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10141 [lbo-talk] liberals -- rank: 1000

On Oct 2, 2007, at 8:22 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > reading something about Henry Howell, who ran for governor of VA three > times. He was fond of saying, "A Liberal in Virginia is someone who > believes in life after birth." He ran when I was in Charlottesville. He was about the only trace of Southern populism in Virginia politics - some of my pals in C'ville ("don't take the -harlot- out of Charlottesville!") admired him. But he always got trounced. Do ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 2 19:41:55 PDT 2007

10142 [lbo-talk] Reps losing business class (sorry for last post) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 2, 2007, at 7:45 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > For that matter, > what's so great about the Democrats' health plan? It'll cover what, a few million kids, right? Bush says it's the road to socialized med - maybe he knows something we don't! Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 2 19:38:40 PDT 2007

10143 [lbo-talk] party & income -- rank: 1000

Larry Bartels <http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/income.pdf>: > Census Bureau data reveal large, consistent differences in patterns > of real pre-tax income growth > under Democratic and Republican presidents in the post-war U.S. > Democratic presidents have > produced slightly more income growth for poor families than for > rich families, resulting in a > modest decrease in overall inequality. Republican presidents have > produced a great deal more > income gro ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 2 14:54:03 PDT 2007

10144 [lbo-talk] Reps losing business class (sorry for last post) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 2, 2007, at 6:34 PM, John Thornton wrote: > What in particular by these authors would you recommend? I just quoted and cited a Stonecash paper, with URL. http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/PSJuly06Stonecash.pdf Another Stonecash paper, this one specifically about Tom Frank: http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol3/iss3/art4/ To download, you can make up some crap about your institution's library and get temporary free access. There's also Stonecash's book, Class and Party in American Politics. A ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 2 14:48:21 PDT 2007

10145 [lbo-talk] party differences -- rank: 1000

Stonecash <http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/PSJuly06Stonecash.pdf>: [...] In brief, inequality and party differences were substantial in the 1930s and 1940s. From the 1950s through the 1970s, both inequality and party divisions were declining. Since then inequality has increased, as have party differences about public policy (McCarty, Poole, and Rosenthal 2006). These long-term changes should have produced corresponding changes in class divisions (Stonecash 2006). [...] Given these vari ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 2 13:35:26 PDT 2007

10146 [lbo-talk] Reps losing business class (sorry for last post) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 2, 2007, at 5:02 PM, John Thornton wrote: > Isn't nearly all of this increase in difference due to the fact that > there are now social issues that separate them that did not exist > in the > 1950's and 1960's ie. abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, etc? > On economic issues, while I agree that there are substantive > differences > between D's and R's, that gap has closed has it not? No. On economic issues there wasn't much difference between the parties in t ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 2 13:27:26 PDT 2007

10147 [lbo-talk] Reps losing business class (sorry for last post) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 2, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > Carl wrote: > "What a Bizarro World reading of political trends >> this article is. The overriding point is that the > Dems have become wholly Republican in POV." > > Partly true; partly not. I never know what to make of these claims. The Dems often really suck, but 1) they've always been good imperialists, and 2) though the New Deal and Great Society are long dead, there are still big differences between D and ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 2 12:50:32 PDT 2007

10148 [lbo-talk] high U.S. health costs: becasue we're too fat? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 2, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Charles A. Grimes wrote: > Sure that's the ticket. The sick are the problem, not the system. > If we only had fewer sick people, health care would be affordable.... > > Blah, blah, blah... So the fact that we have more fat people and more poor people than Western Europe has no effect on how sick or healthy we are?

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Date:	Tue Oct 2 11:28:21 PDT 2007

10149 [lbo-talk] I hate all Iranians -- rank: 1000

On Oct 2, 2007, at 2:06 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Meet Debra Cagan Deputy Assistant Secretary, > Coalition Affairs, Global Security Affairs, > United States Department of Defense and new hero > of the Bush Administration. What has Robert > Gates top gal at the Pentagon done to attract > the world s attention beyond dressing in a scary > red leather bondage outfit topped off with a > white Nazi Iron Cross? She told a group of > British MPs how much she hated those ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 2 11:26:23 PDT 2007

10150 [lbo-talk] press release of the day: the sunny side of foreclosures! -- rank: 1000

From: "Julia Wouk" <JWouk at boothmedia.com> Date: October 2, 2007 12:22:48 PM EDT To: <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Great Guest to Provide Sunny Side of Foreclosures Hi Doug ~ Foreclosures and the huge housing slump have been making headlines for weeks. This is a national problem that is carrying over to the international marketplace and is virtually affecting everyone. Can foreclosure properties create a positive in such a negative atmosphere? Real Estate expert, B ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 2 09:25:38 PDT 2007

10151 [lbo-talk] high U.S. health costs: because we're too fat? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 2, 2007, at 12:15 PM, joanna wrote: > Yeah. Me too. When I was all over Western Europe, four years ago, > everybody was smoking everywhere. I noticed because I had just quit > and > it was tough to be surrounded by it. Ok, WHO sez about 25% Americans smoke, compared with about 30-35% of Western Europeans. The HA article was referring to over-50s who'd smoked at sometime in their lives. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 2 09:23:27 PDT 2007

10152 [lbo-talk] NSA in secret sit-down with reporters -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/how-your-sausage-gets-made/who-actually- attended-the-nsas-secret-reporter-seminars-305810.php> how your sausage gets made Who Actually Attended The NSA's Secret Reporter Seminars? Last week, Josh Gerstein explained how the information control freaks at the National Security Agency conducted secret "seminars" for reporters basically, little classes on how and when the government would like them to keep their mouths shut about top-secret and not-so- secr ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 2 09:22:30 PDT 2007

10153 [lbo-talk] Biden: who the hell do Iraqis think they are? -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/10/biden-to-iraqi-.html> Biden to Iraqi pols: 'I Don't Know Who the Hell They Think They Are" ABC News' Brian Wheeler Reports: Joe Biden today responded to criticism of a resolution passed by the Senate last week that called for federalism in Iraq. During a conference call with reporters, Biden steadfastly denied that the resolution was aimed at breaking up Iraq, and said, "It is not partition, it is not foreign imposition, and i ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 2 08:38:39 PDT 2007

10154 [lbo-talk] high U.S. health costs: because we're too fat? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 2, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Doug quoted: > > > [Health Affairs article is at <http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/ > content/full/hlthaff.26.6.w678/DC1>.] > > Obesity may push U.S. health costs above Europe: study > > > [WS:] May be. But I think there are systemic incentives that > reward the > health industrial complex (hospitals, big pharma, and insurance > companies) > for costly and often unnecessary procedures ins ...

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10155 [lbo-talk] The Idea of the Third World (was Re: Iran and LatinAmerica) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 2, 2007, at 10:12 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> Iran is nothing if not flexible. >> >> --------------- >> >> Financial Times - October 1, 2007 >> >> Iran 'ready to help' US with Iraq stability >> By Roula Khalaf and Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran >> >> Iran is ready to help the US stabilise Iraq if Washington were to >> present a timetable for withdrawing its troops from the country, >> Tehran's top security official sa ...

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