g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 1 Kagan不是lesbian, 有点令人失望，但是这不重要，重要的是她对gay marriage的态度
。本来联邦大法院里是四个保守派四个自由派加一个中间派，退休的John Paul
Stevens是自由派的旗帜，如果换上的一个是反同的，我们就基本上可以回家歇菜了。
KAGAN在哈佛法学院做DEAN的时候对DADT的看法很明确：“I abhor the military’s discriminatory recruitment policy. This [policy] is a profound wrong – a moral injustice of the first order. And it is a wrong that tears at the fabric of our own community, because some of our members cannot, while others can, devote their professional careers to their country.” 但是，她对gay marriage的态度就不那么明确了。Ka |
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发帖数: 19713 | 2 跑题了跑题了，这个坑不是Kagan看DADT，而是Kagan看DOMA。
Kagan对DADT的态度很明确，但是她从来没有明确对DOMA表过态，我本来以为LZ看了什
么内参了
discriminatory recruitment policy. This [policy] is a profound wrong – a
moral injustice of the first order. And it is a wrong that tears at the
fabric of our own community, because some of our members cannot, while
others can, devote their professional careers to their country.” 但是，她对
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发帖数: 4174 | 3 Posted on Advocate.com December 09, 2010
Story Updated : December 09, 2010 05:30:00 PM
Senate DADT Vote Fails
By Kerry Eleveld
The Senate dealt a near-fatal blow to “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal
Thursday when it failed to advance the bill to which the measure was
attached, the National Defense Authorization Act, by a vote of 57-40.
But immediately following the action, Senators Joe Lieberman, Mark Udall,
and Susan Collins breathed new life into the effort by vowing to introduce a
bipartisan st... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 4 Posted on Advocate.com February 02, 2011
Utah Rep.: Ban Gays From Publicly Funded Programs
By Michelle Garcia
A Utah legislator introduced a bill Wednesday that would require all
publicly funded programs, laws, and regulations, to ensure they exclude
families headed by gay and lesbian couples.
Rep. LaVar Christensen writes in the bill's language that "marriage and
family predate all governments and are supported by and consistent with the
Laws of Nature and God, the Creator and Supreme Judge of... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 5 Cuomo Gets Personal with Marriage Equality
By Advocate.com Editors
New York governor Andrew Cuomo met with marriage equality advocates on
Wednesday and promised to use his considerable political assets to pass a
bill this year.
The New York Times reports that Cuomo told advocates in the closed-door
meeting in Albany that he was ready to devote his “full attention” to the
issue this spring, likely after the conclusion of the difficult budget
negotiations.
Cuomo said, “For me, this is personal,” a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 6 Posted on Advocate.com March 26, 2011
Geraldine Ferraro Dies at 75
By Advocate.com Editors
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Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run on a major party ticket as a vice
presidential nominee, died Saturday at the age of 75 after a long battle
with blood cancer.
NBC New York reports that Ferraro, who shared the unsuccessful 1984
Democratic ticket with Walter Mondale, died at Massachusetts General
Hospital from complications of multiple myeloma.
A New... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 7 NEW YORK – Treading carefully, President Barack Obama praised New York
state lawmakers who were debating landmark legislation Thursday to legalize
gay marriage, saying that's what democracy's all about. But as expected, the
president stopped short of embracing same-sex marriage himself, instead
asking gay and lesbian donors for patience.
"I believe that gay couples deserve the same legal rights as every other
couple in this country," the president said at a Manhattan fundraiser, his
first geared... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1822 | 8 SHENYANG, Sept.11 (Xinhua) -- Xiao Ming is a 25-year-old gay man from
Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning Province, who never worried about HIV or
AIDS until he got sick last April.
"I ran a fever and had diarrhea after having intercourse," Xiao said, using
a fake name to protect his identity.
Like many other homosexual men in China, very few people know of his sexual
preference. But Xiao Ming has had boyfriends, and hasn't always used a
condom during sex.
"I used to think that I was healthy and d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1822 | 9 Men who have sex with men (MSM) accounted for about one in every three new
HIV cases reported in China last year, according to official statistics
recently released by China's Ministry of Health.
Nearly five percent of all MSM live with the virus, said Hao Yang, deputy
director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention under the
Ministry of Health.
