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发帖数: 3803 | 1 Same-sex marriage debate: Many of Obama’s top fundraisers are gay
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By Dan Eggen,
The controversy that has erupted this week over President Obama's stance on
same-sex marriage has cast a spotlight on the importance of the gay
community to his re-election fundraising efforts.
Many of Obama’s key financial supporters are gay, including finance
director Rufus Gifford and Democratic National Committe treasurer Andrew
Tobias, and the campaign has held a steady series of... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 June 6, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
[Ed note: Ray Bradbury passed on last night. He was 91. In celebration of
his life and work, I'll repost this article that I wrote in August of 2010.]
The L.A. Times has a heartwarming story of literary giant Ray Bradbury who
at 90 is not afraid to tell everyone exactly what he thinks. A gathering of
admirers got an earful of Bradburyisms on the verge of his Aug 22 90th
birthday celebration in Los Angeles. Bradbury railed against the “too many
machines” that ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 By Clarice Feldman
Whether he resigns or is removed or spends the rest of this year responding
to Congressional inquiries, Attorney general Holder has treated the
Department of Justice as a partisan arm of the Obama Administration. Now
and for the foreseeable future he is just another Albatross around Obama's
neck.
Fast and Furious
Let's review the case against Eric Holder.
In the forefront of the news is the Department's role in an operation known
as Fast & furious and his lies, obfuscation... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
Surely there were times he infuriated me and yes, I questioned during those
times who he really was... but given who's been sitting in the Oval Office
since he departed, and given stories like this one, yes, I miss him... and
if you don't, then it would be dishonest of me to not question the state of
your soul:
Former President George W. Bush has kept a relatively low profile in the
United States since leaving office. But in Africa this week he is publicly
pr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 Wednesday, 18 Jul 2012 08:05 PM
By Patrick Hobin
Democrats shouting the loudest about Mitt Romney’s reluctance to release
his tax returns do not apply the same standards to themselves, according to
a McClatchy News Service report.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California and Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the two
Democratic leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives, are among
hundreds of elected officials from both parties who refused to release
their tax records, McClatchy reported.
Pelosi said... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4091 | 6 只有选择ron paul才有意义。
选择一个共和党的侯赛因就如同选择侯赛因这个民主党的小布什一样，
Romney backers leery of Ron Paul effort to audit the Fed
By Julie Hirscfeld Davis
Bloomberg News staff
Wed, 08/08/2012 - 11:43pm
Images
In this photo taken Aug. 8, 2012, Republican presidential candidate, former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns in Des Moines, Iowa. Welfare is
causing a ruckus in the presidential campaign, but the program is a shadow
of its old self in the 1970s, when Ronald Reagan used the image of “welfare
queens” agains... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 7
Retrospectively over the past 10-20 years, Corp Japan has lost its momentum
to the competitors largely due to its own structural system and business
model.
Japan still leads in quality, either in automobile industry or consumer
electronics. But Japanese are not best known for fast response to consumer
trend. The corporate Japan is more used to piecemeal pace of improvements
over existing products lineup. Their mindset is till much focused on
evolutional scale of progress while the mobile world ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 8 这个黑垃圾，仗着半张黑皮，如果不是政治正确，希拉里要好很多的。
【多维新闻】即将出版发行的一本新书曝光称，奥巴马曾3次取消击毙“基地”组织领
导人拉登的任务，直到最后在国务卿希拉里的坚持下，他才最终下定决心。
据英国《每日邮报》8月20日报道，这本新书名为《不情愿的总统和为其做决定的顾问
》（The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him），作者米尼
特（Rich Miniter）曾在《华尔街日报》、《华盛顿邮报》担任记者。
他援引美国联合特种作战司令部消息人士的话称，上任伊始，奥巴马就对是否追杀拉登
(Osama bin Laden) “犹豫不决”，“他拒绝在有关追杀拉登的问题上表态，将决定权
交给时任中情局局长的帕内塔(Leon Panetta)和国务卿希拉里（Hillary Clinton），
因为他担心袭击错误目标会承担风险责任。”
米尼特称，奥巴马受三名女性“支配”，分别是希拉里、首席顾问贾勒特(Valerie
Jarrett)以及第一夫人米歇尔(Michelle)。其中贾勒特反对追杀拉登，因为计划失败可... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 by Jammie
He must have to bite hard when he attend those nightly fundraisers.
He really, really hates being around the wealthy.
