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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Cuisines from My Stepfather
By Mark Steyn
April 28, 2012 4:00 A.M.
A couple of days ago, Obama-campaign top dog David Axelrod threw in the
towel on the dog war. “I thought it was a little absurd to talk about what
the president had done as a ten-year-old boy,” he sniffed to MSNBC’s
Andrea Mitchell, which is as near as the suddenly sheepish attack dog will
ever get to conceding that Barack Obama is the first dog-eating president in
the history of the republic. For those coming late to the feud, t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4321 | 2 Tougher than Limbaugh?
This SOB said he would emigrate if the healthcare reform passed.
Did he?
So are you going to commit suicide if Obama got reelected?
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 3 The first private spacecraft aiming to dock with the international space
station blasted off from Florida and reached orbit early Tuesday with split-
second precision, but the biggest tests for the mission are still days ahead.
The predawn skies around Cape Canaveral filled with the bright glow and deep
rumble of Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s Falcon 9 rocket lifting
off the pad, carrying an unmanned Dragon spacecraft on a highly anticipated
test flight scheduled to last about two weeks.... 阅读全帖 |
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C*******r
发帖数: 10345 | 4 闽猪党棍Rham Emanuel是搬起石头砸了自己的脚。
Chicago braces for first teacher strike in a generation
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A bitter dispute between unionized public school
teachers and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has residents of the third-largest U
.S. city bracing for a possible teachers' strike on Monday in a showdown
over education reform that has national implications.
Nearly 30,000 public school teachers and support staff represented by the
Chicago Teachers Union have vowed to walk off the job starting at 12... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 5 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
Story lines about endorsing Obamacare the networks ought to be weaving into
their scripts... according to The New York Times:
Realizing that much of the battle will be in the public relations realm,
the exchange has poured significant resources into a detailed marketing
plan — developed not by state health bureaucrats but by the global
marketing powerhouse Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, which has an initial
$900,000 contract with the exchange. The Ogilvy ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 6 By Paul Vieira
Americans are getting used to Canadian lectures on fiscal responsibility,
but on Tuesday former Prime Minister Paul Martin brought a blunt message to
the heart of Washington: sort out your deficit.
Speaking at an event sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, a
conservative-leaning think tank, Mr. Martin said whoever wins November’s
election must address the U.S.’s burgeoning deficit the very next day
because the economy is at risk of reaching a “tipping point.”
That could ... 阅读全帖 |
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c****0
发帖数: 993 | 7 YAHOO POLL
President Obama is getting tougher on taxes, saying any deal on a fiscal
cliff will include tax hikes on the wealthy. Deadline day for a deal is
January 1. Where do you stand?
Tax the rich (39063)
37%
Don't hike taxes at all (35925)
34%
Spread the hike across all income levels (21319)
20%
I want to go over the cliff (9915)
9% |
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C****n
发帖数: 2324 | 8 I remember a standup comedy by Chris Rock talk about this, let's try not to
define ourselves as Democrats or Republican so fast yet, not define
ourselves as liberal or conservative. Everybody has something different, it'
s really a balance of choices.
For example, for me:
I support Obama on his view on Abortion, Gay/Lesbian issue.
I support Romney on his view of small government, cut tax ... etc.
On strict criminal punishment, I am conservative, as I think we should be
tougher on criminals. Forg... 阅读全帖 |
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d***h
发帖数: 97 | 9 Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/business/global/family-of-wen
BEIJING — The mother of China’s prime minister was a schoolteacher in
northern China. His father was ordered to tend pigs in one of Mao’s
political campaigns. And during childhood, “my family was extremely poor,”
the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, said in a speech last year.
But now 90, the prime minister’s mother, Yang Zhiyun, not only left
poverty behind — she became outright ric... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3833 | 10 obama is my candidate. my candidat hasn't failed yet. it is just a little
bit tougher for him to win, that is why I come out to support him now. |
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发帖数: 2429 | 11 奥巴马没戏了。
http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/06/investing/stocks-election-obama
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- President Obama and Mitt Romney may be in a dead heat
as Americans head to the polls on Election Day, but the former
Massachusetts governor is an overwhelming favorite of Wall Street.
