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发帖数: 7918 | 5 Analysis: Is GOP a Party of Yes, No or Maybe So?
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 10:24 a.m. ET
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Socialist. Secularist. Liar. National security naif.
Republican leaders are calling President Barack Obama all that and more as
they jockey early for the party's 2012 nomination. But name-calling alone
won't beat the Democratic incumbent.
Even a firebrand like Newt Gingrich concedes that the GOP must be more than
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 Lack of votes for Senate Democrats' energy bill may mean the end
By Perry Bacon Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 23, 2010
Conceding that they can't find enough votes for the legislation, Senate
Democrats on Thursday abandoned efforts to put together a comprehensive
energy bill that would seek to curb greenhouse gas emissions, delivering a
potentially fatal blow to a proposal the party has long touted and President
Obama campaigned on.
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/american-narcissus_516686.html
American Narcissus
The vanity of Barack Obama
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 澳大利亚人口最多的新南威尔士州选举，在联邦政府执政的工党大败，16年来右翼政党
第一次在该州执政
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110326/wl_asia_afp/australiapolit
SYDNEY (AFP) – The Australian Labor Party, which controls the government,
on Saturday suffered a crushing electoral defeat in New South Wales, losing
a state it has ruled for 16 years.
Party officials termed the defeat a "massacre" as outgoing New South Wales
premier Kristina Keneally conceded defeat to the Liberal candidate Barry O'
Farrell after a swing of about 17 percent against t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 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: 29846 | 11 我最深爱的人，伤我却是最深”：最支持奥巴马的群体－－年轻人，黑人，拉丁裔－－
在当前经济环境下受打击最大
http://nationaljournal.com/columns/political-connections/obama-
A 2012 Paradox
David McNew/Getty Images
A tough job: Obama’s base is full of people seeking employment.
The voters Obama will need the most were the voters most hurt in the
recession.
April 28, 2011 | 3:23 p.m.
Updated: April 29, 2011 | 2:54 p.m.
Now that President Obama has (presumably) dispatched the questions about his
birthplace, the White House may have more time to focus on ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 by Jerome Hudson
Recent reports reveal the harsh reality of hope and change. According to
CBS News, while the national average is a depressing 9.1%, black
unemployment stands at a dismal 16.2%. Worse still, black teens 16 to 19
face 41% unemployment. CBS News, noting the historical disparity between
black unemployment and the national average, adds that these are “
Depression-era levels.”
The fact that most black uplift is held hostage by a confluence of cultural
cancers that are constantly o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 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 | 14 House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
acknowledged Tuesday that legislation aimed at making U.S. funding to the
United Nations contingent on reforms lacks bipartisan support but said it
was important to make a stand for “the principles that we believe in.”
As she prepares to mark up her bill in committee, Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.)
faces mounting opposition from the Obama administration and advocacy groups
supportive of deeper U.S. engagement with the U.N.
The U.N. Trans... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 September 20, 2011
By Robert Gelinas
The decision of who will become the next president of the United States will
be made long before November of 2012. After the current president's most
recent tour de farce before a joint session of Congress, it is rapidly
becoming a foregone conclusion who it's not going to be.
The Obama-adoring New York Times concedes that their manufactured politician
may be in deep trouble as his own base begins to abandon him. Independents
have already done so. The righ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 16 Washington (CNN) -- Congress showed little sign Tuesday of resolving its
partisan standoff over the payroll tax-cut extension as the Republican-
controlled House of Representatives refused to hold a vote on a Senate
proposal, and leaders in the Democratic-controlled Senate insisted they won'
t go along with a new House plan.
As the clock ticked down, nobody appeared willing to bend and neither side
seemed to know how to break the logjam.
The Senate voted 89-10 in favor of a two-month tax-cut ext... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 17 Washington (CNN) -- The congressional impasse over extending the payroll tax
cut became a showdown Tuesday between President Barack Obama and House
Speaker John Boehner.
