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14461 [lbo-talk] Bartels on Frank, etc. -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >Since I'm too lazy and tied up with other things, what was the >thesis of Frank's book anyway. I have completely forgotten? Republicans have been using "cultural issues" to lure workers to vote against their own economic interests. An interesting sub-theme is that the Reps don't mean to win the culture wars - e.g., abortion is still legal - they just want to inflame the masses. In the paper I posted a link to the other day, Ellen Willis challenges ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 3 11:46:05 PST 2006

14462 [lbo-talk] Bush: ok to offshore torture -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - March 3, 2006 U.S. Cites Exception in Torture Ban McCain Law May Not Apply to Cuba Prison By Josh White and Carol D. Leonnig Washington Post Staff Writers Bush administration lawyers, fighting a claim of torture by a Guantanamo Bay detainee, yesterday argued that the new law that bans cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees in U.S. custody does not apply to people held at the military prison. In federal court yesterday and in legal filings, Justice Department lawyers ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 3 11:43:36 PST 2006

14463 [lbo-talk] Clinton looking better to masses -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aIx4iPylDG_A> Most Americans Now Disapprove of Bush on Terrorism, Poll Shows By Heidi Przybyla March 3 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. public opinion turned against President George W. Bush's handling of terrorism, his signature political strength, last month amid overwhelming opposition to plans to let a Dubai company operate U.S. port facilities. For the first time, a majority of Americans, 54 percent, disapprove of Bush's dealing with ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 3 11:34:34 PST 2006

14464 [lbo-talk] Bush losing more of it -- rank: 1000

[Amazing: Perhaps most strikingly, 44% said they approved of Bush's handling of terrorism, whereas 54% disapproved - the first time a majority has expressed a negative opinion of his handling of that issue in a Times survey.... [And] for the first time in a Times poll, the percentage of adults who strongly disapprove of Bush's job performance outstrips the share - 38% - who approve of his performance at all."] Los Angeles Times - March 3, 2006 Ports Deal Faces Wide Opposition Bush's ratings ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 3 11:32:02 PST 2006

14465 [lbo-talk] Bartels on Frank, etc. -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >I talked to a Kansas-based comrade about this issue last night, who >knows Frank and who is knowledgeable about class issues in Kansas. I >have to say that Bartels really doesn't know what he is talking >about. Here in Kansas, the right wing HAS made inroads into the >working class. But has it made new inroads? Kansas has been one of the most Republican states in the country for over a century. There's nothing representative of the rest of the US about it. It's much ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 3 11:06:39 PST 2006

14466 [lbo-talk] Bartels on Frank, etc. -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >Doug wrote: > >>Larry Bartels has posted the updated version of his critique of Tom >>Frank's What's The Matter With Kansas on his website (it's the top link, >>ID'd as QJPS 2006). The original is just below it (APSA 2006). The early >>version used a definition of the white working class as white voters in >>the bottom third of the income distribution. Drawing on Ruy Teixeira's >>work, Frank rejected that definition, preferring the ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 3 10:58:17 PST 2006

14467 [lbo-talk] Bartels on Frank, etc. -- rank: 1000

Larry Bartels has posted the updated version of his critique of Tom Frank's What's The Matter With Kansas on his website (it's the top link, ID'd as QJPS 2006). The original is just below it (APSA 2006). The early version used a definition of the white working class as white voters in the bottom third of the income distribution. Drawing on Ruy Teixeira's work, Frank rejected that definition, preferring the lack of a college degree as the standard. Neither definition, however, supports the thesis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 3 05:39:45 PST 2006

14468 [lbo-talk] Hillary in Queens -- rank: 1000

[for anyone who wants to jeer this awful person] Subject: Walk with Hillary Clinton this Sunday Dear Queens County Young Democrats: This is a little last minute but this sunday is the all-inclusive St. Patrick's day parade which goes through Queens, beginning at 43rd and Skillman Ave. and ending 61st Street & Woodside Ave. The Senators reelection campaign has asked if we can send about 5-10 people who want to walk in the parade? Is anyone interested? If so please email me ASAP at msilverste ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 2 16:00:16 PST 2006

14469 [lbo-talk] the ten -- rank: 1000

The ten senators who voted against the Patriot Act <http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00029>: >Akaka (D-HI) >Bingaman (D-NM) >Byrd (D-WV) >Feingold (D-WI) >Harkin (D-IA) >Jeffords (I-VT) >Leahy (D-VT) >Levin (D-MI) >Murray (D-WA) >Wyden (D-OR)

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 2 15:58:59 PST 2006

14470 [lbo-talk] what's a white supremacist to Jew? -- rank: 1000

Forward - March 3, 2006 LETTER FROM HERNDON, VA. White Nationalist Conference Ponders Whether Jews and Nazis Can Get Along By JONATHAN TILOVE For the small, hardy band of right-wing Jews who attended this past weekend's American Renaissance Conference, the biennial gathering of white nationalists ended on a sour note. The events Saturday, February 25, passed without major incident. But then, late Sunday morning, none other than former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke approached the microphone on t ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 2 12:49:19 PST 2006

14471 [lbo-talk] 32% of CFOs think single-payer worth considering -- rank: 1000

Almost a third of corporate senior financial officers have a more positive view of single-payer health insurance than does Nathan Newman! <http://www.cfo.com/printable/article.cfm/5491035?f=options>, question 12. Do you think that Congress should consider creating a national health plan (that is, a single-payer system)? yes 32% no 45% not sure 23%

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 2 12:17:20 PST 2006

14472 [lbo-talk] startrek mountain -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: >>>I figured it would offend someone on the list >>>if I posted it, what with the serious tone of >>>conversation, as if gayness was next to >>>goddessness. >>> >>>Leigh >>> >> >> >> >>Surely this isn't intended to be as stupid and hateful as it appears? >> >>John Thornton >>___________________________________ >>http://mailman.lbo ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 2 12:09:48 PST 2006

14473 [lbo-talk] startrek mountain -- rank: 1000

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: > > I figured it would offend someone on the list >> if I posted it, what with the serious tone of >> conversation, as if gayness was next to >> goddessness. >> >> Leigh > > >Surely this isn't intended to be as stupid and hateful as it appears? I missed this first time around. Leigh, what the fuck is up with this? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 2 11:32:39 PST 2006

14474 [lbo-talk] the young Bill O'Reilly -- rank: 1000

looking real 70s: <http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0301061billo1.html>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 2 11:22:27 PST 2006

14475 [lbo-talk] the hunger for consensus -- rank: 1000

One of those awful passages which explain why David Broder is considered the "dean" of American political reporting <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/01/AR2006030101934_pf.html>: "But what about Hillary Rodham Clinton? She leads all the early polls for the Democratic nomination. But can she avoid being seen simply as a battle-scarred veteran of the partisan Washington wars? Is there anything in her record that speaks to the hunger for consensus?&q ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 2 10:02:47 PST 2006