Twelve out of 18 investment strategists and money managers surveyed by
CNNMoney said the stock market would perform better with Romney in the White
House than during a second Obama term.
As the country struggles with tepi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 26355 | 12 If you can not reach some level of SAT score, even you get into the ivy
colleges, you cannot get graduated.
The college courses are way tougher than the high school courses. |
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C****n
发帖数: 2324 | 13 Right.
Like his budget plan, i know he can and he will get it done! Or to say, I
believe he will get it done.
But he can't tell his plan now, because most people will get hurt by his
plan, including me.
But I still support him, because it's a moral thing to do. Leave the debt to
my kids is simply not moral. I don't want my kids living in a world with 90
% income tax (I am not joking, it happened in history before in US.)
The budget needs to be balanced, and we need a tough guy to do this. Just
l... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 14 How Conservatives Can Win in Blue-State America: Lessons from South Africa's
Opposition
The new conventional wisdom in the aftermath of the 2012 elections is that
Republicans face two challenges: first, that the United States is no longer
a center-right nation, but a center-left one; second, that the country’s
demographic shift away from whites will make it tougher for Republicans to
win votes. The proposed solution is that Republicans must compromise on the
party’s core policies, from immigrati... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 15 By LIZ PEEK, The Fiscal Times
November 23, 2012
Some people miss the 1950s because of the era’s simple pleasures like
Twinkies and Howdy Doody. Paul Krugman misses the decade’s high tax rates
on the rich. In a recent column, he harks back to the days of drive-in
movies and Pat Boone for lessons he says “remain relevant” – namely that
an economy can prosper even with extraordinarily high taxes. More broadly,
Mr. Krugman argues that the postwar years show that you can “have
prosperity without dem... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1509 | 16 I decided to support Barack Obama pretty early in the Democratic primary,
around spring of 2007. But unlike so many of his supporters, I never
experienced a kind of emotional response to his candidacy. I never felt his
election would change everything about American politics or government, that
it would lead us out of the darkness. Nothing Obama did or said ever made
me well up with tears.
Possibly for that same reason, I have never felt even a bit of the crushing
sense of disappointment that at... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 17 Mark Kelly Attended Gun Control Rally Day After Buying AR-15
Print Article Send a Tip
by AWR Hawkins 11 Mar 2013 133 post a comment
On March 5, gun control proponent Mark Kelly bought an "assault rifle" and a
semi-automatic handgun at Diamondback Police Supply, Tucson, AZ.
On March 6, he attended a Tucson rally with his wife, former Congresswoman
Gabby Giffords, to "call for tougher gun-control laws."
The rally was held at the plaza where Jared Loughner shot Giffords in
January, 2011.
In coverin... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 18 The Death of the Family
By Mark Steyn
March 29, 2013 3:00 P.M.
Gay marriage? It came up at dinner Down Under this time last year, and the
prominent Aussie politician on my right said matter-of-factly, “It’s not
about expanding marriage, it’s about destroying marriage.”
That would be the most obvious explanation as to why the same societal
groups who assured us in the Seventies that marriage was either (a) a “
meaningless piece of paper” or (b) institutionalized rape are now insisting
it’s a univ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1041 | 19 http://www.npr.org/2013/04/05/176261933/u-s-job-growth-slows-as
對四千六百萬長期失業人士來說,失業福利縮水，他們的日子越來越難過了。
For the 4.6 million long-term unemployed Americans, the disappointing March
report comes just as life gets even tougher. Rules differ from state to
state, but in general, government checks for the unemployed are shrinking as
extended federal benefits dwindle.
Megan DeYoung lost her extended benefits last week. The Wisconsin chef has
been depending upon the benefits since losing her job more than a ... 阅读全帖 |
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c*****g
发帖数: 21627 | 20 给下面这篇左逼霉文做一个摘要：
“大赫非法移民，不会增加福利负担，也不会增加就业
相反，会促进就业，增加财税，增加鸡的P”
文章甚至“伟光正”到了连“Amnesty ”这个词的使用都被视为不当
而是要说什么“earned residency.”