After the Republican-controlled House passed a measure calling for more
negotiations, Boehner made public a letter to Obama that urged him to order
the Senate back from its holiday break to take part in further talks.
Leaders in the Democratic-controlled Senate reject that idea, and Obama
agreed with them, telling reporters in a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5366 | 18 苦逼弱智男对Romney的支持是嗷嗷的。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ayint66IUs
Romney reveals he pays about 15% in taxes
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 7:04 AM EST, Wed January 18, 2012
(CNN) -- Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney revealed Tuesday
that he pays about a 15% income tax rate but continued to resist calls by
his rivals to release his tax returns.
Romney said his annual income is "overwhelmingly from investments" rather
than ordinary income, which is taxed at a higher rate. Former House ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 By JEFF ZELENY
¶ SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Mitt Romney fought back a vigorous challenge
from Rick Santorum in Michigan on Tuesday, narrowly carrying his native
state, and won the Arizona primary in a pair of contests that reasserted his
control over the Republican presidential race as it advances to critical
Super Tuesday contests next week.
¶ His victory over Mr. Santorum here in Michigan was far from
commanding, but it was most likely sufficient to dampen the rising clamor
from across the ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 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 | 21 The American was voted the winner in a contest run by the National Army
Museum to identify the country's most outstanding military opponent.
He was one of a shortlist of five leaders who topped a public poll and on
Saturday was selected as the ultimate winner by an audience of around 70
guests at a special event at the museum, in Chelsea, west London.
In second place was Michael Collins, the Irish leader, ahead of Napoleon
Bonaparte, Erwin Rommel and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
At the event, each con... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 Mark Steyn is unmasking the idiot memes we're told are important by Obama's
supporters:
AxelrodA 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 10-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 t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 By Herbert W. Titus and William J. Olson
On April 25, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Arizona v.
United States, involving the constitutionality of the State's effort to
combat illegal immigration. In one sense, it was a rematch between former
Solicitor General Paul Clement, arguing for Arizona, and the current
Solicitor General, Donald Verrilli, contending for the United States. The
two had squared off just a month before in United States v. Florida, the
battle royale over ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 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: 29846 | 25 On the evening of January 11, 1996, while Mitt Romney was in the final years
of his run as the head of Bain Capital, Barack Obama formally joined the
New Party, which was deeply hostile to the mainstream of the Democratic
party and even to American capitalism. In 2008, candidate Obama deceived the
American public about his potentially damaging tie to this third party. The
issue remains as fresh as today’s headlines, as Romney argues that Obama
is trying to move the United States toward European-... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 Wednesday, 04 Jul 2012 12:11 PM
By Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
To the 13 families living in the Western Pennsylvania village of Venice, Gen
. George Washington was an arrogant, elite Virginian who dared to claim
ownership of the land where they had built log cabins, grown crops and
conducted their lives for nearly 15 years.
To them, he was “the first true 1-percenter,” local historian Clayton
Kilgore said, recalling Occupy protesters’ description of wealthy Americans.
Washington repre... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 By Paul Kengor
It's interesting that not only does Barack Obama need continued vetting, but
so do his biographers. The culprit is the same: the liberal bias that
dutifully protects Obama like white knights guarding the king's castle,
shamelessly tossing journalistic objectivity right out the window. As Sean
Hannity likes to say, when it comes to Obama's background, it has fallen to
us conservatives to do the job that the mainstream "Obama-mania media"
plainly refuses to do.
The most recent Oba... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 by Eyder Peralta
There's a story out of Hungary that has received quite a bit of play from
the religious press but hadn't quite risen to the mainstream until the AP
ran a piece about it today.
It's quite dramatic with an incredible plot twist: One of the leaders of
Hungary's Jobbik Party, which the Anti-Defamation League says is one of the
few political parties in Europe to overtly campaign with anti-Semitic
materials, has discovered that he is himself a Jew.
