z****0
发帖数: 3942 | 1 The ABC/Post poll found an overwhelming number of registered voters were
repulsed by Trump’s rampant racism — especially his recent campaign
against the Hispanic judge overseeing two Trump University lawsuits.
The poll showed 66% of all voters said Trump’s rants against women, Muslims
and minorities show “an unfair bias,” while 68% saidhis attackson
Judge Gonzalo Curiel were racist.
Even Republicans were outraged by his criticisms of Curiel — with 39%
calling Trump’s comments racist. Republicans... 阅读全帖 |
|
z**********e
发帖数: 22064 | 2 Why Parrot Beijing’s Line?
By HELEN GAO September 1, 2015
鹦鹉学舌的中国式教育
高雨莘
BEIJING — In the spring of 1999, when I was in fifth grade, my teacher at
my Beijing
elementary school gave me an assignment one day after class. A week earlier,
the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization had bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade
during the war
in Kosovo, killing three Chinese reporters. Washington called the attack an
accident, while
the Chinese public believed it to be a deliberate provocation. I was to
writ... 阅读全帖 |
|
z**y
发帖数: 280 | 3 苹果供应商违反劳动法行为仍然猖獗
Truth-Out, Nicki Lisa Cole, Aug. 25, 2016
现在，成千上万的中国年轻工人在iPhone7的生产线劳动。为了这些产品能在9月份推出
，全国各地的富士康和硕联合工厂在进行最后的组装程序。
富士康对读者来说可能是一个熟悉的名字，因为它成为过国际媒体关注的焦点。2012年
后，它在法律和道德方面的劳动违法行为被美国生活和纽约时报透露。尽管和硕联合在
过去的四年里在苹果供应链中的作用越来越大，它已收到很少的媒体关注。不幸的是，
在上海硕联合工厂工作的100000年轻中国工人仍然在痛苦地劳动和生活着。
由中国劳工观察（CLW）8月24日发布的新报告显示，在2012年引起了媒体的广泛关注的
法律和道德违规行为在今天的苹果供应商工厂是有增无减。中国劳工观察报告说，在和
硕的情况下，尽管经过多年的审计和苹果对于人的安全和尊严的承诺，工人的工作和生
活条件实际上在2015年以后继续恶化。
CLW是一个非营利性组织，它致力于在那些为全球品牌生产的中国工厂中揭露侵犯人权
的行为。它是通过收集上海和硕工人的工资单和采访来证明这一点。研究发... 阅读全帖 |
|
m**c
发帖数: 7349 | 4 MARINA, a middle-aged Muscovite with dark hair and piercing eyes, is unhappy
—about rising prices, rampant corruption and even Russia’s confrontation
with the West. But she is not ready for a change of course.
“People are unsatisfied, but we’re afraid of change,” she declares. “
Gorbachev had some nice ideas, but see how that turned out? I don’t want
Russia to be destroyed.” So it comes as no surprise that Marina, and most
of her compatriots, voted for more of the same when they took to the poll... 阅读全帖 |
|
m**c
发帖数: 7349 | 5 Many distraught liberals fear that Mr Trump’s grip on power represents an
existential threat to American democracy.
But Democrats who remember being in an equally strong position when Mr
Obama took office almost eight years ago know how fickle power can be. In
response to Mr Obama’s sweeping victory then, Republicans regrouped and
adopted a strategy of rampant obstructionism, consistently using the Senate
filibuster to block proposals and raging about Democratic overreach when
something got done... 阅读全帖 |
|
发帖数: 1 | 6 Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts
Census-designated place
Boardwalk at Bass Hole
Location in Barnstable County and the state ofMassachusetts.
Coordinates: 41°42′17″N 70°13′15″WCoordinates: 41°42′17″N 70°13′
15″W
Country United States
State Massachusetts
County Barnstable
Town Yarmouth
Area
• Total 6.47 sq mi (16.76 km2)
• Land 6.04 sq mi (15.65 km2)
• Water 0.43 sq mi (1.11 km2)
Elevation 52 f... 阅读全帖 |
|
发帖数: 1 | 7 在网上发现了一个圣诞节商店，商店的建筑很有特色，而且遍布全美国，大概有70多个
店铺，以后大家买圣诞节用品可以去那里，似乎各州都有。我们这里和麻州的地址是：
CHRISTMAS TREE SHOP AUGUSTA, GA, 239 ROBERT C. DANIEL JR. PARKWAY,
AUGUSTA EXCHANGE, AUGUSTA, GA 30909, 706.738.0570, CHRISTMAS TREE SHOP
, MAGNOLIA PARK, 1117 WOODRUFF ROAD, GREENVILLE, SC 29607. 864. 297.