Alejandrino Honorato’s introduction to America began with a smuggler who
led him across the Rio Grande into the Texas desert. Eventually he was
guided to a North Carolina field, where he paid for his passage by picking
tobacco. Living illegally in a labor camp, Honorato didn’t know politicians
in Washington were deciding his future. It was 1986, and Congress was
weighing an ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 21 by Quin Hillyer
At CFIF, I explain why the Boston bombing was the predictable outcome of (
even if not, of course, directly blamable on) policies deliberately forced
on the FBI by the Obama administration. This is actually really important
stuff, and it’s not jsut some ex post facto blame-game: Some of us were
warning about these policies six months (or more) ago.
Here’s a rather lengthy, key passage:
Granted, hindsight is 20/20. But the whole point is that it should not
have taken hindsight... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10729 | 22 公开承认过一次但是不解决问题，不是吗？
现在Bill这么做就是想要真正地解决问题。第一步：把问题摆在明面上。
Bill挑破这层窗户纸，并且在从那天以后的几天里Talk point里继续讨论这个问题(下
面贴出一个昨天的）和提出他的批评意见。解决问题的方法会有很多种。
如果我是真正关心黑人的黑人领袖，我就会经常说教，并真正地引导我的黑人同胞要学
好的家庭价值观。女孩子不要没有结婚就怀孕。
如果公众在媒体煽风点火和政治正确这些问题上能更洞察一些，就会进一步促使媒体提
高质量，促使好莱坞的反人类价值的片子得不到票房而减少，并且能进一步促使
tougher的法律和执法，震慑想学坏的小孩子。
我觉得Bill的做法很实际，也很正确。 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 23 by Jammie
This is so obvious that someone should write a book about it. Oh wait,
someone did already. And yet again, the anti-gun nuts are proven wrong. Not
that facts and statistics will work as a deterrent.
Amid calls nationwide for stricter gun control laws, Virginia is
experiencing a unique trend: the state’s gun-related crime is declining but
firearms sales are increasing.
Firearms sales rose 16 percent to a record 490,119 guns purchased from
licensed gun dealers in 2012, according ... 阅读全帖 |
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m********a
发帖数: 1041 | 24 標題是: Test Scores Sink as New York Adopts Tougher Benchmarks
(因為考試更難了，學子成績就更差了)
In New York City, 26 percent of students in third through eighth grade
passed the tests in English, and 30 percent passed in math, according to the
New York State Education Department. |
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c*****g
发帖数: 21627 | 25 【 以下文字转载自 WaterWorld 讨论区 】
发信人: fighter644 (武士), 信区: WaterWorld
标 题: 原来JK脱口秀是由职业writer团队写出脚本的, Co-head Writer为一白女
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Oct 27 15:47:15 2013, 美东)
做了一下研究，发现原来所有的所谓脱口秀都是由职业的Writer们写出脚本script，再
由host来演出的。Jimmy Kimmel脱口秀同样有一个职业写手团队，其Co-head Writer为
一白女，看照片和介绍。
想起来多可笑，现在我们中国人还能够说这不过是一个孩子的童言无忌，一个笑话吗。
这是一个刻意的试探，是我们所有的中国人面临的一个严重的考验。
What It's Like to Write For a Late Night Talk Show
http://splitsider.com/2013/10/what-its-like-to-write-for-a-late
Comedy is an industry. For every performer ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1511 | 26 Can't agree more.
LaoZhongs actually are among the most aggressive people in the world, just
that most of the elite LaoZhongs prefer to stay put in China because there'
re more opportunities there.
LaoYins are actually pretty easy to deal with at a personal level, cause a
lot of them are not very aggressive in the core when push comes to shove.
For example, there're unfortunately several passionate killers out of
LaoZhong community (not to mention the Koreans), but almost unheard of from
LaoYins... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 27 June 4, 2014 - 1:35 PM
By JAY REEVES, Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — New laws requiring voters to present photo
identification at the polls were enforced in two Southern primaries on
Tuesday, but with mixed results.
