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发帖数: 29846 | 1 By M. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D.
Over the past few years, numerous hearings have already been conducted on
Capitol Hill, in both the House and Senate, looking into domestic Islamist
terrorism and ‘radicalization'. Unfortunately, those hearings garnered
little attention and few tangible results - because they avoided discussing
the root causes. Those hearings instead focused only on "violent extremism"
a useless concept addressing a symptom and not the disease. Up to now the
combined efforts of the force... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 Thursday, 24 Feb 2011 02:51 PM
By Charles J. Little
A move to the right through back-to-back elections has turned the once-“
mavericky” Sen. John McCain into one of conservatism’s most dependable
votes, the National Journal reports. A tally of 2010 Senate ayes and nays
places McCain farthest right alongside five Republican colleagues with
considerably less fluid conservative credentials.
It’s a remarkable turnaround for a senator who used to routinely finish
near the bottom of the Journal’s an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 As Brad Williams walked the halls of the California state capitol in
Sacramento on a recent afternoon, he spotted a small crowd of protesters
battling state spending cuts. They wore shiny white buttons that said "We
Love Jobs!" and argued that looming budget reductions will hurt the Golden
State's working class.
Mr. Williams shook his head. "They're missing the real problem," he said.
The working class may be taking a beating from spending cuts used to close a
cavernous deficit, Mr. Williams sai... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 897 | 4 It will cost $15 to ask Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) a question in person during
the August congressional recess.
The House Budget Committee chairman isn’t holding any face-to-face open-to-
the-public town hall meetings during the recess, but like several of his
colleagues he will speak only for residents willing to open their wallets.
Ryan, who took substantial criticism from his southeast Wisconsin
constituents in April after he introduced the Republicans’ budget proposal,
isn’t the only member of ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4412 | 5 Taxpayers Rank Behind Solyndra Investors
By William McQuillen - Sep 3, 2011 7:00 AM PT
The Obama administration let $385 million in taxpayer support for Solyndra
Inc. take a back seat to funds from new investors in an unsuccessful effort
to keep the solar-panel manufacturer operating.
The Energy Department decided the January refinancing represented the “
highest probable net benefit” for the government, according to a government
document obtained by Bloomberg News. Investors provided the compan... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 LAS VEGAS (AP) — Republican former state senator Mark Amodei won Nevada's
heavily GOP 2nd Congressional District in a special election Tuesday night,
easily trouncing Democrat Kate Marshall in this economically-ravaged state
where President Barack Obama's popularity has sagged.
Amodei entered Election Day as the candidate to take down, with early voting
and registration numbers alike heavily favoring the GOP. History was also
on his side. The district made up of rural, conservative voters has ne... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 New York School's Rules Give Failing Kids Credits Toward Graduation
Published October 09, 2011
A low-performing Manhattan high school that was granted up to $6 million in
extra funds to undergo a “transformation” has found the secret formula for
success: Dumb down the requirements for students to pass.
At Washington Irving HS, near Union Square, administrators have approved new
grading policies that give failing kids credits toward graduation.
The policies -- which one expert blasted as “approve... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 Perry would keep popular deductions for mortgage interest and charitable
gifts.
By Alex Roarty and Rebecca Kaplan
Updated: October 25, 2011 | 8:33 a.m.
October 24, 2011 | 9:30 p.m.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry unveiled a sweeping economic
agenda Monday, highlighted by a plan to level a voluntary 20 percent "flat
tax" on all taxpayers who will accept it in place of what they're paying now.
From National Journal:
CAMPAIGN 2012 Bachmann’s Departed N.H. Staff: National Campaign Was '... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 691 | 9 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/12/MNP
Washington --
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is the subject of a report on the stock
investments of members of Congress that is to air Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes
."
The San Francisco Democrat and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, were
questioned separately at their weekly news conferences Nov. 3 by reporter
Steve Kroft. Neither had granted Kroft's previous requests for interviews.
