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发帖数: 1194 | 1 The consensus of scientific community:
We roughly know how neuron works. We roughly know how human brain works. But
there is a vast void between our understanding of simple neural
substructures and of the brain (which is made of 100 billion neurons). Until
new theories fill in the gap, it is difficult to design AI mimicking human
cognition. |
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发帖数: 20290 | 2 http://thediplomat.com/2014/01/chinas-deceptively-weak-and-dang
In April 2003, the Chinese Navy decided to put a large group of its best
submarine talent on the same boat as part of an experiment to synergize its
naval elite. The result? Within hours of leaving port, the Type 035 Ming III
class submarine sank with all hands lost. Never having fully recovered from
this maritime disaster, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is still the
only permanent member of the United Nations Security Council... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 3 Andrew Jacobs, Evicted by Goliath, Restaurant finds a David. New York Times,
Dec. 31, 2009 (title in the print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/world/asia/31nailhouse.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=nail%20house&st=cse
("an unceasing real-estate boom has swept the nation, much of it
orchestrated by the local governments that benefit from soaring land values")
My comment:
(a) Fish Castle Restaurant 鱼堡餐厅
(b) Qin Rong 秦荣
(c) Lu Daren 陆大任
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发帖数: 3620 | 4 Pilots of the Asiana Airlines jet that crashed at San Francisco
International Airport over the weekend allowed the Boeing 777's speed to dip
dangerously low, and then apparently ran out of time to correct their
landing approach, according to preliminary data released by investigators.
While stopping short of pinpointing pilot error as the likely cause of the
fiery crash that killed two teenage passengers and injured dozens of others,
National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 20742 | 5 Team Obama Calls McCain's Georgia Stance 'Belligerent,' Yet 'Roughly The
Same' As Theirs
Sometimes on Obama's campaign, the left hand...
Obama backer and former UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, appearing on
CNN: "John [Roberts], with all due respect, I would dispute what you just
said. Senator McCain and Senator Obama have roughly the same positions. it's
the Bush administration that was behind the curve. "
...doesn't know what the further left hand is doing.
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发帖数: 8363 | 6 GMAC Financial Services, the former financial arm of General Motors, is set
to receive yet more federal bailout funds as the year draws to a close.
According to a Reuters report, GMAC will get roughly $3.5 billion in
additional federal government money to help cover losses on the mortgage
market. Mortgage-related assets, considered the key to GMAC’s return to
profitability, comprise roughly a third of GMAC’s total $178 billion
balance sheet.
The bank has already received about $12.5 billion in b |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 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 | 8 政府膨胀：1960年，1,500万美国人在制造业工作，870万在政府部门工作；2011年，2,
250在政府部门工作，1,150万在制造业工作
By STEPHEN MOORE
If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to
Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider
this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly twice as many
people working for the government (22.5 million) than in all of
manufacturing (11.5 million). This is an almost exact reversal of the
situation in 1960, when there were 15 million workers in m... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 Tuesday, April 05, 2011
By Terence P. Jeffrey
(CNSNews.com) - The fiscal 2012 budget proposal unveiled today by House
Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.) offers sweeping reforms in federal
spending, including defunding and repealing the health-care law signed last
year by President Barack Obama and converting the federal share of the
Medicaid program into block grants to state governments.
The Republican proposal says one of its aims is “making sure that not a
penny goes toward implementing the ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 WASHINGTON – Sales of new U.S. homes fell to a six-month low in August. The
fourth straight monthly decline during the peak buying season suggests the
housing market is years away from a recovery.
By Chris Carlson, AP
The Commerce Department said Monday that new-home sales fell 2.3% to a
seasonally adjusted annual rate of 295,000. That's less than half the
roughly 700,000 that economists say must be sold to sustain a healthy
housing market.
New-homes sales are on pace for the worst year since th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 by Patrick J. Buchanan 10/28/2011
On Oct. 31, the U.N. Population Fund marks the arrival of the 7 billionth
person on Earth and raises the population estimate for the planet at mid-
century to 9.3 billion people.
There is a possibility, says the United Nations, that, by century's end,
world population may reach 15 billion. What does this mean for Western
civilization?