Love Aid tests more than 200 MSMs every year in Shenyang, where the HIV
prevalence rate among MSMs rose to more than ten percent in 20... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 10 Posted on Advocate.com October 02, 2011 11:40:00 AM ET
GOP Lobbyist Joins Strategy to Repeal DOMA
By Andrew Harmon
Jo Deutsch and Kathryn Lehman When Jo Deutsch and Kathryn Lehman are en
route to Capitol Hill for meetings with Republicans, they find it best to
avoid certain conversations. The debt ceiling is off the table. So are their
respective political resumes — one has worked for Barbara Boxer, the other
Newt Gingrich. The two lobbyists could not be more divergent on most issues
— except re... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1822 | 11 http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2011/10/137_97086.h
Homosexuality at school
Homoeroticism is hard topic for underage students
Should teenage students receive education on homosexuality? Do underage
pupils have to be taught that it is a violation of human rights to ostracize
purported gay and lesbian peers? Should schools identify homosexual
students to protect them? Liberal educators seem to have gone too far.
The advisory council on the Seoul Education Board has proposed that a
stud... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 12 Mitt Romney closed the Republican National Convention in Tampa with his
acceptance speech Thursday night, speaking the language of religious
conservatives when he promised to “honor the institution of marriage” if
elected president.
The former Massachusetts governor devoted a large chunk of the almost 40-
minute speech to his personal biography and an attempt to close his campaign
’s gap with women voters. He talked about how his father, former Michigan
Governor George Romney, supported his moth... 阅读全帖 |
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t*******e
发帖数: 2113 | 13 聽說要關掉版面發包子了，版主們趕緊發給我～～～～
I 行行重行行
六月二十六日最高法院下發肯尼迪大法官就同性婚姻的判決，正式把美國列入全球第二
十一個在全國范
圍內同志婚姻合法的國家。消息傳來，我想到古詩十九首開篇的這一首。雖然這首詩的
涵義跟同志婚姻
的相去甚遠，但，來路走了很久，而未來依然并非坦途。美國已經正式成為同性婚姻合
法的國家，但對
于同志的平權運動，這并非是結束。
兩年前的同一天，肯尼迪大法官的就Windsor v US一案的判決詞將同性婚姻合法納入聯
邦范疇已經被
認為是同志平權劃時代的勝利，今年Obergefell v Hodges 的判決下達之前，無論保守
派陣營還是自
由派陣營，都不確定肯尼迪大法官是否還會成為關鍵的搖擺票。畢竟兩年前的溫莎案針
對的是聯邦法的
定義性條款，對于各州行駛自治權確定州婚姻法的權力未做評斷。高院的傳統是以謹慎
著稱，尤其當憲
法與州法發生沖突時，高院基于對各州自治權的尊重，多數案件都以保守派保住州權自
治而結案。
沒想到肯尼迪大法官的判決詞中對于同性婚姻權應得到憲法認可的態度比兩年前更為堅
定。被各大報
章，網站，朋友圈轉發的判決詞最后... 阅读全帖 |
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M*V
发帖数: 3205 | 14 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2363191/Edward-Snowden-
PROFESSOR SVALLFORS' MESSAGE TO THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE COMMITTEE
Best committee members!
I suggest that the 2013 Peace Prize awarded to the American citizen Edward
Snowden.
Edward Snowden has - in a heroic effort at great personal cost - revealed
the existence and extent of the surveillance, the U.S. government devotes
electronic communications worldwide. By putting light on this monitoring
program - conducted in contravention of nat... 阅读全帖 |
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f*r
发帖数: 3968 | 15 【 以下文字转载自 board 讨论区 】
【 原文由 hurhur 所发表 】
农民占中国的大多数。这里的虫虫不少来自农村，或对农村和农民的命运关心。今天大家
讨论高等教育的机会就显现了这一点。也有不少人在国家大事版re我的表达开版意愿的贴
子。
我希望开一农村版，让大家
1）了解农村的现况；
2) 讨论与农村有关的国家大事，村子小事；
3）说说我们自己和农村
4）聊其他一切和农村相关的话题
版名为农村，english name as 'Countryside', （Partially By the suggestion of
Mrparky). 希望列到时事论坛类。
我愿为斑竹。没有经验，但有devotion.
