- Effort to free would-be assassin Hinckley
A US government mental hospital is seeking to eventually set free John Hinckley Jr, the man who tried to assassinate ex-president Ronald Reagan in 1981.Hinckley, now 56, was committed to St Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington in... 米国政府は精神病院25.40ワシントンで聖エリザベス病院にコミットされ、最終的には無料のジョンヒンクリージュニア、今1981.Hinckley、56で元大統領のロナルドレーガンを暗殺しようとした男性を設定するために求めている..
- Reaganomics Vs. Obamanomics: Facts And Figures
By every statistical measure the Reagan recovery outshines Obama's. すべての統計的尺度ではレーガンの回復がオバマ氏をより優れて
- Air traffic controller asleep as planes land
Federal aviation officials are reviewing air traffic controller staffing at airports around the United States after two airliners landed at Reagan National Airport without clearance from the airport tower because they were unable... 彼らができなかったため、二旅客機は空港の塔から隙間なくレーガンナショナル空港に着陸後、連邦航空当局は、米国の空港では航空管制官の派遣を検討している...
- The jobs report and 2012 | Michael Tomasky
It's very interesting that the jobs number today has the US economy gaining 216,000 jobs in March. The private sector number was better, at 230,000. Those 14,000? A few Wisconsinites, probably, and other luckless public employees, directly impacted by the budget cuts.Anyway, why is 216,000 so interesting? Because according to this guy, the economy will need to gain 215,000 jobs every month between now and election day for the unemployment rate to go below 8% by that time. This writer, James Pethokoukis of Reuters, goes on to note, quoting analyst Matt McDonald of Hamilton Place Strategies:Since 1960, the unemployment rate has been above 7 percent during four elections: 1976,1980, 1984 and 1992. In three of these 4 elections, the incumbent party lost. Only in 1984 did Reagan win with 7.2 percent unemployment, which was in the context of a 1.3 percentage point drop in unemployment during the year prior to the election.For President Obama, with a current unemployment rate of 9.4 percent, an unemployment rate below 7 percent is hard to envision by November 2012. However over the coming 2 years, he would see an improved political position from a significant drop in the unemployment rate. Current economic forecasting projects a fourth quarter 2012 unemployment rate of approximately 8 percent (CEA: 7.7 percent; CBO: 8.2 percent; Blue Chip: 8.4 percent). If the unemployment rate can break this 8 percent level, President Obama can credibly argue that he is making progress on jobs, even though the unemployment rate will still be historically high.He was writing back in January and making certain baseline assumptions that might be slightly old now. I've seen estimates that are a tad lower that 215,000.The experts say that these current numbers are good not great because employers これは非常にジョブ番号、今日は3月に216000のジョブを獲得し、米国経済を持っていることは興味深い
- Who Won The Republican Debate? -Media Training
TJ Walker, Managing Editor of The Daily National, offers his analysis of who came out on top during the Republican Debate at the Reagan Presidential Library. TJウォーカー、デイリーナショナルの編集長は、レーガン大統領図書館での共和党の討論会でトップに出てきたの彼の分析を提供しています
- SPENGLER : Why the Republicans can't find a candidate
The ambitious 20-to-30-year-olds of the Reagan era have become the cramped and fearful 50-to-60-year-olds of today's Tea Party as the United States has lost its monopoly as the place for the entrepreneur to Asia. As long as Americans remain wrong-footed as a people, the Republican Party will search in vain for a charismatic candidate for next year's presidential elections. (Apr 4, '11) 野心的な20は、- 30は、年のレーガン時代の歳になるように窮屈と恐ろしい50に、米国は、アジアと起業家のための場所としての独占権を失っているように、今日のコーヒー党の60歳
- Who's On First? Or, Will Anybody Watch Obama's Economic Address?
Yes, it’s still baseball season at MLB. And, yes, the NFL is about to begin its season this Thursday night. Somehow the issue became “Who’s on First?” The answer is it’s the Republican candidates who are debating at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley CA on Wednesday 9/7. Obama deferred to them and reset his talk to speak a day later competing instead with the first night of NFL football: The New Orleans Saints at the Green Bay Packers with an 8:30 kickoff on NBC. It was probably a good scheduling balk. Now those who care can hear the the economic solutions the Republicans plan to put forward first and Obama can have a day to respond to them. はい、それはまだMLBで野球のシーズンです
- US debt ceiling: how big is it and how has it changed?