This evening in New York City, President Obama will be fundraising with
“NBA heroes,” according to his spokesman. Those “heroes” include Michael
Jordan (who is also a failed baseball player), Patrick Ewing, Alonzo
Mourning, and, perhaps most interestingly, Carmelo Anthony.
Anthony helped make the pro-drugs YouTube video called “Stop Snitchin.”
“Denver Nugget... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 MADRID—Deepening economic troubles have reached the soul of Southern Europe
Across Southern Europe, consumers are forsaking daily visits to the local
café as unemployment, wage cuts and higher taxes slash household budgets.
Dow Jones's Neena Rai reports. Photo: Getty.
Across the region, consumers are forsaking daily visits to local coffee bars
—considered by many to be the cornerstone of social life—as unemployment,
wage cuts and higher taxes slash household budgets.
While Europe's per-capita co... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2215 | 11 Small companies like startup will be very reluctant to expand beyond 50
employees. Here is why.
Obama’s health-care law will force businesses to buy insurance for their
employees or get slapped with a fine. One category of employers will be
spared that expense: businesses with fewer than 50 workers |
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发帖数: 6971 | 12
"Small companies like startup will be very reluctant to expand beyond 50
employees."
首先这就是他说的啊，怎么是我混淆？再说startup就是small business啊，虽然以后
可能长大，长大了以后就不是startup了啊。 |
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发帖数: 97 | 13 Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/business/global/family-of-wen
BEIJING — The mother of China’s prime minister was a schoolteacher in
northern China. His father was ordered to tend pigs in one of Mao’s
political campaigns. And during childhood, “my family was extremely poor,”
the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, said in a speech last year.
But now 90, the prime minister’s mother, Yang Zhiyun, not only left
poverty behind — she became outright ric... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16594 | 14 Many on Wall Street are increasingly convinced that Barack Obama will win
the election.
On the eve of the election, many financial professionals on Wall Street
believe that Mitt Romney has lost the election. In phone conversations,
email and instant messaging exchanges, and text messages with over 20 people
in different jobs on Wall Street today the message I picked up was almost
universal: The president will be re-elected tomorrow.
Many of those with whom I spoke—all of whom spoke on the condit... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3975 | 15 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
Sandy may have tipped the balance back in favour of the president days
before the US election
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发帖数: 3975 | 16 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
Sandy may have tipped the balance back in favour of the president days
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发帖数: 3975 | 17 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
Sandy may have tipped the balance back in favour of the president days
before the US election
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发帖数: 3975 | 18 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
Sandy may have tipped the balance back in favour of the president days
before the US election
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Barack Obama, whose campaign has a revived momentum. Photograph: Jewel Samad
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发帖数: 3975 | 19 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/nov/02/americans-v
Americans would like to vote out Obama, but Romney makes it difficult
Sandy may have tipped the balance back in favour of the president days
before the US election
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Barack Obama, whose campaign has a revived momentum. Photograph: Jewel Samad
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发帖数: 2980 | 20 2008年80%犹太人支持O8，一叶知秋，静待选举结果。
President Barack Obama appears to have lost some of the Jewish support that
helped put him in the White House four years ago and could end up being
crucial in his bid for a second term.
At least that seems to be the case, according to several recent polls
showing support for the president among the nation's 6.5 million Jewish
voters has fallen off by as much as 10 to 19 percent, depending on which
survey one chooses.
In the battleground state of Florida, where nearly... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 948 | 21 Did Wall Street Just Give Up on Romney?
Published: Tuesday, 6 Nov 2012 | 3:36 AM ET Text Size
By: John Carney
Senior Editor, CNBC.com
Getty Images
Mitt Romney at a campaign rally in Toledo.
Many on Wall Street are increasingly convinced that Barack Obama will win
the election.
On the eve of the election, many financial professionals on Wall Street
believe that Mitt Romney has lost the election. In phone conversations,
email and instant messaging exchanges, and text messages with over 20 people
i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 948 | 22 All smart ones think he will lose.
Did Wall Street Just Give Up on Romney?
Published: Tuesday, 6 Nov 2012 | 3:36 AM ET Text Size
By: John Carney
Senior Editor, CNBC.com
Many on Wall Street are increasingly convinced that Barack Obama will win
the election.
