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发帖数: 4174 | 1 Op-ed: Movements Don't Stop and Start Every Two Years
When the Senate Judiciary Committee convenes to vote today on the repeal of
the Defense of Marriage Act, it could have far-reaching impacts that are
difficult to imagine now.
By Adam Bink, op-ed contributor
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE PATRICK LEAHY 390x (GETTY) ADVOCATE.COM
Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of Judiciary Committee
Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on the Respect for Marriage
Act, a bill that repeals the Defense of Marr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2153 | 2 A university professor in China has estimated that 16 million women in the
world’s most populous country are married to gays.
Professor Zhang Bei-chuan of Qingdao University says the huge number of
women – equivalent to the population of the Netherlands – who have tied
the knot with gay men are struggling to cope.
Speaking to state-run China Daily, the academic said as many as 90% of gay
Chinese men marry to conform with social norms.
As of 2010, China had a population of more than 1.3 billion.
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发帖数: 19713 | 3 那年你去见LYH，我还记得呢，好象阿丽也去了，那时候阿丽好象在翻译个什么东西，
然后阿丽就请教了LYH一个英文词（好象是empower）怎么翻译合适，LYH说“赋权” |
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发帖数: 3620 | 4 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/what-china-can
By DANIEL A. BELL
Published: January 7, 2012
FROM the outside, China often appears to be a highly centralized monolith.
Unlike Europe’s cities, which have been able to preserve a certain identity
and cultural distinctiveness despite the homogenizing forces of
globalization, most Chinese cities suffer from a drab uniformity.
But China is more like Europe than it seems. Indeed, when it comes to
economics, China is more a thin politica... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3365 | 5 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020373530457716665
BEIJING—China has announced that people living in its towns and cities now
outnumber those in the countryside, making it a predominantly urban nation
for the first time in Chinese civilization.
Migrant workers and others line up for trains ahead of the Lunar New Year
holiday in Chengdu on Tuesday.
The milestone spotlights a trend that China's government says will be a key
driver of economic growth over the next two decades as hundre... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 714 | 6 是新的么？highlight 一句 The Massachusetts senator said Obama has an ability
to perhaps even empower moderate Islam...
Speaking of the race speech from Tuesday, Obama supporter John Kerry gave an
interview with a local N.H. paper, reports NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli. In it,
Kerry said the color of Obama's skin makes him uniquely qualified for
president and even reach out to the moderate Islam world. During an
interview with the New Bedford Standard Times, portions of which were posted
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发帖数: 37 | 7 I am not going to suggest myself whether you should vote for Obama or not. I
feel it is my duty to empower you to take an informed decision. It does not
matter to me who you vote for, as long as you give thorough consideration.
1. Here is the simple question to ask:
* Will you vote for, say, "Bill Clinton" (a white male) if he attended a
church or congregation for 20 years where Anti-Americanism and Racism (
hatred towards "non-whites") is preached!!
Everyone can easily guess that if such a whit |
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发帖数: 8363 | 8 If anyone has been curious why the Fed, banks and politicians have all been
pushing for the "consumer protection" portion of the Financial Regulation
bill, it appears we may have the answer.
As CNSNews.com reports, the bill "would create the Bureau of Consumer
Financial Protection and empower it to “gather information and activities
of persons operating in consumer financial markets,” including the names
and addresses of account holders, ATM and other transaction records, and the
amount of money |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39282
Obamacare Misses Major Deadlines
by Connie Hair
10/05/2010
The largest, most sweeping government takeover of health care in modern
history is a bloated, bureaucratic failure according to the latest
Congressional Research Service (CRS) report. At the six month mark, the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has already missed one-third
of the new law’s mandated deadlines.
And they want to run the nation's healthcare system?
The new report w... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10345 | 10 In Wash., illegal immigrants canvassing for votes
By MANUEL VALDES, Associated Press Writer Manuel Valdes, Associated Press
Writer – 11 mins ago
SEATTLE – When Maria Gianni is knocking on voters' doors, she's not bashful
about telling people she is in the country illegally. She knows it's a risk
to advertise to strangers that she's here illegally — but one worth taking
in what she sees as a crucial election.
The 42-year-old is one of dozens of volunteers — many of them illegal
immigrants — canva... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 Is Illegal Immigration Moral?
Dimensions the debate too often ignores.
We know illegal immigration is no longer really unlawful, but is it moral?
