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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Here are a few important developments that remain strangely ignored. I say
strangely, but most readers understand why some news becomes news and some
does not.
1) Iraq. The United States military between 2007 and 2009 crushed al-Qaeda
in Iraq. It destroyed cadres of radical Islamists and Baathists. It
stabilized the country. It was one of the most stunning military
performances in modern history, and helped to destroy the image of a
competent and scary al-Qaeda. Yet everything from the recapture... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 People’s retirement savings are a convenient source of revenue for
governments that don’t want to reduce spending or make privatizations. As
most pension schemes in Europe are organised by the state, European
ministers of finance have a facilitated access to the savings accumulated
there, and it is only logical that they try to get a hold of this money for
their own ends. In recent weeks I have noted five such attempts: Three
situations concern private personal savings; two others refer to natio... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 Why police should not be unionized: "Lawyer for Ohio police threatens state
legislator who voted against unions"
Lets put aside for now that government workers shouldn't be unionized at all
since there is no profit motive, not working conditions issues from the
past, no cap on compensation, that unions negotiate with themselves being
that they sit on both sides of the 'bargaining' table and that the ultimate
boss - the taxpayers - are completely locked out of the process. But there
is an even da... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 Tuesday, May 31, 2011
By Matt Cover
(CNSNews.com) – John Bryson, President Barack Obama's nominee to be
secretary of commerce, said it was “incredibly important” that the United
States pass cap and trade legislation and that America needed to be a global
leader in combating man-made global warming.
“I regard it as incredibly important that the United States comes forth in
this year with federal climate change legislation as a foundation for moving
ahead,” Bryson told the U.N. International Energ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 By Christopher Chantrill
The fear in the back of every Republican mind is that the American people
will blame John Boehner and Republicans for shutting down the government.
Just like they blamed Newt Gingrich in 1995 when President Clinton shut down
the government in a budget battle with Newt and the first Republican
Congress in 40 years.
Could the Republicans get blamed again? Of course they could. But I don't
think they will.
For sure, the president and the Democrats and their bribed apolog... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 Chu takes responsibility for a loan deal that put more taxpayer money at
risk in Solyndra
By Carol D. Leonnig and and Joe Stephens, Published: September 29
Energy Secretary Steven Chu acknowledged Thursday making the final decision
to allow a struggling solar company to continue receiving taxpayer money
after it had technically defaulted on a $535 million federal loan guaranteed
by his agency.
Chu spokesman Damien LaVera said in a statement that the secretary
approved the restructuring agr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 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 | 8 By Christopher Chantrill
I've been worrying for months about Romney and the Bain Capital problem.
How was Romney, if nominated for President of the United States, going to
deal with Democrats trying to hang Bain Capital layoffs round his neck?
Paul Kengor goes into great detail on this.
This week Mitt Romey, in an "informal" campaign plane interview, showed us
how it is going to be done. Said he:
Well, I'd like to look at Barack Obama's record, and so as we talk about
my experience in the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 By John O'Sullivan
March 14, 2012 4:00 A.M.
Where is conservatism heading in the English-speaking world? This question
is currently being answered in the four countries of the Anglosphere —
namely, the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Britain — in four distinctive ways.
THE UNITED STATES
I will assume that American readers have a rough grasp of the state of
conservatism in the U.S. as revealed in the Republican primaries. It is
currently — as it has been for many years — a struggle for dominance in
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 The observed response of the climate to more CO2 is not in good agreement
with predictions.
By WILLIAM HAPPER
During a fundraiser in Atlanta earlier this month, President Obama is
reported to have said: "It gets you a little nervous about what is happening
to global temperatures. When it is 75 degrees in Chicago in the beginning
of March, you start thinking. On the other hand, I really have enjoyed nice
weather."
