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13186 [lbo-talk] creative advertising -- rank: 1000

On Oct 25, 2006, at 12:46 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > one of the other "ads" at the site (called "border security") includes > the claim that "29% of prison inmates are illegal immigrants." can > anyone help me with that? Where's that one come from? According to the BJS <http:// www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/pjim05.pdf>, in mid-2005, there were 1,438,701 inmates in federal and state prisons (excluding local jails), and 91,176, or 6.3%, were noncitiz ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 25 10:37:45 PDT 2006

13187 [lbo-talk] Viguerie says "Halloween Scare Tactics" Won't Help GOP -- rank: 1000

[With veteran strategists like Viguerie & Luntz despairing over Republican prospects in two weeks, you gotta wonder - is this all some clever ploy, or are they serious?] ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ** RICHARD VIGUERIE: "Halloween Scare Tactics" Won t Work for GOP Republicans Must Propose a New Contract With Voters and Promise to Govern Differently OCTOBER 25, 2006 -- Manassas, Virginia -- Richard A. Viguerie, author of the new book, Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 25 10:18:08 PDT 2006

13188 [lbo-talk] Russian Far-Right Plans Anti-Immigrant Marches -- rank: 1000

On Oct 25, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Chris Doss wrote: What, no accolades in the Washington Post for this manifestation of Russia's anti-Putin civil society? Words fail me! ;) That fucking idiot Thomas Friedman uncorks an anti-Putin rant in today's NYT. I love the way Putin makes people like TF fulminate, and there's not a goddamn thing they can do about him. Doug ---- New York Times - October 25, 2006 The Really Cold War By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Berlin The Berlin Wall fell almost 17 years ago. At the t ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 25 08:37:42 PDT 2006

13189 [lbo-talk] Luntz despairs -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/24/ AR2006102401563.html> Some conservatives said it is too late. "They honestly need a baseball bat against the head," said Republican pollster Frank Luntz, who helped Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) take over Congress in the 1990s. "Because if they don't change the lexicon immediately, as bad as this election is going to be, they're going to lose the presidency in 2008. I've given up on 2006. They've already made so ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 25 08:08:30 PDT 2006

13190 [lbo-talk] creative advertising -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] Sen. Santorum has a new ad up called "Baltic Avenue." It features Casey's face next to Kim Jong Il, a mushroom cloud and Ahmedinijad at different parts of the ad. You can view the ad here: <http:// www.ricksantorum.com/Multimedia/Default.aspx#>

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Date:	Wed Oct 25 08:04:50 PDT 2006

13191 [lbo-talk] EU Draws Line in the Lebanese Sand -- rank: 1000

On Oct 25, 2006, at 2:06 AM, Dennis Redmond wrote: > Basically, he's saying that if Israel thinks it can launch surgical > strikes against Hezbollah without UNIFIL interfering, Israel is in > for a > very nasty surprise. Eh? Is France going to shoot down an Israeli plane? Fat chance. What is the EU going to do about it except complain? Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 25 05:58:27 PDT 2006

13192 [lbo-talk] great corrections of our time -- rank: 1000

New York Times - October 24, 2006 <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/pageoneplus/corrections.html? _r=1&oref=slogin> A report in the Off the Trail column yesterday about an antiwar commercial by the Working Families Party sent by e-mail to New York State voters misidentified a musician who wrote a letter supporting the party s effort. He is the folk singer Pete Seeger not the rock musician Bob Seger. --- New York Times - October 23, 2006 <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/nyre ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 24 21:19:40 PDT 2006

13193 [lbo-talk] Chomsky vs Marx/Lukacs -- rank: 1000

On Oct 24, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Incidentally, the restriction of the term "theory" to > the natural sciences is truly an anglo-american > conceit. Eh? Critical theory is widely used in U.S. intellectual circles, and cap-T Theory, referring to Derrida, Butler, and all that jazz, is a ubiquitous usage in the same circles. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 24 14:08:49 PDT 2006

13194 [lbo-talk] more evidence that Hitch has gone mad -- rank: 1000

"http://www.gawker.com/news/christopher-hitchens/christopher-hitchens- will-determine-whether-or-not-youre-being-oppressed-thank-you-very- much-209762.php" Christopher Hitchens Will Determine Whether Or Not You're Being Oppressed, Thank You Very Much In a piece on Slate about "Tony Judt's persecution complex" (quick backfill: Judt, a professor at NYU, was recently prevented from giving a speech at the Polish Consulate, allegedly because of complaints from the Anti-Defamat ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 24 13:00:50 PDT 2006

13195 [lbo-talk] WBAI -- rank: 1000

On Oct 24, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > One day, by accident, I found myself listening to a WBAI show done > by a > cabby. The one who goes by the name RoadWarrior?

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Date:	Tue Oct 24 12:32:33 PDT 2006

13196 [lbo-talk] Innovative poll on foreign policy budget -- rank: 1000

[so why don't people vote this way more often?] From: Steven Kull Date: October 24, 2006 11:18:48 AM EDT A new PIPA/Knowledge Network poll used an innovative method for exploring Americans' attitudes on the foreign policy budget. The poll was administered to the KN's probability-based panel over the internet. Respondents were presented a spread sheet of the 15 major areas of the budget related to foreign policy, denominated in terms of a total of $900, and given the opportunity to redistri ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 24 11:22:21 PDT 2006

13197 [lbo-talk] WBAI -- rank: 1000

On Oct 24, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Joseph Wanzala quoted: > Steve Brown... ...on the topic of WBAI. WBAI is a hotbed of racial accusations of the most debased and depressing sort. Supporters of the current management team call almost anyone who criticizes them "racist." And even though much of what he writes is right, Steve Brown has harmed the cause of reviving the station by saying racially inflammatory things that make it all too easy for management apologists to make the charge ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 24 11:17:58 PDT 2006

13198 [lbo-talk] Soros to fund alternative to AIPAC? -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - October 24, 2006 Soros considers backing a new lobby for Palestinian peace deal By Guy Dinmore in Washington Israel's summer war with Lebanon's Hizbollah ended after 34 days, but a fierce debate within the American Jewish community over the nature of Israel's relationship with the US rages on. It is spurring on efforts to create a new and powerful voice to lobby for peace with the Palestinians and George Soros - the billionaire financier and philanthropist who has criticise ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 24 11:09:33 PDT 2006

13199 [lbo-talk] Let's Lock Up 14% of All Men Who Have Ever Married! (was Feminism and the False Memory Syndrome) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 24, 2006, at 1:26 PM, JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: > Never fully rational in the first place? In the first place there > were child > brides, an age of consent of 11, or 13, or in the Bible, what? 3? > So it used > to be the law. The recent American panics about child sexual abuse - the milk carton madness that Susie Bright wrote about, the preschool scandals, Roseanne's recovered memories - may have a rational foundation, but it got wildly blown up to lunatic proportio ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 24 11:03:19 PDT 2006

13200 [lbo-talk] Make more jails and Let's Lock Up 14% of All Men Who Have Ever Married! -- rank: 1000

On Oct 24, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Steve wrote: > > > >> --Actually (Yoshie's) done a solid job responding to and refuting >> many of the more bizarre ideas you've floated or endorsed > > She's also done a solid job letting pass characterizations of her > arguments as bizarre, gibberish, trolling...etc. I gotta say that even when Yoshie is annoying me by tenaciously arguing a position I disagree with, I admire the way she doesn't take things p ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 24 10:55:30 PDT 2006