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12856 [lbo-talk] Dennis Kucinich -- rank: 1000
On Apr 1, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On 4/1/07, tfast <tfast at yorku.ca> wrote: >> Who is this guy he seems pretty sober. Why can't lefties in the >> US get >> behind this guy? >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtVb_uEklzQ > > Because Dennis Kucinich is unendorsed by the Master Class, and most US > leftists do not back any presidential candidate who isn't endorsed by > that class, even if the candidate is a Democrat. Since ...
Document Size: 5359
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 1 17:31:33 PDT 2007
12857 [lbo-talk] Rupe & the CBC -- rank: 1000
<http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0307/News_Corp_and_the_CBC.html> News Corp. and the CBC [Ben Smith] So why would the Congressional Black Caucus defy Democratic activists and co-host a debate with Fox News? Without venturing an answer, it's worth noting that News Corp. has been working in these vineyards for a long time. As liberal bloggers have already noted, News Corp. (along with many other major corporations, including Time Warner)* is a regular contributor to the Congressi ...
Document Size: 6880
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 1 09:02:21 PDT 2007
12858 [lbo-talk] 90% of Americans believe in god; half reject evolution -- rank: 1000
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17879317/site/newsweek/> NEWSWEEK Poll: 90% Believe in God The latest NEWSWEEK poll shows that 91 percent of American adults surveyed believe in God and nearly half reject the theory of evolution. Also, Americans on John Edwards and the Senate's goal for troop withdrawal WEB EXCLUSIVE By Brian Braiker Updated: 3:04 p.m. ET March 31, 2007 March 30, 2007 - A belief in God and an identification with an organized religion are widespread throughout the country, ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 1 08:30:14 PDT 2007
12859 [lbo-talk] God tells Matthew Dowd to turn on Bush -- rank: 1000
New York Times - April 1, 2007 Ex-Aide Says He's Lost Faith in Bush By JIM RUTENBERG AUSTIN, Tex., March 29 In 1999, Matthew Dowd became a symbol of George W. Bush's early success at positioning himself as a Republican with Democratic appeal. A top strategist for the Texas Democrats who was disappointed by the Bill Clinton years, Mr. Dowd was impressed by the pledge of Mr. Bush, then governor of Texas, to bring a spirit of cooperation to Washington. He switched parties, joined Mr. Bush's ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 1 08:24:48 PDT 2007
12860 [lbo-talk] How to explain things to (right-wing) libertarians -- rank: 1000
On Mar 31, 2007, at 10:52 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > But IIRC correctly his Marxism was something he largely got in the > US as a > cigarmaker. Michael Kazin says in his book on populism that Gompers was a Marxist in Britain, and dropped it when he got to the land of the free. I'll find the quote when I get home tonight. Doug
Document Size: 5095
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 1 08:05:55 PDT 2007
12861 [lbo-talk] Narmada, damn! -- rank: 1000
On Apr 1, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Then again, I think the idea of having a planet with > billions and billions and billions of people on it to > be inutterably depressing. We have billions & billions now, so the world as it exists depresses you inutterably? I love living in a big city full of all kinds of people from all over the place. Doug
Document Size: 4822
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 1 08:04:00 PDT 2007
12862 [lbo-talk] shameless Dems pander on "sex crimes" -- rank: 1000
On Sep 30, 2006, at 6:01 PM, B.K. DeLong wrote: > For a fifty-year old congressman having an explicitly sexual > conversation with a kid who works for him, even after he claims to > be underage), while perhaps not a shocking sex crime....certainly > creepy and incredibly inappropriate for a congressman.... Creepy and inappropriate. yeah, but it'd be nice if it all made us think about sexual repression & hypocrisy. The guy's gay, be he couldn't reveal that because it would ruin ...
Document Size: 5800
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Sep 30 15:12:23 PDT 2006
12863 [lbo-talk] shameless Dems pander on "sex crimes" -- rank: 1000
["shocking sex crimes"? please!] From: "DNC Press" <dncpress at dnc.org> Date: September 30, 2006 1:25:57 PM EDT Subject: WHY DID TOM REYNOLDS COVER UP CONGRESSMAN'S SEX CRIMES? For Immediate Release September 30, 2006 Contact: Damien LaVera 202-863-8148 Why Did Tom Reynolds Cover Up Congressman's Sex Crimes? Washington, DC Yesterday, Florida Republican Congressman Mark Foley resigned from Congress when sexually inappropriate emails and instant messages he sent to ...