As the AP says, Csanad Szegedi had i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 By Daren Jonescu
If you could submit just one question to be asked of President Obama during
a televised presidential debate, what would it be? Once you have formulated
your best idea, ask yourself this: do you think any of this year's line-up
of debate hosts and moderators would ever actually ask your question, as you
framed it? Your answer, I am sure, is almost as self-evident as is the
importance of your imaginary debate question. The questions that matter
most are precisely the ones that ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 The annotated Obama: How 90% of the deficit becomes somebody else's fault.
A question raised by President Obama's immortal line on CBS's "60 Minutes"
on Sunday—"I think that, you know, as President, I bear responsibility for
everything, to some degree"—is what that degree really is. Maybe 70% or 80%
of the buck stops with him? Or is it halfsies?
Nope. Now we know: It turns out the figure is 10%. The other 90% is somebody
else's fault.
This revelation came when Steve Kroft mentioned that the nati... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 By Jennifer Rubin
President Obama’s deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter struck again.
The woman who falsely denied having anything to do with the Joe Soptic ad
for Obama’s Super PAC and who conceded that the claim that Mitt Romney was
pushing a $5 trillion “tax cut” wasn’t true hit a new low:
Actually the issue is four dead Americans and a whole lot of incompetence
and misleading statements from the White House. Cutter, however, was only
getting up to speed. Later she doubled down with this... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 In Albany, politicians can make money in their sleep.
Claiming she spent a marathon 12 consecutive days in Albany on “legislative
business,” Queens Assemblywoman Vivian Cook pocketed $171 for each
reported overnight stay — a total $2,197 in taxpayer money from March 21 to
April 1, 2010.
The Legislature was in session just three of those days — and Cook was
absent for all three, records show.
“Me? You’re kidding! No! I didn’t do that,” she told The Post.
“I don’t lie, I don’t cheat, and I don’t s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 by Jeff Graham
There's a case to be made that Mitt Romney came out in good shape to win
after last night's raucous debate in Hempstead. Despite some testiness and
mishandling the Libya question, Governor Romney was still way more on point
in answering questions and talking about the economy. Even Chris Matthews
just conceded on Hardball that Mr. Obama offered no plan for the future...
And that's from a guy with a tingle.
A new Gallup tracking poll has Romney up 51-45....That seems bold,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 Four of the major newspapers in Iowa have all endorsed Mitt Romney. Led by
the Des Moines Register endorsement of Romney yesterday, the Cedar Rapids
Gazette, Quad City Times, and Sioux City Journal have all followed suit. The
Register, which endorsed Barack Obama for the presidency in 2008 (as well
as every Democratic presidential candidate since 1972), has changed its mind:
The president’s best efforts to resuscitate the stumbling economy have
fallen short. Nothing indicates it would change wit... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3975 | 35 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
Sandy may have tipped the balance back in favour of the president days
before the US election
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发帖数: 3975 | 36 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
Sandy may have tipped the balance back in favour of the president days
before the US election
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发帖数: 3975 | 37 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
Sandy may have tipped the balance back in favour of the president days
before the US election
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发帖数: 3975 | 38 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
Sandy may have tipped the balance back in favour of the president days
before the US election
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Barack Obama, whose campaign has a revived momentum. Photograph: Jewel Samad
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发帖数: 3975 | 39 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
Sandy may have tipped the balance back in favour of the president days
before the US election
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Barack Obama, whose campaign has a revived momentum. Photograph: Jewel Samad
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发帖数: 956 | 40 有兴趣的可以看看读者的评论，indiana 的人民终于开始认清tea party extremist 的
危害了。
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mourdock-senate-rape-abortio
Mourdock trails by 11 points in Indiana Senate race, new poll shows
Mourdock (AP/File)
Richard Mourdock--the Indiana Republican Senate candidate who sparked a
controversy during a debate last month when he said he opposes abortion even
in the case of rape because "it is something that God intended to happen"--
is now trailing Democrat Joe Donnelly by 11 points, a new state po... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6327 | 41 March 2002, Israel
Three bombs, independently planned but all timed to coincide with the
Passover festival. One hits a Passover dinner at a hotel in Netanya, killing
20 people. Another in Tel Aviv kills 29 and a suicide bomber attacks an
Arab-owned restaurant in Haifa and kills 14.