Kroft asked both leaders about stock transacti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 10 Washington (CNN) -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich failed to collect
enough signatures to appear on the Virginia primary ballot, the Republican
Party of Virginia announced Saturday morning, leaving the longtime Virginia
resident without a place on the state's ballot and raising questions about
his campaign's organization.
Gingrich, as well as Texas Gov. Rick Perry, did not meet the state's
requirement of 10,000 signatures and, therefore, did not qualify for the
ballot, the Virginia GOP said ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 Headed for the Rocks in European Waters
By Daniel Hanson Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Filed under: World Watch, Culture, Economic Policy
A united Europe is impossible given cultural and economic mismatches.
The eurozone is going to split, whether through economics or politics.
Having had time to digest the latest round of euro rescue efforts, markets
do not seem to be terribly optimistic. The euro is down, equities markets
remain unsettled, and, after a brief reprieve, sovereign bond yields in
tro... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 Sunday, 01 Jan 2012 09:00 AM
The volatile Republican presidential race in Iowa will come down to which
way an enormous chunk of undecided voters breaks in the coming days.
With the first-in-the-nation voting of the 2012 race for the White House
looming Tuesday, Mitt Romney is contending for victory in a state that
eluded him four years ago, while Rick Santorum — a hero among social
conservatives — surges and libertarian-leaning Ron Paul slides in a contest
that remains incredibly fluid.
With man... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4050 | 13 Wow. You talked as if you were his wife.
I rarely hear anybody say that he didn't commit adultery. I did hear people
say that it's not important.
You are going really extreme.
"She said when Gingrich admitted to a six-year affair with a Congressional
aide, he asked her if she would share him with the other woman, Callista,
who is now married to Gingrich"
This is from wiki -
Gingrich has been married three times. In 1962, he married Jackie Battley,
his former high school geometry teacher, when he... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4050 | 14 from wiki -
Ethics sanctions
Eighty-four ethics charges were filed against Gingrich during his term as
speaker. After extensive investigation and negotiation by the House Ethics
Committee, Gingrich was sanctioned $300,000 by a 395–28 House vote. It was
the first time in history a speaker was disciplined for ethical wrongdoing.[
65]
In January 1997, Gingrich said "I did not manage the effort intensely enough
to thoroughly direct or review information being submitted to the committee
on my behalf.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10233 | 15 Federal employees owe $1.03 billion in unpaid taxes
Congressional staffers owed about $10.6 million in unpaid taxes in 2010, a
slight increase from the previous year and a growing slice of the roughly $1
billion owed by federal and postal workers nationwide.
The figures are “totally unacceptable and disrespectful to hardworking
American taxpayers,” said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah). “If you’re on the
federal payroll, the very least you can do is pay your taxes.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 By Thomas Lifson
The Reuters news service once again has made itself a laughingstock by
publishing a mistake-riddled hit piece on Marco Rubio, all but ruling him
out as a vice presidential nominee for the GOP because of alleged financial
problems. Many of which turned out to be untrue. Five corrections were
necessary.
Matt Lewis of the Daily Caller outlines a total of 7 falsehoods or
exaggerations in the story. Dylan Byers of Politico spoke to Reuters staff
who refused to go on the record (an in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2047 | 17 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: TravisBickle (Travis), 信区: Military
标 题: Trayvon真不是什么善主
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Mar 26 17:20:25 2012, 美东)
Multiple suspensions paint complicated portrait of Trayvon Martin
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/26/3515140/multiple-suspensio
涉嫌偷珠宝，涂鸦，和抽大麻。身高6’3，大金牙穿hoodie，够吓人。
Trayvon Martin was suspended from school in October in an incident in which
he was found in possession of women's jewelry and a screwdriver that a
schools security staffer described as a "burglary tool... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 April 18, 2012 by Bryan Nash
Secret service agents allegedly entertained prostitutes at the Hotel Caribe
in in Cartagena, Colombia.
