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13201 [lbo-talk] right freaking about evangelicals freaking about climate change -- rank: 1000

[This is from a right-wing PR shop.] From: Audrey Mullen <audrey at advocacyink.com> Date: October 24, 2006 11:33:04 AM EDT Subject: INTERVIEW: CEI scholar explains how Christian evangelicals came to embrace Leftist enviro/business policies Competitive Enterprise Institute - http://www.cei.org To schedule interview, contact Audrey Mullen or Dave Mohel at 703-548-1160 "The attempt to subvert Christian evangelicals into supporting energy- rationing policies that will consign the world ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 24 09:02:30 PDT 2006

13202 [lbo-talk] boobs -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238&page=3> The Associated Press reports on Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Loretta Nail's hopes that voters in Alabama "will eventually focus on her platform" although she is "campaigning on her cleavage." Her campaign is distributing t-shirts of her photo with the words "more of these boobs" over photos of her opponents with the words "and less of these boobs."

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Date:	Tue Oct 24 08:45:49 PDT 2006

13203 [lbo-talk] the difference between the two parties (cont.) -- rank: 1000

New York Sun - October 23, 2006 "http://www.nysun.com/article/42019" RNC Mailing Accuses Pa. Democrat Of Helping To Start the War in Iraq BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun October 23, 2006 URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/42019 A D V E R T I S E M E N T A D V E R T I S E M E N T WASHINGTON Voters in Pennsylvania's rural, conservative 10th Congressional District received an unlikely mailing earlier this month accusing a former Navy lieutenant of helping start the Iraq war. Qu ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 24 08:40:37 PDT 2006

13204 [lbo-talk] Chicago Voter Database Hacked] -- rank: 1000

[from INteresting People] "http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2601085" [...] As if there weren't enough concerns about the integrity of the vote, a non-partisan civic organization today claimed it had hacked into the voter database for the 1.35 million voters in the city of Chicago. Bob Wilson, an official with the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project ? which bills itself as a not-for-profit civic organization dedicated to the correction of election system deficiencies ? tells AB ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 24 06:40:34 PDT 2006

13205 [lbo-talk] Let's Lock Up 14% of All Men Who Have Ever Married! (wasFeminism and the False Memory Syndrome) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 24, 2006, at 1:20 AM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > I believe what Yoshie is doing is what's called "trolling." The > essence of > her latest argument seems to be that we shouldn't punish crime, > including > rape, because we don't have large enough prisons. This is a fairly > sordid > and desperate style of argument. No, that's not what Yoshie's doing at all. She's trying to put child sexual abuse into some perspective. If its incidence is really declining, then ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 24 06:33:58 PDT 2006

13206 [lbo-talk] Declines in Child Sexual Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence -- rank: 1000

On Oct 24, 2006, at 5:31 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Onward to ever more spectacular sex crime scares and ever bigger > prison populations, America, the land of rapists and rape victims! [Susie doesn't like it when one forwards the whole text of a blog entry, so please visit her site for a full dose.] "http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2006/10/ how_safe_is_you.html" October 23, 2006 How Safe is Your Daughter? To my mind, it began with the milk cartons not t ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 24 06:27:56 PDT 2006

13207 [lbo-talk] Dispiriting Suburbs? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 23, 2006, at 12:04 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > I don't understand how claiming that left principles are the > truest realization of American ideals is a bad thing. A discourse of individual rights is compatible with American principles, but it's a real stretch to make them conform to anything collective (or secular). Competitive individualism seems so deeply ingrained into our common sense that I can't imagine how you'd break out of it. So much of American populism has centered ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 23 16:06:11 PDT 2006

13208 [lbo-talk] frontiers of activism -- rank: 1000

[This store is in our apartment building, and I witnessed this event this morning as Ivan & I were coming back from the gym. There were about 10 protesters, a cop car, two cop trucks, and an ambulance. Evidently they were expecting violence.] <http://victoriasdirtysecret.net/article.php?id=297> Activists blockade Victoria's Secret store in New York City October 23rd, 2006 9:45 AM, Manhattan, NY: Activists blockaded the entrance of the Victoria's Secret Store at 85th and Broadway ( ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 23 15:45:26 PDT 2006

13209 [lbo-talk] ABC/WP poll: it's a referendum on Iraq, and the center has peeled away -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: '06 ELN UPDATE - 10/22/06 In a Referendum on Iraq The Center Peels Away Two weeks away, the 2006 midterm elections look more than anything like a referendum on the war in Iraq a war on which George W. Bush and his party have lost not just the political center, but significant chunks of their own base as well. An improving economy notwithstanding, opposition to the war remains the prime issue driving congressional vote preference. And the war's critics includ ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 23 14:58:54 PDT 2006

13210 [lbo-talk] spare the Rodham... -- rank: 1000

[Jordan says that double quoting URLs prevents those line breaks that so annoy Ravi] "http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/20/poll.08/index.html" Poll: Spare the 'Rodham,' spoil her election POSTED: 6:47 p.m. EDT, October 20, 2006 (CNN) -- If presidential elections were held today, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton would likely have a comfortable edge over Sen. John McCain, but take away her maiden name and McCain has a better shot of landing in the Oval Office. So say the results of a CN ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 23 08:06:47 PDT 2006

13211 [lbo-talk] Diebold code leaked again -- rank: 1000

<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do? command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9004339&source=NLT_AM&nlid=1> Diebold source code leaked again Another breach on the e-voting front as elections near Robert McMillan October 21, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- Source code to Diebold Election Systems Inc. voting machines has been leaked once again. On Wednesday, former Maryland state legislator Cheryl C. Kagan was anonymously given disks containing source code to Diebold's Ballot ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 23 05:10:24 PDT 2006

13212 [lbo-talk] Paranoid Styles, Soviet and American (was Hamas "a project of Shin Bet") -- rank: 1000

On Oct 22, 2006, at 8:14 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > One of the diffculties involved in discussing these matters with > illiterates > (Pope-like, Doug bestows the title "voices of reason") That wasn't me, that was Jim Farmelant. I don't recall ever bestowing the title "voices of reason" on anyone, in fact. Doug

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13213 [lbo-talk] Why will Lula win on Sunday? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 22, 2006, at 7:43 PM, Paul wrote: > Lula's Brazil is mostly another example of neo-liberal > disappointments. I keep asking people who say things like that - what else could he have done? He'd face a capital strike if he'd gotten too radical. Brazil is not like Venezuela; it has high debts and no oil exports. Low debt and high oil income give Chavez enormous freedom to maneuver. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 22 17:15:39 PDT 2006

13214 [lbo-talk] Median income higher than in 1985 -- rank: 1000

On Oct 21, 2006, at 9:42 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > "As the U.S. population crossed the 300 million mark > sometime around 7:46 a.m. Tuesday (according to the > U.S. Census Bureau), the typical family is doing a > whole lot better than their grandparents were in 1967, > the year the population first surpassed 200 million. > > Mr. and Mrs. Median's $46,326 in annual income is 32% > more than their mid-'60s counterparts, even when > adjusted for inflation, and 1 ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 22 17:09:40 PDT 2006

13215 [lbo-talk] Dispiriting Suburbs? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 22, 2006, at 7:30 PM, wrobert at uci.edu wrote: > On the other hand, Michael Denning in The Cultural Front, makes an > argument that the politics of the popular front were a serious > attempt to > reimagine and recreate an American society on a radical democratic > basis. But that wouldn't be American society, which from the first was run by merchants and slaveholders. Doug

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