What is the US debt ceiling and how has it changed over time? Every raise and fall listed since 1940• Get the dataThe US debt ceiling deal has passed with a last-minute agreement to raise the limit on government borrowing. Ratings agencies are threatening to downgrade the US AAA rating.It has gone up from an unimaginable $14.3 trillion to $14.7tn.But what is the debt ceiling? Under US law, all government borrowing has to be approved by Congress, and they do this by limiting the amount that can be borrowed: this is the debt ceiling.The latest figures, taking into account the new raise, show that:• The debt ceiling has been raised 103 times since 1944• It has been raised 51 times by Republicans, 52 times by Democrats• Ronald Reagan increased the debt ceiling by 23 times, followed by Lyndon B Johnson with 13 times, Bill Clinton by 12 times and Jimmy Carter by 9 timesThe last time it went up, in February 2010, the figure increased to $14.294 trillion. The debt reached that limit and it has been raised by $400bn.According to estimates from the last US budget, that debt is predicted to keep going up - to $20.8tn by the end of 2016. We've also looked at the size of the US national debt and the size of foreign holdings of US treasury bonds here.We've extracted the full data from a mix of the White House OMB's historic budget tables, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis and the US Treasury to show how the ceiling has changed since 1940, and which party was in power at the time.You can download the full data below. What can you do with it?Data summary Download the data• DATA: download the full spreadsheetMore open dataData journalism and data visualisations from the GuardianWorld government data• Search the world's government data with our gatewayDevelopment and aid data• Search th 米国の債務限度とどのようにそれが時間の経過とともに変更されているとは何ですか？ 1940年から記載されているすべての昇給と落ちる•dataThe米国の債務限度の取引は、政府借入金の上限を引き上げるために土壇場で契約を経過した取得します
- Was Reagan Right About the Energy Department? Solyndra Case Study
Ronald Reagan ran for office promising, among other things, to shut down the Energy and Education Departments. When I worked in the Clinton Administration, I often found myself wishing he'd succeeded. Energy Department officials, all the way up to the very enthusiastic Secretary Bill Richardson, seemed from my perspective to be nothing more than lobbyists for industry. Back then, it was usually oil and gas. Now, they're enthusiastic promoters of ill-fated subsidies for green technology. ロナルドレーガンは、エネルギーと教育部門をシャットダウンするために、他のもののうち、有望なオフィスのために走った
- 5% Growth: Not Magical Unicorns, The Return of Gazelles
Advocates of robust economic growth are very used to being ridiculed by those who say it cannot be done. Reagan was ridiculed (“voodoo economics”) for his prescription of lower tax rates and a strong dollar. That growth recipe, when adopted despite the ridicule, propelled the Dow Jones Industrial Average from around 900 (no typo) to well over 10,000. 力強い経済成長の支持者は非常に誰が行うことができないと言う人々によって嘲笑されて使用されています
- Davis Cup dream in reach for Serbia's Djokovic
Novak Djokovic will carry the hopes of Serbia in the Balkan nation's first ever Davis Cup final against nine-times former winners France at the 16,000 capacity Belgrade Arena this weekend.The world number three is seen here as a solid bet to win both his singles rubbers, leaving his team-mates free to add the clinching point in one of the three remaining ties.But with both captains in two minds about their choice of a second singles player and the doubles scenario too close to call, it could go all the way on Sunday. ジョコビッチは、16,000容量ベオグラードアリーナで9回旧受賞フランス戦バルカン全国初のデビスカップ決勝で3人が両方の彼のシングルゴムを獲得する固体ベットここに見られるように、このweekend.The世界の数をセルビアの希望を運ぶ彼のチームメイトは、2番目のシングルプレーヤーの彼らの選択について迷っている両方の船長の3つの残りのties.Butのいずれかで締めつけるポイントを自由に追加して残し、呼び出すために近すぎるシナリオを倍に、それはすべての道を行くことが日曜日
- Some Ideas on Making GovCloud Achievable
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of delivering the keynote address at a "Making Cloud Achievable" event at the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Washington, DC. Hosted by Federal Computer Week and CDW-G, the seminar focused on implementation of cloud computing strategies that meet US Federal agency policy, technology, and organizational requirements. My presentation, "Moving Ahead with the Cloud - Enterprise Options and Implications", focused on the options that Federal CIOs are currently dealing with in coming to grips with the "Cloud First" policy. The near term choices they all have include: 数週間前、私はダウンタウンワシントンD.C.のロナルドレーガンビルでの。。u0026quot;メイキングクラウド達成可能な。。u0026quot;イベントで基調講演を提供する喜びを持っていた
- Sundance adds Britons to star-studded lineup
Kevin Macdonald and David Mackenzie join Paddy Considine and Vera Farmiga as directors featuring at Sundance film festivalKevin Macdonald and David Mackenzie are among British directors with films added today to an increasingly starry Sundance lineup. Yesterday the premieres of new movies directed by Paddy Considine and Vera Farmiga were announced to be screening at Park City, Utah in January. Today 54 titles were added, completing the programme.Macdonald's feature, Life in a Day, is a global experiment to create the world's largest user-generated feature film, culled from footage shot on July 24, while Mackenzie's is a love story about two people – played by Ewan McGregor, who Mackenzie collaborated with on Young Adam, and Eva Green – who fall in love as the world falls apart.Other highlights from today's additions include Red State, Kevin Smith's horror film about a group of misfits, including Melissa Leo and John Goodman, battling fundamentalism in middle America and Salvation Boulevard, about a charming evangelist preacher (played by Pierce Brosnan) who frames an ex-hippie for a crime.The Station Agent director, Tom McCarthy, also has a new film showing: Win Win, with Paul Giamatti as a beleaguered lawyer who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach and stumbles upon a talented athlete, while Lee Tamahori's horror The Devil's Double features Dominic Cooper and Ludivine Sagnier.Strong additions in the documentary sidebar include portraits of Chastity Bono, Bobby Fischer and Ronald Reagan, while Morgan Spurlock's latest, about branding and product placement, also gets a spot.The closing night film will be The Son of No One, about a young cop, Channing Tatum, who must relive a murder he committed as a young man. Al Pacino plays an older detective; Juliette Binoche a ケビンマクドナルド、デビッドマッケンジーはサンダンス映画festivalKevinマクドナルド、デビッドマッケンジーの作品取締役としてパディコンシダインとVera Farmiga参加は、映画とイギリスの取締役のうちアールは、ますます星空サンダンス映画祭のラインナップに、今日追加しました
