发帖数: 1 | 1 Back in August 2018, long before WeWork's historic implosion, we discussed
how WeWork's EBITDA is "whatever you want it to be" thanks to the company's
bizarre pro forma addbacks, which transformed a $933MM net loss and a $193
million adjusted EBITDA loss, into a "positive" $233 million "community-
adusted" EBITDA for 2017, and a net loss of about $1.9 billion using
standard accounting, to a $467 million "profit" in 2018.
This is what we said:
Here, for the first time we saw not just one adjustme... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4140 | 2 NYS Workers' Comp: How Alpha 3T MRI Fouls Even on The DVDs?
By Limin Wang
March 03, 2020
Introduction:
This realistic story mainly tells how a medical diagnostic imaging MRI
facility, Alpha 3T MRI (145 East 32 Street, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10016
. Phone: (212) 868-9210), gave me, an apparent workers’ compensation case (
NYS WCB# G2029240) patient but actually a victim of attempted murders, a DVD
completely blank in its content but with my information printed on the disk
skin, soon after the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 3 http://news.mit.edu/2020/ventilator-covid-deployment-open-source-low-cost-0326
MIT-based team works on rapid deployment of open-source, low-cost ventilator
Clinical and design considerations will be published online; goal is to
support rapid scale-up of device production to alleviate hospital shortages.
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office
March 26, 2020
One of the most pressing shortages facing hospitals during the Covid-19
emergency is a lack of ventilators. These machines can keep patients
bre... 阅读全帖 |
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d*****n
发帖数: 2132 | 4 for project like 高铁, 30 yrs is the more realistic. |
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发帖数: 10596 | 5 回复确实比较搞
10:28 pm January 1, 2011
China or US? wrote:
Shouldn’t we worry about the U.S. turning into a Mexico in the future? That
’s a far more realistic scenario than the one outlined in the article…
这个太靠谱了
再过100年中国还是中国人的中国
美国恐怕就成了墨西哥人的美国了
rule.
turning
New |
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d*****g
发帖数: 1616 | 6 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: dahuang (春风又绿江南岸), 信区: Military
标 题: 视频：MIT专家组论日本反应堆
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Mar 19 06:14:11 2011, 美东)
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/nuclear-panel-japan-0136.htm
In introducing the panel discussion, Richard Lester, head of the MIT
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), said that “we’ve been
taking in a lot of information, much of it I’m afraid not very good, but
really what we wanted to do here is give an opportunity for people to ask
questions” in o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2204 | 7 http://news.yahoo.com/mlk-memorial-china-love-121700223.html;_y
MLK Memorial: From China, with love?
MLK Memorial: From China, with love?
MLK Memorial plans have been dogged by controversy over links to China. The
MLK Memorial was built by a Chinese sculptor from Chinese granite. But
backers are pleased with the result.
Christian Science MonitorBy Patrik Jonsson | Christian Science Monitor – 2
hrs 36 mins ago
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发帖数: 12955 | 8
Technically correct. But realistically, it's a joke. |
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发帖数: 212 | 9 PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics for testing
special clothing used by US military personnel. PETMAN balances itself as it
walks, squats and does calisthenics. PETMAN simulates human physiology by
controlling temperature, humidity and sweating inside the clothing to
provide realistic test conditions. PETMAN development is lead by Boston
Dynamics, working in partnership with Measurement Technologies Northwest,
Oak Ridge National Lab and MRIGlobal. |
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x****u
发帖数: 12955 | 10
KMT force was rotating one of the unit out when attack happened. So the
forces on the island was twice the usual number. Plus, their landing boats
were caught by receding tide and all stranded on the beach. And the most
unpredictable event is the defenders had a tank broken down on the landing
beach the day before landing. The initial wave of attackers had no weapon
to take it out and that tank destroyed a large portion of the landing boats.
Even then, the 9000 men not only took the beach, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 254 | 11 放狗了，是靶机
The BQM-74 is used primarily as a realistic aerial target, capable of
simulating enemy threats for gunnery and missile training exercises. |
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发帖数: 261 | 12 correct.