rowan 和 hopeworm 表达了当 BF 的意向。
希望站长批准，大家支持。欢迎 compete BM/BF. |
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f*r
发帖数: 3968 | 16 【 以下文字转载自 board 讨论区 】
【 原文由 hurhur 所发表 】
农民占中国的大多数。这里的虫虫不少来自农村，或对农村和农民的命运关心。今天大家
讨论高等教育的机会就显现了这一点。也有不少人在国家大事版re我的表达开版意愿的贴
子。
我希望开一农村版，让大家
1）了解农村的现况；
2) 讨论与农村有关的国家大事，村子小事；
3）说说我们自己和农村
4）聊其他一切和农村相关的话题
版名为农村，english name as 'Countryside', （Partially By the suggestion of
Mrparky). 希望列到时事论坛类。
我愿为斑竹。没有经验，但有devotion.
rowan 和 hopeworm 表达了当 BF 的意向。
希望站长批准，大家支持。欢迎 compete BM/BF. |
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w*******r
发帖数: 2953 | 17 12个人，算是大陪审团吗？
今天没有选完，5/29还要再去。
看到法院给补贴是从第二天开始算，每天15刀加0.34/mile的油费。
今天被解散的人就白来了。
还正巧，这周是jury appreciation week,所有有特别待遇。
http://www.courts.ca.gov/18005.htm
California Celebrates Juror Appreciation Week, May 14-18, 2012
This year, California celebrates the 15th anniversary of Juror Appreciation
Week. In 1998, the California Legislature designated the second full week in
May each year to honor the important contributions of citizens who devote
their time and effort in "making the cherished right of ... 阅读全帖 |
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A****A
发帖数: 16 | 18 1.
对那年夏天，确实没有多少悲情感。一是因为当时年纪小，只有13岁，但更主要的是因
为我对一切“群众运动”有天然的隔阂感。总觉得那年夏天的学生和66年夏天的学生是
同一批人，不过是赶上的“班车”不同而已。
2.
但仍需纪念。因为那个数字已经成了一个符号，和自由、热忱、理想主义等人之为人的
品质联系在一起。今天的中国，离自由、热忱、理想主义比20年前更遥远。重温那个数
字，就等于一个民族重访那个可能的自己。
3.
上周末在朋友家聊天，说到中国的犬儒主义。
“The saddest part is not they don’t care, because I can understand the
indifference, short-sightedness and the complete devotion to private life.
The saddest part is that they hate people who care.”
这里说的“they”不是指“他们”，是指已经发了的、正在发起来的、梦想要发的、也
许永远不会发但孜孜不倦追求发起来的，“你们”。
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 19 Last night, I read the book, which devoted a chapter to Taiwan (Stan Shih of
Acer, bureaucrat KT Li and Morris Chang of TSMC), two chapters to China (
one for Deng Xiaoping and the other, Lenovo).
I was struck by a table at page xxiv in the Introduction.
"THE MIRACLE CREATED BY AN ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE INCREASE IN WEALTH
GROWTH OF GROSS NATIONAL INCOME PER CAPITA 9IN CURRENT US$)
COUNTRY------------1965---------2007---------PERCENT CHANGE
South Korea -------130----------19,690-------15,046%
Taiwan |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 20 (continued)
(2) Joshua Frank, Interest in organic food on the rise in China; A small
group of Chinese farmers is devoted to growing natural foods. But gaining
consumers' trust is an obstacle. Los Angeles Times, Aug. 8, 2009
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fg-china-organic8-2009aug08,0,4473884.story
("[Lejen] Chen, who was born in Taiwan to southern Chinese parents and
raised in Brooklyn, was not the only one to see a demand for healthy, safe
food. Taiwanese entrepreneur Terry Y |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 21 Dexter Roberts and Pete Engardio, The China Hype; Despite an impressive
rebound, an innovation shortfall may hobble sustainable growth. BusinessWeek
, Nov. 2, 2009 (title and date on the cover)
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_44/b4153036870077.htm
Note:
(a) zilch (n; origin unknown): zero
(b) Guangzhou's Devotion
(c) The adjective "tired" in the phrase "tired growth formula" is defined as
"devoid of freshness or originality: HACKNEYED ." Webster (3rd
ed., 1961)
My co |
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B*V
发帖数: 3365 | 22 http://www.economist.com/blogs/theworldin2012/2011/12/top-econo
“LIES, damn lies and statistics”, as Britain’s Benjamin Disraeli
supposedly said—and Mark Twain definitely said. The phrase came to
Cassandra’s mind when ruminating on the “world in figures” section of The
World in 2012, in particular when looking at the predicted rankings for
economic growth in the year ahead.