- Medicare As A Coercive Force: New Bill Proves Doctors And Hospitals Have Little Protection
Not to sound like a Ronald Reagan recording circa 1961, but...Are there any checks on Medicare's power? ないロナルドレーガン記録年頃1961のような音に、しかし...がメディケアの電源上の任意のチェックはありますか？
- No government shutdown, but what do we have instead? | Michael Tomasky
So we have a deal and a government, and the eighth-graders visiting Washington (by tradition in the US, it's in the eighth grade, or form as you call it, when students take their field trips to the capital) can go to the Smithsonian today. That's all nice.Also nice is that the offensive (and offensive it was) against Planned Parenthood failed, so at least we haven't yet reached the point as a society that poor women must die of cervical cancer to satisfy the ideological itches of a few men, although fear not, we're getting there.But the $38 billion cut is the largest single-year cut in the history of the country, according to the president, who taped a three-minute video statement shortly after 11 pm Friday night, when the deal was announced by Speaker John Boehner. It'll be next week, I'd reckon, before we know exactly what was cut and by how much. As those details come out, an already disgruntled liberal base is just going to get angrier.I understand what Obama is doing when he talks, as he does in the video, about the government needing to live within its means. I'm sure it polls well with independents, and as I've said many times, he needs to rebuild his standing among independents. We all get this.But but but: to hear Obama kinda-sorta boasting about overseeing a domestic spending cut on a scale that even Ronald Reagan never managed leaves one wondering where and over what he might someday draw a line in the sand.Last December, he signed George W. Bush's tax cuts. Then he introduced his own budget, which include a five-year pay freeze for federal employees and cut funding for a couple of subsidy programs for poor and elderly people.Finally, during this whole process, he never once that I can remember made a forceful public statement singling out a GOP cut as sever だから、契約と政府、ワシントンを訪問して第8年生を持っている（米国では伝統的に、それは中学2年生でだまたはフォームは、学生は、資本への遠足を撮るときに、それを呼ぶ）に行くことができますスミソニアン今日
- Climate Change: Vatican Enters the Fray
The Roman Catholic Church has a long history of taking sides in history's greatest political disputes. Pope John Paul II's tacit alliance with former U.S. President Ronald Reagan against Communism is perhaps the most compelling example of Papal activism. ローマカトリック教会の歴史の最大の政治的な紛争の辺を取っての長い歴史を持っています
- Heads of state addressing the UK parliament: full list since 1939
Barack Obama is not the first head of state to address the UK's parliament. See the others• Get the dataWhen Barack Obama delivered his speech to combined House of Commons and House of Lords, it was the 46th time a head of state has done so since French president Albert Lebrun in 1939.Thanks to the House of Commons information office (and a great thought from Simon Jeffery), we've got the full list - and it's a fascinating breakdown of world politics and issues in a dramatic post-war period.Obama is the third US president to do this, after Bill Clinton in 1995 and Ronald Reagan in 1982. But he will be the first to give a speech in the huge Westminster Hall - only Nelson Mandela (1993) and Charles de Gaulle (1960) have done spoken to formal gatherings of both houses there.The Queen has addressed parliament (excluding the state openings) five times - more than any other head of state - but besides UK monarchs, the biggest single number have come from France, with seven heads of state, followed by Russia, with six.There are ebbs and flows in these things - we are in a period now where most years bring a major address to Parliament, but this was less fashionable in the 1970s and 1950s.The full data is below. What can you do with it?Data summary Download the data• DATA: download the full spreadsheetMore open dataData journalism and data visualisations from the GuardianWorld government data• Search the world's government data with our gatewayDevelopment and aid data• Search the world's global development data with our gatewayCan you do something with this data?• Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group• Contact us at data@guardian.co.uk• Get the A-Z of data• More at the Datastore directory• Follow us on Twitter• Like us on FacebookHouse of Commo バラクオバマ氏は、英国の議会に対処するために状態の最初の頭ではありません
- The shutdown and tax revenue and the top 400 | Michael Tomasky
As we discuss thirty-odd billion in cuts that will largely impact poor people most directly, let's step back and permit ourselves to be reminded of the big picture, with help from Jesse Drucker of Bloomberg Business Week:For the 400 US taxpayers with the highest adjusted gross income, the effective federal income tax rate – what they actually pay – fell from almost 30% in 1995 to just under 17% in 2007, according to the IRS. And for the approximately 1.4 million people who make up the top 1% of taxpayers, the effective federal income tax rate dropped from 29% to 23% in 2008. It may seem too fantastic to be true, but the top 400 end up paying a lower rate than the next 1,399,600 or so. That's not just good luck. It's often the result of hard work, as suggested by some of the strategies in the following pages. Much of the top 400's income is from dividends and capital gains, generated by everything from appreciated real estate – yes, there is some left – to stocks and the sale of family businesses. As Warren Buffett likes to point out, since most of his income is from dividends, his tax rate is less than that of the people who clean his office. A 17% effective rate. That's less than I pay, and I'm pretty sure it's less than you pay. I really wonder, conservative commenters, does this strike you as fair? Does this not bother you even a little?Trillions of dollars have been sacrificed over these last three decades to an economic theory (supply-side) that has demonstrably not worked as advertised, ever: Ronald Reagan grasped this by 1983 and started raising taxes, which he did seven or 11 times, depending on what you count. George W Bush would not acknowledge it, and the deficit skyrocketed as revenues did indeed drop, and dropped significantly. Here's the skinny, from Bruce 我々は32億円主に、最も直接的な貧しい人々に影響を与えるのは、一歩、自分自身は、大きな絵のことを思い出したように許可するには、ブルームバーグビジネスウィーク誌のJesseドラッカーからの助けを借りて聞かせてカットの奇数を議論するように：400米国の納税者については、最高調整後総所得は、効果的な連邦所得税の税率 - 実際に支払うもの - IRSによると、2007年のすぐ下に17％にほぼ30％、1995年から落ちた