3667
CHRISTMAS TREE SHOPS NATICK, 1298 WORCESTER ST. ROUTE 9, SHERWOOD
PLAZA, NATICK, MA 01760, 508.655.9800
CHRISTMAS TREE SHOPS SOMERVILLE, 177 MIDDLESEX AVENUE, ASSEMBLY SQUARE
... 阅读全帖 |
|
|
b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 9 All That Could Go Wrong When Jihadists Return Home — to China
http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2017/09/all-could-go-wrong-when-jihadists-return-home-china/141386/
Most of the foreign fighters that flooded into in Syria during the past few
years came from the West, but some jihadists also arrived from the Far East,
including as many as 300 of Western China’s Uighurs, the Sunni Muslim
indigenous ethnic minority. Now that the Islamic State’s caliphate is
collapsing, it seems inevitable that some wil... 阅读全帖 |
|
发帖数: 1 | 10 纽时是比较客观靠谱，可读性强的左派媒体，比CNN强多了
没读完，注意到如下几点：
1. 2010年一个未向公众披露的调查显示：某隧道工程1/3的工人吃空饷，每天1000美元
工资
2. 工会收买政客要挟建筑商
3. 纽约隧道工程操作同样的机器，做类似量的工作，
需要的人手是亚洲澳洲欧洲（法国等）国家3-4倍
4. 挖隧道工人时薪＋福利每小时111元，周末节假日时薪翻倍，超时再翻倍到 400／
per hour， 结果发现工人工作很容易超时（为啥工程整体进度还是那么慢想不明白）
。。lol
The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track on Earth
How excessive staffing, little competition, generous contracts and archaic
rules dramatically inflate
capital costs for transit in New York. An accountant discovered the
discrepancy while reviewing the bu... 阅读全帖 |
|
发帖数: 1 | 11 "Media Contagion" Is Factor in Mass Shootings, Study Says
Psychologist calls on media to withhold shooters’ names
DENVER — People who commit mass shootings in America tend to share three
traits: rampant depression, social isolation and pathological narcissism,
according to a paper presented at the American Psychological Association’s
annual convention that calls on the media to deny such shooters the fame
they seek.
“Mass shootings are on the rise and so is media coverage of them,” said
Jennifer... 阅读全帖 |
|
W*****B
发帖数: 4796 | 12 三胖现在身体很糟糕。说不定哪天就挂掉了。三胖真的该减肥了。
US, South Korean intelligence probe reports of Kim Jong Un health woes
As U.S. and South Korean intelligence teams investigate the sincerity of Kim
Jong Un's newfound willingness to engage in a denuclearization dialogue
, they are also tracking reports the North Korean dictator is dealing with a
variety of health issues.
While there is little hard medical evidence, according to sources, Kim's
family history, physical appearance and behavior in recent years have led
... 阅读全帖 |
|
x******g
发帖数: 33885 | 13 老美的意思跟我说的差不多啊！
他们说，你习近平独裁者的中国是个充满不平等和腐败的国家。你的国家早就抛弃了马
克思主义的阶级斗争和工人运动的立场。今天的中国是个充满了生产资料私有制的，向
外国大量抛售过剩产品的国家：工人的权力没有保障，到处都是抗议低工资，失业，和
恶劣工作条件的人群。
好意思说自己是马克思的信徒。真是自打嘴巴。
What if Karl Marx lived long enough to see that one of his biggest fans in
the world turned out to be the autocratic leader of a capitalist country
where inequality and corruption prevail?
On the surface, China identifies itself as a socialist country, with Marxism
enshrined in both the party’s and the state’s constitutions. But the
... 阅读全帖 |
|
t*******a
发帖数: 4055 | 14 In Mexico, train robberies harken back to days of Jesse James
By Andrea Navarro and Nacha Cattan | Bloomberg News Jul 28, 2018 Updated
8 hrs ago (…)
Facebook
Twitter
Email
Print
Save
Head southeast from Mexico City for about four hours and you will come upon
Acultzingo, an impoverished, dusty town nestled against the rugged peaks of
the Sierra Madre. Most inhabitants work the land for a living, growing corn
and avocados and raising cattle and pigs.
