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发帖数: 3206 | 1 Manhattan Councilwoman Asks for 'Leniency' in Peter Liang Sentencing
SOHO — Councilwoman Margaret Chin issued a statement requesting "leniency"
in the sentencing of the former NYPD officer convicted of killing an unarmed
black man in a Brooklyn public housing stairwell.
Peter Liang shot Akai Gurley while patrolling a dimly lit NYCHA stairwell in
2014. The rookie officer was found guilty earlier this month of
manslaughter by a mostly white jury and now faces up to 15 years in prison.
Chin, whose ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21010 | 2 Where were all the "good guys" who are supposed to be saving people in these
kinds of tragedies? No, I do not mean first responders, I mean the "good
guys with guns" the NRA keeps referencing. Too many guns, folks, and too
many people afraid to stand up to the Gun Lobby. This is, sadly, the price
we pay for cowardice. Will we ever be a true democracy again, when the will
of the "people" is heard and responded to? |
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发帖数: 7349 | 3 For anyone familiar with fashion magazines, the term ‘nude’ – referring
to a colour rather than a state of undress – is often part of the
established vocabulary.
Used synonymously with ‘flesh-toned’, it is an adjective liberally applied
to anything off-white to champagne, blush and rose. When Beyoncé came to
the Met Ball in a peach Givenchy gown, when Michelle Obama wore beige to
meet the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and when Kim Kardashian wore a pale-
pink bodysuit, style publications repeat... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1100 | 4 The theme of this morning’s news updates from Washington is additional
clarity emerging, rather than meaningful changes in the field. But this
clarity is enough to give us a sense of what we just saw happen, and why it
happened the way it did.
I’ll separate what’s below into the raw news reports and analysis; you may
also find these two pieces from yesterday (heavily referenced below) to be
useful.
From “The Day After Tomorrow.” I resisted the temptation to use the
analogous shot from “Planet of... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 15372 | 5 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: TravisBickle (Travis), 信区: USANews
标 题: 加州参议员提案:政府必须给每个非法移民配律师
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Feb 10 15:20:27 2017, 美东)
Kamala Harris’s First Bill: Lawyers for Border Detainees
California’s newest U.S. Senator, Kamala Harris, revealed her first piece
of legislation on Thursday, the Access to Counsel Act, which targets
President Donald Trump’s travel restriction executive order by providing
lawyers to anyone arriving at U.S. border crossings and ports of entry.
“Refugees, immig... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6361 | 6 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: TravisBickle (Travis), 信区: USANews
标 题: 加州参议员提案:政府必须给每个非法移民配律师
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Feb 10 15:20:27 2017, 美东)
Kamala Harris’s First Bill: Lawyers for Border Detainees
California’s newest U.S. Senator, Kamala Harris, revealed her first piece
of legislation on Thursday, the Access to Counsel Act, which targets
President Donald Trump’s travel restriction executive order by providing
lawyers to anyone arriving at U.S. border crossings and ports of entry.
“Refugees, immig... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 7 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-40102562
Facebook sorry for Tiananmen picture frame rejection
5 hours ago
From the section China
FACEBOOK / FUNG KA KEUNG
Image caption
Hong Kong activist Fung Ka Keung's profile picture frame was later approved
Facebook has apologised for "incorrectly" rejecting a Hong Kong activist's
profile picture frame referencing the Tiananmen massacre.
Fung Ka Keung had designed a layer of text, known as a frame, for his
profile picture to commemorate the inciden... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10087 | 8 If his Facebook is any indicator, he's married — which would mean the "
other person" in the apartment referenced in the FBI affidavit could be the
wife.
She changed her Facebook profile picture to a picture of just herself around
June 12/13 — which lines up to when Christensen was start to be questioned
by police. It had previously been her and Christensen. I wouldn't be
surprised if she helped the FBI in some way (ie: being bugged) to get the
audio of him confessing. Either that, or she knew a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4453 | 9 8月24日，中国提议给100亿美元，但印度闲少，经过这些天的讨价还价，最后以200亿
美元成交！
August 24, 2017 7:00 pm JST
China woos Bhutan with $10 billion in standoff with India
Beijing seen driving wedge in New Delhi-Thimphu alliance
YUJI KURONUMA, Nikkei staff writer
NEW DELHI -- Locked in a two-month border standoff with India and tiny
Bhutan in the Himalayas, China is offering its little neighbor $10 billion
in economic assistance to soften its stance.