- The Republicans: no more party of no | James Antle
Winning the election was the easy part. Now the GOP has to govern tooRonald Reagan may have been a sunny optimist but conservatives have traditionally been a gloomy bunch. Tuesday's Republican victory, a dramatic reversal of fortunes for a party that was thought to be doomed to years in the minority, was a cause for conservative jubilation. Allow me to bring us back to our usual gloom and doom.The Democrats lost this election because they failed to appreciate the fundamental disconnect between the two distinct groups of voters who brought them to power in the first place: the Democrats' progressive base, which wanted to move the country to the left, and the independents, who merely wanted to be rid of George W Bush. Satisfying the first group always carried the risk of alienating the second.And alienate them they did. In 2006, 57% of independents voted for Democratic House candidates. Two years later, they broke for Barack Obama by eight points. This year, independents voted 55% to 40% for Republican congressional candidates. That's a shift from a 18-point Democratic advantage to a 15-point Republican one, in just four years.The Republicans now face the same risk the Democrats did after the last two elections, and they don't seem to be any more aware of it. Their conservative base, typified by the Tea Party, wants to move the country to the right. The independent voters merely wanted to rebuke Obama and fire Nancy Pelosi. In the process, they replaced a Congress that was to the left of the electorate as a whole with one that is to its right.Polls indicate the independents agree with the conservatives about runaway federal spending and budget deficits, just as they once showed independent agreement with progressives about the Iraq war and the need for healthcare reform. 選挙に勝つ簡単な部分でした
- The west goes wild as Obama and the Democrats ride again
With one cool shot, the US president brought down both Osama bin Laden and Republican claims to the mantle of western heroWesterns have never been seen as Democrat movies. But this is based on a misunderstanding. The western genre of American film is generally thought of as morally crude, politically reactionary and so on, but in reality it was always more complex. From Fort Apache with its depiction of military folly to The Searchers, a dark tale of racism and otherness, the master of the western film, John Ford, always explored ambiguous themes and invested his films with deep intelligence.Many other classic westerns portray characters who abhor violence – although they always use it in the end: Destry Rides Again and Shane both have heroes who are reluctant to take up arms. In these and other westerns it is only the bad guys who shoot for the sake of it and relish the wild side of the law. Yet somehow, in myth and political symbolism the bad guys are remembered as the good guys, the films of the wild west associated with the law of the gun. And it is Republican America, most successfully in the persona of Ronald Reagan and most dangerously in the would-be heroism of George W Bush, that has claimed the heritage of the mythic west.This is why cool-talking, straight-shooting President Barack Obama has just changed history. He has overturned more than three decades in which the Democrats looked through the lens of the western like wimps from back east, and Republicans posed as tough sheriffs. Now there is a new sheriff in town and a new message: if you want years of bumbling, messy, murderous war, a Republican is best, but if you actually want a president who gets his man like a real US marshal of legend ... vote Democrat in 2012.For a long time, Republicans have cast t つのクールなショットでは、米大統領が民主党の映画として見。。u200b。。u200bたことがない西部heroWesternsのマントルの両方にオサマビンラディンと共和党の主張をなびかせている
- Geraldine Ferraro Dies At 75, A Trailblazing, Controversial VP Candidate
On November 6, 1984, Geraldine Ferraro, the nation's first woman vice presidential candidate, along with Walter Mondale for president, lost the race in a landslide to Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Today she died at age 75 at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was being treated for blood cancer. 1984年11月6日で、一緒に大統領モンデールとして、Geraldine Ferraroさんは、全国初の女性副大統領候補、ロナルドレーガン、ジョージブッシュと地すべりでレースを失った
- 'Dr Strangelove' secretary dies
Alexander Haig, the four-star general who played a crucial role as White House chief of staff at the climax of the Watergate scandal, and later served as Secretary of State during Ronald Reagan's presidency, died yesterday in Baltimore.... アレクサンダーヘイグは、4人のウォーターゲート事件のクライマックスではスタッフのホワイトハウスのチーフとして重要な役割を果たして大将、後に国務長官としてレーガン大統領の任期を務めた、昨日ボルチモア....で死亡
- The real effect of 'Reaganomics' | Dean Baker
