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11446 [lbo-talk] Flynt and Palfrey going after DC hypocrites -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0707/4872.html> Flynt, Palfrey target D.C. 'hypocrisy' By: Jeanne Cummings and Anne Schroeder Jul 11, 2007 06:10 AM EST Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, already on a hunt for Washington sex scandals, has teamed up with a powerful new ally: "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey. It's an alignment born from coincidental interests: Flynt wants to expose Washington hypocrites, and Palfrey has a long list of people who probably qualify. Sen. David ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 11 06:34:48 PDT 2007

11447 [lbo-talk] Alterman congratulates self -- rank: 1000

<http://mediamatters.org/altercation/200707100002#1> Don't say it ain't so... First things first: Congratulations to me on the occasion of my being named a "CUNY Distinguished Professor of English" at Brooklyn College. Professionally speaking, it's just about the best thing that's ever happened to me. (Though it's not in the press release, I am also a Professor of Journalism at the new CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, where I'll be teaching the "journalism of ideas&q ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 11 06:32:11 PDT 2007

11448 [lbo-talk] Eric Alterman now officially "distinguished" -- rank: 1000

<http://www1.cuny.edu/forum/?p=1582> Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 CUNY Board Names Alterman Distinguished Prof at Brooklyn College Brooklyn, NY Called "the most honest and incisive media critic writing today" in the National Catholic Reporter, and author of "the smartest and funniest political journal out there" in the San Francisco Chronicle, Eric Alterman, professor of English at Brooklyn College has been elevated to "Distinguished Professor" by the Board ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 10 14:49:08 PDT 2007

11449 [lbo-talk] another embarrassed Friend of Rudy -- rank: 1000

<http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/Story?id=3105288&page=2> Another Republican presidential candidate, meanwhile, takes yet another hit-by-proxy. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., the "Southern regional chair" for Giuliani's presidential campaign, confirmed last night that his number appeared in the telephone records of the "DC madam," and apologized for "a very serious sin in my past." Vitter, a prominent social conservative, was one of Giuliani's m ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 10 12:51:39 PDT 2007

11450 [lbo-talk] Tan Malaka (was Liberalism) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 10, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> I've been mechanically approving your first three posts of every day >> - and by the way I'm getting a little annoyed at how you sometimes >> decide to delete the pending posts, so when I go to approve them, >> they're gone. But I'm not going to approve any more until you >> actually name some names. > > Yourself, for example. > > Can you imagine writing an article with the tone and argument like & ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 10 12:01:13 PDT 2007

11451 [lbo-talk] quote -- rank: 1000

[from a Facebook profile] "I'm becoming increasingly nostalgic for the days when kneecapping was on the agenda of some left somewhere." -- Adolph Reed

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Date:	Tue Jul 10 11:42:11 PDT 2007

11452 [lbo-talk] Moore rips into Blitzer -- rank: 1000

<http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0707/09/sitroom.03.html> BLITZER: Earlier I spoke to Michael Moore about criticism of his new film. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) BLITZER: Michael Moore is joining us now live from Detroit. Michael, thanks very much for coming in. You want to respond to anything ... MOORE: First of all, Wolf, yeah, well -- yeah, I'd like about 10 minutes to respond to what was said. BLITZER: Give us a couple of headlines, what you'd like to say. MOORE: I don't talk in sound b ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 10 09:48:05 PDT 2007

11453 [lbo-talk] Al Qaeda (Iraq) threatens war against Iran -- rank: 1000

<http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D1B901E0- A9E5-4D3A-937B-7B5262BBE82C.htm> Al-Qaeda threatens war against Iran The leader of an al-Qaeda umbrella group in Iraq, who was thought to have beeen killed by US forces, has threatened to wage war against Iran unless it stops supporting Shias in Iraq within two months. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State in Iraq, said his Sunni fighters have been preparing to wage a battle against Shia- dominated Iran. Al-Baghdadi made the an ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 10 08:07:19 PDT 2007

11454 [lbo-talk] Greg Mitchell denounces Michael Gordon -- rank: 1000

<http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp? vnu_content_id=1003607047> Consider the Source: 'NYT' Reporter Targets Iran As if he hadn't already done enough damage, helping to promote the American invasion of Iraq with deeply flawed articles in The New York Times, Michael R. Gordon is now writing scare stories that offer ammunition for the growing chorus of neo-cons calling for a U.S. strike against Iran. By Greg Mitchell (July 03, 2007) -- As if he hadn't done e ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 10 08:02:59 PDT 2007

11455 [lbo-talk] base to Bush: it's over -- rank: 1000

[Byron York is Washington editor of National Review.] Washington Post - July 8, 2007 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/ AR2007070602003.html> DEPT. OF LAME DUCKS Base to Bush: It's Over By Byron York Let's say you're a Republican president, a bit more than midway through your second term. You're scrambling to salvage what you can of a deeply unpopular war, you're facing a line of subpoenas from Democrats in Congress and your poll ratings are in the basemen ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 9 13:26:27 PDT 2007

11456 [lbo-talk] the Libby commutation explained -- rank: 1000

[from The Note <http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/Story? id=3105288&page=3> - amazing: Cheney doesn't even have to speak!] Newsweek's Michael Isikoff delves into the internal deliberations that led Bush to keep Libby out of jail, and reports that White House counsel Fred Fielding "reluctantly concluded that the jury had reached a reasonable verdict: the evidence was strong that Libby testified falsely about his role in the leak." Vice President Dick Cheney didn' ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 9 13:19:12 PDT 2007

11457 [lbo-talk] Tan Malaka (was Liberalism) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Seen objectively in terms of their respective casualties, the > collective records of liberalism, socialism, secular nationalism, etc. > are not prettier than that of Islamism. As far as I can see, though, > selective indignation is the norm rather than an exception among > liberals and leftists... Since you get a free pass from Carrol Cox, he won't perform his usual role of querying generalizations. And this one is a lot mor ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 9 12:08:52 PDT 2007

11458 [lbo-talk] Russell Kirk clarifies everything -- rank: 1000

[Turns out Russell Kirk had both religion and liberalism, two of this list's recent obsessions, figured out. This is from Alan Wolfe's review of a collection of Kirk's "essential" works (who knew there was such a thing?) in The New Republic.] [...] For Kirk, however, it is not fanaticism in general that gives cause for worry, but one kind of fanaticism in particular: "the belief that this world of ours may be converted into the Terrestrial Paradise through the operation of p ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 9 10:12:42 PDT 2007

11459 [lbo-talk] Max Horkheimer on Theism and Atheism -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > The predictability of lbo-talk carpet-chewing on the subject of > religion > fortunately detracts not at all from its entertainment value. It's > like the > old Three Stooges routine: Nii-agara Falls! Slooowly I turned... > One never > tires of it. > > Still, I rather wonder: if one is really "over" religion -- if one > really > regards it as just folly from start to finish, and has no emotional > e ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 9 09:49:21 PDT 2007

11460 [lbo-talk] Handwriting on the wall ( Re: Max Horkheimer onTheismand Atheism) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2007, at 12:59 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > Yes, but I think a lot of his research was hit-and-miss, based on > his own > inadequate resources and the primitive state of data gathering in > the 19th > century. I'm sure he would have written differently if he had our data gathering and processing capabilities, but for all our mastery of data, we still can't think as well as the Grundrisse. But that aside, you've got to be kidding. Marx knew the business world of his day, ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 9 05:48:41 PDT 2007