A) is called "throwing someone under the bus" - you typically just don't do
that, even if it is your teammate's fault.
Yes all else equal, blame other teams for ambiguous requirements or
unrealistic deadline - but that's only effective if you do it before the
shit hits the fan, earlier the better. I mean if I am the boss, the first
question i would ask if someone tells me this at project deadline is why
couldn't you tell me this earlier - the vague requirement was only an issue
at the ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8998 | 14 http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2003/apr/24/athletics.duncanmac
Carl Lewis has broken his silence on allegations that he was the beneficiary
of a drugs cover-up, admitting he had tested positive for banned substances
but claiming he was just one of "hundreds" of American athletes who were
allowed to escape bans.
"There were hundreds of people getting off," he said. "Everyone was treated
the same."
Lewis has now acknowledged that he failed three tests during the 1988 US
Olympic trials, which unde... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 53 | 15 It is good to see your using one of my favorite words-cost.
Everything, every choice, and every thing come with its due price- this is
one of my fundamental tenets-and I take it religiously:).
So I agree with you this particular change is carrying a price---personal
freedom and equality is never free, and I certainly have discussed that
frequently in this Rainbow BBS before, and was as frequently scorned and
criticized. In essence, I believe any realistic practices of freedom and
equality will b |
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发帖数: 24887 | 16 Is it realistic to have this bill passed in a place like Colorado? I think
the state is largely homophobic with some limited islands of more liberally-
minded people? It is said to be the leanest state, though. |
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发帖数: 2153 | 17 A report by the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law at UCLA (
University of California, Los Angeles) has found significant homophobia and
discrimination in the state of Utah, home to the Mormon Church.
The study of 939 LGBT Utahans found that sixty seven per cent of
transgendered and forty four percent of lesbian, gay and bisexual Utahans
say they have either been sacked or have been denied a job or promotion as a
result of their LGBT status.
In contrast to research in the UK, Gay men e... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24887 | 18 I am not sure about the "按照美国法律" part of your argument, for different
states might sentence him differently. I am sure he will be sentenced to
death penalty at more than one State. As for China, of course he should be
sentenced to death without any ambiguity. We cannot discuss his case without
leaving the bigger context of the law. We might hope that in the long run
China will abolish death sentence, but today it is not realistic. |
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D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 19 应该不是很新的新闻了。不过确实有若干“不满”是关于雕塑的作者，一个地道的中国
大陆雕塑师。参看下面一段文字：
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/maya-angelou-says-memorial-
"Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer objects to the 30-foot-tall
statue, which was sculpted by Lei Yixin, an artist from China who has also
sculpted monuments of Chairman Mao. "His flat, rigid, socialist realist King
does not do justice to the supremely nuanced, creative, humane soul of its
subject," Krauthammer says." |
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发帖数: 19713 | 20 By Winston Gieseke
OFFICE THUMBS DOWN JOB X390 (PHOTOS) | ADVOCATE.COM
According to a study published today in the American Journal of Sociology,
men whose resumes indicate that they’re gay are 40% less likely to be
called in for job interviews, especially in the south or Midwest.
Pink News reports that Harvard University researcher Andras Tilcsik
submitted two “realistic but fictitious” resumes to 1,700 white collar job
openings. One indicated that the applicant had served as a treasurer of his... 阅读全帖 |
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m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 21 我也是老实孩子啊，我是很认真地问的嘛。我就想知道形婚这件事是不是realistic |
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发帖数: 1235 | 22 预言第三：
发信人: vivaldi (生无可恋), 信区: LGBT_News
标 题: Re: 同性移民
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Dec 18 13:08:22 2009, 美东)
Realistically 同性移民 won't be possible before 2050 in the United States.