I have no quarrel with the figures themselves, all drawn from the
acknowledged number-crunchers at the Economist Intelligen... 阅读全帖 |
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w******n
发帖数: 4955 | 23 发布日期：2014年09月17日 文章来源：凯风网
作者：清 风
【字体大小：大 中 小】
招远全能神杀人案在烟台市中级人民法院开庭审理。同日，英国《每日电讯报》发
表驻北京记者马尔科姆穆尔文章《中国最激进的的邪教》。穆尔记者采访了两家全能神
受害家庭成员，并揭露了全能神的邪教本质。
这是中国新年后的一天，28岁的计算机科学专业毕业生彭丽娟离家出走加入了中国
最激进的邪教。她的丈夫彭宝顺说：“我回到家发现汽车在，她的衣服和身份证以及其
他东西都在，但她却失踪了。”
这对夫妇新婚才一年，很少吵架。但七个月后，彭宝顺再也没有妻子的任何音讯。
彭宝顺夫妇所在的山东省，是邪教大红龙（全能神）总部所在地，全能神声称一名
40多岁的女子杨向彬，有时候也叫邓闪电，是耶稣的复活化身。
8月21日，5名全能神邪教成员因涉嫌在烟台招远麦当劳餐厅杀害一名37岁的女子受
审。受害人当时正在餐厅等待丈夫及7岁的儿子。从现场手机拍摄视频显示，现场没有
人站出来。嫌疑人张立冬是... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 918 | 24 Worship leader is a feature common to all cults, but the leader is from, as
the leader was born and died. Cult leader claiming to be "God" in order to
become the object of worship of believers. To deified leader, the cult all
the time engaging in "Zaoshenyundong" completely dominated the leader of all
the believers of the faith and even their lives. In the fanatical worship
leader under the control of, a lot of believers as a leader willing to
devote his entire property, energy, as the leader of... 阅读全帖 |
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F*V
发帖数: 3978 | 25 I"m a contractor building of houses and real estate i enjoys nice
restaurants,music,concerts,com
edy movies,sporting events(Lakers,Angels,Chargers,Ducks) I also enjoy Riding
my harley motorcycl
e go to the beach, mountains, going on trips, muscle cars, car shows,
bowling and shooting pool
. I'm the type of guy who puts his mate first, always a good listener. I am
also caring, faithf
ul, truthful, affectionate, kind, devoted, supportive, considerate, sincere,
respectful, compass
ionate, understan... 阅读全帖 |
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U*E
发帖数: 3620 | 26 As admitted by the IRS, and as detailed in a forthcoming Inspector General
report, the agency targeted conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt
status for issue advocacy, a standard practice for political groups that
aren't mainly about elections.
The IRS sent long questionnaires to the organizations, and documents
obtained by ABC News show that the questions were extensive. The Richmond
Tea Party, for instance, was asked 17 detailed questions in 2010, and 12
more, with lots of bulleted sub... 阅读全帖 |
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p**n
发帖数: 261 | 27 再次击中八马要害，Washington Post，和WSJ双峰辉映，扛起了批O的大旗！
Obama: The Perfect Stranger
Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., gives a thumbs up
after speaking at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Thursday,
Aug. 28, 2008.
Barack Obama is an immensely talented man whose talents have been largely
devoted to crafting, and chronicling, his own life. Not things. Not ideas.
Not institutions. But himself.
Nothing wrong or even terribly odd about that, except that he is laying
claim to t |
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a*****n
发帖数: 16 | 28 邮报本来是一张右派报纸，所以不算奇怪，不过这个时间好像早了点？主流大报还没有动静
POST ENDORSES JOHN MCCAIN
THAT'S THE TICKET: John McCain and Sarah Palin, here onstage at the
Republican convention, offer the promise of sound economic, security and
energy policies.
THE Post today enthusiastically urges the election of Sen. John S. McCain as
the 44th president of the United States.
McCain's lifelong record of service to America, his battle-tested courage,
unshakeable devotion to principle and clear grasp of the dangers and
opportunities |
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发帖数: 115 | 29 http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/signs_pointing_to_a_mccain_vic.html
By Steven M. Warshawsky
Despite there being an entire cottage industry devoted to exposing the
liberal bias of the mainstream media, Republicans and conservatives continue
to allow themselves to be unduly influenced, and even demoralized, by what
they read and hear in the big city newspapers and on network television.