It may not matter, except to identify who inherits the estate. For while
world population is exploding, Wester... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 By ROBIN SIDEL
Jason Scherr had a lot on his mind the day after he opened his fifth Think
Coffee shop in Manhattan last week. The fan was blowing too hard, the
classical music was playing a little too loudly—and he was trying to figure
out how to get more customers to pay with cash.
Manhattan coffee-shop owner Jason Scherr says his debit-card fees are higher
since the Dodd-Frank law.
A new law that was supposed to reduce costs for merchants that accept debit
cards has instead sent Mr. Scherr's m... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 13 Washington (CNN) -- House Republicans and Senate Democrats stepped up their
game of legislative chicken over the expiring payroll tax cut Monday, with
Democrats flatly rejecting House Speaker John Boehner's demand to ditch a
two-month extension in favor of an immediate one-year continuation.
"It's time to stop the nonsense," Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters on Capitol
Hill. "Americans are tired of Washington's short-term fixes and gimmicks."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, responded ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 Broncos deliver TV ratings hit, another 3:16 coincidence
Web Staff FOX31 Denver
2:35 p.m. MST, January 9, 2012
DENVER -- Nearly 42 million television viewers tuned-in to see Tim Tebow
lead the Denver Broncos over Pittsburgh in overtime Sunday, making it the
highest-rated Wild Card playoff game in 24 years.
The game was seen on CBS in roughly 26-percent of homes in the top 56 U.S.
television markets – representing more viewers than any first round NFL
playoff game since the Seattle Seahawks and H... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 Hollywood actress Meryl Streep recently hitched a ride on a Chinese
businessman’s private jet to Beijing. Once there, she met up with
idiosyncratic writer-director Joel Coen and Raise the Red Lantern director
Zhang Yimou to promote “China’s exploding film industry.”
Zhang, who served as the artistic director for both the 2008 Beijing Olympic
Games and the lavish 60th anniversary celebrations of the Chinese Communist
Party, also unveiled his remake of Coen’s influential first film – Blood
Simple.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 White House economic report hides sharp drop in number of working Americans
White House officials are trying to downplay the growing political damage
caused by a shrinking federal statistic: the percentage of working-age
Americans who actually have jobs.
The increasingly visible statistic shows that roughly 11 million working-age
Americans are being excluded from the nation’s formal tally of 13.75
million unemployed Americans.
Today’s 2012 Economic Report of the President attempts to bury the
st... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 WASHINGTON (AP) - For the first time, the influx of Asians moving to the U.S
. has surpassed that of Hispanics, reflecting a slowdown in illegal
immigration while American employers increase their demand for high-skilled
workers.
An expansive study by the Pew Research Center details what it describes as "
the rise of Asian-Americans," a highly diverse and fast-growing group making
up roughly 5 percent of the U.S. population. Mostly foreign-born and
naturalized citizens, their numbers have been b... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 Mitt Romney's week-long international trip resulted in unrelentingly
negative coverage from the big three broadcast networks, a stark change from
the glowing press awarded to then-candidate Barack Obama's world tour in
2008. While Obama was treated like a rock star (from the Associated Press: "
It's not only Obama's youth, eloquence and energy that have stolen hearts
across the Atlantic...."), Romney endured a focus on gaffes and the trivial.
MRC analysts examined all 21 ABC, CBS and NBC evening... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 Déjà Vu Pension Woes
Going into debt to fund pensions seems like a ridiculous thing to do,
especially for a company had a chance to shed more of those pension
obligations in bankruptcy.
Please consider the Wall Street Journal story GM Wants to Up Credit Line
General Motors Co. is in preliminary talks with banks to potentially
double its $5 billion line of credit as the auto maker looks to strengthen
its balance sheet and shrink pension obligations, according to people with
knowledge of the d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 272 | 20 In a new TV ad, President Obama makes an inflated claim to have added 5.2
million new jobs. The total added during his time in office is actually
about 325,000.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/uONGtgxHjYk
1.Viewers would need to pay close attention to the on-screen graphic to know
that the ad refers only to employment gains starting in March 2010,
omitting the 4.3 million jobs that were lost in the first year of Obama’s
term.
