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13831 [lbo-talk] Bob Again (Was National Review's Top 50 ) -- rank: 1000

On May 28, 2006, at 2:08 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > In my right-wing days, we thought that >> Dylan's "My Back >>> Pages" was a great conservative song >> <http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ >>> backpages.html>: > > Of course it is really more of an anti-political song I'm always amazed and amused by how Dylan fans - including my father- in-law - don't want to admit to the right-wing content of the song. The way he spits out "equalit ...

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Date:	Sun May 28 11:25:51 PDT 2006

13832 [lbo-talk] time to ease up on corporate criminals! -- rank: 1000

After Enron climax, US rethinks law on corporate scandals by Rob Lever Sat May 27, 10:44 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - After the dramatic convictions in the Enron fraud trial, analysts expect fresh scrutiny of the law, inspired by one of corporate America's worst scandals, toughening standards for business leaders. The guilty verdicts in the Texas trial of former Enron chief executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling may prompt fresh debate in Congress over the ethics law passed in 2002 at the ...

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Date:	Sun May 28 11:07:28 PDT 2006

13833 [lbo-talk] Re: national review -- rank: 1000

On May 28, 2006, at 1:49 PM, J wrote: >> It's all here <http://bad.eserver.org/issues/1998/36/henwood.html> >> and here <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/henwood>. > > R wingers into phrenology? freakish.. as i was reading it i had > another page > open from last night, the wikipedia entry on phrenology. does > Goldwater > sing on that record? I don't know. The photo was taken at Joel Schalit's apartment in SF, and he'd just handed me the album as ...

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Date:	Sun May 28 10:57:33 PDT 2006

13834 [lbo-talk] National Review's Top 50 Conservative Rock Songs -- rank: 1000

On May 28, 2006, at 12:58 PM, tfast wrote: > Doug, you had right wing days? Do tell. What happened? Testify > brother. It's all here <http://bad.eserver.org/issues/1998/36/henwood.html> and here <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/henwood>. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 28 10:01:35 PDT 2006

13835 [lbo-talk] Ahmadinejad's agenda -- rank: 1000

[another perspective on Yoshie's Persian Chavez - so what were the jokes about his "personal hygiene"?] New York Times - May 28, 2006 Iran Chief Eclipses Power of Clerics By MICHAEL SLACKMAN Published: May 28, 2006 TEHRAN, May 27 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is trying to consolidate power in the office of the presidency in a way never before seen in the 27-year history of the Islamic Republic, apparently with the tacit approval of Iran's supreme leader, according to government ...

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Date:	Sun May 28 08:56:41 PDT 2006

13836 [lbo-talk] National Review's Top 50 Conservative Rock Songs -- rank: 1000

On May 28, 2006, at 8:16 AM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > John Lennon discussed that song in his 1971 > interview with Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn > which can be found at: > http://www.counterpunch.org/lennon12082005.html > > There he said: > > "TA: In a way you were even thinking about politics when you seemed > to be > knocking revolution? Well, what about "you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see"? Doug

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13837 [lbo-talk] National Review's Top 50 Conservative Rock Songs -- rank: 1000

On May 28, 2006, at 1:41 AM, mike larkin wrote: > 12. "Neighborhood Bully," by Bob Dylan. > A pro Israel song released in 1983, two years after > the bombing of Iraq's nuclear reactor, this ironic > number could be a theme song for the Bush Doctrine: > "He destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad / The > bombs were meant for him / He was supposed to feel bad > / He's the neighborhood bully." Odd choice. In my right-wing days, we thought that Dylan's &quo ...

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Date:	Sun May 28 07:19:39 PDT 2006

13838 [lbo-talk] Ward Churchill responds to U. of Colorado investigation] -- rank: 1000

On May 27, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > For my money, the more dangerous problem here--the thing that > really deserves our indignation and political response--is the > precedent of calling for investigations of a scholar's work based > on his political beliefs. By the likes of Bill O'Reilly, no less, who isn't exactly known for his accuracy or openness to unpopular points of view. Maybe a group of left and liberal academics should get together and review the last thre ...

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Date:	Sat May 27 13:09:50 PDT 2006

13839 [lbo-talk] Footnotes (Re: Churchill, COINTELPRO, and the 2nd investigation) -- rank: 1000

On May 27, 2006, at 2:43 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > I'm overposted Awareness of the law is no excuse, is it, counselor? Doug

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13840 [lbo-talk] Churchill, COINTELPRO, and the 2nd investigation -- rank: 1000

On May 27, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Aaron Shuman wrote: > So to the people on this list who want to > micro-analyze WC's footnotes, is a solution to come up > with a Left list of bad right-wing professors (a la > David Horowitz's hit list) and go after their > footnotes? Or to reject politically-launched > investigations to begin with? Just who are "we" and how do "we" do this "rejecting"? "They" control universities and the media, and that's ...

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Date:	Sat May 27 09:47:42 PDT 2006

13841 [lbo-talk] Academic Freedom, was Re: Ward Churchill. . . . -- rank: 1000

On May 27, 2006, at 12:02 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > This whole discussion has focused wrongly. The Investigation was > corrupt > from the beginning, and Churchill was wrong only in making a reply. There's no doubt that there would have been no investigation except for Churchill's politics generally and the roosting chickens piece specifically. But the investigation itself was not hackwork, and Churchill was wrong to make stuff up and plagiarize. And once published, how can he not make ...

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Date:	Sat May 27 08:03:51 PDT 2006

13842 [lbo-talk] Koizumi & the King -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - May 25, 2006 Koizumi's homage to king of America By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington The White House is laying on a lavish welcome for Junichiro Koizumi when the Japanese premier pays his farewell visit to the US - only two months after the Chinese president was pointedly denied the full trappings of a state visit to the capital. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: c.gif Type: image/gif Size: 43 bytes Desc: not available URL: ...

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13843 [lbo-talk] WSJ on Evo -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - May 25, 2006 Left Face New President Has Bolivia Marching To Chávez's Beat Venezuelan Populist Pushes Anti-U.S. Latin Alliance; Has He Gone Too Far? Cuban Doctors in the House By JOSÉ DE CÓRDOBA and DAVID LUHNOW LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Since Evo Morales took office as president here in January, the coca grower turned socialist politician has aligned his country so closely with Venezuela's Hugo Chávez that it is sometimes difficult to tell where one government begins and the o ...

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13844 [lbo-talk] Ward Churchill responds to U. of Colorado investigation] -- rank: 1000

On May 25, 2006, at 5:05 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > To try to say it quickly, the investigative committee is > unwarranted in > reaching such a _definite_ conclusion that Churchill's conclusion > is not > supported by the evidence. I think the point is that the sources he cited didn't say what he said they'd said, a problem he seems to have had more than once. Like I've said before, this is really sad & tragic, since the truth is terrible enough, and he's now indirectly dis ...

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Date:	Thu May 25 15:42:05 PDT 2006

13845 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Ward Churchill responds to U. of Colorado investigation] -- rank: 1000

Summary of Fallacies in the University of Colorado Investigative Committee Report of May 9, 2006 Ward Churchill May 20, 2006 The May 9, 2006 Report of the University of Colorado (CU) Investigative Committee is but the latest step in CU's ongoing attempt to fire me for political speech and, more fundamentally, for scholarship which challenges the orthodox "canon" of historical truth. The investigative committee abandoned all semblance of due process and equal protection mandated by both ...

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Date:	Wed May 24 19:06:53 PDT 2006