What are they reading and hearing? That Barack Obama will be the next
President of the United States. |
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m*********a
发帖数: 3299 | 30 Indeed. Muslin used to be the most civilized. I will not be surprised in
next one hundred or two hundreds years, they will rise to become one of the
world superpower. Right now, their country are divided and weak. Their
rights are being exploited by Westerns. Like in old colony age, they are
desperate and use all extreme measures to fight back. but I believe that
Arab will become one country in the future and devote more resources to
science. It is not that difficult to catch up.
ar |
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h******1
发帖数: 94 | 31 Yes. You are a true patriot. How moving ???!
I am confused now. Why and how did you come to America, may I ask?
I thought such a patriot like you would stay in the home country and fight
for righteousness. I thought you would devote your life in blood shedding
revolution. |
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d****i
发帖数: 4354 | 32 Raise benefits following the economic growth, that is the right way. If
things go right, we will be working four days a week, with more time to
devote to what we really likes to do in two decades. |
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p**********d
发帖数: 7918 | 33 A bigot is a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own
opinions and prejudices. The correct use of the term requires the elements
of intolerance, irrationality, and animosity toward those of differing
beliefs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigotry |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 34 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/13/AR2010101303634.html
A new analysis of political signs displayed at a tea party rally in
Washington last month reveals that the vast majority of activists expressed
narrow concerns about the government's economic and spending policies and
steered clear of the racially charged anti-Obama messages that have helped
define some media coverage of such events.
Emily Ekins, a graduate student at UCLA, conducted the survey at the 9/12
Taxpa... 阅读全帖 |
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p******e
发帖数: 897 | 35 转过来让这的几个teabagger学习领会一下，佩林同志已经指明了斗争的大方向，你们
要跟紧跟好
不要去打扰胡安同学，他正忙着数钱那
In the wake of National Public Radio firing Juan Williams for comments he
made about Muslims on “The O’Reilly Factor,” Sarah Palin took to her
Facebook page Thursday afternoon to call for NPR’s defunding.
“National Public Radio
is a public institution that directly or indirectly exists because the
taxpayers fund it,” she wrote. “And what do we, the taxpayers, get for
this? We get to witness Juan Williams being fired from NPR for ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 36 如果不提佩林，左倾的有线电视网MSNBC不知道怎么活，有关佩林的内容超过其他有线
电视网
Sarah Palin: MSNBC's Obsession With Her
10:03 AM 1/27/2011 by Paul Bond
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Illustration: Kat Shady
This week's Hollywood Reporter magazine tallies how many times the left-
leaning network discusses her (it's more than Fox) and how a reality star
with sinking approval ratings is vital to its survival.
The following article appears in this week's issue of The Hollywood Reporter
on newsstands Thursday.
Now that Keith Olbermann... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 37 April 23, 2011
By Stella Paul
This week is Passover, the season of deliverance, and I'm praying for
deliverance from America's failed Jewish leadership. As Jews confront the
most dangerous era since World War II, whom are we stuck with for leaders?
A clueless bunch of mini-Pharaohs, strutting around proclaiming their moral
superiority, blissfully unaware the Jewish people's mortal enemies are
pulling down their pants and laughing at them.
Cataloguing their collective acts of evasion, cowardice... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 38 The economic downturn has not led to more crime—contrary to the experts'
predictions. So what explains the disconnect? Big changes in American
culture, says James Q. Wilson.
When the FBI announced last week that violent crime in the U.S. had reached
a 40-year low in 2010, many criminologists were perplexed. It had been a
dismal year economically, and the standard view in the field, echoed for
decades by the media, is that unemployment and poverty are strongly linked
to crime. The argument is str... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 39 Laura Ingraham关于美国文化衰落的新书《Of Thee I Zing》：我们能走出经济衰退，
打败恐怖分子，但最终我们还要面对自己的问题
Laura Ingraham Zings American Cultural Decay
Friday, 08 Jul 2011 02:41 PM
By Henry J. Reske and Ashley Martella
Cultural decay is eroding America’s greatness, noted radio host Laura
Ingraham tells Newsmax.TV as she ticks off a list of the signs of that
decadence: airline seats that shrink while Americans get larger, parents
saddling their children with ridiculous names, and people who can’t stop
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 MISSOULA, Mont.—With a homemade .22-caliber rifle he calls the Montana
Buckaroo, Gary Marbut dreams of taking down the federal regulatory state.
Montana passed a law that tries to exempt the state from federal gun
regulation. But the law is now before the courts, in a test of states'
rights. WSJ's Jess Bravin reports.
