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发帖数: 19713 | 1 好在这次上台的是jerry brown，要是换了那个共和党女的，拼了命也要上诉了 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 5 Obama to Push New Spending
By DAMIAN PALETTA, JONATHAN WEISMAN and LAURA MECKLER
Associated Press
President Barack Obama and GE's Jeffrey Immelt, left, with plant manager
Kevin Sharkey, visited a GE factory Friday to talk about green jobs.
President Barack Obama will call for new government spending on
infrastructure, education and research in his State of the Union address
Tuesday, sharpening his response to Republicans in Congress who are
demanding deep budget cuts, people familiar with the sp... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 6 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/nyregion/09gays.html?scp=1&sq
Doubts About Cuomo’s Support of Gay Rights
As a landmark gay marriage bill hurtled toward an uncertain vote last year,
New York’s Democratic leaders scrambled to corral support. Gov. David A.
Paterson delivered impassioned speeches, Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand
headlined a giant rally and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn shuttled
back and forth to Albany to lobby lawmakers.
Related
Times Topic: Andrew M. Cuomo
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发帖数: 4174 | 7 Posted on Advocate.com June 29, 2011 08:55:00 AM ET
Gay Couples to File Marriage Lawsuit in New Jersey
By Julie Bolcer
Seven gay and lesbian couples plan to file a lawsuit in New Jersey state
court Wednesday arguing that the civil union law fails to provide the same
legal protections as marriage.
The couples will file suit along with Garden State Equality and Lambda Legal
in Trenton Wednesday morning. Their move comes less than one week after
neighboring New York passed a marriage equality law t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 8 New Jersey Gay Marriage Lawsuit Seeks To Force State To Recognize Same-Sex
Marriage
TRENTON, N.J. — Seven gay and lesbian New Jersey couples, along with many
of their children, are going to court to try to force the state to recognize
gay marriage.
The families say in their legal complaint that the state's civil union law
designed to give gay couples the same legal protections as married couples
has not fulfilled that promise.
One man says he was denied being able to make urgent medical decision... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 161 | 9 CNN) -- The American Psychological Association is calling on state and
federal officials to stop anti-gay legal measures and to legalize same-sex
marriage.
The scientific and professional organization's guiding body voted
unanimously at its annual meeting this week in Washington to declare its
support for "full marriage equality for same-sex couples."
The resolution "clarifies the Association's support for same-sex marriage"
in light of new research, the group said. A similar resolution in 2004
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发帖数: 222 | 10 This is a Q and A between a random blog reader and an MIT professor.
Q: My girlfriend believes in things like ghosts, reincarnation, psychics,
astrology, and god. What’s the best way of extirpating these beliefs
without destroying the relationship?
A: That might be the most interesting question I’ve gotten so far! Alas,
having been in similar situations myself, I don’t know the answer. Indeed,
my guess would be that you’re never going to bring her around through
rational persuasion: if she were ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 11 WASHINGTON -- GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman says the U.S. is a "
center-right" country politically and the public is "crying out for a
sensible middle ground" – just what he says he offers.
The former Utah governor says his Republican rivals as well as President
Barack Obama are on the political "fringes." Huntsman says Obama is too
liberal and there are Republican candidates who are too far to the right and
have "zero substance."
Huntsman, who's lagging in national polls, saved his ha... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 12 Dale Carpenter Guest
Posted Thursday, August 18th, 2011 1:57 pm
Perry as Politics
Dale Carpenter, Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School,
considers the political costs of litigating same-sex marriage state by state
, starting with California’s Proposition 8.
The following contribution to our same-sex marriage symposium is written by
Dale Carpenter. Professor Carpenter teaches constitutional law, the First
Amendment, and sexual orientation and the law at the University of Minn... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 13 Posted on Advocate.com December 09, 2011 11:11:11 AM ET
One of America’s preeminent LGBT rights attorneys gives us a spirited run-
down on Prop 8 supporters' feckless arguments at yesterday's Ninth Circuit
hearing.