Usually Americans debate the fiscal costs of illegal immigration. Supporters
of open borders rightly remind us that illegal immigrants pay sales taxes.
Often their payroll-tax contributions are not later tapped by Social
Security payouts.
Opponents counter that illegal immigrants are more likely to end up on state
assistance, are less likely to report ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 Why Does the Media Love to Pick On Palin?
By John Lott
Published November 30, 2010
The media just loves to hate Sarah Palin. And, if polls are to be believed,
the constant media bombardment has hurt her standing among many independents
.
Unfortunately, over the last couple of weeks, even conservative media
pundits such as Mona Charen, Peggy Noonan, George Will, Joe Scarborough and
Matt Labash see these attacks and warn that she can’t win the presidency.
They even buy into the attacks on her judg... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 by j*[email protected] (Jon Harvey)
There is an old saying (and some dispute about who coined it first): Life is
not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take
our breath away.
This got me to wondering about leadership. Should leadership be breathtaking
or breathless? It seems to me that many managers spend their time trying to
be everywhere, support everyone, monitor everything and so forth. This is
breathless leadership. Whilst this may give the leader a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 By John Tabin on 1.29.11 @ 1:50PM
Robert Kagan is co-chairman of the bipartisan Working Group on Egypt, and
earlier this week he noted to Laura Rozen of Politico that "one thing I have
been most struck by in meeting with [U.S. officials] at all levels over the
past year is that as of yesterday, they have no plan in any direction."
No kidding. Administration statements this week have been an incoherent mush.
But why is Obama winging it? It didn't have to be this way.
During the Bush years the US ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 By M. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D.
Over the past few years, numerous hearings have already been conducted on
Capitol Hill, in both the House and Senate, looking into domestic Islamist
terrorism and ‘radicalization'. Unfortunately, those hearings garnered
little attention and few tangible results - because they avoided discussing
the root causes. Those hearings instead focused only on "violent extremism"
a useless concept addressing a symptom and not the disease. Up to now the
combined efforts of the force... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 Published on DickMorris.com
on February 23, 2011
As predicted in Revolt!
(Dick's and Eileen's new book) - States Lead the Way Toward Reform
It is not only the Arab world that is in turmoil! Reform Governors like
Scott Walker (Wisconsin), John Kasich (Ohio), Mitch Daniels (Indiana), Tom
Corbett (Pennsylvania), Butch Otter (Idaho), and Rick Scott (Florida) are
leading a movement for fundamental change in America.
In Revolt!
, Morris and McGann's new book, they describe how newly elected Re... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 17 涨地产税，县公务员涨薪，同时搞！
老百姓终于怒了！
Voters in Miami-Dade deciding on mayoral recall drive amid anger over
property tax, pay raises
MIAMI — Mayor Carlos Alvarez could be recalled from office Tuesday after a
campaign led by a billionaire car dealer mobilized thousands of voters angry
over property tax increases and a simultaneous raise for county employees.
If successful, it would be the largest recall of a local official in U.S.
history.
FILE-In a Feb. 8, 2011 file photo, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez at... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 By Stella Paul
Since we live in a craven age, let's salute our few heroes. Meet Jessica
Felber, a 21-year-old Lioness of Judah, who's suing the University of
California for failing to protect her civil rights.
Felber is a student activist at Berkeley who simply asserts her right to
stand on campus and hold a sign saying, "Israel Wants Peace," without
subsequently needing urgent medical attention. What Jew can count on that
right on a UC campus these days?
In March 2010, Felber was violently as... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 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 | 20 Last Updated: 4:16 AM, August 14, 2011
Posted: 11:35 PM, August 13, 2011
It was a cold month in hell for global-warming alarmists.
First came word last month that the Interior Department had suspended a top
scientist who helped turn polar bears into a fuzzy white symbol of the
climate-change movement: Think baby seals — but much, much bigger.
Then there arose further doubts about some critical global-warming data.
First, the bears: Researcher Charles Monnett is being probed over “
integrity issu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 In money race, it's advantage Dems
By: Kenneth P. Vogel
August 24, 2011 04:30 AM EDT
Republicans seem positively gleeful these days about their prospects headed
into 2012, buoyed by a new Gallup Poll showing a handful of Republican
presidential hopefuls within striking distance of President Barack Obama as
well as some recent predictions that the GOP will hold the House and could
take the Senate.
Yet despite all the apparent momentum, the three national party committees
tasked with ushering Repu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 By Matthew Vadum
Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote?