He's not planning to fire his gun. Instead, he wants to sell it, free from
federal laws requiring him to record transactions, pay license fees and open
his business to government i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 By Jason Pappas
The critical examination of Islam is no longer possible as it is deemed "
hate speech" that is prosecuted in some Western nations and swiftly
condemned in all the rest. The left-dominated mainstream culture has created
a philosophy of anti-anti-Islam to vilify critics of Islam just as it
created anti-anti-Communism to suppress criticism of Communism.
The slow glacial nature of cultural change often makes it hard to notice a
transformation as it is happening. Looking back decades... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 by The Political Palaver
When I was young, I devoted quite a bit of study to Adolf Hitler and Nazi
Germany. The reason for my fascination is now certainly clear, if it was
even the slightest bit murky then. My efforts were to answer that one
question that haunts us all in our attempts to deconstruct such depravity
and horror: "How could this have happened?" How had one man created such an
ideology of militant proselytism, and how could that one man mold a legion
of followers ready to sacrific... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 I can’t wait to see what those courageous atheists come up with for Ramadan.
Christmas in America is a season of time-honored traditions — the sacred
performance of the annual ACLU lawsuit over the presence of an
insufficiently secular “holiday” tree; the ritual provocations of the
atheist displays licensed by pitifully appeasing municipalities to sit
between the menorah and the giant Frosty the Snowman; the familiar strains
of every hack columnist’s “war on Christmas” column rolling off the
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 By Patrick Goodenough
December 29, 2011
North Korean citizens in distress during Wednesday’s funeral procession for
Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
(CNSNews.com) – Condolence messages and news reports carried by North
Korean media in recent days reveal the regime’s efforts to bolster the late
Kim Jong-il’s prestige – and the willingness of some leaders and
organizations around the world to lend a hand.
Pyongyang’s mouthpiece news agency KCNA has carried scores of reports on
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 By Timothy Dalrymple, February 11, 2012 6:17 pm
My recent post on NBA insta-celebrity Jeremy Lin — “Jeremy Lin and the
Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations” — garnered a fair amount of controversy.
To supply some backstory: shortly after Jeremy’s outstanding off-the-
bench performance against the New Jersey Nets, a friend forwarded the video
highlights to me with a note that some of her Asian-American male friends
were deeply moved at the sight of someone “like them” succeeding on the
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 Posted by David McCann | March 23, 2012
When ex-Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith famously excoriated the firm for
caring more about money than client service, and in fact whenever the
redundant term “corporate greed” has been uttered in my presence, I’ve
felt embarrassment on behalf of the poor, confused perpetrator.
Haven’t we known for a long time what makes (most) companies tick? I don’t
mean anything negative by that. Companies should not be embarrassed by
their greed, for subjugating ever... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 Why California’s high-speed rail project is an even greater waste of
federal tax dollars.
21 March 2012
The national media have devoted plenty of skeptical attention to California
’s bullet-train boondoggle—from the ballooning cost of the California High
-Speed Rail Authority project to its shoddy management to the baffling
decision to build the first segment in the lightly populated Central Valley.
But the press has yet to focus on a crucial fact: the bullet train isn’t
just some quirky Left Co... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 Jamie M. Fly — April 2012
Following the killing of American soldiers and the recent protests sparked
by the accidental burning of Korans by coalition forces, Republican
presidential candidate Newt Gingrich went so far as to suggest that the
United States should abandon Afghanistan unless the Afghans apologize,
adding that we should tell them, “figure out how to live your own miserable
life.” This is the increasingly frequent refrain of war-weary
conservatives who question President Barack Obama’... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 By Stephen Schwartz
The Hartford Seminary has occupied a leading position among theological
faculties around the nation in accommodating Islam, particularly in its
radical forms, since appointing its first Muslim faculty member more than
twenty years ago. Today, that accommodation extends to the murderous regime
of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.
Hartford maintains a highly questionable relationship with an Islamic
religious and Arabic-language school, the Al-Fatiha Islamic Academy in
Damascus, a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
Keith Koffler at Politico is being quite perceptive:
Barack_obamaPresident Barack Obama seems to be governing in some
parallel universe — where the United States exists without mortal dangers
threatening its economy and the nation’s most pressing exigency is the
reelection of its president.
But when Obama swore to defend the Constitution, and therefore the
nation, he did it in the dimension where the rest of us exist, where the
economy appears to be headed... 阅读全帖 |
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