The sixth Summit of the Americas was held in Cartegena, Colombia over the
weekend. According to the Summit of the Americas’ website, the gathering is
a time when “leaders discuss common policy issues, affirm shared values
and commit to concerted actions at the national and regional level to
address continuing and new challenges faced in the Americas.” But the great
... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 Democratic Senate budget chairman reverses course, will not offer budget
this year
BY: Andrew Stiles - April 17, 2012 6:08 pm
Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad (D., N.D.) will not draft a
Democratic budget before the 2012 election, he announced Tuesday.
Instead of going through the traditional markup process in the committee,
Conrad said he would introduce the 2010 report drafted by the Bowles-Simpson
fiscal commission, and then indefinitely delay a vote in order to allow
time for ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10233 | 21 god damn it! i knew it, it is all bush's fault!
lol....
The Secret Service is looking into that report. The Washington Post and the
Wall Street Journal have reported that Secret Service personnel traveling in
2009 with former President Clinton partied at strip clubs on a visit to
Buenos Aires, Argentina, and that agents and White House staffers went to a
Moscow night club known for its sexually charged atmosphere prior to Mr.
Clinton's trip to Russia in 2000.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_1... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 Second body part found after human foot mailed to Conservative Party HQ
OTTAWA — Police found a human hand at the Ottawa Postal Terminal on Tuesday
night, hours after a bloody foot was delivered to the Conservative party’s
Ottawa headquarters just blocks from Parliament Hill.
Ottawa police were still trying to understand what they were dealing with,
even as detectives in Montreal combed through a crime scene where a torso
was found in a suitcase in that city’s Snowdon district.
Police discovered... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 A civil lawsuit filed Monday by House Republicans asks a federal court to
enforce a congressional subpoena of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in
his refusal to turn over documents sought in an investigation by a House
committee into the failed Fast and Furious gunrunning operation.
House Speaker John A. Boehner said in a statement the lawsuit seeks to
overturn the Obama administration’s “frivolous executives privilege claims
,” forcing the Justice Department to make public documents the Hous... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 In contrast to President Obama’s budget which included a 0.5% Federal
employee (GS) pay raise in 2013, Congress has elected to exclude any federal
pay raise provisions for next year from its annual government appropriation
bills. The GS pay scale covers all federal workers, including civilian
Defense Department employees, but does not apply to military personnel,
government contractors, postal workers, members of Congress, Congressional
staffers, or federal court judges and workers.
The House Ap... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
CNN:
Three days before the deadly assault on the United States consulate in
Libya, a local security official Us-consulate-attack-in-Libyasays he met
with American diplomats in the city and warned them about deteriorating
security.
Jamal Mabrouk, a member of the February 17th Brigade, told CNN that he
and a battalion commander had a meeting about the economy and security.
He said they told the diplomats that the security situation wasn't good
for intern... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 Obama USDA met 30 times with Mexican gov’t to promote food-stamp use among
Mexican immigrants
Department of Agriculture personnel in the Obama administration have met
with Mexican Government officials dozens of times since the president took
office to promote nutrition assistance programs — notably food stamps —
among Mexican Americans, Mexican nationals and migrant communities in
America.
Writing in response to Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions’ July request
for information about the USDA’s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 27 Cutter to Jessica Yellin: Romney wins style points
CNN's Jessica Yellin speaks to Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie
Cutter about the hits and misses of the first presidential debate.
A full transcript of the interview is after the jump.
THIS IS A RUSH FDCH TRANSCRIPT. IT MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORMAT AND MAY BE
UPDATED.
JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Candy.
I'm here with Stephanie Cutter, who is the deputy campaign manager for the
Obama campaign, and ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12659 | 28 wow, this is going crazy |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 By Karin McQuillan
American military and State Department families that have lost their sons in
the war against Islamic jihadis are outing President Obama for playing
politics with the lives (and deaths) of their sons. Speaking out in some of
the most painful interviews ever shown on television, they directly blame
the president for the loss of their sons' lives. Their accusations speak
directly to Obama's competence in defending our national security.