Sources say that since the offer, Bhutan has toned down its allegations that
China... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4796 | 10 下面这篇文章挺有意思的。床铺根本就没想要当总统。他只是想利用选举给自己增加知
名度。他竞选团队里头的人也没指望他当总统。结果他意外当选了，现在竞选团队里的
人反而麻烦了。另外床铺一开始组阁时候的混乱也说明他根本也没有预料或者期待当选。
Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President
On the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Kellyanne Conway settled into her
glass office at Trump Tower. Right up until the last weeks of the race, the
campaign headquarters had remained a listless place. All that seemed to
distinguish it from a corporate back office were a few posters with right-
wing slogans.
Conway, the campaign’s manager, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 11 https://twitter.com/RepRatcliffe/status/955599629206335488?ref_src=twsrc%
5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2018-01-25%2Fcomey-
rosenstein-mccabe-all-named-fisa-memo-according-first-leak
The thousands of texts @TGowdySC and I reviewed today revealed manifest bias
among top FBI officials against @realDonaldTrump. The texts between Strzok
and Page referenced a "secret society." |
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发帖数: 4796 | 12 最近借着黑豹的东风涌现出很多新词儿，让人迎接不暇，什么是Afrofuturism？
How the Afrofuturism behind Black Panther and Get Out combines social
justice and sci-fi
Afrofuturist ideas are at the core of both films.
In the fictional African nation of Wakanda, beads made of “vibranium” heal
bullet wounds, and a bulletproof suit absorbs and stores the energy of
hostile blows. Levitating trains cruise past vaulting skyscrapers with
thatched roofs, as saucer-shaped aircraft carve arcs in the sky.
Wakanda, a fantasy nation that serves... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4796 | 13 这下咋整？
Trump orders ban on most transgender troops, yet final policy rests in
courts
In a presidential memorandum on a Friday, President Trump banned some
transgender service members from serving in the U.S. military, saying
transgender individuals “with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria”
are unable to serve except under limited circumstances.
The new policy is constrained by existing court orders that block earlier
attempts to ban transgender troops.
“Among other things, the policies se... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 14 看马来西亚的做法，
Malaysia’s Mahathir Pledges to Review China Invesment if Re-Elected
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-08/mahathir-pledges-to-
review-china-investment-after-malaysia-vote
In Malaysia, Chinese investment has raised concerns over sovereignty and
economic inequality. Mahathir referenced plans by Country Garden Holdings Co
. Ltd. to invest $100 billion in Johor state to build apartments that cost
upwards of 1 million ringgit ($258,000). The median annual income in
Malaysia was... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 16 US 6381594 B1 System and method for personalized information filtering and
alert generation
US 6499052 B1 Electronic commerce system for referencing remote commerce
sites at a local commerce site
US 6920609 B1 Systems and methods for identifying and extracting data from
HTML pages
US 7337185 B2 System and method for providing an improved graphical user
interface for search
US 7647306 B2 Using community annotations as anchortext
US 7716219 B2 Database search system and method of determining a val... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4796 | 17 Anthony Bourdain contemplated suicide but says daughter gave him reason '
;to live' in one of his final interviews
Anthony Bourdain spoke about having "things to live for" and feeling
"reasonably happy" in what would be one of his final in-depth
interviews before his death.
The celebrity chef was found dead of an apparent suicide early Friday
morning in his hotel room in France. He was 61.
Bourdain told People in February he felt "some responsibility" to &#
34;at least... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21731 | 18 https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Wei_Dai
中本聪每人知道是谁，但是加密货币先驱是一个叫 Wei David的老中，微软的密码学专
家。当年中本聪写比特币的时候向他请教过。
但是该老中很谦虚认为中本聪是独立发现
Relationship with Satoshi Nakamoto
Wei Dai and Adam Back were the first two people contacted by Satoshi
Nakamoto as he was developing Bitcoin in 2008[2] and the b-money paper was
referenced in the subsequent Bitcoin whitepaper.[14]
In a May 2011 article, noted cryptographer Nick Szabo states:
Myself, Wei Dai, and Hal Finney were the only people I know of who liked the
idea (or i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5309 | 19 Appearing at the joint news conference with Putin after the talks in the
Finnish capital ended, Trump said he and Putin discussed their disagreements
“at length.” He added: “Our relationship has never been worse than it is
now. However, that changed, as of about four hours ago.”