What is happening to global temperatures in reality? The answer is: almost
nothing ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 No, Left-Wingers, the ‘Founders’ Did NOT Approve of Mandates or Obamacare
April 16, 2012 Posted by Warner Todd Huston
Every few weeks leftist supporters of Obamacare will float the “fact” that
our founders passed the first “national healthcare law” claiming that
this supports Obamacare. The truth is, though, the history they claim
supports them doesn’t in any way prove that the founders would approve of
mandates in general or Obamacare in particular.
This failed historical analogy is once again... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 May 25, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
As one of his first official acts, President Barack Obama made a great show
of his deep concern for the idea of equal pay for women by signing the Lilly
Ledbetter Act, a bill that was supposed to solve that inequity. Sadly, it
appears that Obama and his Democrats are only interested in forcing private
industry to observe equal pay for women while refusing to hold themselves to
that high standard.
In 2009 Obama got a lot of credit for how much he cares about wo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 Posted on June 7th, 2012
This week, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker made history be being the first
governor to win a recall election. The cost of the recall, including the
primary and the general election, is estimated at $18 million. (And that’s
not including the millions of dollars that were spent advertising and
campaigning.)
The recall election never should have happened. The Wisconsin law allowing
recall elections was created to allow voters to remove from office elected
officials involve... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 By Nidra Poller
* "croissants" = flaky, buttery, crescent-shaped pastry; "croissance" =
growth
Well, that's settled! Angela will provide the meat and potatoes, and Fran&#
231;ois will bring the croissants. From each according to his means, to
each according to his needs. Now you understand why Nicolas Sarkozy lost
the election. He never thought of that quick fix while running back and
forth between Paris and Berlin last winter, even when his wife Carla was in
labor. The upshot was that Gi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 July 11, 2012 by Doug Johnson
Well that’s kind of a schizophrenic headline, but how you perceive Mitt
Romney’s address to the NAACP will probably be shaped by what you read
about it.
Newsbusters notes that there were a smattering of boos in two particular
spots, and points to a live blog from The Guardian that sums up the speech
like this:
11.05am: Other than those two episodes, Mitt Romney has been received
politely by the NAACP audience, with plenty of applause at the appropriate
places.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21367 | 16 you earn 1 billion, whether you put it back/forth caymen or not,
as long as you invest these money into captial market,
we do not tax you. we only tax you when you own
things and hold money without using it.
your investment will eventually increase the property/wealth
of the U.S., the tax comes from your indirect contribution.
it's like your rental money. Yes, you pay the rental
not the tax, but eventually your wealth support the taxation.
and you missed the very point of taxation.
tax is suppos... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 68 | 17 It seems that we have two systems by mdrosophila and cocoon
Goal:
Md: To lower the wealth gap in society.
Co: To encourage investment. "tax is suppose to make the country prosperous,
make people live better,not suppose to make more money for the government.
My tax systemencourages you to invest, to create a company, to hire people"
Methods:
Md: tax on wealth every year (say 2%). No or low income tax. No delay
taxation. Whether you realize the gain or no.
Co:- Tax on wealth/property or money no i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10233 | 18 are you out of your mind?
private sector, they go busted, one by one.
bear stern gone!
lehman brothers gone!
wamu gone!
that is how marker suppose to work.
while gse are supposed to be gone now!
but they are still alive.
those gse scumbags did this first, holding the largest chunk of subprime
mortgages, and they are still alive.
why?
because they use gun the power to rob tax payers,
that's why!
are you are still paying into this as of today while we are speaking.
you, useful idiots, do you under... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 789 | 19 http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/
In a video posted yesterday, Mitt Romney slammed the people who support
President Obama, saying they are most likely "dependent on government."
Romney's comments were recorded as he spoke at to an exclusive group of
donors at a private meeting. Obama's fans think of themselves as "victims,"
he said. They believe they are "entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing,
to you name it." He added, "My job is not to worry about those pe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 Fact Checking False Claim Obama Budget Plan ‘Reduces Deficit by $5.3
Trillion in a Decade’
October 3, 2012
Warner Todd Huston
outlandish claim that the President’s budget will reduce the deficit by $5.
