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13261 [lbo-talk] WSJ defends WMT; Tierney nominates WMT for a Nobel -- rank: 1000

[and John Tierney's column from yesterday is too good to pass up] Wall Street Journal - October 18, 2006 The Wal-Mart Posse October 18, 2006; Page A20 Wal-Mart may be expanding in the People's Republic of China, but here in capitalist America the low-price retailer has become the Democratic Party's favorite pinata. The media like to portray this as a populist uprising against heartless big business. But what they don't bother to disclose is that this entire get-Wal-Mart campaign is a politi ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 12:40:39 PDT 2006

13262 [lbo-talk] Studds' Husband Denied Congressional Pension -- rank: 1000

"Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) who pled guilty last week to conspiracy charges and faces up to 10 years in prison for taking bribes will receive about $29,000 a year from his pension for the rest of his life - even while he is in prison." http://365gay.com/Newscon06/10/101706studds.htm Studds' Husband Denied Congressional Pension 365Gay.com October 17, 2006 - 5:00 pm ET (Washington) For the first time the surviving spouse of a member of Congress is being denied death benefits. Dean Hara, w ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 12:28:45 PDT 2006

13263 [lbo-talk] Finkestein hangs Marty P out to dry -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: >> (b) Daniel Goldhagen? > > "right" or "wrong" seems a strange way of posing the > question in this case. I do not know of Finkelstein > successfully challenging Goldhagen's factual material, As a matter of fact, he did just that. Maybe you should read some Finkelstein before passing judgment on him. >> (c) Alan Dershowitz? > > I don't know. I would have to read what Finkelstein > has to sa ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 12:25:35 PDT 2006

13264 [lbo-talk] nonvoters -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/reports/?ReportID=58> Who Votes, Who Doesn t and Why How Voters and Non-Voters Differ October 18, 2006 They vote but not always. Compared with Americans who regularly cast ballots, they are less engaged in politics. They are more likely to be bored with the political process and admit they often do not know enough about candidates to cast ballots. But they are crucial to Republican and Democratic fortunes in the Nov. 7 midterm elections. They are the intermitte ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 11:55:17 PDT 2006

13265 [lbo-talk] Finkestein hangs Marty P out to dry -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > http://ajcongress.blogdrive.com/archive/58.html All she did was maybe, > and I emphasize maybe, misquote how much Finkelstein was being paid > for the UC Irvine speech, and look what she got from him. He is a > disgrace to DePaul University, or any university for that matter. > Allyson is one of this country's best activists, she certainly does > not deserve to be treated in this manner. > > http://littlegreenfootball ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 11:47:41 PDT 2006

13266 [lbo-talk] Finkestein hangs Marty P out to dry -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Michael Pugliese quoted: > Novick's book is a serious and scholarly attempt to answer these > questions, resting on years of research and reflection, in sharp > contrast to Finkelstein's hastily-written pamphlet which from internal > evidence seems to have been cobbled together between January and April > 2000 in response to Novick whose book Finkelstein had reviewed for > the London Review of Books (6 January 2000) rather than out of some > ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 11:44:22 PDT 2006

13267 [lbo-talk] Human species 'may split in two': evolutionaary theorist -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics > expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge. > > > [WS:] What truly amazes me is that such paper and pencil > "theorists" survive > in the academe in the era when empirical neuroscience and genetics are > making a real progress. <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/darwin/people.htm> Oliver completed his PhD t ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 11:36:13 PDT 2006

13268 [lbo-talk] Finkestein hangs Marty P out to dry -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2006, at 9:42 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I hadn't known where Peretz got the money to buy the New Republic. Detail: Peretz' wife's money comes from the Singer sewing machine fortune.

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 10:22:15 PDT 2006

13269 [lbo-talk] Hamas "a project of Shin Bet" (was: Hezbollah vs IDF) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2006, at 12:58 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > if we are so damn smart, why aren't we getting anywhere > in our own countries? As the man said: > Now you intellectuals may not like it > But there ain't nothin' that you can do > Cause there's a whole lot more of us common-folks > Then there ever will be of you In context: What This World Needs Is A Few More Rednecks The Charlie Daniels Band (Chorus) What this world needs is a few more rednecks Some people ain't afraid ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 05:26:30 PDT 2006

13270 [lbo-talk] Why Richard Hofstadter Is StillWorthReadingbutNotforthe Reasons the Critics Have in Mind -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2006, at 6:13 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > And, though I haven't followed this thread completely, I'm not sure > that the > point has been made that "McCarthyism" is in some sense a misnomer. > given > the general anti-Communist hysteria going back to Harry Truman and > others. > The term "McCarthyism" lets lots of Democrats and liberals off the > hook. A > Whitney Griswold at Yale, McGeorge Bundy at Harvard, Hutchins at the > University ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 15:25:58 PDT 2006

13271 [lbo-talk] Seth Ackerman on Hamas -- rank: 1000

<http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2974> Extra! September/October 2006 Nixed Signals When Hamas hinted at peace, U.S. media wouldn't take the message By Seth Ackerman After the June 25 capture of one of its soldiers in a raid by Hamas militants, Israel responded with a massive invasion of Gaza. It destroyed the area's electrical generators, blew up bridges and launched a barrage of artillery at Palestinian camps and settlements. Palestinian fighters vowed steadfast resistance. Whateve ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 15:24:30 PDT 2006

13272 [lbo-talk] Why Richard Hofstadter Is Still WorthReadingbutNotforthe Reasons the Critics Have in Mind -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2006, at 5:50 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Jesse Lemisch wrote: >> >> Nobody disputes >> that McCarthyism took on the character of a mass movement. > > Actually, I think it could be debated. This is not a measurement of whether McCarthyism was a mass movement or not, but it does suggest that his popularity was limited and short- lived <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy>: McCarthy's Support in Gallup Polls Date Favorable No Opinion ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 15:04:10 PDT 2006

13273 [lbo-talk] Why Richard Hofstadter Is Still Worth Reading but Not for the Reasons the Critics Have in Mind -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2006, at 5:12 PM, Seth Ackerman wrote: > I'm all for challenging the leadership of the SC Democratic Party. > But what will that achieve unless a new leadership can actually win > elections there? Probably 90% of SC blacks *already* vote Dem. > Elections can only be won by convincing a much larger percentages > of whites to vote Dem too. What's the strategy for that? Adolph Reed, who's been heavily involved in the Labor Party's effort to get ballot status in SC, says t ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 14:55:33 PDT 2006

13274 [lbo-talk] People like what they're used to, was Let's Build -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2006, at 4:44 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Doug, what means: > > "And population density correlates with voting patterns: the thinner > the population, the more Republican" ? > > What would the causal links be to explain this correlation? Is it > that low density causes republicanism? That would seem to be a > spatial determinism as crass as the genetic determinsm that causes > Europeans to huddle together. (Maybe the cause is the other way > a ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 14:15:10 PDT 2006

13275 [lbo-talk] Why Richard Hofstadter Is Still Worth ReadingbutNotfor the Reasons the Critics Have in Mind -- rank: 1000

Jesse, did you shift key get stuck, or are you shouting? In any case, I was asking for some textual evidence that Hofstadter held "that popular movements are necessarily fascist." That's an extraordinary claim, and I'm asking for a quote or two to substantiate it. And the second was a quote from a famous essay by Hofstadter about the base of McCarthy's support that is rather at odds with your implication that he didn't think that Tailgunner Joe found support at elite, not mass, l ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 13:55:46 PDT 2006