On the eve of the election, many financial professionals on Wall Street
believe that Mitt Romney has lost the election. In phone conversations,
email and instant messaging exchanges, and text messages with over 20 people
in different jobs on W... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3322 | 23 我是Fiscally conservative, socially moderate的人。
我对同性恋是reluctantly against. 对他们是敬而远之，但没有什么仇恨。 |
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发帖数: 1509 | 24 By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: June 2, 2012 481 Comments
WASHINGTON
ON Friday night, the nation’s capital was under a tornado watch. And that
was the best thing that happened to the White House all week.
As the president was being slapped by Mitt Romney for being too weak on
national security, he was being rapped by a Times editorial for being too
aggressive on national security.
A Times article by Jo Becker and Scott Shane revealed that the liberal law
professor who campaigned against torture and t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 15-24岁年轻人失业率，法国22%，意大利36%，西班牙51%，这还不包括那些离开学校和
就业市场的人
Young, Educated and Jobless in France
By STEVEN ERLANGER
LILLE, France — Justine Forriez wakes up early to go onto the computer to
look for a job. She calls university friends and contacts; she goes to the
unemployment office every week, though mostly for the companionship, and has
taken a course in job hunting. She has met with 10 different recruiters
since May and sent out 200 résumés.
Ms. Forriez is not poor or disadvantaged, and she holds ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 By Mark Felsenthal
WASHINGTON | Wed Dec 5, 2012 6:24am EST
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama will renew his case for tax hikes on
wealthy Americans to avert a year-end fiscal crunch and call for a smooth
increase in the nation's borrowing limit in a speech to a business group on
Wednesday, a White House official said.
The president is embarked on an aggressive campaign to pressure
congressional Republicans to compromise on steps to avoid the so-called
fiscal cliff. He will argue to corporate ex... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 It is not often that I find myself in agreement with the editorial page of
the New York Times, but I did on Wednesday. The Times criticized the $1.92
billion settlement agreed to by HSBC as “a dark day for the rule of law.”
No bank executives, according to the LA Times, were charged. While $1.92
billion sounds like a lot, it is about 0.06% of the banks $2.6 trillion in
assets. All banks stretch the limits and meaning of regulation. HSBC, the
world’s third largest bank, and one that has been freq... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5456 | 28 【 以下文字转载自 Chicago 讨论区 】
发信人: Beida101 (北大学子), 信区: Chicago
标 题: 美国的精英学校招不到聪明的穷孩子
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jan 9 12:37:08 2013, 美东)
但是如果你是一个聪明的穷孩子，而且考上了 TJHSST 或者 Northside College Prep
， 那你上精英大学的几率几乎是百分之百！
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/09/168889785/elite-colleges-struggle
Elite Colleges Struggle To Recruit Smart, Low-Income Kids
by Shankar Vedantam
January 09, 2013 3:31 AM
Across the United States, college administrators are poring over student
essays, recommendation letters and SAT scores as they sele... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 How college students think they are more special than EVER: Study reveals
rocketing sense of entitlement on U.S. campuses
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 15:30 EST, 5 January 2013 | UPDATED: 14:29 EST, 7 January 2013
Books aside, if you asked a college freshman today who the Greatest
Generation is, they might respond by pointing in a mirror.
Young people's unprecedented level of self-infatuation was revealed in a new
analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which has been asking students to
r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1430 | 30 【 以下文字转载自 EB23 讨论区 】
发信人: fakaoti08 (fakati08), 信区: EB23
标 题: Obama Will Seek Citizenship Path in One Fast Push
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Jan 12 21:49:10 2013, 美东)
President Obama plans to push Congress to move quickly in the coming months
on an ambitious overhaul of the immigration system that would include a path
to citizenship for most of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country
, senior administration officials and lawmakers said last week.
Mr. Obama and Senate Democrats will propose the ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6411 | 31 1100万非法移民？！劳模只会越来越多
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100375167
Obama to Seek Immigration Overhaul
President Obama plans to push Congress to move quickly in the coming months
on an ambitious overhaul of the immigration system that would include a path
to citizenship for most of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country
, senior administration officials and lawmakers said last week.