Ronald Reagan promoted the idea that conservatives prefer to leave the economy to the market. Nonsense – we've been gulledAt the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, his most important legacy has gone largely overlooked. Reagan helped to put a caricature of politics at the centre of the national debate and it remains there to this day. In Reagan's caricature, the central divide between progressives and conservatives is that progressives trust the government to make key decisions on production and distribution, while conservatives trust the market. This framing of the debate is advantageous for the right, since people, especially in the United States, tend to be suspicious of an overly powerful government. They also like the idea of leaving important decisions to the seemingly natural workings of the market. It is therefore understandable that the right likes to frame its agenda this way. But since the right has no greater commitment to the market than the left, it is incredible that progressives are so foolish as to accept this framing.In reality, the right uses government all the time to advance its interest by setting rules that redistribute income upward. As long as progressives ignore the rules that are designed to redistribute income upward, they will be left fighting over crumbs. There is no way that government interventions will reverse a rigged market. For some reason, most of the people in the national political debate who consider themselves progressive do not seem to understand this fact.To take the most obvious example: fighting inflation has come to be seen as the holy grail of central banks – a policy that it is supposed to be outside of the realm of normal political debate. On slightly more careful inspection, the inflation-fighting by the Fed and ロナルドレーガンは保守派が市場経済を残して好みのアイデアを促進した
- World rushes aid to quake-hit Japan
International rescue teams were rushing to Japan Sunday after a 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami left more than 1,000 dead, at least 10,000 missing and seriously damaged a nuclear power plant.The world has rallied behind Japan, where tsunami waves up to 10 metres (33 feet) high rolled across the low-lying northeast on Friday, washing away everything in their path.US aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan arrived off the coast of Japan early Sunday to provide logistical support for Japanese forces. 国際救助チームは、不足している少なくとも10,000真剣に日本、背後に反発した原子力発電plant.Theの世界を破損し、左8.9の地震と津波後の日本の日曜日に1,000人以上の死者を急いでいたところから津波10メートル（33フィート）は、高低、金曜日に北東横たわってそのpath.US空母ロナルドレーガンのすべてを洗い流す日本軍の後方支援を提供するために、日本の海岸を、日曜日早く沖に到着の向こう側に転がった
- Zsa Zsa Gabor's leg amputated
Doctors in Los Angeles say they have successfully amputated most of Zsa Zsa Gabor's right leg.They say Friday's surgery at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center was successful and the 93-year-old Moulin Rouge and Queen of Outer... ロサンゼルスの医師は、ロナルドレーガンUCLAメディカルセンターでは金曜日の手術は成功したって言うが正常にザザガボールさんの右leg.Theyの大部分を切断したと言う93歳のムーランルージュと女王外の...
- Some big questions | Michael Tomasky
Commenter ravcasleygera (are you new? welcome) asked me on the last thread:Just out of interest, Michael: do you ever actually think, 'I give up?' Have their been moments in this spectacularly depressing period since about six months into the Obama presidency where you have just thought: 'American democracy is broken beyond repair?', or, 'the slow dismantling of the state is unavoidable?'I'm not being facetious, I just genuinely wonder. People seemed so convinced the 2006-8 results meant some sort of leftward swing, the end of the Reagan era.... now that energy seems to have been replaced by libertarianism, of all things? Do you think it's hopeless? Do others?Well, no, I don't give up. But my darkest fear goes something like this. Historically speaking, the conservative movement started in the late 1950s. It took a long time but it seized real power in 1980. Results were mixed, it retreated for a bit (Clinton), then roared back to power in 2000.Living these events in real time, the general view of them, I think, has been, well, those were their two best shots, and now they're bound to lose steam. You didn't have to think that the 2008 election signaled a liberal renaissance (and I did not) to think that a 50-year old movement that hadn't produced a truly new idea in a long time was running out of gas.But now I think: taking the longer historical view, it may well be that the Reagan and Dubya years were just warm-up acts, and that the conservative movement has yet to behold its triumph. The amount of money corporate titans can now pump into politics, the level of activism, the utter inability of the media to call lies lies, the weakness of the Democrats...we may be in for a 40-year descent, until there is no Social Security and there are no environmental regulations and コメンターのravcasleygeraは（？あなたが新しく追加された歓迎）最後のスレッド上で私に質問：ちょうどうち興味深いのは、マイケルは：あなたが実際にどう思いますか、私はあきらめる？。。u0026#39;あなただけ考えているオバマ氏の大統領に約半年からこの見事憂鬱期間中のされて瞬間を為すは、：。。u0026#39;？アメリカの民主主義修復できないほど壊れているが。。u0026#39;、または。。u0026#39;が遅い状態の解体は避けられない？。。u0026#39;私ではないひょうきんされて、私はただ純粋に疑問
- Fascinating budget history (really) | Michael Tomasky
The better that we're all on the same information-rich page, I tracked down the following, which is the most useful table I've seen in some time. It lists US budget spending in the main categories from 1962 through 2015 (estimated spending for the years that haven't yet happened). To see it, go to this page from whitehouse.gov and then click on Table 8.1, Outlays by Budget Enforcement Act Category 1962-2015. You'll get an Excel spreadsheet with all the goods.The reason to do this is to see just how daunting historically is the idea of cutting non-defense discretionary spending. This category - which is really what right-wingers are talking about when they rail against the guvmint - is clearly marked on the spreadsheet, and you will see that it has gone from $19.5 billion in 1962 to $581 billion in 2009. I went into the table and did some breakdowns and ran some numbers. They support what we generally know. Nixon was a big domestic spender because he only really cared about foreign policy and let the Democrats run the domestic shop, more or less. Reagan slowed the rate of growth of spending and even cut it, a little, two years out of eight. Dubya: kaboomba, through the roof.President by president, the numbers look like this. Bear in mind that I may have miscalculated by a hair insofar as I sometimes wasn't sure whether to put a transition year in the exiting or arriving president's total, so a true wonk might take issue with my calculations. But even if I was off by one year in some cases, it would not throw my overall percentages off by all that much. Here's what I got:Johnson: 1964: $24.1 billion1969: 35.8Increase: 48.5%Nixon:1969: 35.81975: 70.3Increase: 96.4%Ford:1975: 70.31977: 99.6Increase: 41.7%Carter:1977: 99.61981: 149.9Increase: 50.5%Reagan:1981: 149.91989: 184 より私たちは同じ情報が豊富なページ上のすべてのしていることを、私はいくつかの時間で見た中で最も便利なテーブルです次のように追跡
- State of the union address 2011: how did Obama's text compare to other US presidents?