The summit began hours after Trump blamed his own country, rather than
Russia, for the hostilities between their two nations.
Speaking first at the news conference, Putin said the talks took place “in
a frank and busines... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 20 China joins US as top influencer in science
https://asia.nikkei.com/Tech-Science/Science/China-joins-US-as-top-
influencer-in-science?utm_source=SupChina&utm_campaign=87c932b6a0-20170613-
312+AnbangConfirmsChairmanInTrouble&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_caef3ab334-
87c932b6a0-163366685
It's paying off in other ways, too. * According to the Japan Science and
Technology Agency, China now ranks as the most influential country in four
of eight core scientific fields, tying with the U.S. The agency too... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 21 Sickened by all of this?
Want to know how it is likely to end?
Read Gibbons' great work, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
It's all there.
Beautifully written and well referenced. |
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发帖数: 1 | 23 Mike
You might want to look into cracking down first on our own
pharmaceutical industry. That’s possibly where a great many opioid
addictions start with overprescribed prescription medications that are
opiate-based. Encouraging China to execute more people is probably not the
answer.
Donald J. Trump
.....considered to be the worst and most dangerous, addictive and deadly
substance of them all. Last year over 77,000 people died from Fentanyl. If
China cracks down on this “horror drug,” usi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10738 | 24 华为清的律师is shit.
Martin argues “you can rely on her personal dignity,” in arguing for his
client #MengWanzhou to get bail. Says she would not breach a court order
because it would humiliate her father and embarrass China. Now referencing
how important “face” is in China. |
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发帖数: 38600 | 26 Meanwhile, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has been referencing the threat of
Chinese superiority in the digital currency space in an attempt to sell U.S.
lawmakers his plans for the Libra stablecoin.
"China is moving quickly to launch a similar idea in the coming months. We
can't sit here and assume that because America is today the leader that it
will always get to be the leader if we don't innovate,” he argued in an
official statement. |
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发帖数: 1 | 27 Emails sent to Yang's campaign and reviewed by The Hill showed a user going
by the name "HitmanYang" threatening to shoot members of Yang's camp while
they were in the Granite State.
Many of the emails referenced the campaign’s tweets, threatening that if
the number of tweets from the candidate reached an unspecified threshold
that members of the campaign would be shot.
One of the emails suggested that more than one individual was involved and
that money had been pooled to bet on how many tweets... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8613 | 29 FINA裁决的分析部分是很详细合理的
希望CAS也能公布它自己的分析
https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/sun-yang-verdict-the-fina-doping-
panel-ruling-that-triggered-wada-action/
6. ANALYSIS
6.1 A fundamental issue to evaluate is whether the Athlete was properly
notified by the IDTM testing team. This is mandated in ISTI Article 5.4.