They also rob trains. L... 阅读全帖 |
|
b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 15 I can think of one Economist whose works fairly accurately predicted the
cyclical, boom/bust nature of de-regulated Capitalism and free markets. He
was pretty accurate in forecasting that the desire to extract ever greater
levels of profit, by driving down wages and demanding ever-increasing levels
of output, would lead to a polarization of socio-economic groups, rising
Nationalism and the use of increasingly draconian measures to keep the
victims of the casino economy in check. Indeed, despite ... 阅读全帖 |
|
发帖数: 1 | 16 美索不达米亚人已经掌握的技术，古罗马人已经应用得炉火纯青。这些欧洲最基本的常
识，对当时乃至现在的中国人来说，就像天方夜谭一样吧？对于拱形的分类，中国人除
了知道个“券”以外，知识还能粗陋到哪里呢？
Triangular arch
Round arch or Semi-circular arch
Segmental arch or arch that is less than a semicircle
这就是赵州桥的类别属性，古罗马人早就玩得纯熟的技术了。
Unequal round arch or Rampant round arch
Lancet arch
Equilateral pointed arch
Shouldered flat arch -see also jack arch
Trefoil arch, or Three-foiled cusped arch
Horseshoe arch
Three-centered arch
Elliptical arch
Inflexed arch
Ogee arch
Reverse ogee arch
Tudor arch
Para... 阅读全帖 |
|
b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 17 report that the company gave a lucrative exit package to a high-profile
executive accused of sexual harassment.
The tech giant is now facing pressure to take a tougher stand on harassment
and abuse in the workplace, in what could be a test of the #MeToo movement's
influence in male-dominated Silicon Valley.
The New York Times bombshell about Google's workplace culture also comes at
a difficult time for the internet search giant, which is already facing
controversy on a number of fronts.
The Time... 阅读全帖 |
|
g**1
发帖数: 10330 | 18 BREAKING NEWS: We will open fire on the immigrant caravan if they throw
stones says Trump as he promises to end to catch and release of illegals and
put families in 'tent cities'
The president unloaded on illegal immigration in a White House speech
Said he was 'finalizing a plan to end the rampant abuse of our asylum system
'
He said asylum seekers 'never show up' for trial
He said caravan members were not 'legitimate asylum seekers'
He made the announcement in the Roosevelt Room of the White H... 阅读全帖 |
|
G*******k
发帖数: 29 | 19 2018年11月13日美副总统彭斯说， 中国投降， 最后机会了。
Pence told me in an interview that Trump is leaving the door open for a deal
with Xi in Argentina, but only if Beijing is willing to make massive
changes that the United States is demanding in its economic, military and
political activities. The vice president said this is China’s best (if not
last) chance to avoid a cold-war scenario with the United States.
“I think much of that will depend on Argentina,” Pence said. “The
president’s attitude is, we want to make... 阅读全帖 |
|
c*******2
发帖数: 617 | 20 NM, 美负总统彭斯说， 中国投降， 最后机会了。
Pence told me in an interview that Trump is leaving the door open for a deal
with Xi in Argentina, but only if Beijing is willing to make massive
changes that the United States is demanding in its economic, military and
political activities. The vice president said this is China’s best (if not
last) chance to avoid a cold-war scenario with the United States.
“I think much of that will depend on Argentina,” Pence said. “The
president’s attitude is, we want to make sure t... 阅读全帖 |
|
发帖数: 1 | 21 Stone Cold Word
Longboat Key, Florida4m ago
AG Barr investigating a missing Twinkie is a joke.
So I am reading all these comments laughing and calling out "conspiracy
theories". It's easy to "throw shade"..... getting "shade to stick" is
another story.
I know this. A high profile prisoner, who supposedly tried to kill
himself just two weeks ago, this guy could not get near a 6 inch piece of
thread. Now that's not a "conspiracy theory".
