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发帖数: 110 | 1 In an interview Sunday with ABC’s “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos,
Obama tried to suggest that FOX News and others “closely allied” to
Republicans are promulgating the notion that the Illinois senator is Muslim.
Asked about whether McCain himself has done anything to suggest he’s Muslim
, Obama said, “Let’s not play games. What I was suggesting — you’re
absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And
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发帖数: 29576 | 2 She's the Star the GOP Hitched Its Bandwagon To
By Kevin Merida
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 11, 2008; C01
After weeks of mocking Barack Obama as a famous man and that's all, the
McCain campaign now has its own celebrity to promote: Sarah Palin, the
sudden sensation.
Mad love from the public is always welcome, in politics and entertainment,
but the McCain campaign seems to have come to this notion slowly. With the
hordes gravitating to Obama in record numbers, Rick Davis, Joh |
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发帖数: 6655 | 3 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) undertakes no research
for itself and relies on peer-reviewed scientific papers in reputable
journals. There is strong evidence that the IPCC is very selective of the
papers it wishes to cite and pays scant regard to papers that do not adhere
to the notion that man-made emissions of carbon dioxide have caused warming.
The analysis of the WG I report for the 4AR revealed that:
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 美国劳工部数据，工会会员里，政府雇员人数首次超过私营部门雇员人数；7.2%私营部
门雇员是工会会员
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/business/23labor.html
For the first time in American history, a majority of union members are
government workers rather than private-sector employees, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics announced on Friday.
Tim Bell, a mailman in Havertown, Pa., last month. Despite the recession,
the government has increased its payrolls.
In its annual report on union membership, the bureau undercut the
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发帖数: 7299 | 6 Beyond duping AIG, Goldman has been accused by Greenberg and others of
selling mortgage securities to pension funds and other investor clients,
then shorting the market. In other words, it has bet against its own clients.
Schwartz, exhaling loudly, says the very notion reveals a fundamental
misunderstanding of Goldman's reason to exist: market-making, or connecting
buyers with sellers. In the ebb and flow of the market, buyers and sellers
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发帖数: 7299 | 7 The remainder Goldman paid to its own counterparties to acquire the mortgage
securities underlying the credit default swaps AIG had written, which
Goldman handed over to the Fed. So while the firm certainly would not have
wanted to receive less than a full payout, its survival did not depend on it
. This, it contends, quashes the notion of a back-door bailout that saved
Goldman from extinction.
Talking to top Goldman executives, I couldn't resist asking the obvious
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发帖数: 3299 | 8 My conclusion: tax cut is bad no matter what spin you have. History speaks
itself. The notion that Tax cut promote investment and create jobs is a myth
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发帖数: 2044 | 9 The top five bank holding companies in derivatives - JPMorgan, BofA, Goldman
, Morgan Stanley and Citi - hold $280 trillion worth of notional derivatives
contracts, according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. That
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发帖数: 7918 | 10 How Obama Haters May Help Democrats in Midterm Elections
By MARK HALPERIN Mark Halperin 1 hr 45 mins ago
The late, longtime New Yorker critic Pauline Kael was said to have expressed
confusion over Richard Nixon's landslide re-election in 1972 - because no
one she knew had voted for him. To borrow that notion, conservatives today
imagine that everyone views the current occupant of the White House as they
do: Barack Obama is the worst President ever. Conventional wisdom posits
that this potent rig |
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发帖数: 897 | 12 For the second time in the past two weeks, a tea party Republican has
sparked a miniature media furor by questioning the separation of church and
state.
"I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state,"
Colorado Senate candidate Ken Buck said in a video publicized yesterday. "It
was not written into the Constitution."
Buck made the remark in 2009, but video footage of the event was posted on
liberal website ThinkProgress Tuesday-- just one week after tea party
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发帖数: 29846 | 14
It just happened again.
I spend a fair amount of time at my local coffee shop. I like to do my
writing outside and, besides, it gives me an opportunity to try and initiate
political conversations with the people who pass by — my hope always being
to begin to enlighten them as to what conservatives really believe (and not
just what the leftist media tells them.)
Today, the conversation turned to Sarah Palin and my latest acquaintance
blurted out: “Oh I hate her.” Since she did not yet know ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 Last week a severe storm froze Dallas under a sheet of ice, just in time to
disrupt the plans of the tens of thousands of (American) football fans
descending on the city for the Super Bowl. On the other side of the globe,
Cyclone Yasi slammed northeastern Australia, destroying homes and crops and
displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
Some climate alarmists would have us believe that these storms are yet
another baleful consequence of man-made CO2 emissions. In addition to the
latest weathe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7918 | 16 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: powerforward (今天你敏感詞了沒有), 信区: Military
标 题: 紐約時報：GE設計的冷卻系統有缺陷
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Mar 15 14:15:39 2011, 美东)
Reactor Design in Japan Has Long Been Questioned
By TOM ZELLER Jr.