Because they know the poor can be counted on to vote themselves more
benefits by electing redistributionist politicians. Welfare recipients are
particularly open to demagoguery and bribery.
Registering them to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals.
It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive
segments of the population to destroy the country -- which is precise... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 By Karen Lugo
A young Muslim woman moved to America from Morocco with her husband in 2008.
She was married at age 17 to a man that she did not know before the
wedding. She filed for divorce after arriving in America the next year,
complaining of abuse and what her husband called "punishment." She told the
courts that her husband continued to torment and rape her during the
divorce process.
This 18 year-old girl asked the New Jersey judge for a restraining order but
the request was denied aft... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 By Eileen F. Toplansky
With the news that "[i]nfiltration of the federal government by members of
the radical Muslim Brotherhood is worse than some have warned," it should
come as no surprise that while Obama has been courting Muslim Brotherhood
operatives, his wife has also gotten into the act.
According to the toolkit site,
"[t]he Let's Move! initiative, started by First Lady Michelle Obama, has an
ambitious national goal of addressing the challenge of childhood obesity
within a generation, so... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 By KAREL JANICEK AND VANESSA GERA, Associated Press
December 14, 2011
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Of all the twists in Europe's debt crisis one of the
oddest must be this: Poles, Czechs and other eastern Europeans, long the
recipients of massive amounts of Western aid, are being asked to contribute
to an emergency fund for indebted Western European states.
That plan, decided at a European Union summit Friday, is sparking resistance
— and some outrage — from eastern Europeans who see a huge injusti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 January 1, 2012 by Charlie Quidnunc
I rarely agree with proven sock puppet Glenn Greenwald. But he does have the
admirable quality of being willing to criticize the President and other
lefties when they fail to live up to the Greenwald standard of liberal
perfection. In his typical long winded and multiple times updated, extended,
and revised post today, he nails all the things about Obama that drive the
left crazy. They are all issues that could potentially drive independents
away from the Demo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 EXCLUSIVE—Mark Levin on ‘Ameritopia:’ ‘We Now Live in a Post-
Constitutional Country’
By Terence P. Jeffrey
January 16, 2012
(CNSNews.com) - In an interview with CNSNews.com about his new book—“
Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America”—Mark R. Levin said he believes
America has already largely become “a post-constitutional country.”
The book, released Monday, compares the Utopian and unworkable schemes laid
out by political philosophers from Plato to Thomas Hobbes with the vision of
natural law, God... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 By Selwyn Duke
Here's a question: how can we expect to have small government if we condemn
Congress for not growing it?
It's always a disturbing experience when you're accosted with a picture of
Harry Reid, as I was upon logging on to Drudge Monday afternoon. But at
least his image bore a fitting caption: "MOST FUTILE EVER." I then clicked
the link and found myself at The Washington Times - normally a quite sane
organ of the media - and learned the meaning of the caption: the Times was
lamenti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-
The New York Times
When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.
But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what would it take to make iPhones in the United States?
Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Almost all of the 70 ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 Their husbands have run some of the most brutal regimes of the Arab world.
But who are the women who stand by the dictators?
In December 2010, the French first lady Carla Bruni sat down to lunch under
the gold chandeliers of the Elysée palace with Asma al-Assad, wife of the
Syrian leader Bashar. As they sat demurely with their husbands around a
butterfly-print tablecloth dominated by a pastel flower-arrangement, a
photographer was ushered in to grab a picture for French celebrity magazines
. Aft... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 By Kim Zigfeld
The Obama administration has responded to Vladimir Putin's landslide re-
election as president of Russia by doubling down on appeasement. America
may never live down the shame, and it will keep on paying through the nose
at the gas pump for this folly. What the Obama administration has done over
the course of just a few days is truly disturbing.