The "shade slingers" want us to believe that this ego ... 阅读全帖 |
|
p***n
发帖数: 17190 | 22 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-05/china-sacrifices-a-
province-to-save-the-world-from-coronavirus
Prognosis
China Sacrifices a Province to Save the World From Coronavirus
Bloomberg News
2020年2月6日 上午12:01 [GMT+8]
Hubei province has seen 97% of all deaths from the virus
Quarantine lockdown delayed key supplies from getting in
Pause
Unmute
Current Time 0:36
/
Duration 3:52
CaptionsShare
Fullscreen
China Coronavirus Death Toll Rises to 636, With 31,161 Confirmed Cases
Unmute
China C... 阅读全帖 |
|
d*********o
发帖数: 6388 | 23 https://twitter.com/wendellpotter/status/1241368154208518145
Wendell Potter @wendellpotter
NEW: I just got off the phone with doctors in Bergen County, New Jersey who
told me their hospitals are saying doctors & nurses will be *disciplined*
for wearing protective gear, including masks. This is dangerous and may be
illegal. And their stories are alarming... (1/5)
Hospital physicians tell me this is happening across the state. Nurses worry
they could be fired if they wear protective gear, but worr... 阅读全帖 |
|
t********1
发帖数: 3150 | 24 The colonists spent the first winter living onboard the Mayflower. Only 53
passengers and half the crew survived. Women were particularly hard hit; of
the 19 women who had boarded the Mayflower, only five survived the cold New
England winter, confined to the ship where disease and cold were rampant.
The Mayflower sailed back to England in April 1621, and once the group moved
ashore, the colonists faced even more challenges. |
|
u***r
发帖数: 4825 | 25 https://www.rt.com/op-ed/484298-east-west-war-coronavirus/
27 Mar, 2020 16:21
Asian democracies like South Korea, Japan and India are doing a better job
than Europe and the US in combating the coronavirus pandemic. Deep social
divisions and poor leadership in the West are just two of the reasons.
Even as the coronavirus has spread like wildfire to 199 countries and
territories around the world, a pattern of differential extent of
devastation is evident. The list of worst affected countries with ... 阅读全帖 |
|
d*r
发帖数: 58 | 26 Gabby Douglas’ hair, female Chinese athletes as stoic automatons, ‘plastic
Britons,’ and advertisements featuring monkeys on gymnastic apparatus—if
one thing has characterised media coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympics, it’
s rampant racism. While the Olympics are ostensibly an event that brings the
world together, the racism that runs through much of the coverage serves to
underscore the differences between ‘us’ and ‘them,’ whether
commentators are making snide references to African runners or ... 阅读全帖 |
|
d*********e
发帖数: 1918 | 27 John Tortorici · Top Commenter · Tomball, Texas
The whole world is rooting against china BC they are a bunch of cheats and
they treaty their people like a commodity. How can a country of rampant
poverty have so many medals? Its BC its BC its sport or starve over there. |
|
m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 28 Va. Gov: No Need for LGBT Protections
By Julie Bolcer
Bob McDonnell X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
Virginia governor Bob McDonnell, who recently declined to include LGBT
protections for state workers in an executive order, said Thursday that he
did not see the need to write such protections into law because he does not
believe there is any “rampant discrimination” that shows a “real problem
” in the state.
When McDonnell declined to include LGBT protections in his executive order,
he said the move |
|
m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 29 A new U.N. report highlights advances in the fight against AIDS along with
concerns.
By Advocate.com Editors
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe x390 (getty) | ADVOCATE.COM
In the past decade new HIV infections have declined by almost 25%, AIDS-
related deaths have decreased, and access to treatment, preventive services,
and care has increased greatly, according to a new report from the United
Nations.
But amid the good news, there are concerns — the improvements are unevenly
distributed aro... 阅读全帖 |
|
g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 30 Posted on Advocate.com September 06, 2011 01:45:00 PM ET
Glenn Close Drawing Raves For New Cross-Dressing Film
By Jeremy Kinser
Glenn Close's performance as a 19th-century cross-dressing waiter in the
forthcoming film Albert Nobbs is already being touted as Oscar-caliber, but
an incident in her childhood may have helped her understand the character.
Close plays an abused Irish woman who passes as a male waiter "in order to
combat rampant gender and class inequality in 19th-century Dublin." The
c... 阅读全帖 |
|
D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 31 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/03/18/174633970/hillar
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that she supports
same-sex marriage, saying gays and lesbians are "full and equal citizens and
deserve the rights of citizenship."