Published: March 15, 2011
The warnings were stark and issued repeatedly as far back as 1972: If the
cooling systems ever failed at a Mark 1 nuclear reactor, the primary
containment vessel surrounding the reactor would probably burst as the fuel
rods inside overheated. Dangerous radiation would... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 As the White House lobbies to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, why not
instead raise its moral ceiling? After decades of rewarding bad behavior, it
is in the government’s best interest—and perhaps even its duty—to
promote the morals and values that made our nation great.
The Obama administration wants Congress to raise the debt ceiling so our
government can borrow more than the almost $14.3 trillion currently allowed
by law. Conservatives want any debt increase tied to spending cuts, and a
rece... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 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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发帖数: 29846 | 19 By Noel Sheppard | June 21, 2011 | 00:59
Unless you've been hibernating somewhere, you know that conservative author
Ann Coulter has a new book out called "Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is
Endangering America."
In an email interview with NewsBusters, Coulter talked about her book,
liberals, and other subjects including how the "MSM is both part of the mob
and inciters of the mob. That’s with the exception of Ed Schultz, whom I’m
pretty sure is an extraterrestrial":
NOEL SHEPPARD: You’ve got a new... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 By Monty Pelerin
The number of Obama supporters seems inversely related to his time in office
. Many wonder what happened to "The One We Are Waiting For."
Obama assumed office in difficult economic times. After a couple of years
of excuses -- which included "the problems were worse than we knew" and the
generic, all-purpose "it's Bush's fault" -- Obama now owns the original
problems and new ones of his own doing. An incomplete report card on his "
accomplishments" would include the following:... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 提出10年让美国联邦债务增加一倍、政府支出增加8.7万亿预算案的奥巴马说共和党削
减2.4万亿支出方案不认真，全世界都笑了
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, July 15, 2011, 10:43 AM
Barack Obama addressed the American public this morning for the second time
in one week. Talk about sound bites? We may have enough sound bites for the
next week!
And, he’s supposed to be so smart?
Obama said that 80% of the American public agree with him and want a
balanced appoach. (tax hikes) He said this several times.
The American people are sold… They’re sold… The notion that... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 Dr. Victor Davis Hanson拆穿奥巴马的各种此一时彼一时：2006年投票反对提高借贷
上限的奥巴马，现在说反对提高借贷上限是胡闹
Reckless Fiscal Policies”
Why did Obama only enumerate George W. Bush’s big spending as responsible
for the out-of-control $14 trillion-plus debt, while not mentioning his own
contribution of $5 trillion? Why is there a debt limit standoff now, rather
than, say, in 2009 or 2010? Why did this latest $1.6 trillion Obama budget
prompt the current crisis? Why did not Obama earlier start debt limit talks
the moment that his own... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 By Robert Oscar Lopez
As Mike Bates at NewsBusters points out, gay-themed news stories have
reached an absurd prominence lately. He was flummoxed by the amount of time
devoted by Don Lemon (CNN) to same-sex marriages in New York:
Lemon devoted most of the hour-long program to stories of men marrying men
and women marrying women. Less than ten minutes were spent on a potential
debt ceiling deal in Washington. The Norwegian tragedy warranted about four
minutes of air time.
It has been almost a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 By John T. Bennett
Guns are responsible for violence in the same way that pencils are
responsible for bad test scores. Those of us who embrace the notions of
character and accountability would say that the person himself is
responsible for how he uses his gun. If an individual or group tends to use
guns in a murderous manner, then we point to defects in character and hold
those individuals or groups fully accountability for their actions.
However, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy h... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 Max Hastings反思英国骚乱：多年的左派教条催生了不讲道德、不学无术、依赖福利、
凶狠野蛮的一代年轻人
Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated,
welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters
By Max Hastings
Last updated at 12:49 PM on 10th August 2011
A few weeks after the U.S. city of Detroit was ravaged by 1967 race riots in
which 43 people died, I was shown around the wrecked areas by a black
reporter named Joe Strickland.