3 trillion over a ten-year period. But a closer look at this claim proves
that it just isn’t true.
Don’t look behind that curtain!
Firstly, Obama and his surrogates don’t even claim a savings of $5.3
trillion, so it is a mystery where Calmes got this number. At the late
Democrat convention, for in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3975 | 21 http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_21864171
Between 1968 and 2004 Colorado voted for the Republican presidential
candidate in every election but one. Then in 2008, Barack Obama became only
the second Democrat to win the state in 40 years. What led to this trend
reversal in Colorado? One of the primary reasons is the Latino vote. While
Obama's support has declined in some population sectors since then, it has
actually grown with Colorado Latinos. For this reason, I argue that Colorado
is not a swing s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3975 | 22 http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_21864171
Between 1968 and 2004 Colorado voted for the Republican presidential
candidate in every election but one. Then in 2008, Barack Obama became only
the second Democrat to win the state in 40 years. What led to this trend
reversal in Colorado? One of the primary reasons is the Latino vote. While
Obama's support has declined in some population sectors since then, it has
actually grown with Colorado Latinos. For this reason, I argue that Colorado
is not a swing s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 Previously on The Perils of Pauline:
Last year, our plucky heroine, the wholesome apple-cheeked American republic
, was trapped in an express elevator hurtling out of control toward the debt
ceiling. Would she crash into it? Or would she make some miraculous escape?
Yes! At the very last minute of her white-knuckle thrill ride to her
rendezvous with destiny, she was rescued by Congress’s decision to set up .
. . a Super Committee! Those who can, do. Those who can’t, form a
committee. Those who r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 New Yorkers Struggle With Tax Hikes and Prepare for More- NYPOST.com
by Jeff Graham
“I thought Obama was supposed to save us,” he said. “I thought the rich [
were] supposed to get taxed. I know everything went up, I just want to know
why. ”
The words of one NYC worker quoted in the Post this morning as grumbling
continues over the New Year's Day tax hike that leave's average earners a
thousand dollars lighter than they were last year.
More surprises to come as various aspects of Obamaca... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 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: 21627 | 26 By DAVID A. STOCKMAN
GREENWICH, Conn. -- The Dow Jones and Standard & Poor’s 500 indexes reached
record highs on Thursday, having completely erased the losses since the
stock market’s last peak, in 2007. But instead of cheering, we should be
very afraid.
David Stockman
Over the last 13 years, the stock market has twice crashed and touched off a
recession: American households lost $5 trillion in the 2000 dot-com bust
and more than $7 trillion in the 2007 housing crash. Sooner or later —
within a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 “Man Faces Charges After Defending Himself from a Bear in His Own Yard”
Just as the founders and framers would have wanted it! Reason:
Richard Ahlstrand, of Auburn, Massachusetts, faces criminal charges
after encountering a bear in his back yard and shooting the damned thing to
avoid being mauled or eaten. Specifically, as noted at Reason 24/7, he’s
charged with “illegally killing a bear, illegally baiting a bear, illegal
possession of a firearm and failure to secure a firearm.” All of these... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 201 | 28 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: ahmaswh (ahmaswh), 信区: Military
标 题: 美国外交政策杂志: 绝密的NSA对华黑客组织-TAO
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jun 10 17:51:46 2013, 美东)
Inside the NSA's Ultra-Secret China Hacking Group
Deep within the National Security Agency, an elite, rarely discussed team of
hackers and spies is targeting America's enemies abroad.
This weekend, U.S. President Barack Obama sat down for a series of meetings
with China's newly appointed leader, Xi Jinping. We know that the two
leaders spoke at length about... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 by Jammie
They knew for months and did what they do best: They covered it up.