Specifically, whether the DCO and the DCA and the BCA provided to the
Athlete, pursuant to the ISTI, proper official documentation from IDTM
evidencing their authority to collect a sample fr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1154 | 30 原文本来post在linkedin,但是被take down了。信不信由你，哥是信了，没人会闲得编
一个这样的notes出来，而且文中指名道姓了与会者
加州大学旧金山 BioHub 小组关于 COVID-19 的讨论会小结，2020 年 3 月 10 日
与会者：
• 乔·德里西：UCSF的顶级传染病研究员。 陈扎克伯格生物中心（涉及UCSF/伯
克利/斯坦福的合资企业）联席总裁。 在非典疫情中使用的芯片的共同发明者。
• 艾米莉·克劳福德：新肺特别工作组主任，诊断专家
• 克里斯蒂娜·塔托：快速反应总监， 免疫学家
• 帕特里克·艾斯库：领导疫情应对和监测，流行病学家
• 查兹·兰格利尔：UCSF传染病医生
下面基本上是小组成员发言原汁原味的记录。 少数不是原话会写在括号中。
• 主要观点：
在目前时点，美国已经错过了遏制期， 遏制基本上已是徒劳的了。 我们的遏制努力不
会减少在美国感染的人数。
现在，我们只能努力减缓传播速度，帮助医生们应对需求高峰。 换句话说，遏制的目
标是平缓曲线，以降低需求激增的峰值，减弱... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 31 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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发帖数: 19737 | 33 again, 有铁不代表会炼铁， Roman Republic 509 BCE–27 BCE ，没有blast furnace，
可见技术有多差。
我从一开始就说了，罗马和同期“汉朝”金属冶炼技术相比，到底是谁搞不清啊？汉朝
是啥时候开始的？谁说东汉了？
帮你post教育贴，不用谢我
The oldest extant blast furnaces were built during the Han Dynasty of China
in the 1st century BC. However, cast iron farm tools and weapons were
widespread in China by the 5th century BC,[2] while 3rd century BC iron
smelters employed an average workforce of over two hundred men.[2] These
early furnaces had clay walls and used phosphorus-containing miner... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 34 Illinois Civil Unions Bill Passes Senate, Gov. Quinn Will Sign Into Law
First Posted: 12- 1-10 03:23 PM | Updated: 12- 1-10 04:03 PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/01/illinois-civil-unions-bil_2_n_790595.html
Less than 24 hours after it was passed by the Illinois House of
Representatives, the state Senate voted to approve a measure that would
allow gay couples to enter into civil unions.
Governor Pat Quinn has already pledged to sign SB1716, the "Illinois
Religious Freedom Protection ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 35 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kent-greenfield/the-doma-supreme-
A federal judge in Boston has ruled unconstitutional the portion of the
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that limits federal benefits to straight
couples even in states that recognize gay marriage. This is just the first
inning in a long game that will eventually end up in the Supreme Court. The
decision there will depend on whether the conservatives really believe in
states' rights.
For almost 20 years, one of the pivotal debates on ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 36 Posted on Advocate.com March 18, 2011
Colorado Civil Unions Move Forward
By Sunnivie Brydum
PAT STEADMAN X390 (FAIR) | ADVOCATE.COM
The Colorado state senate appropriations committee Friday approved a civil
unions bill by a party-line vote of 6-4.
SB-172, sponsored by gay Democratic senator Pat Steadman of Denver, now
moves to the full senate, where it is expected to pass. All 20 Democratic
senators — a majority of the chamber's 35 senators — have signed on as
bill cosponsors.
The bill will the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 37 Golinski Has Her Day in Court, DOJ Sends Senior Lawyer To Argue DOMA's
Unconstitutionality
Posted by Chris Geidner |
December 16, 2011 5:10 PM | Permalink
The Department of Justice sent one of its top lawyers to federal court in
San Francisco today to argue that the Defense of Marriage Act's federal
definition of marriage unconstitutionally limits Karen Golinski's ability to
secure health insurance for her wife.
Golinski's case, which began as an ordinary request to include her wife, Amy
Cunning... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 22013 | 38 网上放出了Romney 2002年为gay pride做的宣传画
不过Romney矢口否认，说不知道这画从哪来的。
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/08/republican-debate-mitt
CONCORD, NH -- Mitt Romney's presidential campaign on Sunday disavowed a
flyer that claimed he supported "equal rights" for gay citizens and has long
been reported to have been distributed by the Massachusetts Republican
during his 2002 campaign for governor.
Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney's chief spokesman, told The Huffington Post that the
flyers were not official literature from ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 39 By Andrew Harmon and Julie Bolcer
RICK PERRY CHRISTIAN X390 (GRAB) | ADVOCATE.COM
Texas governor Rick Perry
After a campaign memorable for its gaffes, brain freezes, and antigay
rhetoric to best the most conservative of his rivals, Texas governor Rick
Perry announced Thursday that he was dropping out of the 2012 presidential
race and endorsing Newt Gingrich, two days prior to the South Carolina
primary.