He said: ‘Don’t you believe all that stuff people here are giving media
folk about how sorr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 By Chad Stafko
The City of Columbus, Ohio was greeted by a number of Ohio State University
medical students and individuals from the Investing in Tobacco-Free Youth
Coalition in March of this year. The group touted a poll which found that
more than 60% of Ohio voters favored a tax increase of $0.75 per pack of
cigarettes and nearly the same percent favored a larger tax of $1.25/pack.
A similar poll was conducted in North Carolina earlier this year. It found
that about two out of every three li... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 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 | 28 By Roger D. Luchs
A quotation in the September 19, 1926 edition of the Chicago Tribune
included the following observation on the electorate of the day:
No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for
years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by
underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
Its author was H.L. Mencken, a noted journalist. Could it be that President
Obama, a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 By Victor Volsky
The rogues' gallery of the far left is enormously spacious, and it doesn't
take much to be eligible for inclusion; any conservative worth his or her
salt automatically qualifies. But with the possible exception of that
eternal bogeyman, Richard Nixon, nobody is hated by the left with such
abandon; nobody is more vilified; nobody is targeted with such volcanic
eruptions of insane hatred and vitriol as former Vice President Dick Cheney.
But why? What did Cheney do to deserve suc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 The phony ‘consensus’ on climate change
The end is near ...
... that is, for the myth that scientists have reached "consensus" on global
warming and climate change caused by humans.
The theory (more accurately called a religion for the redistribution of
wealth) has taken a number of body blows in recent times -- although the
climate-change lobby is still straining to impose its view on the world. For
example, Time magazine issued a screed headlined "Who's Bankrolling the
Climate-Change Deniers?"... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 By Christopher Chantrill
British conservative Charles Moore visited the Occupy chaps at St. Paul's
Cathedral in London and came away a bit bemused.
The protesters seem to imagine that, without their tented witness to the
wickedness of the rich, no one would have noticed that capitalism is in its
biggest crisis since the early 1930s. "Abolish wealth," cried one of their
posters. Don't the angry campers realise that the West's bankers and
politicians are managing it nicely without needing any extr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 Gilder sees a direct link from attitudes toward Israel, attitudes toward
Jewish excellence, and attitudes toward free enterprise itself.
By Ken Blackwell
November 25, 2011
In these days of Occupy Wall Street demonstrations across the U.S., it’s
important to see what motivates Obama administration policies here and
abroad. Mr. Obama, as a candidate, had to bat away accusations that he was
close, too close, to Rashid Khalidi, a radical Palestinian Arab intellectual
. Candidate Obama then sooth... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 By Patrick Goodenough
November 30, 2011
(CNSNews.com) – A religious freedom advocacy group is challenging all 2012
presidential contenders to sign a pledge committing themselves to promote
religious freedom at home and to make it a foreign policy priority.
As of late Tuesday, Republican former Sen. Rick Santorum had signed the Open
Doors USA pledge and the other candidates – including the Democratic
incumbent – were “considering” doing so, the organization said.
Signatories to the “pledge f... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 34 Op-Ed
GOP candidates: Bashing judges, threatening democracy
Americans should flatly reject rhetoric by Republican presidential
candidates and remember that an independent judiciary enforcing the
Constitution is crucial to our democracy.
December 20, 2011
The attack on the federal judiciary by Republican candidates for president
has reached a new low and should be denounced by liberals and conservatives
alike. In November, Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced that if elected
president, his "appointees... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 January 2, 2012
In discussing the recent release of some 5,000 Climategate e-mails, blogger
Anthony Watts uses the clever headline "They are real -- and they're
spectacular." He credits Jerry Seinfeld as the source. Following his
example, I choose the headline "Fake! Fake! Fake! Fake!" -- also taken from
a Seinfeld episode -- in discussing the surface temperatures generally
reported for the latter part of the 20th century; they form the science
basis for prosperity-killing international clim... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 Monday, 09 Jan 2012 08:07 PM
WASHINGTON — Jack Lew is the model Washington insider — a savvy and cool
policy technocrat with roots in Congress and a long and impressive
administration resume. He is as low key as Rahm Emanuel, one of his
predecessors as White House chief of staff, is high octane.
In choosing Lew to run his White House, President Barack Obama on Monday
completed an arc of chiefs of staff, from the fiery Emanuel and his grasp of
legislative intrigue, to William Daley and his ties t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 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 | 38 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 | 39 I'm really struggling to work out what all the fuss is about over this one.
It seems to me to be much ado about nothing. Breaking news: Mitt Romney is
very rich. He also gave millions and millions of dollars to charity and to
the taxman.