2.And there’s no way a viewer would know that the total counts only priva... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16625 | 21 http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/330821/total-welfare-spend
Total Welfare Spending Now at $1 Trillion
By NRO Staff
October 18, 2012 4:00 A.M.
Comments
66
Total annual spending on federal means-tested welfare programs has hit $1
trillion. The Congressional Research Service is out with a new memorandum on
spending on these programs. Senator Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican
on the Senate budget committee who requested the memo, has crunched the
numbers and come up with the astonishing figu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4127 | 22 老老墨表示未来一片光明 毫无鸭梨 小老墨表示母偷渡非法 匪夷所思
http://news.yahoo.com/u-immigration-u-turn-hispanics-seeing-lig
U.S. immigration U-turn has Hispanics seeing 'light at end of tunnel'
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Ricardo, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, sets off each
day before dawn looking for casual work in construction not knowing if he
will return home to his wife and three children or get snared in an
immigration sweep. Lately, he feels the pervasive fear slowly lifting.
Ricardo, 46, is among millions of Latino i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 By SUDEEP REDDY and SCOTT THURM
U.S. companies are scaling back investment plans at the fastest pace since
the recession, signaling more trouble for the economic recovery.
U.S. companies are scaling back investment plans at the fastest pace since
the recession, signaling more trouble for the economic recovery. Sudeep
Reddy reports on Markets Hub. Photo: AP.
Half of the nation's 40 biggest publicly traded corporate spenders have
announced plans to curtail capital expenditures this year or next, a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 Public 'Inauguration' Just for Show, Likely to Cost Taxpayers Over $100
Million
3:53 PM, Dec 6, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER
Stephen Dinan reports that "Because next year's inauguration falls on a
Sunday, President Obama will hold only a small, private swearing-in ceremony
on Jan. 20, and will hold a big public redo the next day. The Inaugural
Committee announced Thursday that activities will last three days: a day of
service on Saturday, the small private ceremony on Sunday, and the public
swe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 How college students think they are more special than EVER: Study reveals
rocketing sense of entitlement on U.S. campuses
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 15:30 EST, 5 January 2013 | UPDATED: 14:29 EST, 7 January 2013
Books aside, if you asked a college freshman today who the Greatest
Generation is, they might respond by pointing in a mirror.
Young people's unprecedented level of self-infatuation was revealed in a new
analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which has been asking students to
r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 CBO: 7 million to lose employer-based insurance when ACA rules take effect
February 7, 2013 by Michael Laprarie
But don’t worry – your family will be able to buy health insurance through
a government exchange for a mere $20,000 a year!
As much as I would like to call this fiction, it isn’t. The Affordable
Care Act health insurance mandate and penalty regulations are confusing and
ridiculous.
An employer must offer each employee “affordable” coverage (meaning the
employee’s premium contributio... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 Vote Sets Hospital's Closure .
By LAURA KUSISTO
State university officials on Friday voted to close Long Island College
Hospital, a money-losing downtown Brooklyn institution whose possible demise
has sparked outrage and sadness among workers and community members.
The board of the State University of New York voted unanimously to move
forward with closing the hospital. As trustees moved to vote, their voices
were drowned out by chants of "postpone the vote" and "shame, shame" from
the roughly 5... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 奥巴马选民受伤最深...奥巴马治下打击最大的5大奥巴马选民群体：黑人，单身女性，
工会，年轻人，西班牙裔
5 Groups Of Obama Voters That Are Being Crushed By Democrats
By John Hawkins
3/30/2013
Hollywood, the mainstream media and the public school system are all almost
entirely controlled by people and groups friendly to the Democrat Party. Yet
and still, even with that almost overwhelming advantage, Democrats can't do
any better than a rough parity with the Republicans. If the tables were
turned and the GOP controlled what you see on TV, in the ne... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 Rhode Island Blue Cross Filings Signal Rate Rises
By ANNA WILDE MATHEWS And LOUISE RADNOFSKY
The biggest health-insurance carrier in Rhode Island says its average rates
for small businesses will go up about 15% next year, an increase tied to the
federal health-care overhaul as well as other factors.