Mr. Obama and Senate Democrats will propose the changes in one comprehensive
bill, the officials said, resisting effort... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 310 | 32 【 以下文字转载自 Chicago 讨论区 】
发信人: Beida101 (北大学子), 信区: Chicago
标 题: 美国的精英学校招不到聪明的穷孩子
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jan 9 12:37:08 2013, 美东)
但是如果你是一个聪明的穷孩子，而且考上了 TJHSST 或者 Northside College Prep
， 那你上精英大学的几率几乎是百分之百！
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/09/168889785/elite-colleges-struggle
Elite Colleges Struggle To Recruit Smart, Low-Income Kids
by Shankar Vedantam
January 09, 2013 3:31 AM
Across the United States, college administrators are poring over student
essays, recommendation letters and SAT scores as they sele... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 SilverBullet77
Chicago is Democratic and it's unthinkable that a neo-Republican, like
Giuliani, would ever be in office.
When a city has greater loyality to a political party than to their own
public safety then the game is lost, the Constitution a joke, and soon it
will be every person for himself.
We see "Chicago" type situations all over the nation. East St. Louis rivals
Chicago for squalor. Michigan is cursed with a infected set of cities:
Detroit, Pontiac, Flint, and Saginaw run in a north ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 奥巴马医疗法案的负面影响：保险费用上升，价格上涨，7百万人可能会失去现有保险
，失业，赤字增加，官僚泛滥，医护人员短缺，10年后仍有3千万人没有医疗保险
ObamaCare Turns Three: 10 Disturbing Facts Americans Have Learned
By JOHN MERLINE, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Just over three years ago, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously quipped about
ObamaCare that "we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it."
But only now, as ObamaCare's third anniversary approaches — President Obama
signed it into law on March 23, 2010 — is the country starting to find out
what the s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1041 | 35 * at least 70 percent of Americans said they supported options allowing
those immigrants to remain in the country with some form of legal status
* 63 percent of Americans said immigrants here illegally should be allowed
to become citizens if they met certain requirements
* only 43 percent said they would give citizenship to the immigrants, while
24 percent said the immigrants should be allowed to stay as permanent
residents but not citizens
* All proposals place significant hurdles along the way... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1041 | 36 * Republicans, whose voters, recent polls show, are more skeptical about
the value of immigration, are reluctant to increase visa numbers. They have
proposed freeing up visas by eliminating some relatives of immigrants from
eligibility.
我覺得這個有道理。我覺得那些好努力讀書、找工作者的確比像我一樣跑來結婚的對美
國有貢獻多了。 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 在伦敦大街屠杀英国士兵的伊斯兰恐怖分子曾在2010年被肯尼亚抓获，指控他试图加入
索马里的伊斯兰恐怖组织，但英国政府提出将其释放
The full extent of British involvement in securing the release of Michael
Adebolajo was disclosed for the first time, raising further questions about
how much MI5 knew about the alleged murderer.
It also emerged that Adebolajo benefited from the help of British diplomats
to avoid a formal deportation after his arrest in Kenya in 2010.
Contrary to previous reports, a Kenyan immigration source told The Daily
Telegraph Adebolajo was r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 Main Reason Behind These Limited Plans: Cost.
By ANNA WILDE MATHEWS
This fall, Indiana's new online health-insurance marketplace will present
some tough choices for consumers like John Nowak, who will be able to pick a
plan from his current insurer—or go for one that includes his primary-care
doctor.
That is because Mr. Nowak's current insurer won't include Indiana's biggest
health-care provider, 19-hospital Indiana University Health, in the plans it
sells on the consumer exchange. If Mr. Nowak ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 Obama Pushes Syria Intervention with Same Argument He Ignores on Iran »
President Obama has turned to Congress to save him from staggering political
isolation on the global stage. It is an isolation that is the inverse of
the promise of a passionate and reciprocal multilateral embrace that carried
him into office.
Asking Republicans to rescue him from a foreign policy catastrophe entirely
of his own making is not a neat political trick. It dramatically cheapens
the office of commander-in-ch... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 【 以下文字转载自 Biology 讨论区 】
发信人: Chamgrape (香槟葡萄), 信区: Biology
标 题: 这期Nature Biotechnology上关于转基因的文章
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Sep 10 14:15:59 2013, 美东)
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v31/n9/full/nbt.2700.html?WT.
真正想了解而不是想吵架的同学可以看看
还可以给身边对这个有疑问的朋友看看
也提到了去年法国的那个老鼠实验
还有黄金大米
Contrary to popular belief
Nature Biotechnology 31, 767 (2013) doi:10.1038/nbt.2700
Published online 10 September 2013
Three decades after transgenes were first introduced into plants, why do so
many consumers remain so negative abou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-06/business/41816402
Unemployment dips to 7.3 percent, but only 63% of Americans are in labor
force
By Ylan Q. Mui and Amrita Jayakumar,September 06, 2013
Americans are participating in the workforce at the lowest level in 35 years
, according to government data released Friday, as lackluster job growth
fails to offset the droves of people who have given up looking for work.