The State of the Union address is Barack Obama's chance to set out his stall in 2011. How does his speech compare to previous US presidents?• Get the dataThe State of the Union address has been delivered by Barack Obama to the joint houses of Congress last night. How did his second address compare the second State of the Union speeches from previous American presidents? To compare, we've taken the text of the first addresses of key presidents from the University of California's American Presidency Project, as we did last year with the first State of the Union address from Obama. By counting the frequency of words used (and filtering out common words and the least used), we can see how each president has chosen to focus their speech. And to really see how language compares, there is no finer tool than Wordle.net. We've taken the text and visualized the words. Click on the image above to see how Obama compares to Bush, Roosevelt, Reagan, Lincoln, Washington and JFK.So what are the key words the presidents have used most frequently? As expected 'I' and 'will' appear the most in all of the addresses, creating an atmosphere of strength and leadership in the speeches. Other words that crop up often are 'government', 'America' and 'more' - although interestingly George Washington neither mentioned America or the world in his second State of the Union address.By looking at the wordles of previous second addresses by US presidents, there is a strong sense of themes relevant to the time in which it took place, for example in Franklin D Roosevelt's speech in 1944 - amidst WWII - the word 'war' was used 47 times and words such as 'nation', 'service' and 'freedom' were prevalent in the text. (You can download it as a PDF too). So what does Obama's address tell us?Economy is still t 演説の状態は2011年に彼の失速を設定するにはバラクオバマ氏のチャンスです
- Reagan suffered from Alzheimer’s as prez, suggests son
Ronald Reagan’s son suggests in a new book that his father suffered from the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s disease while he was still in the White House. ロナルドレーガンの息子は、彼がホワイトハウスでまだ中に彼の父はアルツハイマー病の初期段階に苦しんでいる新しい本の中で示唆している
- Video: British Pathé archive: Ronald Reagan testifies at the House Un-American Activities Committee
Hollywood stars - including future president Ronald Reagan - give testimony before the anti-communist House Un-American Activities Committee, chaired by J Parnell Thomas, who would later be convicted for fraud
ハリウッドスターが - 将来の大統領ロナルドレーガンを含む - 反共産主義のハウス非米活動委員会での証言を与え、後に詐欺で有罪とされるjはパーネルトーマス、議長を務める
- Haig helped Nixon see his presidency was over
WASHINGTON: Alexander Haig, who held influential positions in the US military and in the administrations of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, has died. ワシントン：アレクサンダーヘイグ氏は、米軍の影響力のあるポジションとリチャードニクソンやロナルドレーガン元大統領の政権で開催されたが死亡した
- What's John Boehner's crying game? | Suzanne Goldenberg
So why do we get misty-eyed about male politicians who tear up? If a female pol cries, she's seen as either soft or schemingYou'd think that John Boehner would have seen enough drunks blubbering into their drinks at his dad's tavern to be wary of easy tears.You know, that humble boyhood tavern in Ohio Boehner is always talking about, where he mopped floors and waited tables, until he eventually worked his way up to becoming the third most powerful man in America after Tuesday's epic Republican midterms victory.Whereupon Boehner, telling a story he must have told hundreds of times in his career, choked up in tears recalling his own accomplishments.Politicians do cry in public. The Bushes, father and son, have been known to shed a tear. Bill Clinton wells up. Barack Obama cried at a rally on the eve of the 2008 elections, when he learned the grandmother who had raised him had just died of cancer.I might be less offended if Boehner had been crying about a 9.6% unemployment rate, or the tens of thousands of people who lost their homes at the stroke of an auto-signature pen in the wrongful foreclosure scandal.But there is something unsavoury about seeing a well-off, white, middle-aged male overcome when the subject moving them to tears is their personal career track.Rahm Emanuel, a man notorious for once sending a dead fish to a political enemy and shreaking obscenities at co-workers, plumbed the same teary depths at his White House leaving ceremony last month, when he choked up at mention of his family's sacrifices.But Boehner is tearier than most when the cameras are on. He has cried accepting awards, at an unveiling of a statue of Ronald Reagan, and at a rousing chorus of America the Beautiful. Is it genuine? That's between Boehner and his handkerchief.But it's interestin なぜ我々は霧-引き裂く男性政治家の目のですか？女性polが泣くならば、彼女は、ソフトまたはschemingYou。。u0026#39;dて、Johnボナーは、オハイオ州ボナーで謙虚な少年の居酒屋であることを、知っている簡単tears.Youのを警戒する彼のお父さんの居酒屋での飲み物にblubbering十分な酔っ払いを見たことがあると思うかと見られているいつもここで彼は床を酔っぱらったの話と待っていたテーブルを、彼は最終的には火曜日の叙事。共和党の中間試験のvictory.Whereuponボナー後、アメリカで3番目に強力な男になるまでの彼の方法を働いてまで、彼は何百回も言われている必要があります話をして彼の自分のaccomplishments.Politiciansは人前で泣くの操作を行いますリコール涙で詰まってキャリア
- The Federal Reserve's latest quantitative easing may lead to disaster