In Alabama, there were few hitches, but a razor-tight U.S. Senate race in
Mississippi could hinge on provisional ballots, some of them cast as a
result of a new voter ID law.
Here are five things to know about voter ID laws:
WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE PRIMARIES?
No major prob... 阅读全帖 |
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m********8
发帖数: 7463 | 28 何止退休金啊
Fed looks at exit fees on bond funds
search it on http://www.ft.com
June 16, 2014 7:35 pm
Fed looks at exit fees on bond funds
By Tom Braithwaite, Tracy Alloway and Michael Mackenzie in New York and Gina
Chon in WashingtonAuthor alerts
Jeremy Stein, governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during a
discussion at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., U.S., on
Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. Stein said diminishing returns from Fed purchases
of Treasury securities indicate the central ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 29 http://online.wsj.com/articles/shire-gets-revised-abbvie-takeov
AbbVie Nears $54 Billion Shire Deal
Deal Would Be Latest 'Inversion' Play
By Hester Plumridge
connect
Updated July 14, 2014 2:13 p.m. ET
LONDON—U.S. drug maker AbbVie Inc. ABBV -0.02% is close to clinching
a deal to buy Dublin-based Shire SHPG +2.23% PLC for more than £
31 billion ($53.6 billion), in what would be one of the largest so-called
inversion deals through which U.S. companies are seeking a lower corpo... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 30 Analysis: Nuclear agreement risks projecting US weakness
April 5, 2015 - 3:05 PM
By DAN PERRY, Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — On a basic level, the framework deal between world powers and
Tehran will be judged by whether it prevents an Iranian bomb, but that will
take years to figure out.
A more immediate issue is the projection of Western power. Supporters of the
framework deal can argue that the U.S. and world powers extracted
significant concessions from Iran, breaking a decade-long impasse an... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 31 Baltimore mayor under fire over ‘destroy’ remarks, response to riots
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was under intense pressure Tuesday
morning to defend her response to the violence that has ripped apart her
city following the funeral of Freddie Gray, a young black man who died after
being in police custody -- particularly Rawling-Blake's remarks in which
she suggested those who "wished to destroy" need their space.
With more than a dozen officers injured in clashes with rioters and lo... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 32 Obamacare 43% Approval Rating Declared a Victory
Credit Yahoo!Finance for the inane headline of the day: Employers shrug off
Obamacare, robbing Republicans of a campaign issue.
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Just 18 months ago, a Republican fantasy seemed about to come true.
The Affordable Care Act was in the midst of a disastrous rollout plagued
by dialup-stye technology snafus. President Obama had sabotaged his own
health-reform plan by falsely promising that everybody happy with their
health plan co... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 33 People Who Blamed Confederate Flag for SC Murders Say Sanctuary Cities Have
Nothing to Do With Brutal SF Murder
by Jammie via Jammie Wearing Fools
It was just recently the psychotic left blamed the Democrat Confederate flag
and guns for the murder spree by Dylann Roof in South Carolina, and just
this week called for — surprise! — more gun control.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., fellow California
Democrat Rep. Mike Thompson and South Carolina Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn
joine... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 34 US gun sales soar in the wake of Oregon college shooting
Gun sales this year could exceed record sales reached in 2013
US gun sales have soared following the mass-shooting at Umpqua Community
College in Oregon, which killed 10 people and injured seven others.
Larry Hyatt, owner of Hyatt Guns in North Carolina, told the Financial Times
that business had picked up radically since the shooting, adding “the
store is crowded”.
The spike in sales follows long-set trends in the US, which has experience... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 35 Sweden's Migration Projection Doubles in Three Months (And It Won't Stop
There); No Cash, Just Vouchers (Hah!)
Sweden is feeling migration strain. In the last three months, Sweden's
Migrant Projection Doubled.
This was easily foreseeable by bloggers like me, Dave Stockman, Acting Man,
Zero Hedge etc. Yet, somehow government leaders failed to see this coming.