By Kate Kendell, op-ed contributor
If you are not a lawyer doing LGBT legal advocacy or a queer activist paying
attention to every detail of every LGBT development, you may have missed
the goings on in a Ninth Circuit federal courtroom in San Francisco
yesterday. The issues involved t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 14 Posted on Advocate.com December 08, 2011 08:10:00 PM ET
By Neal Broverman
In what was likely the last hearing before a ruling is delivered on the
constitutionality of Proposition 8, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on
Thursday appeared unconvinced that a previous ruling on the ban be tossed
because the judge was in a longterm same-sex relationship.
Before the issue of whether former Chief District Judge Vaughn Walker should
have recused himself from the 2010 case where he ruled Prop. 8
unconst... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 15 Some Justices Question Health Law's Constitutionality
BloombergBy Greg Stohr and Laurie Asseo | Bloomberg – 57 minutes ago
U.S. Supreme Court justices voiced skepticism about President Barack Obama's
health-care law, hinting they might strike down his biggest domestic
achievement just months before the election.
On the second of three days in the historic case, justices' questions over
the law's requirement that Americans buy insurance or pay a penalty
indicated they might split 5-to-4, with fiv... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 16 Germany’s highest court strengthens adoption rights for gay couples in
civil partnerships
By Associated Press, Published: February 19
BERLIN — Germany’s highest court strengthened gay couples’ adoption
rights in a ruling Tuesday that the country’s justice minister greeted as
“a historic step.”
The Federal Constitutional Court ruled that one member of a civil
partnership should be able to adopt the partner’s stepchild or adopted
child. Until now, they could only adopt a partner’s biological child... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 17 我不相信移民新法案会特别说明同性配偶不适用于异性婚姻同等的对待，如果是这样的
话不可能通过的。应该只是没提同性配偶适用于异性婚姻同等的对待，DOMA废除了，自
然就和异性配偶一样。Relax, 现在是放下包袱，Stop being skeptical的时候了。 |
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发帖数: 94 | 18 LA times的一篇文章，可能性还是挺大的。。。谁能评价一下么。。。
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-winkler-do
Despite the conservative tilt of the Roberts Supreme Court, gay rights
supporters expect the justices to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act
this month. Their hopes are pinned on Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the court'
s usual swing vote, who has written two important pro-gay-rights opinions in
the past and voiced skepticism of the law during the court's hearing in
March. If he joins the court'... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3096 | 19 Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
By Greg Smith
March 14, 2012 "New York Times" -- Today is my last day at Goldman Sachs.
After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at
Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I
have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture,
its people and its identity. And I can honestly say that the environment now
is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it.
To put the problem in the simplest ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 20 Loretta Chao, Two New Videos, Two Radically Different Chinas. China Real
Time, Jan 24, 2011.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/01/24
/two-new-videos-two-radically-different-images-of-china/
("the other is a short, intensely violent satirical animation about a little
boy who dreams of revolution against a corrupt, abusive government. * * *
In it, a boy dreams about white rabbits, representing regular Chinese
citizens, living under the tyrannical rule of tigers who do nothing as the
rabbits’... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1094 | 21 美国总统当选人川普（特朗普）1月6日表示，指控俄罗斯骇客企图干预美国大选的争议
，相当于“政治迫害”。
川普在接受《纽约时报》（New York Times）采访时，提出了上述言论。他还提到，中
共黑客于2014年后期和2015年初期侵入美国政府人事管理局（Office of Personnel
Management）的电脑，2000万政府雇员受影响，但这起黑客入侵案却相对引起极少的关
注。
川普说：“这是政治迫害。”
此外，川普还发表推文说，在他听取美国情报界主管做简报前，最高情报信息便分享给
了NBC新闻，他正在要求参众两院领袖对此事进行调查。
川普6日在纽约市川普大厦听取美国情报界的“三巨头”对俄罗斯“骇”民主党电邮，
有企图影响美国大选的意图，所做的报告做出简报。 情报“三巨头”包括国家情报总
监克兰普（James Clapper）、中情局长布蓝南（John Brennan）与联邦调查局局长科
米（John Comey）。
川普提名的白宫发言人斯潘塞（Sean Spicer）6日对ABC“早安美国”表示，川普对俄
罗斯骇客情报采“健康的质疑态度（a healthy skepti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 22 You say, "以阿里山为例，那个几近原始森林的古木栈道应该不是大陆轻易能找到的身
心放松之地。"
My childhood in Taiwan was poor; often I (and other family members) did not
have enough to eat. Never an alcoholic, my father had a poor record of
investments (popicles, taxi, usury and so on). I did not go to 阿里山, so
have no idea about what you say.