Rhode Island on Monday became one of the first states to unveil filings that
reveal how much its insurers are aiming to charge next year, though the
rates still must be approved by state regulators. ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 While residents across Chicago continue to struggle facing a 10.3 percent
unemployment rate and a median household income of $47,371, according to the
2010 U.S. Census the city of Chicago is paying 2,409 of its employees over
$100,000 per year.
The city’s roughly $2.4 billion payroll includes over 32,000 police,
firefighters, emergency responders, city council (aldermen and their staff),
mayoral staff, water management staff, transportation, budget management,
animal control, crossing guards, li... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 The nation's largest provider of security guards plans to discontinue its
lowest-cost health plans and steer roughly 55,000 workers to new government-
sponsored insurance exchanges for coverage next year, in the latest sign of
the fraying ties between employment and health care.
The U.S. arm of Sweden's Securitas AB SECU-B.SK +0.68% is among more than 1,
200 employers that offer the kind of bare-bones health plans that must be
phased out beginning Jan. 1 under the health-care law. Nearly four mi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 October 9, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston
If you are under 30, if you are not very wealthy, and even if you are
healthy your healthcare insurance costs will soar thanks to Obamacare. And
you won’t have any choice in the matter, either, or you will be labeled a
criminal under the law.
Robert Graboyes has some of the facts at the US News.
“Millennials’ life prospects have already suffered under the weight of the
Great Recession and its aftermath,” Graboyes points out. But it is about
to get worse.
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 Power costs shrink as share of Europe's rising energy bills
* In EU15 about half the household bill is charges, tax and subsidies
By Karolin Schaps and Barbara Lewis
LONDON/BRUSSELS, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Europeans are paying the steepest energy
bills in four years and face ever higher payments as governments pile on
extra charges to help finance a 1 trillion euro ($1.4 trillion)
modernisation of Europe's energy infrastructure.
Politicians from Britain to Germany, Italy to Romania, under pressure fr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3229 | 34 The percentage of Whites who receive welfare is roughly the same as that of
Asians. Both Asians and Whites are 6+ times less likely to receive welfare,
compared with Blacks. This percentage for Hispanics is 3+ times lower than
Blacks, but roughly twice higher than that for Asians and Whites. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 Obamacare: State Dems’ Worst Nightmare
Troubles with liberal states’ exchanges are dragging down their Democratic
governors.
By Michael Tanner
As the bad news about Obamacare’s federal operations keeps on coming, it’s
worth keeping in mind that the law is a mess at the state level as well.
The big question will be whether the failures will hurt Democratic state
politicians as much as Obamacare appears likely to drag down national
Democrats. Most of the 17 states that chose to set up and operate ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 Pending Home Sales Slip in June
Housing Recovery Remains Choppy Despite Retreat in Interest Rates
By Josh Mitchell
July 28, 2014 10:05 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON—The number of contracts signed to buy previously-owned homes
slipped in June, a sign the housing recovery remains choppy despite a
retreat in interest rates.
An index of pending home sales, reflecting purchases under contract but not
yet closed, fell 1.1% to a reading of 102.7 in June from May, ending three
months of gains, the National Assoc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3656 | 37 also
In a May 2012 report, FBI Special Agent David Welker said, “The United
States spends more than $2.5 trillion on health care annually, and rough
estimates indicate that anywhere from 3% to 10% of all health care
expenditures are attributed to fraud."
The Government Accounting Office doesn't think this estimate is far wrong.
It reported that in 2011, Medicare and Medicaid paid an annual $65 billion
in "improper payments." It defines "improper" to include payments that are
made in error -- not... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/us-immigrant-families-fail-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of young families caught crossing the
border illegally earlier this year subsequently failed to meet with federal
immigration agents, as they were instructed, the Homeland Security
Department has acknowledged privately.
An official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement revealed that
about 70 percent of immigrant families the Obama administration had released
into the U.S. never showed up w... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 A top IRS official considered going public with the agency’s targeting of
conservative groups at a hearing just months before the 2012 presidential
election but ultimately decided against revealing the bombshell news,
according to a new report from a GOP-led House committee.