According to the Labor Department, the economy added a disappointing 169,000
jo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 Power costs shrink as share of Europe's rising energy bills
* In EU15 about half the household bill is charges, tax and subsidies
By Karolin Schaps and Barbara Lewis
LONDON/BRUSSELS, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Europeans are paying the steepest energy
bills in four years and face ever higher payments as governments pile on
extra charges to help finance a 1 trillion euro ($1.4 trillion)
modernisation of Europe's energy infrastructure.
Politicians from Britain to Germany, Italy to Romania, under pressure fr... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 43 Media Ignoring That Colorado School Shooter Was Stopped by Armed Security
Guard
December 18, 2013 | Filed under 2nd Amendment,Asshats,Constitutional Issues,
corruption,Culture Of Corruption,Democrats,Gun control,Liberals,Media |
Posted by Warner Todd Huston
Did you know that the latest left-winger who decided to shoot up a local
school was stopped in 80 seconds by an armed security guard? Few do because
the media refuses to focus on this fact.
Arapaho High School shooter Karl Pierson was loaded ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 Green Fade-Out: Europe to Ditch Climate Protection Goals
The climate between Brussels and Berlin is polluted, something European
Commission officials attribute, among other things, to the "reckless" way
German Chancellor Angela Merkel blocked stricter exhaust emissions during
her re-election campaign to placate domestic automotive manufacturers like
Daimler and BMW. This kind of blatant self-interest, officials complained at
the time, is poisoning the climate.
But now it seems that the climate i... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 45 Food Stamps for Weed? Yep, It's Happening in Colorado
by John Hayward 25 Feb 2014
This should not surprise anyone who has been paying attention to the growth
of Food Stamp Nation. According to National Review, EBT cards have been
used in Colorado to pull quite a bit of taxpayer cash at stores that sell
marijuana:
At least 64 times, public-assistance benefits were accessed at
businesses selling marijuana. A total of $5,475 in public benefits was
withdrawn at ATMs in establishments that sell ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 Bolton: ‘Our Biggest National-Security Problem Is Barack Obama’
By Eliana Johnson
March 6, 2014 11:02 AM
With the Obama administration grappling with a crisis in Ukraine, former
United Nations ambassador John Bolton took the stage at the Conservative
Political Action Conference on Thursday and declared that the country’s “
biggest national-security problem is Barack Obama.”
Bolton honed in on the terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, which he described
as paradigm of President Obama’s foreign-policy... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 UAW Faces Another Southern Setback
By
Damian Paletta
March 14, 2014 5:21 p.m. ET
CANTON, Miss.—The United Auto Workers union headquarters here—tucked
beside a cow pasture down the road from a sprawling Nissan Motor Co. 7201.
TO -0.35% plant—was supposed to be a springboard for a new wave of
labor activism across the South.
It has become instead a center of discouragement and uncertainty in a state
where many want the union to pack up and leave.
Labor organizers at Nissan were shocked when ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 Shootings Up 43% Last Month in NYC, But At Least There’s No More Stop and
Frisk
by Jammie via Jammie Wearing Fools
Thanks, de Blasio!
The number of shooting victims has skyrocketed across the city this year
— up 43 percent in just the last month — while fewer guns are coming off
the streets, NYPD statistics reveal.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has repeatedly shifted the focus from
shootings to a steep decline in homicides, and claims he is not worried
about the gun violence.
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 Federal court invalidates some ObamaCare subsidies, separate ruling
preserves them
WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court dealt a major blow to ObamaCare on
Tuesday, ruling against the legality of some subsidies issued to people
through the Affordable Care Act exchanges.
The ruling is likely to be appealed. And a separate federal appeals court --
the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals -- hours later issued its own ruling on
a similar case that upheld the subsidies in their entirety.
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 GM issues third recall on SUVs that can catch fire
August 7, 2014 - 7:35 PM
By TOM KRISHER, Associated Press
General Motors' troubles with safety recalls has surfaced in another case,
this time with the company recalling a group of SUVs for a third time to fix
power window switches that can catch fire.
The problem, revealed in documents posted by federal safety regulators this
week, is so serious that GM is telling customers to park the SUVs outdoors
until they are repaired because they could ca... 阅读全帖 |
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