"That includes marriage," Clinton says in an online video released Monday by
the gay rights advocacy group Human Rights Campaign. Clinton adds that she
backs gay marriage both "personally and as a matter of policy and law."
It's a move that The Asso... 阅读全帖 |
|
c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 32 Wayne Arnold, Vietnam Holds Its Own Within China's Vast Economic Shadow. New
York Times, Dec. 22, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/business/global/22chinavietna
"Vietnam officially reopened its doors to foreign investors in 1986. But it
did not really become part of the Asian economic boom until it won back its
former enemy, the United States, which lifted a trade embargo in 1994 and
normalized trade with Vietnam in 2000.
"The U.S. trade agreement provided special incentives to textile an... 阅读全帖 |
|
s**********t
发帖数: 1846 | 33 http://rt.com/usa/toxic-study-gmo-corn-900/
A leaked study examining genetically-modified corn reveals that the lab-made
alternative to organic crops contains a startling level of toxic chemicals.
An anti-GMO website has posted the results of an education-based consulting
company’s comparison of corn types, and the results reveal that genetically
modified foods may be more hazardous than once thought.
The study, the 2012 Corn Comparison Report by Profit Pro, was published
recently on the website... 阅读全帖 |
|
B*V
发帖数: 3365 | 34 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 |
|
m***s
发帖数: 1094 | 35 Obama's Health Care 'Horror Story' Inaccurate
President said a Texas woman about to have breast cancer surgery lost her
health insurance because she didn't disclose a case of acne to the insurer.
That's not what happened.
AP
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
0 x
in order to recommend a story, you must login or register.
125 Comments | Add Comment
ShareThisPEOPLE WHO READ THIS ALSO READ
Key Senate Panel Debates Gov't-Run Health Plan 28005960 Workers' Porn
Surfing Rampant at Federal Agency |
|
N********n
发帖数: 8363 | 36 40 percent of Florida homes sales are foreclosures
By KIMBERLY MILLER
Palm Beach Post
Sales of foreclosed homes in Florida made up nearly 40 percent of all
purchases in the first part of this year, a ``terrifying'' statistic, one
analyst said, and one that led to deeply discounted prices on distressed
properties.
In Miami-Dade County, foreclosure sales made up nearly half -- 47 percent --
of all homes sales in the first five months of 2010, according to a new
report from Irvine, Calif.-based Rea |
|
o**********e
发帖数: 18403 | 37 i agree with this point of view. Just look at Mexico to see the
alternative. Guns were banned in Mexico theoretically, but the gangs
smuggled them in (from US, but can be from anywhere). They banned death
penalty too, and for a moment bragged how advanced and humane they are (
joined all the other gun-banning, humane democracies).
But now the common folks in Mexico just sat helpless in the crosshair
between gangs and government, unable to protect themselves from kidnappers
and murderers. ... 阅读全帖 |
|
o**********e
发帖数: 18403 | 38 i agree with this point of view. Just look at Mexico to see the
alternative. Guns were banned in Mexico theoretically, but the gangs
smuggled them in (from US, but could be from anywhere). They banned death
penalty too, and for a moment bragged how advanced and humane they are (joined
all the other gun-banning, humane democracies).
But now the common folks in Mexico just sat helpless in the crosshair
between gangs and government, unable to protect themselves from kidnappers and
murderers. ... 阅读全帖 |
|
p******e
发帖数: 897 | 39 Members of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus may tout their commitment to
cutting government spending now, but they used the 111th Congress to request
hundreds of earmarks that, taken cumulatively, added more than $1 billion
to the federal budget.
According to a Hotline review of records compiled by Citizens Against
Government Waste, the 52 members of the caucus, which pledges to cut
spending and reduce the size of government, requested a total of 764
earmarks valued at $1,049,783,150 during Fi... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 40 Robert Weissberg炮轰文凭大跃进：传授知识是可取的，但乱发文凭是害人的骗局；奥
巴马说到2020
年要多提供5百万大学毕业生
The College Diploma Fraud
By Robert Weissberg
For more than a half-century, government has tried to close racial gaps in
educational attainment. Sad to say, those gaps have proven intractable.