First, after watching one of the most corrupt elections in Russian history,
during which every major pro-freedom candidate was systemat... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 By Staff, Associated Press
March 26, 2012
Members of Egypt's Parliament attend a session in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday,
March 24, 2012. Egyptian parliamentarians on Saturday cast ballots to select
a 100-member panel that will draft the country's new constitution, amid
deep polarization between liberals and Islamists over the process. (AP Photo
/Ahmed Gomaa)
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's powerful Islamists on Monday faced a backlash on two
fronts as they try to solidify their hold on the country's politics, a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 April 7, 2012 Posted by Rick Rice
And is immediately pounced upon:
The “delusional effect” that swept Black America with the advent of
the First Black President has warped and weakened the mental powers of some
of our most revered icons – and it has been painful to behold. Earlier this
month, Angela Davis diminished herself as a scholar and thinker in a gush
of nonsense about the corporate executive in the White House. The occasion
was a conference on Empowering Women of Color, in Berkeley... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 In a culture where marriage can be defined to mean anything…
June 1, 2012 by Rick Rice
… then anything can be defined to be a marriage:
36-year-old North Dakota woman who married herself in a commitment
ceremony last March has now spoken about her self-marriage choice in an
interview with Anderson Cooper.
The marriage took place among friends and family who were encouraged to
“blow kisses to the world” after she exchanged rings with her “inner
groom”, My Fox Phoenix reports.
“I feel... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 posted at 5:56 pm on June 15, 2012 by Erika Johnsen
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visited the home of actors
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick for a joint fundraising
appearance on Thursday night, during which the president offered the
gathered stars a rather frightening piece of flattery.
The intimate dinner banked about $2 million, with 50 people paying $40,
000 each. …
Speaking in a dimly lighted, art-filled room, Obama told supporters they
would play a critic... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 Back in the day, when I was a newspaper columnist in Denver, representatives
of the local chapter of the Anti-Defamation League paid a visit. Over
coffee, they told the opinion editor and me that they had a program, “A
World of Difference,” that “celebrates America’s diversity.” They asked
for our editorial support. The editor and I had the same reaction: Would it
not be better to celebrate all the things we have in common, all the things
that unite Americans of whatever ethnic or religious back... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
Professor Jacobson of Legal Insurrection isn't buying this notion that Chief
Robert's decision to weigh in with the liberals on the court was part of
some crafty long term strategy:
Some well-meaning people are peddling the notion that today’s Obamacare
decision was a long term victory, that we lost the battle but won the war,
that there was some master plan by Chief Justice Roberts to gut the
expansion of Commerce Clause power under the fig leaf of a majority... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 The Republican vice-presidential candidate, Congressman Paul Ryan, is the
Democrats’ political version of the Antichrist. He believes in self-
reliance; the Left believes in reliance on the state. His moral values are
shaped by religion (Catholicism); the Left is frightened by religious
Christian politicians (and athletes, and members of the armed forces, and
talk-show hosts, and, for that matter, clergy). He believes in individualism
; the Left believes in collectivism. He believes in small gov... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 Wednesday’s session at the Republican National Convention has the theme “
We Can Change It,” with a national security segment, and features primetime
speeches from Condoleezza Rice and vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan.
7 p.m. Session
Ron Paul video
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
Kentucky U.S. Sen. Rand Paul
8 p.m.
Arizona U.S. Sen. John McCain. Was defeated by Barack Obama in 2008
presidential run.
South Dakota U.S. Sen. John Thune
Ohio U.S. Sen. Rob Portman. Was considered a pote... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 ＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝
James Williams, an attorney for Ms. Johnson, called the attempts to “impede
Justice Johnson’s ascension to the Chief Justice position… a racially
divisive maneuver
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反正你ｔｍｄ的不同意我老黑的就是种族歧视．
The unusual contest to determine who should be the next chief justice of the
Louisiana Supreme Court isn’t over just yet.
Lawyers for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Friday filed notice that they
planned to appeal U.S. District Court Judge Susie Morgan’s ruling last week
that settled the is... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, President Obama had the following
to say about novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand:
Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18
and feeling misunderstood, we'd pick up. Then, as we get older, we realize
that a world in which we're only thinking about ourselves and not thinking
about anybody else... is a pretty narrow vision.
