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11641 [lbo-talk] Wolcott on OJ -- rank: 1000

Vanity Fair got a copy of the OJ book, and James Wolcott writes it up: <http://www.vanityfair.com/fame/features/2007/01/ojsimpson200701? currentPage=1> Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 11:32:27 PST 2007

11642 [lbo-talk] Hillary, moneybags -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> The Note notes this morning that Hillary is the first major party >> pres candidate in modern times to reject public financing. > > I don't think the Note is right here. Right now we're talking > about primary funding. Nope, it's the general, and that's where the innovation lies. I posted that after having read only the teaser at the opening; here's the full passage an ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 11:12:23 PST 2007

11643 Purer Than Thou (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Obama 'was educatedinmadrassa') -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2007, at 12:40 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > I am not disputing that, but these are not uniquely *socialist* > issues. Well yeah but this isn't the most propitious moment for socialist politics. So you do what you can to promote the working class, end racial and sexual discrimination, and head off environmental catastrophe. And there are some really good people working on all those issues, and they need all the help they can get. Sometimes it seems like you get your idea o ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 10:33:50 PST 2007

11644 [lbo-talk] Hillary, moneybags -- rank: 1000

The Note notes this morning that Hillary is the first major party pres candidate in modern times to reject public financing. Evidently she thinks she can raise buckets of money and plans to spend it. Ah, the people's party! Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 08:43:07 PST 2007

11645 [lbo-talk] Carbon Tax Center -- Getting real about stopping climate change -- rank: 1000

[the excellent Charlie Komanoff and his colleague Dan Rosenblum have started a Carbon Tax Center - I interviewd Charlie the other week - it's at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#070104>] > Dear friend -- > > Today, we're launching the Carbon Tax Center > to give voice to Americans who believe that > taxing emissions of carbon dioxide -- the > primary greenhouse gas -- is imperative to > reduce global warming. > > CTC will provide intellectual and ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 08:22:51 PST 2007

11646 [lbo-talk] "tipping point" (yuk) on Iraq? -- rank: 1000

[I was hoping for a moratorium on Gladwellisms in 2007, but at least this news is very good - from an ABC/WP poll] Views on Iraq are so negative that for the first time more than half of Americans, 52 percent, say the United States should withdraw its forces to avoid further U.S. casualties, even if civil order hasn't been restored. That potentially could represent a tipping point away from a sense of responsibility for the situation there.

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 08:12:48 PST 2007

11647 [lbo-talk] A Dispassionate View From the Internet Left -- rank: 1000

On Jan 21, 2007, at 9:17 PM, mike larkin wrote: > http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2007/jan/21/ > an_american_dream_team > > "Over the years I've met most of the currently > announced Democratic candidates, and I just pinch > myself when I see the line-up. Senators Clinton, > Edwards, Obama, and Dodd, Governors Richardson and > Vilsack are just terrific people. They are each bright > and capable. Person by person, they are committed to > bringing out the ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 21 18:27:41 PST 2007

11648 [lbo-talk] Benny Strikes Again: "This Holocaust will be different" -- rank: 1000

On Jan 21, 2007, at 1:15 AM, Bryan Atinsky wrote: > Morris' 'illogical' melodrama is almost definitely with intention to > promote a preemptive strike on Iran. Bryan, you mentioned an intense propaganda drumbeat in Israel for war against Iran. Can any of that be traced to the loss in Lebanon? Some attempt to undo that defeat by appealing to the masterful Israeli attacks of old, like the destruction of Iraq's reactor? Did the loss in Lebanon deepen Israeli paranoia? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 21 09:52:48 PST 2007

11649 Purer Than Thou (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Obama 'was educated in madrassa') -- rank: 1000

On Jan 21, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > A good point. Maybe the single accomplishment of those whom Max > called "the Internet Left" (as opposed to leftists who use the Net) is > to make election seasons longer, so much so that we all, willy-nilly, > become cogs in a perpetual electoral motion machine. It's afflicting the whole political culture, probably because there's no incumbent, and no presumptive heir. Both parties are wide open. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 21 09:46:44 PST 2007

11650 Purer Than Thou (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Obama 'was educated in madrassa') -- rank: 1000

On Jan 21, 2007, at 11:37 AM, queer dewd formerly known as ( ) wrote: > So, we have a new record. Previously, we started this debate 11 > months before the presidential elections. This cycle, what?, 22 > months prior? I ran out of toes. :) Funny you should mention it - I just got an ABC poll (showing Hillary way ahead of Obama, by the way) that says the election is "a mere 22 months away"! Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 21 09:45:27 PST 2007

11651 [lbo-talk] Obama's politics: he's not a boomer -- rank: 1000

[Even though he is a boomer by the pre-Neil Howe definition - yeah war, race, sex, all that shit's so old-fashioned - can he really be this shallow?] New York Times - January 21, 2007 Shushing the Baby Boomers By JOHN M. BRODER THE time has come, Senator Barack Obama says, for the baby boomers to get over themselves. In taking the first steps toward a presidential candidacy last week, Mr. Obama, who was born in 1961 and considers himself a member of the post-boomer generation, said American ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 21 09:44:34 PST 2007

11652 [lbo-talk] Nepal gays and Maoists/Marxist Approach -- rank: 1000

On Jan 21, 2007, at 10:01 AM, EverYoung Global Intellectual Enterprises wrote: > Marquis de Sade is applauded by many people; he has been applauded > for a couple of centuries by many. Is that too to be passed as > normal and human? "Nothing human is alien to me." - Marx

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Date:	Sun Jan 21 08:41:04 PST 2007

11653 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Sat Jan 20 14:18:05 PST 2007

11654 [lbo-talk] Obama 'was educated in madrassa' -- rank: 1000

On Jan 20, 2007, at 4:09 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > So absolutism works so well? Don't vote, vote for the > Socialist Party or Nader. Let McCain win. That worked > so well too. We are faced with ugly and unappy > choices. I have been on both sides of this -- yours > for 15 years. I don't know the right answer. Are you > sure you do? If you want to be pragmatic, why not Edwards? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 20 13:32:21 PST 2007

11655 [lbo-talk] Obama 'was educated in madrassa' -- rank: 1000

On Jan 20, 2007, at 2:00 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > And the > candidates who support the positions we like -- > Edwards to some degree, Kuchinich -- poll in the > single digits and have no choice. Kucinich is hopeless, but Edwards is only a few points behind Obama in the latest polls <http://pollingreport.com/WH08dem.htm>. It's not surprising that Obama's had a surge, given all the hype about him, that's not surprising. On Iraq, Chuck Hagel sounds tougher than Obama. D ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 20 13:31:26 PST 2007