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14521 [lbo-talk] Hillary & Andy -- rank: 1000

[more from The Note] Before you lock up John Edwards as the labor candidate of 2008, be sure to listen to SEIU president Andy Stern's comments about Sen. Clinton on a conference call with reporters yesterday when he was praising her initiative (inspired by an idea from an online SEIU- sponsored contest) to block a congressional pay increase until the minimum wage is increased and linking the two with each other going forward. Stern thanked Sen. Clinton for "spending her whole life tryi ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 28 08:03:58 PDT 2006

14522 [lbo-talk] immigrant-basher loses in Utah -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> UT-03 Republican primary results: Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT): 56% John Jacob: 44% Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT) handily defeated his opponent yesterday in the Republican primary for Utah's 3rd District, reports Glen Warchol of the Salt Lake Tribune. Though some polls had predicted the race would be nail-bitingly close, Rep. Cannon bested anti-immigration candidate John Jacob by a twelve-point margin. The outcome of the contest, which ma ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 28 07:48:57 PDT 2006

14523 [lbo-talk] The very worst custodians of empire -- rank: 1000

On Jun 27, 2006, at 7:27 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > If single-payer health care had been the litmus test in 2004 for > American liberals and leftists, they would have voted for Nader rather > than Kerry, but that was not the case. Presidential politics isn't the right vehicle for a single-payer campaign. Big elections are fought significantly, maybe even mostly, on the level of symbolism and fantasy. Much better to try for referenda, congressional campaigns, state-level programs, ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 27 18:30:46 PDT 2006

14524 [lbo-talk] it's Hitch's war -- rank: 1000

<http://www.counterpunch.org/> Hitchens Hails "Glorious War" by Alexander Cockburn The recent memorial for long-term New York Review co-editor Barbara Epstein, sadly felled by cancer on June 15, was disfigured by an unseemly outbursts from Christopher Hitchens. There was a list of invitees for the private ceremony and C. Hitchens -- a sometime NYR contributor was not on the list. He implored to be admitted, and some misguidedly decent soul gave him the green light. Visibly ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 27 18:22:55 PDT 2006

14525 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Public Opinion on Patriotism & Military Service -- rank: 1000

[a little over half of Americans think they're more patriotic than average!] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 27, 2006 POLLS ON PATRIOTISM AND MILITARY SERVICE Just prior to Independence Day, American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Karlyn Bowman (bio) is releasing a comprehensive collection of polls on patriotism and military service. This study documents how patriotic sentiments have changed over time and examines how 9/11 affected Americans' views of their country. A section of the rep ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 27 13:25:44 PDT 2006

14526 [lbo-talk] Churchill Bad; Douglas Feith Good Hire (was: Churchill to Be Fired) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 27, 2006, at 3:45 PM, B. wrote: > Another left academic recently given the shaft was anthropologist > David Graeber of Yale. Not fired, his position was simply not > renewed -- after he'd become active in supporting Yale's GESO grad > student union. Graeber was an IWW member and key organizer of many > anti-globo protests. Good point. Graeber's a serious scholar - and he deserves at least as much attention as WC. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 27 13:07:38 PDT 2006

14527 [lbo-talk] Re: Warren Buffett's philanthropy -- rank: 1000

On Jun 27, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Willy Greenfields wrote: > Some see him as an uncorrupted heartlander > that beats Big City elites (Wall Street) by refusing > to play their game, while Doug basically equates him > with Wall Street itself. I'm generally awed by the > guy He's not equal to Wall Street itself. He's more liberal than your average stock trader, and he's got a longer time horizon. That conceded, I don't really get what social contribution he's made that justifies his we ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 27 11:19:47 PDT 2006

14528 [lbo-talk] Churchill Bad; Douglas Feith Good Hire (was: Churchill to Be Fired) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 27, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Aaron Shuman wrote: > On Jun 27, 2006, at 11:56 AM, Aaron Shuman wrote: > >> Meanwhile, Douglas Feith gets appointed to > Georgetown; > > Sure, true, hypocrisy is never in short supply. But > do we really > want to adopt Feith as the standard? > > Doug > > AS: Not sure what you mean by "Feith as the standard", > Doug. Are you suggesting that legacy hires such as > Feith aren't standard? or that Churchill and Fe ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 27 11:03:45 PDT 2006

14529 [lbo-talk] Can't keep Rush down! -- rank: 1000

On Jun 27, 2006, at 12:49 PM, ravi wrote: > The fellow gets busted for Viagra possession and y'all are wasting > your > time on Warren Buffett? I was going to bring it up, heh-heh, and the possibliity that Rush might have to do hard time, heh-heh, but I thought everyone knew about it already. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 27 09:57:25 PDT 2006

14530 [lbo-talk] The very worst custodians of empire -- rank: 1000

On Jun 27, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Also, one should not underestimate the mobilizing > potential of anti-semitic ressentiments in the general > American population. I'd say that anti-Semitism isn't really at the top of the list of potential horrors in the US. There's always a risk, but as targets go, black people and Mexicans are much more likely. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 27 09:38:11 PDT 2006

14531 [lbo-talk] Re: Warren Buffett's philanthropy -- rank: 1000

On Jun 27, 2006, at 12:10 PM, Luke Weiger wrote: > Actually it's a pretty bad article--make that really bad. Walsh > points out > the obvious fact that Buffett owes his extraordinary wealth to > capitalism. > He does nothing to show that Buffett made capitalism any more > vicious than > it would otherwise have been. He's part of Wall Street, and Wall Street has certainly worked to increase that viciousness. > It's true that we'd have less need for > charity in a be ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 27 09:35:43 PDT 2006

14532 [lbo-talk] Churchill Bad; Douglas Feith Good Hire (was: Churchill to Be Fired) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 27, 2006, at 11:56 AM, Aaron Shuman wrote: > Meanwhile, Douglas Feith gets appointed to Georgetown; Sure, true, hypocrisy is never in short supply. But do we really want to adopt Feith as the standard? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 27 09:19:23 PDT 2006

14533 [lbo-talk] a catalog of flag-burnings -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Tue Jun 27 08:06:30 PDT 2006

14534 [lbo-talk] just how many flag burnings are there anyway? -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - June 27, 2006 In the Senate, Covering Themselves in Old Glory By Dana Milbank The Citizens Flag Alliance, a group pushing for the Senate this week to pass a flag-burning amendment to the Constitution, just reported an alarming, 33 percent increase in the number of flag-desecration incidents this year. The number has increased to four, from three. The naive among us may have trouble appreciating how four flag- burning episodes would constitute a constitutional crisis. But the ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 27 08:03:53 PDT 2006

14535 [lbo-talk] The very worst custodians of empire -- rank: 1000

On Jun 27, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Indifference and impotence are two facts of life on the American left. Not indifference. American leftists *care* - and care deeply, about everything, all at once, in a giant list. Often with little sense of how it all fits together, not to mention organization or strategy. > The main problem is not so much those facts themselves as American > liberals' and leftists' refusal to admit to them, the refusal that > results in thei ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 27 07:59:33 PDT 2006