“This campaign has never been about the candidates,” Perry said in a news
conference Thursday... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1822 | 40 http://www.gay.net/news/2012/04/05/god-gays-and-need-love-thy-n
Helminiak's book examines the Bible in its original historical and cultural
context, rather than the literal interpretation one sees from conservative
believers who pick and choose passages to meet their personal or political
needs. He explains how the sin of Sodom (where the word "sodomy" originates)
was inhospitality, not homosexuality. He also discusses those five biblical
passages in detail: Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, Romans 1:2... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24887 | 41 这样的报道,可以让人脑门流冷汗：
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/27/brian-sims-doma_n_3513
An openly gay lawmaker was silenced by colleagues on the Pennsylvania House
floor Thursday when he attempted to speak about the Supreme Court's decision
to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act.
State Rep. Brian Sims (D-Philadelphia) took to the House floor on Thursday
to discuss the high court's landmark ruling, which found the federal law
barring the government from recognizing same-sex marriages legalized by
st... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 左派=反宗教：Vermont州的左派禁止定制的车牌上包含任何的宗教文字，却允许各种其
他文字。公然违
反联邦宪法第一修正案所保证的言论自由。
http://volokh.com/2010/10/08/ban-on-references-to-deities-on-license-plates-
unconstitutional-viewpoint-discrimination/
Ban on References to Deities on License Plates = Unconstitutional Viewpoint
Discrimination
Eugene Volokh • October 8, 2010 3:02 pm
So holds today’s Second Circuit decision in Byrne v. Rutledge:
At issue here is the state ban on any combination [of letters and numbers on
a personalized license plate] th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 By Michael O'Brien - 10/13/10 10:02 AM ET
The GOP-aligned American Crossroads said Wednesday it has raised over
$13 million since coming under attack from President Obama.
The group and its campaign affiliate, Crossroads GPS, said it had
easily surpassed its initial fundraising goal of $50 million to spend
on behalf of Republicans, and has increased its target to $65 million,
according to spokesman Jonathan Collegio.
The boffo numbers come after a week in which Obama led Democrats in
attacks... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=7612
During Tuesday nights election coverage, a fun exchange between MSNBC host
Chris Matthews and Michele Bachmann, who was reelected to her Congressional
seat took place. The conversation degenerated quickly when Chris Matthews
accused Michele Bachmann of being hypnotized. She shot back teasing Matthews
for his infamous “tingling thighs” comment he made about hearing Obama
speeches. The video below is priceless and hysterical, which is paired with
the video from ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 House passes historic ban on taxpayer funding for abortion
by Kathleen Gilbert
Wed May 04, 2011 16:20 EST
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 4, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The House on Wednesday
afternoon voted 251-175 to pass H.R. 3, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion
Act, which makes permanent and universal the annually-approved Hyde
amendment. In its current form, the Hyde amendment, which bans federal
funding for abortion except for in cases of rape and incest, requires annual
approval.
The bill was ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 Government Jobs Untouched by the Great Recession
Private sector down 300k jobs as public employment remains stable
By Don Carrington
June 13, 2011
CJ Photo by Don Carrington
Gov. Bev Perdue, using her veto stamp Sunday to reject the General Assembly'
s 2011-12 budget, said the spending plan would take North Carolina "
backwards."
RALEIGH — Gov. Bev Perdue and her Democratic allies have claimed that the
budget passed by the General Assembly would decimate public employment in
North Carolina. And ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 At the end of a Washington Post op-ed criticizing John McCain for labeling
Republicans who oppose intervention in the Libyan war “isolationists,”
George Will writes (emphasis added):
Regarding Libya, McCain on Sunday said, “I wonder what Ronald Reagan
would be saying today.” Wondering is speculation; we know this:
When a terrorist attack that killed 241 Marines and other troops taught
Reagan the folly of deploying them at Beirut airport with a vague mission
and dangerous rules of engagem... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 By Chad Stafko
The City of Columbus, Ohio was greeted by a number of Ohio State University
medical students and individuals from the Investing in Tobacco-Free Youth
Coalition in March of this year. The group touted a poll which found that
more than 60% of Ohio voters favored a tax increase of $0.75 per pack of
cigarettes and nearly the same percent favored a larger tax of $1.25/pack.
A similar poll was conducted in North Carolina earlier this year. It found
that about two out of every three li... 阅读全帖 |
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