Then-Deputy Commissioner Steven Miller wrote in an email in June 2012, about
a month before a House Ways and Means subcommittee hearing, that he was
weighing whether to testify to “put a stake” in the “c4” issue --
apparentl... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 January 15, 2015 - 11:45 AM
By Michael D. Tanner
Poll: 51% Still Oppose Obamacare and 19% Say It’s Hurting Their Family Now
No matter how badly you want something to be true, simply wishing will not
make it so. This is a lesson that Obamacare supporters need to learn, as
they tell us yet again that the Affordable Care Act “is working.”
The latest claims stem in part from evidence that the number of uninsured
Americans has been steadily declining. It is true that the most recent poll
from Gallup ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 GAO: Gov't waste of natural gas costing taxpayers millions
By HOPE YEN | May 6, 2015 | 3:15 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Significant amounts of natural gas on federal lands are
being wasted, costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars each year and
adding to harmful greenhouse gas emissions, a congressional investigation
has found.
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office also said the Bureau of
Land Management failed to conduct production inspections for hundreds of
high-priority oil and ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 Protests continue over Confederate flag ban at high school
By ALANNA DURKIN | September 18, 2015 | 12:35 PM EDT
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — Protests continued Friday over a western
Virginia high school's ban on Confederate flags displayed on clothing and
cars, but no more students were suspended for the violating the policy and
one student said he's considering legal action.
A group of roughly 40 people, including Christiansburg High School students
and their supporters, gathered near the school ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 Unprecedented Transparency: State Department to Release 550 Clinton Emails
Over Holiday Weekend
by Jammie via Jammie Wearing Fools
This is how these criminals operate. They disregard court orders, then when
they comply it’s usually Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve, or now on
President’s Day weekend. Oh well, at least we know this particular criminal
will never be celebrated on future President’s Days.
The State Department will release 550 emails from Hillary Clinton’s
private sever this weekend... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2215 | 44 http://www.weeklystandard.com/trump-has-won-more-votes-than-rom
Trump Has Won More Votes Than Romney Had At This Point in 2012
Mitt Romney won Nevada's caucus in 2012 with about 50 percent of the vote.
He did so by pulling in roughly 16,000 total votes – roughly the same
number that second-place finisher Marco Rubio pulled in this year. Donald
Trump, by contrast, more than doubled Romney's total, garnering 34,500 votes.
All told, Trump has now won approximately 420,000 votes. After the first
fou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16479 | 45 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: beijingren (to thine own self be true), 信区: Military
标 题: Re: 床铺和被压迫人的奋起
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Mar 4 21:53:46 2016, 美东)
PEGGY NOONAN: Donald Trump and the Rise of the Unprotected:
There are the protected and the unprotected. The protected make public
policy. The unprotected live in it. The unprotected are starting to push
back, powerfully.
The protected are the accomplished, the secure, the successful—those who
have power or access to it. They are protected from muc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 48 Trump Meets with Six Gold Star Families about National Security
Republican nominee Donald Trump met with six Gold Star families before his
campaign rally in Jacksonville, Florida Wednesday night.
“I just visited with some incredible folks…some really amazing Gold Star
families,” Trump told roughly 16,000 people at his campaign rally in
Jacksonville, Florida. “Incredible people.”
Trump’s meeting with Gold Star families comes after he received backlash
from the Khans, a Gold Star family of a Musli... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8600 | 49 Skip to comments.
Michigan To Audit 'Significant Mismatches' In Detroit Vote
Associated Press/Yahoo ^ | Dec 12 2016 | David Eggert
Posted on 12/12/2016, 7:03:02 PM by drewh
ANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's elections bureau ordered an investigation
Monday into substantial ballot discrepancies in a small portion of Detroit's
voting precincts, after the discovery of a polling place where 300 people
voted but only 50 ballots were properly sealed in a container.
Since learning of the issue last week ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7021 | 50 USTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas election officials have acknowledged that
hundreds of people were allowed to bypass the state's toughest-in-the-nation
voter ID law and improperly cast ballots in the November presidential
election by signing a sworn statement instead of showing a photo ID.
The chief election officers in two of the state's largest counties are now
considering whether to refer cases to local prosecutors for potential
perjury charges or violations of election law. Officials in many other ... 阅读全帖 |
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