发信人: vivaldi (生无可恋), 信区: LGBT_News
标 题: Re: 同性移民
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Dec 19 08:48:18 2009, 美东)
不是我太悲观，是你们搞不懂事情的真相，搞不懂美国。
不必谈什么“少数人的基本权益”，这没意义。选举权还是多数人的基本权益的，中国
不是也没有？这都是国情。我们喜欢谈中国国情，却不喜欢谈美国"国情”。美国的国
情就是它是一个比欧洲加拿大澳大利亚要保守得多的国家，根本不可相提并论，觉得欧
洲可以了加拿大可以了，美国就快了，那是一厢情愿。你没看到在欧洲加拿大澳大利亚
已经没多少人把上帝圣经当回事了，美国总统还整天放在最上，因为美国农民信这套。
经济学家杂志以前做过... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8995 | 23 I think this is the hardest road because I don't know anybody here. I've
never lived in this community, never played for this board, and I took a
leap.
But like I said, I went with my gut and my instincts and I trusted the
situation, and it's not the easy situation because I'm out of my comfort
zone.
Like I said, I'm looking forward to learning and getting better every
single day, and I know it's going to be ups and downs throughout， I know we
're expected to be perfect every single day, but I k... 阅读全帖 |
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a***u
发帖数: 100 | 24 I have two letters missed here, however, I think CIA get them.
The problem is very clear. By misunderstanding other people,
you have to figure out that you already misunderstand yourself
and lots of things. You sinned two much, it is other people are
paying your debts heavily, and you are still thinking about how
to cancel your debts free. Not only you are not very realistic, but
you are the problem now. Don't forget you are still playing game on me. |
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a***u
发帖数: 100 | 25 I have two letters missed here, however, I think CIA get them.
The problem is very clear. By misunderstanding other people,
you have to figure out that you already misunderstand yourself
and lots of things. You sinned two much, it is other people are
paying your debts heavily, and you are still thinking about how
to cancel your debts free. Not only you are not very realistic, but
you are the problem now. Don't forget you are still playing game on me. |
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M*V
发帖数: 3205 | 26 香港南华早报今日报道，转载不代表同意其论述
http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1353498/are-chinese-a
Are Chinese Americans overreacting by comparing Jimmy Kimmel to Hitler?
More than three weeks after the fact, America’s Chinese community is still
up in arms over Jimmy Kimmel’s perceived anti-Chinese skit.
Thousands of protesters in 27 different US cities took to the streets last
week demanding for more apologies by both Kimmel and television network ABC.
People are claiming that the Jimmy Kimmel Live skit, wh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17544 | 27 http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2012/01/entering-americ
ON THURSDAY, the White House announced that President Barack Obama had
signed a new executive order aimed at promoting travel to America by easing
the visa process and reducing paperwork. This is good news. Gulliver has
written before about the need for visa reform, which is a really simple,
largely non-controversial way that America could boost its economy.
Unfortunately, Congress, sclerotic and divided as usual, was unable to act—... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 918 | 28
In countries with the prevalence of terrorism are often accompanied
by strong nationalism, the status of women was low, or even to maltreatment
and torture of children from the urine accept terrorist organization of
indoctrination, young took the weapons to participate in the struggle, a
terrorist organization to the children as a "human bomb" use deception for
what they carry a "shield" to protect them from bomb damage, when they
complete the task, will be subject to a hero's welco... 阅读全帖 |
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k*******3
发帖数: 918 | 29 In countries with the prevalence of terrorism are often accompanied by
strong nationalism, the status of women was low, or even to maltreatment and
torture of children from the urine accept terrorist organization of
indoctrination, young took the weapons to participate in the struggle, a
terrorist organization to the children as a "human bomb" use deception for
what they carry a "shield" to protect them from bomb damage, when they
complete the task, will be subject to a hero's welcome, their par... 阅读全帖 |
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k*******3
发帖数: 918 | 30 In countries with the prevalence of terrorism are often accompanied by
strong nationalism, the status of women was low, or even to maltreatment and
torture of children from the urine accept terrorist organization of
indoctrination, young took the weapons to participate in the struggle, a
terrorist organization to the children as a "human bomb" use deception for
what they carry a "shield" to protect them from bomb damage, when they
complete the task, will be subject to a hero's welcome, their par... 阅读全帖 |
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g**1
发帖数: 10330 | 31 http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67479/charles-glaser/wil
rise-lead-to-war
Will China's Rise Lead to War?