As far back as March, a top IT official at the Department of Health and
Human Services said the department’s current ambition for the law’s new
online insurance marketplaces was that they not be “a Third-World
experience.” Several provisions had already been abandoned in an effort to
simplify the administration’s task and maximize the chances that the new
systems would be ready to go live in October, when customers... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 by Jordan Gonzalez
The Senate once again failed to pass legislation that would address the
doubled interest rates on subsidized Stafford loans on Wednesday, with Sen.
Harry Reid’s cloture vote to proceed failing 51-49.
The bill, the Keep Student Loans Affordable Act of 2013 (S. 1238), was the
Democrats’ latest attempt to return the subsidized Stafford loan interest
rates to 3.4 percent from the current 6.8 percent. It would have kept the
rates at 3.4 percent for another year.
Before the vote, Se... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 Zimmerman prosecutors sued by fired IT worker who revealed state didn’t
show evidence to defense
Hotair ^ | 07/17/2013 | AllahPundit
Posted on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 9:04:26 AM by SeekAndFind
Zimmerman’s suing NBC, Martin’s parents are (probably) suing Zimmerman —
isn’t it time that someone sued the one actor in this case whose motives
were most provably malign?
Maybe this is a first small step in sending Angela Corey to join Mike Nifong
in disgraced-former-prosecutor obscurity.
Ben Kruidb... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3322 | 32 What a foreigner suppose to say? What a native suppose to say?
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发帖数: 1041 | 33 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/lavabit-snowden/
A pro-privacy email service long used by NSA leaker Edward Snowden abruptly
shut down today, blaming a secret U.S. court battle it has been fighting for
six weeks — one that it seems to be losing so far.
“I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in
crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly 10 years of hard
work by shutting down Lavabit,” owner Ladar Levison wrote in a statement.
“After signif... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 by Jammie
Gee, you don’t suppose they leaked this information to make Obama look good
, do you? Ironically, Obama’s stooge Eric Holder supposedly is
investigating the source of the leak.
Internal State Department emails reportedly show the White House
cooperated with a journalist whose revelations about an anti-Iran
cyberattack are now the subject of a high-profile leak probe.
The Washington Times reported Monday on emails, from late 2011 to early
2012, obtained by the nonprofit Freedom ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 Obamacare’s Magical Thinkers
Not even the coolest president ever can conjure up a national medical regime
for 300 million people.
By Mark Steyn
If you’re looking for an epitaph for the republic (and these days who isn’
t?) try this — from August 2010 and TechCrunch’s delirious preview of
Healthcare.gov:
“We were working in a very very nimble hyper-consumer-focused way,”
explained Todd Park, the chief technology officer of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services, “all fused in this kind... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 哈哈, 无知少女的妇女们发现自己要付更多的钱买保险,于是纷纷反水.
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/30/21252291-poll-maj
Poll: Majority think health law needs overhaul or elimination
By Domenico Montanaro Deputy Political Editor, NBC News
A majority of Americans – 52 percent – believe the health care law needs
either a major overhaul or to be completely eliminated, a new NBC News/Wall
Street Journal poll finds.
Forty-four percent think it either needs minor modifications or that it’s
working well as is.
The Obama admi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 Dr. Hanson：美国总统已经变成了一个虚拟职位，半数美国人和大部分媒体不管怎么样
都维护，剩下的人靠自己奋斗
Is Obama Still President?
His cadences soar on, through scandal after fiasco after disaster.
By Victor Davis Hanson
We are currently learning whether the United States really needs a president
. Barack Obama has become a mere figurehead, who gives speeches few listen
to any more, issues threats that scare fewer, and makes promises that almost
no one believes he will keep. Yet America continues on, despite the fact
that the foreign ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9926 | 38 全美国华人行动起来, 同心协力对抗SCA-5种族歧视.
大家不要觉得今天不是发生在我这里, 发生在加州就觉得无所谓, 不关我的事, 海外中
国人应该团结一致, 才能对抗种族歧视, 一起行动, 大家应该要效法犹太人团结的精神
, 不要等到这趋势蔓延到其他州时, 才后悔莫及, 怎么样对抗SCA-5种族歧视呢? 下面
有教你要怎样做的方法.
