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13996 [lbo-talk] costs of Mexican immigrants in Arizona -- rank: 1000

<http://portal.sre.gob.mx/phoenix/pdf/MexicoArizona.pdf> Total Cost: Based on the average lifetime burden of Mexican immigrant in US, it has been estimated that the total burden cost in the year 2000 for Arizona's immigrants was US$250 million.7 Among the costs associated with immigrants in the US, healthcare costs for undocumented immigrants have been of great concern for the border states. "According to the AmericanHospital Association annual survey, southwest border countyhospitals ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 10 12:27:49 PDT 2006

13997 [lbo-talk] Fed raises rates -- rank: 1000

[the language is a Rorschach - you can see whatever you're looking for here - the knee-jerk market reaction seems to be that this was a little more hawkish than expected] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2006/20060510/default.htm> May 10, 2006 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to raise its target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 5 percent. Economic growth has been quite strong so far this year. The Committee sees gr ...

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Date:	Wed May 10 11:37:29 PDT 2006

13998 [lbo-talk] The country that wouldn't grow up -- rank: 1000

He wrote a foreword to Said's From Oslo to Iraq (reprinted in The Nation <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040719/judt>. And he the piece I've appended below also appeared in The Nation. Doug Joel Schalit wrote: >I may be wrong here, and definitely stand corrected if so. > >On May 10, 2006, at 9:54 AM, JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: > >>Joel Schalit wrote: >> >>>Ever since Mearsheimer and Walt published their LRB piece, scores of >>>liberal intellectua ...

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Date:	Wed May 10 10:44:02 PDT 2006

13999 [lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: His third post of the day. Hope that's it. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 10 09:37:37 PDT 2006

14000 [lbo-talk] Hill on W's charms -- rank: 1000

New York Post - May 10, 2006 HILL ON W.'S GOOD SIDE By IAN BISHOP May 10, 2006 -- WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - an outspoken critic of President Bush - put aside her red-hot rhetoric last night to hail the chief. Asked to say something nice about Bush during a Q&A session at the National Archives, Clinton rattled off a string of compliments - a far cry from her harsh critiques of Bush's Iraq war, energy and economic policies. "He's been very willing to talk. He's been affab ...

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Date:	Wed May 10 07:38:29 PDT 2006

14001 [lbo-talk] AFL-CIO & C2W agree on GOTV -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> House of Labor: The AFL-CIO and Change to Win have agreed to work together on voter mobilization. The Wall Street Journal's Kris Maher reports that the groups had been feuding since AFL-CIO President John Sweeney "barred locals of the farm workers union from participating in state and local AFL-CIO groups after that union disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO." Anna Burger, the head of Change to Win, then advised her unions to &qu ...

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Date:	Wed May 10 07:34:39 PDT 2006

14002 [lbo-talk] health insurance - with lots of holes -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - May 10, 2006 Senate Struggles to Reduce the Ranks of the Uninsured By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON - One of the toughest parts of the health insurance problem in the United States is that many small business can't afford any coverage for their employees. Now, as part of a weeklong focus on healthcare, Senate Republican leaders have brought to the floor their chief solution, and it has a chance of passing. The legislation would trim premiums for small ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 10 07:32:51 PDT 2006

14003 [lbo-talk] The country that wouldn't grow up -- rank: 1000

Colin Brace wrote: >By Tony Judt > >http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/711997.html Good piece, but I hear he's a dick for blocking leftists from getting hired at NYU. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 10 07:17:09 PDT 2006

14004 [lbo-talk] America's Anti-Muslim Prejudice -- rank: 1000

Joel Schalit wrote: >Just to clarify vis Abunimah, he's not a two state guy. His argument >is that a one state solution is the only realistic one, and is, for >all intents and purposes, already in effect through the Occupation. A position which would have close to 0 support among Israelis, right? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 9 16:27:34 PDT 2006

14005 [lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >It's really late and I have to work tomorrow, BUT... And this is your EIGHTH post of the day. Chill, please. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 9 16:04:39 PDT 2006

14006 [lbo-talk] Dailykos -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >To glimpse the mind of Kos, read his piece in the WaPo this past Sunday >(Weekend section). [It's not about ideology, it's about pragmatism! Which isn't an ideology, of course. But it seems not to be about pragmatism either, just New Media. What was the actual content of Dean's politics?] Washington Post - May 7, 2006 Hillary Clinton: Too Much of a Clinton Democrat? By Markos Moulitsas H illary Clinton has a few problems if she wants to secure the 2008 Democratic pre ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 9 15:15:33 PDT 2006

14007 [lbo-talk] Ahmadinejad's letter -- rank: 1000

At the CFR website: <http://www.cfr.org/publication/10633/>.

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Date:	Tue May 9 10:47:05 PDT 2006

14008 [lbo-talk] Retreat into Racism (was Krugman on conspiracytheories,right & left) -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >Who can know? "Hopefully" is the most I'd say. Your confidence is strictly >faith-based because the proposition has never been tested - at least not in >an advanced capitalist society like the US. But in Cox thought: 1) the working class never holds bad opinions, and 2) there's really no way "we" can reach them, because there's no "we," and we have to await unspecified historical developments that will change everything, and 3) those ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 9 10:32:24 PDT 2006

14009 [lbo-talk] Dailykos need support from a member of the Women's Studies set? HA ha ha! -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >and please, do read the Netroots page. You will bustagut laughing. I did. >http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/5/7/185636/6139 >The candidate has a strong record as a Democrat. What the fuck does that mean? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 9 10:18:15 PDT 2006

14010 [lbo-talk] Rupe hosts fundraiser for Hill -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - May 9, 2006 Murdoch to host fundraiser for Hillary Clinton By Caroline Daniel in Washington Rupert Murdoch, the conservative media mogul whose New York Post tabloid savaged Hillary Clinton's initial aspirations to become a US senator for New York, has agreed to host a political fundraiser for her re-election campaign. The decision underlines an incongruous thawing of relations between Mr Murdoch and Mrs Clinton, who in 1998 coined the phrase "vast rightwing conspiracy" ...

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Date:	Tue May 9 10:02:17 PDT 2006