Iran is on the brink of possessing nuclea... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5546 | 30
have
No. He worked as a lawyer in 1993, but he first became
a famous "professor" and then a community organizer--
In 1991, Obama accepted a two-year position as Visiting Law and Government
Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School to work on his first book.[44
][45] He then taught at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve
years—as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and as a Senior Lecturer from 1996
to 2004—teaching constitutional law.[46]
From April to October 1992, Obama directed Ill... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 By STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press
November 1, 2012
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney
holds on in the back of his campaign bus with aide Garrett Jackson, center,
and senior adviser Kevin Madden, left, after a campaigning at Meadow Event
Park in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
BOSTON (AP) — Should he prevail Tuesday, Mitt Romney would bring a CEO's
eye to the White House and a policy agenda based on a general set of
princip... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1458 | 32 Last night's victory for the President marks the first time since its
inception that Obamacare is no longer a what-if; it is the future of health
care in America.
It also means a near immediate impact on the economy. With 20 or so new or
higher taxes set to be implemented, ranging from a $123 billion surtax on
investment income, through the $20 billion medical device tax, all the way
down to the $600 million executive compensation limit, Obamacare will be a
nearly unbearable tax burden on the ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 John Kerry's Record in Latin America
It isn't that he opposes U.S. intervention. It's that somehow he often ends
up backing the bad guys.
By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY
With Susan Rice withdrawing her name for U.S. secretary of state, President
Obama last week nominated Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry for the job. Don't
expect applause from beleaguered democrats south of the border.
Mr. Kerry's record of promoting American values abroad is dismal. It isn't
that he opposes U.S. intervention—far fr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 by Jammie
These folks basically are members of the White House PR office, so why do
they get to flout the laws the rest of us are expected to follow? Well, laws
don’t apply to NBC’s David Gregory, so why would they apply to Obama’s
propagandists at Media Matters?
A staffer at left-wing Media Matters for America committed numerous
felonies in the District of Columbia and around the country by carrying a
firearm to defend the organization’s founder, David Brock, The Daily Caller
has learned.
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发帖数: 61690 | 35 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: Military
标 题: Pelosi牛:给议员减薪undermines dignity of the job
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Feb 19 13:19:24 2013, 美东)
Pelosi: Congressional pay cut undermines dignity of the job
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that she opposes
a cut in congressional pay because it would diminish the dignity of
lawmakers' jobs.
"I don't think we should do it; I think we should respect the work we do,"
Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol. "I think... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 【 以下文字转载自 LosAngeles 讨论区 】
发信人: ydjz (衣带渐窄), 信区: LosAngeles
标 题: Re: 纳税人的钱真好骗
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Feb 18 23:07:18 2013, 美东)
不是第一次了,黑幕重重，到最后都是加州老百姓苦哈哈交税买单...然后还有个
revised plan继续圈钱~
"The DMV has struggled with technology upgrades in the past. The state spent
$50 million on a faulty project before it was scrapped by Gov. Pete Wilson
in 1994, sparking outrage and calls for better oversight."
California's computer problems, which have already cost taxpayers hundreds
of millions of dollars, have moun... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1041 | 37
Federal Worker Unions Face Hurdles in Staging Protest; Signs Fall Short of
Poetry
March 19, WSJ
On Wednesday, members of the American Federation of Government Employees
will rally in downtown Chicago, scene of some of history's most storied
labor protests. Their aim is to stop sequestration, the $85 billion in
across-the-board cuts to the federal budget that took effect March 1.
For many workers, this turns out not to be the most ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 Facebook for Dummies: “I’m an instructor at Hunter College and this
weekend, I engaged in sexual intercourse with one of my students”
by Jammie
Can’t anyone keep their mouth shut about anything. OK, so you’re banging
one of your students. What compels you to go brag about it on Facebook?
University administrators around New York are scrambling to contain
college Facebook “secrets” pages, where students and instructors alike are
flocking to talk about academic sins — including teacher-student... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 How Obama Betrayed America
A policy of appeasement and intervention abets our enemies.
By David Horowitz
“If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the
indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see farther into the future.”