QE2 may create the very conditions for a bubble and a new collapse that the Fed dreadsIt's November 2012 and Barack Obama is living out the last few weeks of his one-term presidency. History is being made for a second time: the first black commander in chief replaced by the first female holder of that exalted office after Sarah Palin's victory.After his defeat, Obama is asked when it all went wrong. Looking back, he says, the key moment was 3 November 2010, the day after mid-term elections went badly for the Democrats, when the Federal Reserve took the decision to pump an extra $600bn (£370bn) into the US economy by creating new electronic money.The Fed was warned at the time that what it was doing was high-risk stuff and took no notice when the former Ronald Reagan staffer David Stockman said it was injecting high-grade monetary heroin into the financial system. Instead of accelerating the US economy's recovery, the Fed created the bubble to end all bubbles. And when the bubble burst in late 2011, the game was up for Obama.This, of course, is conjecture. Obama's poll ratings remain reasonable despite the economy, and Democrats are confident moderate voters will be put off by the stridency of the Tea Party when they vote in the 2012 race for the White House.And maybe Ben Bernanke has got his analysis right. Perhaps monthly injections of $75bn into the US economy are just what is needed to boost the money supply, to get credit flowing and to persuade companies to channel their cash mountains into investment. Bernanke's worry is that growth and inflation are too low. Interest rates can go no lower, another stimulus package is a no-no given the Republican capture of the House of Representatives, so the only option is more quantitative easing (QE).Actually, that's not the c QE2は、バブルとFRBのdreadsItさんは2012年11月、バラクオバマ彼の1長期的な大統領の最後の数週間を生きていることが、新しい崩壊のための非常に条件を作成することができます
- Sarah Palin and Margaret Thatcher: a perfect match | Martin Kettle
Rightwing living legends are thin on the ground, and their shared gender makes the Palin-Thatcher meeting a marketing dreamHow many living politicians retain such iconic status that younger generations of politicos crave the chance to be photographed in their company, hoping that a little of the magic dust will somehow rub off on the visitor? Nelson Mandela, of course, irresistible to politicians of every colour and creed. Barack Obama, probably, though here the iconic status is perhaps losing a little of its sheen, if not irretrievably. The pope and the Dalai Lama are in their own categories for political pilgrims of particular persuasions. On the left, a pose with Fidel Castro may still cut it for some. In some places, Mikhail Gorbachev retains a sort of allure.The late Ted Kennedy certainly had it too, especially for Irish visitors – I remember visiting Father Edward Daly, of Bloody Sunday fame, in his home in the Bogside many years ago and seeing that he kept photos of himself with Paul VI and with Senator Ted on his desk.But on the right? With Ronald Reagan dead, there's only one living legend – and that's Margaret Thatcher.If it's true that Sarah Palin is trying to arrange an audience with Mrs T, then it is not exactly hard to see why. Rightwing female icons don't grow on trees, so a Palin-Thatcher meeting has a sort of marketing inevitability – although the ignorance of the one and the infirmity of the other mean that two public figures with a shakier grip on what is going on the world would be hard to find.It's a reminder, too, that while Thatcher is world-famous, she is no longer politically a global brand. Americans have always revered her far more than Europeans or Africans, for example – or Irish, or Scots. And many Americans (like Russians of a certain era) 生活の伝説を右派は地面に薄いであり、その共有性別は、マーケティングのdreamHowたくさんの生き物の政治家は政治家の若い世代は、そのほとんどを期待してチャンスを自分たちの会社で撮影されるに懇願するような象徴的な状態を保持するペイリン - サッチャー会議になります魔法の塵が何らかの形で訪問者にこすりでしょうか？ネルソンマンデラは、もちろん、すべての色と信条の政治家に魅力的な
- Michael Tomasky: What this is really about
The newspaper piece in my country that lots of people will be reading and debating today is David Leonhardt's New York Times column, in which he argues that healthcare reform strikes the biggest blow against inequality since Ronald Reagan's time:A big chunk of the money to pay for the bill comes from lifting payroll taxes on households making more than $250,000. On average, the annual tax bill for households making more than $1 million a year will rise by $46,000 in 2013, according to the Tax Policy Center, a Washington research group. Another major piece of financing would cut Medicare subsidies for private insurers, ultimately affecting their executives and shareholders. The benefits, meanwhile, flow mostly to households making less than four times the poverty level — $88,200 for a family of four people. Those without insurance in this group will become eligible to receive subsidies or to join Medicaid. (Many of the poor are already covered by Medicaid.) Insurance costs are also likely to drop for higher-income workers at small companies.Leonhardt goes on to point out, and a graph in the print paper shows, how incomes in the US have changed since 1980. The top .01% of earners, the really really rich, have seen their tax burdens decrease by 11.4% and their incomes increase by -- ready? -- 384%.Those in the middle quintile have seen tax burdens decrease by 4.4% and incomes increase by 12%. Leonhardt adds:Since the late 1970s, though, the share of Americans with health insurance has shrunk. As a result, the gap between the economic well-being of the sick and the healthy has been growing, at virtually every level of the income distribution. The health reform bill will reverse that trend. By 2019, 95 percent of people are projected to be covered, up from 85 percent today ( 私の国で新聞の一部の人々がたくさん読書され、今日の議論は、彼のロナルドレーガン大統領の時以来の不平等に対する最大の打撃攻撃は、医療改革を主張するデイヴィッドレオンハルトのニューヨークタイムズのコラム、：お金の大部分を支払うことにし法案のために世帯以上の25万ドルの意思に給与税を持ち上げるから来ている
- Unthinkable? Curb aid in Haiti | Editorial
