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10981 [lbo-talk] neoliberalism, RIP? -- rank: 1000

[This is TNR's response to the David Brooks column that Carl Remick posted the other day. The Kinsley article that Brooks cited as the birth of neoliberalism is at <http://www.tnr.com/PDF/ kinsley07251981.pdf>. It really looks like Brooks has a chronic problem with getting his facts straight.] What is neoliberalism, anyway? Left Sank? by Jonathan Chait Only at TNR Online | Post date 03.12.07 David Brooks's column in yesterday's New York Times tries to wedge TNR into a larger theory of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 13 08:59:16 PDT 2007

10982 [lbo-talk] Hannity's America -- rank: 1000

On Mar 12, 2007, at 6:00 PM, B. wrote: > Almost all the books by these figures -- O'Reilly, > Limbaugh, Hannity, Scarborough -- have a picture of -- > guess who? -- themselves on the cover, usually in a > business suit and God-and-country tie or some affected > rugged wear, posing in a study with bookcases behind > them, or on a hill overlooking some vista. "Me, me, > me," the cover says. Check out Bill O'R, looking manly: <http://billoreilly.com/>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 15:20:01 PDT 2007

10983 [lbo-talk] Output Falling in Oil-Rich Mexico, and Politics Get the Blame -- rank: 1000

On Mar 12, 2007, at 4:58 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > If the early oil and auto businesses were not characterized by big > investment, that is probably in large part because there was still a > lot of competition and oligopolistic consolidation had yet to take > place. You've been hanging around MR too long! Competition is not dead. Firms are still born, and others die; technologies are introduced, and some succeed, and some fail. > Moreover, we need to face up to the fact that ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 12 14:21:52 PDT 2007

10984 [lbo-talk] Output Falling in Oil-Rich Mexico, and Politics Get the Blame -- rank: 1000

On Mar 12, 2007, at 4:00 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > It is certainly impossible to calculate "the position of private > wealth-owners in the social system" forty years from now, but barring > an apocalyptic end of civilization as we know it, if fossil-fueled > industrialization is to end sometime in the near future, it has to be > replaced by an alternative into which a great deal of investment is > already being made today, in a fashion that coal was overtaken by o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 13:12:27 PDT 2007

10985 [lbo-talk] Hannity's America -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/themtube/themtube-sleeping-with-the- mclaughlin-group-243554.php> [...] You don't turn to Tim Russert and "Meet The Press" for a good time. As much fun as it is to watch Russert's facial expressions as the gears grind in his head each week, "Meet The Press" is largely a solemn affair, an appropriately stodgy follow-up to "The McLaughlin Group." If you want more fast-paced Sunday talk fare you have to wait for the evening to spend s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 13:09:54 PDT 2007

10986 [lbo-talk] Output Falling in Oil-Rich Mexico, and Politics Get the Blame -- rank: 1000

On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On 3/12/07, Julio Huato <juliohuato at gmail.com> wrote: >> The future is not a replica of the past. > > Right. But the question is, will global capitalism stay in business? > If the answer is yes, it is safe to bet that oil consumption at the > global level will continue to rise into the foreseeable future: "In > the IEO2006 reference case, world oil demand grows from 80 million > barrels per day in 20 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 12:36:16 PDT 2007

10987 [lbo-talk] Obama, you bitch -- rank: 1000

[Also from The Note, quoting Anne Kornblut in the WashPost] Obama's thoughts on the other major candidates[:] "I want to wait and hear what John Edwards has to say, he's kind of good-looking. And you know, Hillary Clinton, you know, she's interesting."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 09:44:36 PDT 2007

10988 [lbo-talk] Output Falling in Oil-Rich Mexico, and Politics Get the Blame -- rank: 1000

On Mar 12, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > This is pretty rich: Hubbert used his model in the 1950s to correctly > predict the peak of U. S. oil production in the 1970s! Economists' > misconceptions notwithstanding, it turns out you can effectively > predict > the future with a well-specified regression model. As I recall the finance literature, there's not enough of a history to state authoritatively that stock returns are significantly different from zero over the l ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 12 09:31:25 PDT 2007

10989 [lbo-talk] the Fox debate -- rank: 1000

[This is utterly stupid. What's wrong with having a debate on Fox? They'd get more interesting questions than they would on CNN. MoveOn.org are a bunch of wankers. From The Note.] Nevada Democrats drop Fox: After coming under intense pressure from MoveOn.org, the Nevada Democratic Party announced late Friday that it was dropping Fox News as the sponsor of its August debate. The Las Vegas Review Journal finds little sense in the cancellation, blaming the influence of the "socialist" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 07:55:31 PDT 2007

10990 [lbo-talk] Output Falling in Oil-Rich Mexico, and Politics get the Blame -- rank: 1000

On Mar 11, 2007, at 6:20 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Or as Sheikh Yamani said "The Stone Age came to an end, not because > we had a > lack of stones, and the oil age will come to an end not because we > have a > lack of oil" Yeah. Maybe because of a lack of clean air, though. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 11 15:29:18 PDT 2007

10991 [lbo-talk] advances in litigation -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - March 11, 2007 Dentist Drilling Lidle Estate MELANIE Lidle lost her husband last Oct. 11 when Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle crashed his plane into 524 E. 72nd St. Christopher Lidle, 6, lost his father. But celebrity dentist Dr. Larry Rosenthal and his wife, Sandra, say they lost their clothes and furniture when the plane struck the high- rise building 13 floors below their 43rd floor apartment - and they want Lidle's estate to pay for them. "A wing of the airplane ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 11 13:49:17 PDT 2007

10992 [lbo-talk] Neoliberalism pronounced dead -- rank: 1000

On Mar 11, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > [It's nice to learn that neoliberalism has supposedly died But Brooks is using it in the old, quirky American (as in USian) sense of neoliberalism - what was known long ago as the Atari Democrats. Socially liberal, high-tech loving, welfare-disliking, a la Gary Hart. Alex Cockburn once described it as a masthead in search of a movement - the masthead being that of The Washington Monthly. Tom Frank has signed on to the new New Republic? He ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 11 13:27:33 PDT 2007

10993 [lbo-talk] Output Falling in Oil-Rich Mexico, and Politics Gets the Blame -- rank: 1000

On Mar 11, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Andy F wrote: > James Kunstler imagines the kind of neo-agrarian, > small-town capitalism that many US progressives seem to glorify. When I made my standard argument to him on my radio program <http:// www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#060706> - that the more proximate risk is burning what we have, rather than supply problems - he conceded the point. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 11 12:33:26 PDT 2007

10994 [lbo-talk] Jocasta and Mary, was abortion poll bullshit -- rank: 1000

On Mar 10, 2007, at 1:18 PM, joanna wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Yup. Even the Catholic church didn't object until the 1890s. > > What made them change their mind? I don't remember Luker's analysis, and I'm too lazy to look it up, but I did the easy thing: google! <http://www.cbctrust.com/history_law_religion.php#3> Evolving Position of the Christian Church St. Augustine (AD 354-430) said, There cannot yet be said to be a live soul in a body that lacks sensation , ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 10 18:33:55 PST 2007

10995 [lbo-talk] abortion poll -- rank: 1000

On Mar 10, 2007, at 6:56 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Correct. But it is an open question after Casey > whether it is still good law. If I had to bet I'd say > not. Oh yeah, law, precedent, rulings. I keep forgetting about that stuff. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 10 16:43:47 PST 2007