October 12 2002, Bali, Indonesia
Car bombs outside nightclubs popular with foreign tourists kill 202 people,
91 of them Australians. An Indonesian Islamist group with Al-Qaida links is
blamed.
October 23 2002, Moscow
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 By Jack Cashill
Each year I drive across the eastern half of the country twice, including
the states of Ohio and Indiana. Without benefit of signage it would be hard
to tell them apart. Each has an industrial base in the north and a
heartland dedicated largely to agriculture. Each state is 86 percent white
and has a Republican governor. Over the last 25 years, I think I have
stopped at every McDonald's on 1-70 and 1-71, and the service is uniformly
upbeat and amiable along the whole route.
I... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17225 | 43 Investors Rush to Beat Threat of Higher Taxes
By NATHANIEL POPPER and NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
Business owners and investors are rapidly maneuvering to shield themselves
from the prospect of higher taxes next year, a strategy that is sending
ripples across Wall Street and broad areas of the economy.
Daniel Rosenbaum for The New York Times
Kristina Collins, a chiropractor, is monitoring her business income.
Related
Business Chiefs Step Gingerly Into a Thorny Budget Fight (November 12, 2012)
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 By Jack Eldon Jackson
You probably remember the massive booing during the Republican primary
debates when Texas Governor Rick Perry dribbled out his dippy response to
the question of illegal immigration. With respect to taxpayer-funded
incentives that reward such activity, Perry stated he was actually "proud"
to redistribute hundreds of millions of dollars from hardworking legal
Texans -- many of them Latinos -- to an endless stream of illegal immigrants
and their children for the humanitarian ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1509 | 45 By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: June 2, 2012 481 Comments
WASHINGTON
ON Friday night, the nation’s capital was under a tornado watch. And that
was the best thing that happened to the White House all week.
As the president was being slapped by Mitt Romney for being too weak on
national security, he was being rapped by a Times editorial for being too
aggressive on national security.
A Times article by Jo Becker and Scott Shane revealed that the liberal law
professor who campaigned against torture and t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 The problem is that the rich don’t have enough money to put so much as a
dent in America’s $16 trillion national debt. “If the IRS grabbed 100
percent of income over $1 million, the take would be just $616 billion,”
writes John Stossel. “That’s only a third of this year’s deficit. Our
national debt would continue to explode.”
Still, Mr. Obama’s supporters persist in proposing tax hikes on the wealthy
. On Sunday, billionaire Warren Buffett proposed a minimum tax for America’
s top earners. “We n... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21627 | 47 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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发帖数: 10345 | 48 The U.S. has a long and difficult history with racial discrimination, but on
Tuesday the Supreme Court marked a milestone worth celebrating when it
ruled that a section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act has outlived its
usefulness. The political left is reacting as if this means a return to Jim
Crow, but the ruling is best understood as a sign of the racial progress
that progressives claim to believe in.
In a 5-4 decision, the Justices said that the law's Section 4b coverage
formula—which requires t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21627 | 49 Michael Lewis: Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-
Programmer?
A month after ace programmer Sergey Aleynikov left Goldman Sachs, he was
arrested. Exactly what he’d done neither the F.B.I., which interrogated him
, nor the jury, which convicted him a year later, seemed to understand. But
Goldman had accused him of stealing computer code, and the 41-year-old
father of three was sentenced to eight years in federal prison.
Investigating Aleynikov’s case, Michael Lewis holds a s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 September 17, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston
A leaked copy of a UN report on global warming says that scientist’s claims
that global warming was going to destroy us were drastically wrong.
The Daily Mail reports that in 2007 the UN Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) claimed that the planet was going to rise 0.2 Celsius
every decade, a claim that governments and scientists all across the world
have relied on to make their own determinations.
But now the new report says that the climate... 阅读全帖 |
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