本文的网路版本在这里: http://nosca5.blogspot.com/2014/02/sca5.html
反对SCA-5具体有效的步骤, 请转发
从我做起, 从现在做起! 我们还来得及反对SCA5. 目前, 加州众议院的80席中, 有55席
民主党, 25席共和党. 对这个法案SCA5的支持是党派分票, 所以我们只需要保证 2个以
上民主党议员勇敢地站出来, 投票反对, 我们就可以让法案胎死腹中. 现在我们可以做
的是写信给代表我们选区的加州众议员, 去他们的网站给他们写.
Step 1: 下面网站里选Act Now有两个请愿投票, 有时间先去投票, 这样才能壮大声势.
这两个网站都需要注册, 但是Change.org和Whitehouse.go... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9926 | 39 大家不要觉得今天不是发生在我这里, 发生在加州就觉得无所谓, 不关我的事, 海外中
国人应该团结一致, 才能对抗种族歧视, 一起行动, 大家应该要效法犹太人团结的精神
, 不要等到这趋势蔓延到其他州时, 才后悔莫及, 怎么样对抗SCA-5种族歧视呢? 下面
有教你要怎样做的方法.
本文的网路版本在这里: http://nosca5.blogspot.com/2014/02/sca5.html
反对SCA-5具体有效的步骤, 请转发
从我做起, 从现在做起! 我们还来得及反对SCA5. 目前, 加州众议院的80席中, 有55席
民主党, 25席共和党. 对这个法案SCA5的支持是党派分票, 所以我们只需要保证 2个以
上民主党议员勇敢地站出来, 投票反对, 我们就可以让法案胎死腹中. 现在我们可以做
的是写信给代表我们选区的加州众议员, 去他们的网站给他们写.
Step 1: 下面网站里选Act Now有两个请愿投票, 有时间先去投票, 这样才能壮大声势.
这两个网站都需要注册, 但是Change.org和Whitehouse.gov是最常见的请愿网站, 将
来一定该还有用到的机会, 花... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9926 | 40 本文的网路版本在这里: http://nosca5.blogspot.com/2014/02/sca5.html
反对SCA-5具体有效的步骤, 请转发
从我做起, 从现在做起! 我们还来得及反对SCA5. 目前, 加州众议院的80席中, 有55席
民主党, 25席共和党. 对这个法案SCA5的支持是党派分票, 所以我们只需要保证 2个以
上民主党议员勇敢地站出来, 投票反对, 我们就可以让法案胎死腹中. 现在我们可以做
的是写信给代表我们选区的加州众议员, 去他们的网站给他们写.
Step 1: 下面网站里选Act Now有两个请愿投票, 有时间先去投票, 这两个网站都需要
注册, 但是Change.org和Whitehouse.gov是最常见的请愿网站, 将来一定该还有用到的
机会, 花点时间注册并不吃亏. 不過必須強調這兩個投票實際效果是零, 並不能解決問
題, 其主要功能就僅僅是壮大声势.
http://www.saynosca5.com/
美亚团结促进会的United Against SCA5 - Please click here to sign letter to
con... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 Wisc. Dem. Candidate for Gov. Plagiarized Her Jobs Plan And Many Other
Positions on Her Website
Warner Todd Huston September 22, 2014
It has been discovered that the Democrat candidate for Governor of Wisconsin
plagiarized her entire jobs plan after claiming that jobs and the economy
was the centerpiece of her campaign. As the national media ignores the story
this is another fine example of “if a conservative did it.” We know that
if a Republican had done this the story would be leading every n... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 Connecticut’s Democrat Governor Enacts Mandatory Ebola Quarantine Prior to
Obama Campaign Stop
by Jammie via Jammie Wearing Fools
Somehow we doubt he’ll face as much scrutiny as Chris Christie.