Summary: Realist international relations theorists usually would predict
that the basic pressures of the international system will force the United
States and China into conflict. But properly understood, realism offers
grounds for optimism in this case, so long as Washington can avoid
exaggerating the risks posed by China's growing power.
CHARLES GLASER is Professor of Political Scie... 阅读全帖 |
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m*******r
发帖数: 481 | 32 Realistic people, either her supporters or not, know Hillary basically is
over in her bid for Office. Many fans of Hillary in this board may still
want to argue about this. And I have also expressed many times that I am not
any fan of H, O, or M. I am just an observer or analyzer. I only follow my
interest.
Come back to the question: What happened to Hillary and her team? I know 6
months ago, this board is very optimistic about Hillary. So is the national
Poll. at that time, the tone is H is the |
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m*******r
发帖数: 481 | 33 Like it or not, Obama won the Dem nomination. Interestingly, very soon, this
morning O is speaking at AIPAC, the largest Jewish group. A very important
sign. H fans are hoping that H should not take VP offer to show her spirit.
Believe it or not, the following things could happen:
1. H is very likely to take the VP offer if O extends it to her. Politics is
realistic. H will do her own calculation. No spirit in politics, just
interest calculation. VP is better than nothing. but H wants some lever |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 34 以共产主义屠夫毛泽东为最欣赏哲人的白宫联络主管Anita Dunn马上离任，但她的丈夫
将接替很快离职的负责关闭关塔纳摩的白宫顾问Craig
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/13/craig-out-as-wh-counsel/
Craig out as WH counsel
posted at 10:12 am on November 13, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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As it became more apparent that the White House would not just miss its
target of closing Gitmo by January but had no realistic plan to close it at
all, the man at the head of that effort became expendable. Greg Craig, the
White House counsel who m |
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m***s
发帖数: 1094 | 35 Please give the source of 'republicans think the current system is perfect and needs no change' Don't tell me it is MSNBC or Rachel Maddow. Republicans have been proposing things that are much more realistic and less damaging to the deficit, but liberals just pretend to be deaf.
Also, you need to do some research on how democrates are banking on the current malpractice law -- John Edward basically single-handedly boosted it up to a new level, thanks to the cases he did when he was a lawyer, whic |
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t*b
发帖数: 850 | 36 whay there are so many stupid people like you.
it is not realistic that everyone must have the same health insurance. It is
bullshit to say $16k for health insurance. This is just a spending issue.
how can you imagine to have all the same thing Bill Gates have. If you can't
have them, you then say it is because Bill Gates set the bar too high?
this |
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d****i
发帖数: 4354 | 37 The truth is the poor family making 20K which is poverty line will not only
not pay tax, but also get quite some money back.
And most family making 100K won't be buying such an expensive house to get
24K mortgage interest and property tax deduction. Because you have to pay a
lot for the principles also, that will not leave too much for other things.
More realistically, 100K earning family's effective tax rate will be about
15% now.
And why 30%? That's a crippling tax rate. Let's say everybod |
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a****t
发帖数: 7049 | 38 What you say is not right. The bubbles were caused ultimately by loose
monetary policy, and realistically the only fix is there, too.
You may have noticed the savings rate in the US was negative until recently.
That means there was too much consumption and not enough investment,
contrary to your belief that taxes were too little on the investment side.
Rather, the tax on capital was too much.
It can be argued that taxes were too little on the consumption side, but
when the government itself is t |
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发帖数: 3539 | 40 sounds like without the government, the small competitors stand a chance
over the big buddies.
the government is corrupted in the sense that big corps can lobby without an
upper limit. that's why the government is biased towards them. removing
the government however does not automatically grant a platform for fair
competitions, nor food safety for the public.
what's deciding is the consumers' choices, which strongly depends on what
they know. look, i understand that ideally people make their ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 41 Most times, the short barrel is going to have to answer the call
by Richard Johnson
07/12/2011
Handguns are very popular for self-defense in the United States. There are a
variety of reasons for this, many of which have to do with convenience.
While we all recognize that a 12-gauge shotgun is probably better at
stopping an assailant, how easy is it to tote one around all day?