— Madeleine Albright, secretary of state (1997–2001), Clinton
administration
It is a judgment on Barack Obama’s timorous, apologetic, and irresponsible
conduct of foreign affairs that Madeleine Albright’s words, spoken little
more than 15 years ago, now sou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 By Darryl R. Isherwood | May 10th, 2013 - 4:27pm
Second Amendment rights advocates are fuming today over words from three
Democratic state senators caught on tape after Thursday's hearing on the
upper chamber's gun control package.
The three female senators, who sound from the recording to be Sen. Loretta
Weinberg, Sen. Sandy Cunningham and Sen. Linda Greenstein, are heard
discussing the just-closed hearing.
“We needed a bill that was going to confiscate, confiscate, confiscate,"
said an unknown... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 41 (CNN) -- The Justice Department secretly collected two months of telephone
records for reporters and editors at The Associated Press, the news service
disclosed Monday in an outraged letter to Attorney General Eric Holder.
The records included calls from several AP bureaus and the personal phone
lines of several staffers, AP President Gary Pruitt wrote. Pruitt called the
subpoenas a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into its reporting.
"These records potentially reveal communications with co... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 Jon Stewart Slams Obama Claim He Learned About IRS Scandal 'Last Friday'
By Randy Hall | May 15, 2013 | 22:50
It's easy to tell that President Obama is going through a scandal-ridden “
tough time” since he's even under fire from Jon Stewart, host of “The
Daily Show” on the Comedy Central cable channel, who said on Tuesday that
the Democratic occupant of the White House “can't keep saying you found out
about news at the same time as us!”
The liberal comedian said he found it strange that the pres... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 Longtime Democrat Consultant: Obama’s White House is Incompetent Like
Carter
May 31, 2013
Bob Shrum, a longtime Democrat operative, has decided that President Obama’
s handling of the White House during this IRS scandal is bad. Maybe not “
Nixonian” bad, but is instead a sort of Carteresque incompetence because of
the way the President has handled these recent crises.
Shrum is a high powered, Democrat operative of the first order. He was a
speech writer for such Democrat luminaries as George Mc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 Cincinnati IRS Staffers Say DC Officials Directed Tea Party Targeting »
posted on Thu Jun 06, 2013 19:30 by Jammie
Yes, we know, this is shocking! Actually, it’s no surprise at all. Anyone
with half a brain knows this came straight from the White House and it’s
simply a matter of time until it’s confirmed.
Two Internal Revenue Service employees in the agency’s Cincinnati
office told congressional investigators that IRS officials in Washington
helped direct the probe of tea-party groups ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8420 | 46 主党的基本盘就是泥鸽票蛆以及为他们献菊洗地的菊汉屁精 |
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发帖数: 2856 | 47 嘿嘿嘿，some people are more equal than others... |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 ‘Justice for Trayvon’: Obama DOJ Member Urged Action Against Zimmerman &#
187;
by Jammie
George Zimmerman will be a very wealthy man when his lawsuits against NBC
News, CNN and the Obama Justice Department pay off.
The legal watchdog Judicial Watch released an audio recording Thursday
of a Department of Justice staffer urging Sanford, Fla., city officials and
the minority advocacy group Dream Defenders to seek justice for Trayvon
Martin, because “if a community perceives that there’s somethi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 49 A movie titled Rodham is in the works. It will focus on Hillary’s role as a
26-year-old staffer on the House Judiciary Committee during Watergate.
Actresses like Scarlett Johansson, Reese Witherspoon and Amanda Seyfried are
reportedly in the running for the role of Ms. Rodham |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 by Jammie
Well, at least they’ve scaled back on their own lodging this year, staying
at a place worth a scant $7.6 million. Guess they’re victims of the Obama
sequester.
The Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard, the exclusive playground
for presidents and their families, is about to get its annual summer
infusion of cash and attention as President Obama and his family prepare to
arrive August 10 for an eight-day vacation.
Local reports indicate that the first family will likely be s... 阅读全帖 |
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