physical
impairments, such as blindness, “gender identity disorders” including
transsexualism an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 Rauner Seeks Insurance Program Changes for Illinois Retirees; Michigan
Changes Upheld in 6-0 State Supreme Court Decision
Illinois state pension and retirement plans are in dire straits. The only
way to fix the problems is with plan changes.
Michigan did that in 2012. And in a 6-0 decision yesterday, the Detroit Free
Press reported the Michigan Supreme Court, rejected arguments from unions,
and upheld the 2012 state law requiring teachers to put more of their pay
toward their pension plans or fa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5456 | 49 我在其他组看到某人copy过来没有quotation的论调, 我看着应该是尼大叔的高论.
我来反驳一下.
1. SB16和SB1 都是同一堆人提议的, 猪党吗, 看看general provision就知道了. SB16
因为大家强烈反对被postpone了. 本来猪党准备在Quinn下台前强行通过的. 现在继续
来还能改方向?
2. 这个太扯, 自己看看provision . Sec. 18-8.15. Basis for apportionment of
primary State financial aid to the common schools for the 2015-2016 ---"
This formula approach imputes a level of per pupil Available Local
Resources and provides for the basis to calculate a per pupil level of
primary State financial aid that, when added to Ava... 阅读全帖 |
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