I was skeptical, however, about what you imply: in China there are few 原始
森林. I did a quick research, and it is true!
(1) old growth forest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_growth_forest
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发帖数: 44 | 24 http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080831/pl_politico/13016
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running
mate has electrified conservative activists, providing a boost of energy to
the GOP nominee-in-waiting from a key constituency that had been previously
had been lukewarm — at best — about him.
By tapping the anti-abortion and pro-gun Alaska governor just ahead of his
convention, which is set to start here Monday, McCain hasn’t just won
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发帖数: 161 | 26 "Whose Side Are You On, Comrade" by E.J. Dionne, Jr.
Why conservatives have finally lost their sense of solidarity and purpose.
Post Date October 24, 2008
WASHINGTON--Conservatives are at each other's throats, and here's what's
revealing about how divided they are: The critics of John McCain and the
critics of Sarah Palin represent entirely different camps.
Skeptical social conservatives are precisely the people McCain was trying
to mollify by picking Palin as his running mate. These include the |
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发帖数: 261 | 27 原来八马教的老祖宗还是马克思他老人家啊，马克思那一套在中国逐渐过时了，没想到东方不亮西方亮。八马实在是高！不过右派们反弹很猛烈，看看留言就知道有多抓狂了。
http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/10/26/audio-obama-the-marxist/
Update II: For those in the comments saying only Republicans care about
redistrubtion of wealth, and that the poor folks who will vote for Obama
want it and we are only helping Obama by exposing him as a marxist….
Americans Oppose Redistributing Wealth 84% To 13%!
Update: People in the comments are asking for the original source, skeptical
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发帖数: 2964 | 29 路透社：
Obama touts healthcare plan for small businesses
By Steve Holland
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said Saturday that Democratic
plans to revamp the U.S. healthcare system would benefit small businesses,
an argument that quickly drew criticism from his Republican opponents.
Obama is trying to build more public support for a broad healthcare overhaul
after action stalled in the U.S. Congress this week and polls showed many
Americans were skeptical about the $1 trillion program. |
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发帖数: 7299 | 30 暖球派的反击
Hacked climate e-mail rebutted by scientists
Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, December 5, 2009
A group of the nation's top scientists defended research on global climate
change Friday against what they called a politically motivated smear
campaign designed to foster public doubt about irrefutable scientific facts.
The allegations came after skeptics seized upon a series of hacked e-mails
at England's University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit as evidence of
a climate c |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 保守派媒体Newsmax参与竞标左派杂志《新闻周刊》（Newsweek）；属于华盛顿邮报公
司的新闻周刊因为连年亏损而面临出售
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100602/bs_ynews/ynews_bs2368
It's been almost a month since the Washington Post Co. put Newsweek on the
market, and by 5 p.m. today the initial bids are due. Despite skepticism
over whether there will be bidders, Yahoo! News can confirm there's at least
one: Newsmax Media.
"Newsmax Media Inc. has made a bid for Newsweek," said a company statement
provided to Yahoo! News.
