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11221 [lbo-talk] WP profiles Code Pink -- rank: 1000

So Susan Benjamin renamed herself Medea in college. Always wondered about that. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/09/ AR2007060901488.html?nav=rss_print/style>

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Date:	Wed Jun 13 11:52:49 PDT 2007

11222 [lbo-talk] Glen Ford on Barack Obama -- rank: 1000

The excellent Glen Ford, ex of The Black Commentator and now of The Black Agenda Report, gives the shiny & well-spoken Barack Obama a definitive hammering: <http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=251&Itemid=34>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 13 11:46:16 PDT 2007

11223 [lbo-talk] Finkelstein actions, petition -- rank: 1000

[Also denied tenure at DePaul was the economist Mehrene Larudee, who's not a controversial figure like Norman, but who's got good politics and was supported by her department.] Support Petition for Norman Finkelstein's Tenure Written by Victor Lang, Students for Finkelstein Wednesday, 13 June 2007 DePaul Students Protest for Academic Freedom Continuing an uphill battle with the DePaul University administration, student and community groups will gather at 55 E. Jackson (Jackson and Wabash) to ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 13 11:26:10 PDT 2007

11224 [lbo-talk] Americans & evolution -- rank: 1000

On Jun 13, 2007, at 12:02 AM, cgrimes at rawbw.COM wrote: > The above implies Gallup was attempting to > find the influence of the then rising rightwing Christians. Remember, George Gallup was a born-agin'er, and they've always taken religion seriously. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 13 08:59:31 PDT 2007

11225 [lbo-talk] get grandpa's FBI file! -- rank: 1000

NEW WEB SITES: GET DADDYS FBI FILE.COM AND GET GRANDPAS FBI FILE.COM By Michael Ravnitzky , mikerav at verizon.net Two new websites were spotted recently. http://www.GetDaddysFBIFile.com And http://www.GetGrandpasFBIFile.com The two sites allow the visitor to generate form letters asking for FBI Files for a deceased person from FBI Headquarters as well as visitor-selected FBI Field Offices.

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Date:	Wed Jun 13 06:41:36 PDT 2007

11226 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ viewPodcast?id=73801817> "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/ Radio.html>: June 7, 2007 ADOLPH REED on Obama, the toxic grip of foundations, and how presidential campaigns are like running for Prince of ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 12 15:56:49 PDT 2007

11227 [lbo-talk] American statesman -- rank: 1000

<http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/Story?id=3105288&page=3> As Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., tacks left by calling for a complete troop withdrawal from Iraq, The New Republic's Ryan Lizza spent some time with the governor trying to divine his foreign-policy vision -- without much success. "The safe bet is that Richardson, despite his years on the world stage, has never developed any fixed foreign policy ideology. Or any fixed political identity, either," Lizza ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 12 15:03:27 PDT 2007

11228 [lbo-talk] Americans & evolution -- rank: 1000

On Jun 12, 2007, at 5:32 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Besides - if juries take their responsibilities so seriously, how > come that > prisons are populated by folk that many (including yourself) claim > that > should not been there. Lots and lots of people never get a trial before a jury - they're plea-bargained into the pokey. There's a good reason for that - prosecutors fear that the accused will get off in a jury trial. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 12 14:46:26 PDT 2007

11229 [lbo-talk] vox pop on "feminism" -- rank: 1000

<http://feministing.com/archives/007173.html>

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Date:	Tue Jun 12 14:42:24 PDT 2007

11230 [lbo-talk] everything Jersey -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nj.com/columns/ledger/sepinwall/index.ssf?/base/ columns-0/1181623651270570.xml&coll=1> Newark Star-Ledger ["Everything Jersey"] - June 12, 2007 'Sopranos' creator's last word: End speaks for itself What do you do when your TV world ends? You go to dinner, then keep quiet. "Sopranos" creator David Chase took his wife out for dinner Sunday night in France, where he fled to avoid "all the Monday morning quarterbacking" about the show's finale. ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 12 14:22:45 PDT 2007

11231 [lbo-talk] Is this the end of Tony? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 12, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > The > Dick Van Dyke Show is a great work of visual art? How about the wacky way that Dick sidestepped the footstool in the opening credits? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 12 14:13:42 PDT 2007

11232 [lbo-talk] Americans & evolution -- rank: 1000

On Jun 12, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Chuck.Grimes.cgrimes at rawbw.COM wrote: > I'd like to see an over-time study, something that showed if these > opinions have changed much since say 1950. Any where to go see? Gallup first asked the question in its present form in 1982. There's been little change since then. The biggest shift is in those saying that we evolved with no help from god - up from 9% in 1982 to 14% now. The other options moved only a point or two. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 12 13:40:37 PDT 2007

11233 [lbo-talk] Is This the End of Tony? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 12, 2007, at 4:06 PM, BklynMagus wrote: > But the problem with THE SOPRANOS is that the story was > not told often enough through visual means. So? There are many ways to tell a story. Maybe the reason I loved the show so much is that I'm a words guy, not a pictures guy. But in any case, why is one any better than the other? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 12 13:22:56 PDT 2007

11234 [lbo-talk] Americans & evolution -- rank: 1000

On Jun 12, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > What I find really baffling is your and (others on this list) > willingness to discard this fundamental irrationality of the "plain > folks of > the land" (to quote HL Mencken) when it comes to jury duty or > elections. > What makes you think that the half of the population that earnestly > believes > in this kind of irrational superstition suddenly starts thinking in > the > matter-of-fact terms when ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 12 12:36:45 PDT 2007

11235 [lbo-talk] Americans & evolution -- rank: 1000

<http://www.galluppoll.com/content/default.aspx?ci=27847> June 11, 2007 Majority of Republicans Doubt Theory of Evolution More Americans accept theory of creationism than evolution by Frank Newport GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- The majority of Republicans in the United States do not believe the theory of evolution is true and do not believe that humans evolved over millions of years from less advanced forms of life. This suggests that when three Republican presidential candidate ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 12 07:24:20 PDT 2007