In 2009 alone, more than 4.5 million handguns were manufactured and imported
into the US. While many of these firearms ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 42 By Carol Peracchio
One of the benefits of having been a nurse for over thirty years is that
people will occasionally allow me to be brutally honest. For example, I can
get away with telling an acquaintance, "God did not create gastric reflux
medication just so you can eat an entire pizza and then go lie on the couch
like a beached whale."
Until recently, I was willing to believe that President Obama and his party
were merely way-out-leftists, even Marxists. But after listening to their
respons... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 By Mark Hyman
There has been no shortage of fawning and sycophantic descriptions of Barack
Hussein Obama. His admirers and supporters on the political left and in
the media (although I repeat myself) have showered him with numerous
accolades and lavished him with countless superlatives. According to them,
he is "the most," "the best," "most successful," "the greatest," and so on.
He has been called the most intelligent man ever elected president. Some
believe he is literally a genius. Obama ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 44 Scottish Monitors Lose Track of Lockerbie Bomber
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 09:47 AM
By:
The Scottish municipality charged with monitoring freed Lockerbie bomber
Abdel Basset Al-Megrahi hasn’t been able to contact him since Libyan rebels
entered Tripoli three days ago.
East Renfrewshire Council has to ensure Al-Megrahi, who has prostate cancer,
doesn’t break conditions imposed by Scottish Justice Minister Kenny
MacAskill when he freed him on compassionate grounds in August 2009.
Officials spoke ... 阅读全帖 |
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y****t
发帖数: 10233 | 45 还temporary out of stock...
4星半的评价
EVERYTHING OBAMA KNOWS ABOUT THE ECONOMY (blank inside) is a one hundred and
fifty page book and every page is totally blank. The front and back cover
are realistic representations of a classic economics book. This book
contains no words inside whatsoever - just one hundred and fifty blank pages
. This book is a humorous talking point and can also be used very
effectively as a notebook...
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0980074231/thed... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 162 | 46 I respectfully disagree your points.
First, Paul is a libertarian but not a conservative. In my humble opinion,
both Libertarians and Neo-cons are closet liberals.
Second,conservatives want somebody to advance conservative causes.Gingrich
has done that and it on his record.Paul is just not that person, because
some of his policies are too extreme, such as allowing nuclear Iran. Most
likely, a President Paul will never get enough support from the right or the
left to pass good laws.
Simplicity is... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 47 posted at 7:31 pm on January 18, 2012 by Tina Korbe
The Fox News Channel is simultaneously America’s most trusted news source
and its least, according to a new poll from Public Policy Polling. Now, if
the very same Americans said they both trusted and distrusted Fox, that
might have suggested the channel is as perfectly fair and balanced as its
executives claim. That is, if conservatives and liberals alike trusted half
the information Fox provided and distrusted the other half, a plausible
expla... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 By James Pethokoukis
January 31, 2012, 11:27 am
The Congressional Budget Office has released its updated 10-year budget and
economic forecast. Actually, the CBO offers two forecasts. It has a baseline
forecast, which assumes current law stays in place. It also has an “
alternative” forecast which assumes current tax and spending policy stays
in place as is—even if the law says it must change in coming years. That
scenario incorporates the following assumptions:
– Expiring tax provisions (oth... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 49 By John Watson
Let us start with a simple premise: It is one thing to emote to an ideology,
yet it is quite another to live out its reality. Generally, liberals tend
to rely upon emotion to push their agenda, while conservatives tend to rely
more on pragmatism. Raising the minimum wage to theoretically provide a "
living wage" to the poor sounds good, but the reality has generally been
higher unemployment of the lower-wage-earners.
A prime example is California. For many years, California gov... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 Exclusive Poll: 74% of Adults Believe Religious Freedom Trumps ObamaCare
by Mike Flynn
Barack Obama's pavlovian adherence to a progressive worldview has sparked an
unexpected challenge to his reelection hopes: his administration's "war" on
the Catholic Church. Earlier this year, the Obama Administration,
implementing ObamaCare, finalized regulations that would require all
employers, including religious institutions, to provide free access to
contraceptives, abortion-inducing drugs and steriliza... 阅读全帖 |
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