The company also stated that i |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 人造全球暖化歇斯底里关键时刻掉链子：《阿凡达》导演卡梅隆（James Cameron）在
最后一刻宣布退出和质疑人造全球暖化的人辩论，在各种古怪要求得到满足之后
Verrry curious. The excuse, I’m sure, will be that he didn’t want to “
legitimize” skeptics by sharing a stage with them. But (a) it’s odd that
that didn’t occur to him when he agreed to the debate initially, promising
to “call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out
with those boneheads,” and (b) given the sliding support for global-warming
legislation in the western world, he’s almost uniqu |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 加州大学物理学家Hal Lewis退出美国物理学会，“人造全球暖化骗局，用以十亿计的
美元，俘虏了那么多科学家”
http://thegwpf.org/ipcc-news/1670-hal-lewis-my-resignation-from-the-american-physical-society.html
Hal Lewis: My Resignation From The American Physical Society
Friday, 08 October 2010 17:19 Hal Lewis
E-mail Print PDF
From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara
To: Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American
Physical Society
6 October 2010
Dear Curt:
When I first joined the American Physical Society s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 http://www.newbernsj.com/articles/machine-91656-screen-voter.html
Voter reports problem with ballot machine
Man said he voted straight-party ticket and got opposite results
October 23, 2010 4:00 PM
P. Christine Smith
Sun Journal Staff
A Craven County voter says he had a near miss at the polls on Thursday when
an electronic voting machine completed his straight-party ticket for the
opposite of what he intended.
Sam Laughinghouse of New Bern said he pushed the button to vote Republican
in all race... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 http://20smoney.com/2010/11/03/core-issues-that-continue-to-go-unaddressed/
With the election festivities over, maybe the politicians both old and new
can now get to work. Fat chance right? Well, we can hope. The problem is
that all the rhetoric is regarding surface level issues in my opinion. Not
meaningless, but not core issues. Included in these, I will put health care
(debatable), Bush tax cuts, etc. This is all people want to talk about.
Like I said, these aren’t meaningless, but unti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24893 | 36 What are the basic views of the Agnostic religion?
Agnostics claim to have no knowledge about the existence of God. In fact,
the term “agnostic” literally means “no knowledge.” There is not one
commonly-accepted set of views of the agnostic religion. There are actually
a variety of different agnostic views as outlined below.
Agnostic Religion: Views and Viewpoints
There are two basic forms of agnosticism. Weak Agnosticism holds that God is
unknown. It accepts that God may be known, and some peop... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Conservative-Fever-Builds-PalinBook/2010/11/23/id/377919
Conservative Fever Builds for Palin Book Tour
Tuesday, 23 Nov 2010 10:09 AM
Ultra-conservative powerhouse Sarah Palin kicks off a tour to promote her
second book in as many years Tuesday as part of a media blitz ahead of a
possible White House bid.
Editor's Note: Get Sarah Palin's "America by Heart" with our FREE Offer --
Click Here Now.
"America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag" promises ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 50% Now Oppose President’s New Spending Proposals
Thursday, January 27, 2011
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The president’s Tuesday night State of the Union speech had little impact
on support for his new spending proposals in areas like education,
transportation and technological innovation.
Rasmussen Reports asked voters the same three questions about the president
’s economic proposals on the two nights prior to the speech and then again
on Tuesday and Wednesday nigh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 While a number of states now face serious budget shortfalls, most voters
continue to oppose federal bailout funding to help them out.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 26%
of Likely U.S. Voters believe the federal government should provide bailout
funding for states with serious financial problems. Fifty-three percent (53
%) oppose individual state bailouts, and another 21% are undecided. (To see
survey question wording, click here.)
Sixty-two percent (62%) ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 In the ongoing budget-cutting debate in Washington, some congressional
Democrats have accused their Republican opponents of being held captive by
the tea party movement. However, voters like the tea party more than
Congress, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone
survey.
The poll finds that 48 percent of Likely U.S. Voters say that when it comes
to the major issues facing the country, their views are closer to the
average tea party member as opposed to the average member of... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 48% See Need to Change Defense, Social Security, Medicare To Make Serious,
Long-Term Spending Cuts
Monday, April 11, 2011
Just under half of voters understand that making major cuts in government
spending over the long haul will require substantial changes in three of the
most politically sensitive areas of the federal budget.