Sweden will receive as many as 190,000 refugees this year, according to
official estimates, more than double the projected number envis... 阅读全帖 |
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H**U
发帖数: 1814 | 36 It is getting out of control. It's unfair to Trump and Carson! |
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H**U
发帖数: 1814 | 38 It's really annoying to see guys like kasich and fiorina trying to steal
some time to talk their garbage! |
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d******3
发帖数: 532 | 39 Fiorina根本就不配站在这个台上：说的都是些什么乱七八糟的破玩意儿。 |
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发帖数: 10729 | 40 Published on Oct 28, 2015
anderson言谈相当差劲。一幅史蒂芬坑的嘴脸。
I have been saying this for years. NOBODY will be tougher on ISIS than me!
Anderson Cooper Anderson Cooper 360 CNN - you should acknowledge this! |
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c*******o
发帖数: 8869 | 42 恩，trump还表扬了cruz,"tougher and smarter than rubio", 要修好共同吃掉如表？ |
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发帖数: 5016 | 43 Washington (CNN)Republican front-runner Donald Trump said Friday that he
would not order the U.S. military to violate international laws to fight
terrorism, a stark reversal from his statements at Thursday's Republican
debate.
Trump said in a statement that he understands "that the United States is
bound by laws and treaties" and said he would "not order our military or
other officials to violate those laws and will seek their advice on such
matters."
He added, "I will not order a military offic... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 149 | 44 Yes, I fully agree with you on this.
As Obama said in his last speech when giving EAD to 5 million undocumented
immigrants: This has been a country of immigrants. This is a country of
immigrants and this will be a country of immigrants.
So, it is very clear that, immigration, as a national character of this
country, cannot be easily changed. Letting immigrants to bring in new ideas
and energy to this country, and in the meanwhile letting them compete with
locals, is always the basic policy of th... 阅读全帖 |
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s**x
发帖数: 7506 | 45 川普是上帝派来做总统的！
看看那么多基督徒都选他就知道了。
好几件事都是巧妙的安排。我早就预言川普躺着赢了， 根本没有任何悬念。
1. his language is easy understood by any one. this is the important one.
he did this by exaggerating things IMO, which I really enjoy it.
2. most of his ideas are simply common sense. Does a country need a real
boarder? if so, what is wrong with a wall? Should our veterans be treated
better than illegal immigrants? other things like taxes etc.
3. he changed the way how politics can work by speaking clearly and loudl... 阅读全帖 |
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k****g
发帖数: 1509 | 46 police is great. they should be much tougher! |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 47 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: Military
标 题: 大统令对自己没有轰炸叙利亚的决定感到自豪
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Mar 14 18:53:57 2016, 美东)
Obama Says He's Proud of Pulling Back From Syria Airstrikes
President Barack Obama said he's proud of the moment he pulled the U.S.
from the brink of launching airstrikes against the government of Syrian
President Bashar Assad, calling it the right decision to make.
In interviews with The Atlantic magazine published Thursday, Obama also
called out U.S. allies who... 阅读全帖 |
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w****k
发帖数: 6244 | 48 1% is not that difficult. Lots upper middle class there
0.1% is real rich and much tougher |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 49 In the latest shock for the GOP, which in recent weeks some have speculated
is willing to scuttle the entire republican presidential campaign if it
means not having Trump as the candidate, according to a just released
Reuters poll, one third of Republican voters who support Donald Trump could
turn their backs on their party in November's presidential election if he
is denied the nomination in a contested convention.
Or, as The Hill puts it, "blocking Donald Trump from the Republican
presidentia... 阅读全帖 |
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w**j
发帖数: 820 | 50 现在只有Cruz是明确反对AA的
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/02/03/senator-ted-cruz
views-higher-education-and-scientific-research
Immigration and Affirmative Action
Like many Republicans, Cruz is campaigning on taking a tougher line on
federal immigration policy. He’s said he wants to reverse President Obama’
s executive orders on immigration, including the reprieve from deportation
offered to young immigrants, many of them students, who were brought to the
United States as children by parents who... 阅读全帖 |
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