I can almost one hundred percent guarantee something right here and right
now. President Obama's only... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 14447 | 42 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: Herzog (singularity), 信区: Military
标 题: 奥巴马上台，美国经济问题或许仍将持续
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Nov 7 16:46:52 2012, 美东)
Clayton M. Christensen是一位研究创新的专家，上周发了个帖子，认为无论哪一个总
统上台，经济问题都不太可能得到解决，因为目前资本主义经济危机和创新的制度评价
有关系，而任何一位总统候选人都不太可能触及创新的制度性问题。这个帖子的网址是
http://goo.gl/QOccW
扼要的说下其主要论点。作者认为创新分为三类。第一类，empowering innovation—
—比如说IBM的PC——可以扩大产品的生产流动以及消费群体。比如说计算机，以前只
有大公司大机构用得起，而PC使得普通消费者也用得起。这样一来，就可以增加就业，
从而令更多的人从技术创新中受益。
第二类是sustaining innovation，用新型的质量更优秀的产品来取代老的产品。但是
买了新型产品，会减少老产品的需求。对于整... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 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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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: 4091 | 45 http://firearmscoalition.org/index.php?option=com_content&do_pd
Kennesaw Revisited
By Jeff Knox
(October 7, 2008) In 1981, Morton Grove, Illinois became the first town in
the U.S. to pass a flat out ban on the possession of handguns within the
town limits by anyone except police and active duty military during the
performance of their official duties. In response, the town of Kennesaw,
Georgia passed a gun law of their own in March of 1982. The Kennesaw law
was almost the exact opposite to the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 18 | 46 坚定不移沿着美国特色社会主义道路前进 实现共同贫穷的新美国梦
一月的华盛顿，阳光明媚，花团锦簇。数以万计的黑人群众聚集在国会山前欢庆新一任
总统的就职典礼。呼啸的寒风吹不散黑人们的热情，他们的聚会让冬日的首都变得春意
盎然。
美国民主党领袖 巴拉克 侯赛因 奥巴马 宣誓就任自己的第二任期。面对黑压压的观众
，他发表了题为“坚定不移沿着美国特色社会主义道路前进 实现共同贫穷的新美国梦
”的演说。英文全文附后。
侯赛因说，每一位总统的就职都是美国宪法制度优越性的集中体现。以宪法为基础的民
主制度是立国之本，强国之路。自从美利坚合众国成立以来，美国人民始终不懈的捍卫
宪法为基础的民主制度，争取自由，反对强权，不惜流血牺牲。
侯赛因总结了美国人民在过去二百多年的斗争历史取得的伟大成就
解放了黑奴，并让他们走上了各级政府的领导岗位。
政府修建了方便快捷的铁路公路网，奠定了经济快速发展的基础。
政府办教育事业迅速发展，城乡免费义务教育全面实现。
确立了政府在调解市场经济中不可或缺的作用。
侯赛因说，美国人民是伟大的人民，勤劳勇敢，吃苦耐劳，敢想敢为。美国人民的优秀
传统是不依赖政府，甚至敢于挑战政... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 看来左棍在哪里都一样,不管是白人,黑人和华人.
委内瑞拉那么多石油,竟然肉类,鸡蛋,甚至汽油供应都有问题. 年度通货膨胀率是23%.
一周会掉电blackout好几次. 犯罪率比美国和欧盟加起来还要高,Caracas 是世界上最
危险的城市.
不知道楼主打算怎么解释?
Chavismo and Us
An admiring American Left chooses to ignore the wreckage that is the Chávez
legacy.
By Mona Charen
One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually
every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved
disastrous before, time and again. — Thomas Sowell
The Berlin Wall was demolished by joyful Europeans t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 Honesty From Chuckie Schumer: Health Insurance Rates Could ‘Go The Through
Roof’ Because of Obamacare
by Jammie
These clowns who suffer from diarrhea of the mouth inevitably let the truth
slip out.
SCHUMER: Our insurance department is empowered to protect families and
we’re going to watch them like a hawk to make sure they do, because if they
don’t, these rates could go through the roof … It’s in part because of
Obamacare, but health care costs have been going up in double digits for
years a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 U.S. Rice Farmers Cash In On Venezuelan Socialism
U.S. Exporters Benefit as Production Falls in Latin American Country.
By SARA SCHAEFER MUÑOZ
U.S. rice farmers are making large profits from exports to Venezuela, thanks
to the impact of the late President Hugo Chavez's socialist policies. WSJ's
Sara Schaefer Munoz reports.
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STUTTGART, Ark.—Steve Orlicek, a rice farmer here, is living the American
dream. He owns a thriving business; he vacations in the Bahamas.
His good fortune springs from... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 by Jammie
That’s right. Obama’s new counselor, the man in charge of saving his
presidency, believes the Republican Party is a murderous cult and that this
justifies Obama’s extra-constitutional use of executive power.
Every Republican in Washington, DC, should read this article on Podesta’s
power grab, and those Republicans contemplating working with Democrats on
immigration reform should read it twice.
Whatever legislation you write with Democrats, and Obama signs into “law,”
will not be worth ... 阅读全帖 |
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