Long before the earthquake hit, much of Haiti was run not by its government but by NGOsThe role the United States and France played in the impoverishment of Haiti must count among the less glorious achievements of both countries. Successive US presidents, from Ronald Reagan to George Bush, have contributed to the destruction of Haitian agriculture, with the result that Haiti, a natural rice producer, had to import subsidised US rice. This accelerated the flight into the cities, with the cataclysmic consequences witnessed when the earthquake struck. So that when Bill Clinton, now the UN envoy to Haiti, this week questioned whether the aid effort was helping Haiti to become self-sufficient, one had to remind oneself what happened to Haiti under Mr Clinton's presidency. He was, nevertheless, asking the right question. Long before the earthquake hit, much of Haiti was run not by its government but by NGOs. A World Bank study in 2006 counted 10,000 of them alone, the highest per capita concentration in the world. Of those, 800 alone were employed in agriculture, managing $85m of the $91m budgeted for public investment in 2006-07. Disaster relief has merely accelerated this process, and the UN's role has been to co-ordinate 900 NGO groups registered with it. The excuse for circumventing the Haitian government has been either its corruption or its complete absence, but the cure has become worse than the disease. The aid ought to be going to Haitians and their popular movements should decide how to rebuild the country. Foreign agendas for Haiti have not worked.HaitiInternational aid and developmentguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
長い地震が発生する前に、多くのハイチのは政府だがNGOsThe役割は、米国が実行され、フランス、ハイチの貧困化の両方の国の以下の輝かしい成果の間でカウントする必要があります果たした
- How star wars lasers can bring down missiles
The airborne laser test-bed (ALTB) uses more than one laser to bring down a missile. When infrared sensors on the plane detect a missile's exhaust plume, the first laser is used to track its trajectory. A second laser is then used to measure atmospheric effects between the plane and the missile.These are fed into a computer that adjusts the optics of the main laser. The giant 18 tonne infr。。red laser then fires a single shot from the nose turret on the plane, lasting three to five seconds, which is targeted at the pressurised part of the missile. The intense concentration of heat on the missile's skin weakens it enough for aerodynamic stresses to tear the missile apart. The whole process takes less than 12 seconds.The main laser, a powerful $4bn (£2.55bn) chemical oxygen iodine laser, can fire 20 shots before the plane needs to land and fill up on fuel for the weapon. If it is used at lower power, it could muster 40 shots in one flight. Although the airborne laser was designed to destroy short-range tactical missiles, defence analysts believe it may be effective against intercontinental ballistic missiles, hostile aircraft and even satellites.The lasers and missile detection sensors are built into a modified Boeing 747 freighter plane that cruises at an altitude of 40,000 feet and has a kill range of around 190 miles. The plane would be deployed over war zones or missile silos and fly in a figure of eight overhead to act as a deterrent.The airborne laser is a big part of the US missile defence agency's reincarnation of the strategic defence initiative, a constellation of laser-toting satellites proposed by the Reagan administration in the 1980s. That project hit insurmountable technical difficulties with putting powerful lasers in orbit and being able to track m 航空機搭載レーザーのテストベッド（ALTB）は、ミサイル発射をダウンさせるには複数のレーザーを使用します
- Barack Obama called for jury service
Chicago court told the US president will not be able to serve on jury as he prepares for Wednesday's state of the union addressIt is a salutary lesson that, be you ever so high, you might still be called for jury service to pass judgment on your peers – as Barack Obama has just discovered. All other things being equal, the president should this morning have been reporting for service at the Cook County circuit court in the southern Chicago suburb of Bridgeview, instead of preparing for the annual state of the union address on Wednesday.But of course all things are not equal and so the world's most powerful man has been given at least a deferment of duty.Fortunately, the summons to serve – which was sent to the Obamas' home address in Kenwood, Chicago, some weeks ago – has already been responded to, a White House spokesman said at the weekend.The court has been notified that the president will not be able to serve. It appears to have accepted that Afghanistan, health care, the banking crisis, Haiti and the daily grind of trying to run the country might have formed a slight distraction.What is perhaps surprising is how frequently presidents are called for jury service. The US Politics Daily website reported that George Bush received a summons to serve on a jury at McLennan County, Texas in 2006 and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.Although he had been out of office since 2001, Bill Clinton got the call in 2003. Clinton apparently declared he was willing to serve on the jury in a case involving a gangland shooting, but was dismissed.Rudy Giuliani, former Republican presidential candidate and mayor of New York, actually did serve in 1999 on a jury which rejected a $7m (£4m) claim for damages by a man who had been scalded in a shower, but perhaps he was less busy than the presiden シカゴの裁判所として、彼は労働組合addressItの水曜日の状態の準備を陪審員に提供することができなくなります米大統領と語ったが、皆さんがとても高いことが有益なレッスンの場合でも、陪審員サービスのために呼び出される可能性がありますあなたの同僚に判決を渡すことです
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