Nevertheless, the impulse remains as heartfelt as ever (perhaps due to its
financially lucrative character), but the emphasis is now shifting from
actual learning to equality of graduation rates. President Obama has spoken
of adding 5... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 41 选举欺诈的不要！堪萨斯州新法案要求选民投票时出示有照片的身份证件以证明自己的
选民资格
New Law Requires Photo ID, Proof of Citizenship to Vote in Kansas
Monday, April 25, 2011
By Susan Jones
(CNSNews.com) - Voters in Kansas will need to show a photo ID the next time
they go to the polls.
In a signing ceremony last week, Republican Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill
to protect the integrity of elections, he said: "We must be able to
accurately and fairly discern the will of the people of Kansas."
While Gov. Brownback said the new law establ... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 42 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 |
|
l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 43 July 18, 2011 | Filed underHealth Care | Posted by Rodney Graves
And you thought the ACORN expose was shocking.
This time James O’Keefe and his band of citizen journalists record state
employees helping self professed drug dealers and pimps hide assets while
applying for Medicaid.
VIDEO: RAMPANT MEDICAID FRAUD EXPOSED – PART 1
Project Veritas
Washington, D.C.—James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas today
released its latest undercover investigation. Citizen journalists have
uncove... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 44 削减开支引发骚乱？2011年英国政府支出占GDP比例高达44.77%，是2000年以来第二高
比例，实际支出金额超过2010年
False Blame in London
A growing chorus of clacking commentators has determined the cause of the
London riots to be something called “austerity.” This menace is apparently
to blame for the whole sordid affair. As an incarnation of pure evil, “
austerity” has crept into the homes of hapless Londoners, snatching their
rightful belongings – and sometimes even their futures – right out from
under them. Quite understandably this has agita... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 45 GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - In the end, tradition trumped rising enthusiasm for a
youthful populist.
Guatemalans have once again elected as their new leader the presidential
candidate who lost the previous election, something they have done since
democracy returned to the Central American country in 1986.
Retired general and former intelligence director Otto Perez Molina of the
conservative Patriotic Party won an easy and early victory on Sunday in a
runoff race against tycoon-turned-political populis... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 46 By Sarah Palin
Updated 5d 17h ago
Thanks to the solid new research and recent revelations in Peter Schweizer's
book Throw Them All Out and the subsequent coverage on 60 Minutes, we have
concrete proof to explain how members of Congress accumulate wealth at a
rate astonishingly faster than the rest of Americans and have stock
portfolios that outperform even the best hedge-fund managers'. (Full
disclosure: Schweizer is employed by my political action committee as a
foreign policy adviser.)
USA... 阅读全帖 |
|
P*********0
发帖数: 4321 | 47 http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/oct/08/
Obama sounded the alarm on subprimes
Share this story:
As the U.S. and world economic systems continue to falter, both Sens. John
McCain and Barack Obama claim to have seen the crisis coming to some degree,
and tried to head it off.
McCain has cited his endorsement of legislation in 2006 that would have
reined in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac somewhat. And at the second
presidential debate, Obama cited a letter he wrote to federal offi... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 48 Argument from Disparity
Discrimination cases use statistics to put the burden of proof on the
accused.
By Thomas Sowell
A longstanding legal charade was played out again recently, when Federal
Express paid $3 million to settle an employment-discrimination case brought
by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Federal Express was accused of both racial discrimination and sex
discrimination. FedEx denied it.
Why then did they pay the $3 million? Because it can cost a lot more than $3
million to fight a dis... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 49 June 16, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
A young Maryland boy named Joshua Eisner, 14, committed suicide early in
June. He used a reproduction civil war era black powder rifle to do it. Now
his father is launching an ill-advised and unnecessary drive to force more
gun laws on Marylanders, pushing an idea he wants called “Joshua’s law.”
According to his obituary, young Joshua was interested in music and history,
the latter being why he owned the old-style firearm. News reports say that
he left no no... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 50 At a Capitol Hill press conference last Thursday, leaders from the two
unions representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and
Border Patrol agents denounced the Obama Administration's immigration policy
. Flanked by Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and
David Vitter (R-LA), these two union leaders painted a stark picture of the
state of immigration enforcement across the United States.
ICE union leader Chris Crane, who represents over 7,000 agents, decried ... 阅读全帖 |
|