Document Size: 7463
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Sep 30 11:34:49 PDT 2006
12864 [lbo-talk] Bush loses Bob Woodward -- rank: 1000
On Sep 29, 2006, at 8:08 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > But the contract between the bookstore and Woodward's publishers > was probably broken if an agent of a bookstore actually sold the book. New York Times - September 30, 2006 Woodward Book Debut Not Quite as Planned By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE Simon & Schuster had an intricate strategy all worked out for rolling out Bob Woodward's new book, "State of Denial," scheduled for publication on Monday. Extensive excerpts would appear in ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Sep 30 10:03:41 PDT 2006
12865 [lbo-talk] Bush loses Bob Woodward -- rank: 1000
On Sep 29, 2006, at 8:08 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > The case was a copyright case.... and it was called Harper and > Row v. Nation Enterprises 471 U.S. 539 (1985), if any one is > interested. > > What Harper hit the Nation for was extensive quotation of the book > and thus they claimed that the Nation violated their copyright. Ok, right, but as I recall Harper was pissed off that The Nation had broken an embargo. It was a commercial dispute that took the form of a copyright ...
Document Size: 5135
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Sep 30 09:56:46 PDT 2006
12866 [lbo-talk] Re: latest poll of iraqis -- rank: 1000
On Sep 29, 2006, at 7:16 PM, John Mage wrote: > The surprise is the > apparent quarter of all Iraqis who approve of attacks on US > soldiers but > supposedly do not want US out in the next six months, how to > account for > that? Can't you imagine that they're afraid of too abrupt a change and hope for some rational transition? That may not be possible, but the wish is expressed in the timetable. Doug
Document Size: 5098
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Sep 29 20:19:13 PDT 2006
12867 [lbo-talk] Re: latest poll of iraqis -- rank: 1000
On Sep 29, 2006, at 7:16 PM, John Mage wrote: > The surprise is the > apparent quarter of all Iraqis who approve of attacks on US > soldiers but > supposedly do not want US out in the next six months, how to > account for > that? Attacking US soldiers will speed US exit, but they just don't want it to be tomorrow. It's kind of like a Jewish joke. Doug
Document Size: 4973
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Sep 29 20:16:30 PDT 2006
12868 [lbo-talk] latest poll of iraqis -- rank: 1000
On Sep 29, 2006, at 6:17 PM, John Mage wrote: > The business of polling Iraqis on key political questions seems absurd > to me, given the self-evident truth of the notion that most people > will > tend to give the answer they think least likely to get them tortured > and/or murdered. Nonetheless, Doug is a fan of polls (even in > Iraq), so > maybe he can help me out with this latest one; some excerpts: > > "Poll Says Most Iraqis Want U.S. Out What's surprising abo ...
Document Size: 5351
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Sep 29 15:29:10 PDT 2006
12869 Faulkner, was Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Night Watch -- rank: 1000
On Sep 29, 2006, at 5:50 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I mean in a good way. Every word is right -- every sentence rhythm. It > is achingly beautiful. I loved Faulkner back when I read literature. I wonder if he appeals more to people who prefer poetry to narrative. Doug
Document Size: 4909
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Sep 29 15:07:32 PDT 2006
12870 [lbo-talk] Charles Glass on accusations about Hizbullah] -- rank: 1000
[from the current LRB] Too fair to Hizbullah? From Charles Glass Eugene Goodheart asks whether I am familiar with two statements he attributes to Hizbullah's secretary-general, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah (Letters, 7 September). Goodheart uses the inflammatory quotations to accuse Nasrallah of being 'an anti-semite with fantasies of genocide'. If I am unfamiliar with the statements, it is because they are in all likelihood fabrications. The first ('If they [the Jews] all gather in Israel it will ...
Document Size: 6613
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Sep 29 14:45:07 PDT 2006
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