Forty-eight percent (48%) of Likely U.S. Voters recognize that it is
necessary to make major changes in defense, Social Security, and Medicare to
make truly significant, l... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 “我是个科学家，曾经是靠推销全球暖化吃饭的，我理解相关的证据，我曾是个人造全
球暖化信徒，现在我是个怀疑论者”
Carbon warming too minor to be worth worrying about
By David Evans
The debate about global warming has reached ridiculous proportions and is
full of micro-thin half-truths and misunderstandings. I am a scientist who
was on the carbon gravy train, understands the evidence, was once an
alarmist, but am now a skeptic. Watching this issue unfold has been amusing
but, lately, worrying. This issue is tearing society apart, making fools out
of our... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 The economic downturn has not led to more crime—contrary to the experts'
predictions. So what explains the disconnect? Big changes in American
culture, says James Q. Wilson.
When the FBI announced last week that violent crime in the U.S. had reached
a 40-year low in 2010, many criminologists were perplexed. It had been a
dismal year economically, and the standard view in the field, echoed for
decades by the media, is that unemployment and poverty are strongly linked
to crime. The argument is str... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 Now we turn from the mostly meaningless college gap to the mostly
nonexistent wage gap. It is quoted ad-nauseum that women make 75 cents for
each dollar a man makes for the exact same work (it used to be 59 cents, now
it ranges from 75 to 80). In response to this, Nancy Pelosi helped push
through congress the Fair Pay Act. (1) Furthermore, April 20th, 2010 not
only represents a day we should all get stoned out of our gourds, it’s “
Equal Pay Day.” This holiday (of sorts) symbolizes how far into ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 By Roger D. Luchs
The public's lasting, indeed rising, hostility to ObamaCare has come as a
surprise to the President and his fellow travelers in Congress, but then
omniscience has never been their strong suit.
In 1959, Charles Lindblom, then an associate professor of economics at Yale,
penned a highly influential article entitled "The Science of Muddling
Through." There he analyzed the workings of modern democracies and offered
a compelling explanation for why incremental policy change is a pr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 For years now the climate campaign and the politicized science community has
been complaining that it has a “communications problem,” which can be
solved if only they shout louder, or get the human car alarm former Vice
President Al Gore to make an Oscar-winning documentary film or something.
Because, after all, it’s just so easy for a billion-dollar effort at
pushing the climate crisis to be undone by a handful of discredited “
skeptics” with only at tiny fraction of the resources environmenta... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 By Eileen F. Toplansky
With the news that "[i]nfiltration of the federal government by members of
the radical Muslim Brotherhood is worse than some have warned," it should
come as no surprise that while Obama has been courting Muslim Brotherhood
operatives, his wife has also gotten into the act.
According to the toolkit site,
"[t]he Let's Move! initiative, started by First Lady Michelle Obama, has an
ambitious national goal of addressing the challenge of childhood obesity
within a generation, so... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 By SARAH DILORENZO, Associated Press
December 6, 2011
PARIS (AP) — Global markets were muted on Tuesday after a rating agency
warned it could downgrade the debt of most eurozone countries, raising
pressure on European leaders to find a lasting solution to their crisis this
week.
The Standard & Poor's rating agency threatened late Monday to downgrade 15
countries that use the euro, including Germany and France, whose debt
ratings are considered the linchpins of the European bailout system.
Th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 By Monty Pelerin
Our economic problems rightfully dominate the news. However, they are
merely symptoms of a bigger, underlying problem: government.
For many, the previous paragraph is heresy. They "know" that government is
necessary and good. They "know" that government solves problems and brings
order to the chaos that would prevail in its absence. "They" are wrong!
Government has become little more than a carefully crafted myth based on
propaganda disseminated by government itself. It has... 阅读全帖 |
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