Connecticut officials have joined counterparts in other states –
including New York and New Jersey — in defending and detailing quarantine
powers they’ve enacted as a precaution against the Ebola virus.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Public Health Commissioner Dr.
Jewel Mullen announced Mon... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 Obama has spread the wealth, but the poor and middle class haven’t
benefited.
Updated Nov. 23, 2014 5:43 p.m. ET
One reading of the midterm election wave is that voters have concluded that
President Obama ’s answer to falling incomes and slow growth—higher taxes
on the rich and more redistribution—is tapped out. These policies have been
up and running for six long years but the middle class is no better off as
a result.
On taxes, Mr. Obama often claims that the rich don’t pay their “fair share
,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 Labor Unions’ Minimum Wage Push: A Shameless Scheme to Fatten Their Own
Coffers
By Ed Feulner | June 8, 2015 | 2:28 PM EDT
Utterly shameless. There really is no other way to describe what some unions
are trying to pull when it comes to the minimum wage.
The issue, of course, has been in the news quite a bit lately, especially in
Los Angeles, with supposedly incensed workers waving their “Fight for 15”
placards. It’s all perfectly packaged for the media, an alleged David
versus Goliath fight. Wil... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10729 | 45 TRUMP用persona和look难以区分来为自己辩解。
"Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the
face of our next president," Trump told the magazine. "I mean, she's a woman
, and I'm not supposed to say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we
serious?"
没有视频，没有音频。只有文字描述。语境难说。觉得不是硬伤，因为原话里“she's
a woman, and I'm not supposed to say bad things”的确显示他心理对女性还是有
尊重的。
In a phone-in interview Thursday on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends,"
Trump acknowledged he "probably did say something li... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 Amid nationwide protests on college campuses over racial tensions, the
president of an Oklahoma university has penned an editorial criticizing '
self-absorbed and narcissistic' students.
In a statement posted to Oklahoma Wesleyan University's website, the school'
s president, Dr Everett Piper, wrote that his school was not supposed to be
a 'safe place' where everyone feels comfortable, but rather an institution
meant to challenge.
If young people were upset with that idea, Piper says they should... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 by Investors Business Daily • May 16, 2016
By Jed Graham at Investor’s Business Daily
Reports continue to flow in of big ObamaCare premium spikes that will hit
exchanges around the country in 2017.
Insurers are seeking an average 27% rate hike in Oregon; 21% in Maine; 18%
in Virginia; and 18% in Florida.
But if the premiums don’t shock you, the deductibles very well might. Not
only are bronze deductibles rising as high as $7,150 in 2017, from a maximum
of $6,850 this year, but silver de... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2215 | 48 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/22/fleischer_jou
Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer discusses Donald Trump on "
Reliable Sources" with CNN's Brian Stelter.
BRIAN STELTER, CNN: Certainly right underneath the surface, many writers and
commentators are mortified by some of the things Trump says. You can call
it liberal bias, or you can call it a sense of decency. A sense of how
politics are supposed to be done. Or how the campaigns are supposed to be
played.
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发帖数: 61690 | 49 The shorter version of what President Barack Obama said Tuesday: Donald
Trump is an idiot.
The slightly longer version: The presumptive Republican nominee is a
dangerous manipulator who's either willfully or ignorantly out to damage the
country and put more Americans in danger, all for the sake of propelling a
brand of politics that responsible Republicans know they can't support.
Story Continued Below
As Obama himself put it—the day after Trump breached whatever was left of
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发帖数: 6571 | 50 First lady Michelle Obama has wrapped up her six-day “Let Girls Learn”
tour of Liberia, Morocco and Spain. Together with her mother Marian and two
daughters Sasha and Malia, the FLOTUS, under the guise of promoting access
to education for 62 million girls worldwide, embarked on a multimillion-
dollar excursion where she ate great food, wore great clothes, hung out with
celebrities, and spent $600,000 for one night in Marrakesh.
In Madrid, while speaking to schoolgirls about equality, Michelle d... 阅读全帖 |
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