In the early hours of this morning, some 550 pages of Mitt Romney's tax
returns and a 2011 tax summary were released by his campaign. Just after
dawn, there was a long campaign conference call for bleary-eyed reporters in
which an accountant (who sounded exactly... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 By J. Robert Smith
You've got to hand it to liberals. They stick to a script. On the
contraception-Catholic Church flap, the script is that most Catholic women
favor contraception (and, one guesses, abortion-inducers). Ergo, the
Catholic Church should buckle under and accept President Obama's mandate.
Conscience and religious liberty (and a little thing called the 1st
Amendment) just don't stack up against what a majority of Catholic women
want -- or what liberals say they want. You know, v... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 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
highest stag... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 By Mark Steyn
February 25, 2012 4:00 A.M.
CNN’s John King did his best the other night, producing a question from one
of his viewers:
“Since birth control is the latest hot topic, which candidate believes in
birth control, and if not, why?”
To their credit, no Republican candidate was inclined to accept the premise
of the question. King might have done better to put the issue to Danica
Patrick. For some reason, Michelle Fields of the Daily Caller sought the
views of the NASCAR driver and Sports ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 by The Political Palaver
Selwyn Duke at American Thinker offers a startling and absolutely dreadful
glimpse inside this Kansas City school where a white child was doused with
gasoline and immolated last week. The two assailants were black, and were
reported to have been saying, "That's what you deserve, white boy!"
Selwyn Duke reports, based upon documented interviews:
While this crime is making headlines, Coon [mother of child that was
attacked] states that it was merely the horrible culmin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
Obama_supreme_courtThat and more from Allahpundit reacting to Obama's
challenge yesterday to the Supreme Court not to overturn Obamacare:
The “strong majority” in Congress went 219-212 in the House, with 34
Democrats defecting. Not a single Republican in either chamber voted for it,
and as Ace notes, the public itself has been steadfastly opposed to the law
since day one. Against that backdrop, it’s an amazing show of balls by The
One to dress this up as the C... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 Politico Corrects Misattributed Tina Fey Quote, Continues to “FAIL”
Posted on April 03 2012 - 2:10 AM - Posted by: Stacy Drake
Just yesterday, Politico was called out by Big Journalism Editor, Dana
Loesch, for forgetting their own rules in regard to the use of “violent”
metaphors. Today, Politico writers Dylan Byers and Mackenzie Weinger,
doubled down on the idiocy by mixing fiction with reality and taking petty,
partisan shots at Governor Palin.
First, they replay Matt Lauer’s ‘Team Couric‘ rem... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 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 | 47 Anatomy of a Victory: The Importance of MJ Rosenberg's Ousting from Media
Matters
By Jared Arluck
The anti-Israel echo chamber has always existed. For a while, this hateful
ideology resonated in the blogosphere louder than it should have. Not
anymore.
Renowned lawyer and Democrat Alan Dershowitz's insistence that Media Matters
distance itself from anti-Israel advocate MJ Rosenberg has worked.
Rosenberg, the controversial senior foreign policy fellow at Media Matters,
was unceremoniously jetti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 Boston-Area Traffic Stops Surface as Chinese 'Princeling' Seeks to Play Down
Lifestyle
By JENNIFER LEVITZ and STEVE EDER
BOSTON—In an effort to dispel reports that he led a luxurious lifestyle, Bo
Guagua, the Chinese "princeling" at Harvard and son of a deposed Communist
leader, this week denied he ever drove a Ferrari. But Mr. Bo has racked up
three traffic citations in Massachusetts—and according to a person familiar
with the matter, he was driving a black Porsche.
Mr. Bo is the son of Bo Xila... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 Obama has held more re-election fundraisers than previous five Presidents
combined as he visits key swing states on 'permanent campaign'
By Toby Harnden
PUBLISHED: 07:41 EST, 29 April 2012 | UPDATED: 14:16 EST, 29 April 2012
Barack Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every
elected president since Richard Nixon combined, according to figures to be
published in a new book.
Obama is also the only president in the past 35 years to visit every
electoral battleground sta... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 by Rossputin
On Wednesday, President Obama delivered the commencement address at the Air
Force Academy. As with most Obama speeches, it was full of self-
congratulation.
As George Will put it, “If you struck from Barack Obama’s vocabulary the
first-person singular pronoun, he would fall silent, which would be a mercy
to us and a service to him, actually.”
In his speech at the Academy, Obama used the word “I” 36 times. ("Me” was
only used a further two times, and some fraction of the 69 instances... 阅读全帖 |
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