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14536 [lbo-talk] Wall St & Iraq -- rank: 1000

Ed Hyman, Wall Street's favorite economist, whose great talent is being among the first to crystallize the conventional wisdom of the moment, often pastes newspaper headlines on the front page of his daily letter, sorted into "good news" and "bad news." (He also pastes headlines and snippets on the inside pages, too, with comments like "Wow!" - this is why my late friend John Liscio nicknamed him "Newsboy.") Yesterday morning, in the "good news& ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 27 07:32:16 PDT 2006

14537 [lbo-talk] Ann Coulter, Deadhead -- rank: 1000

And she likes Kanye West & the String Cheese Incident too: <http:// www.jambands.com/Features/content_2006_06_23.06.phtml>

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Date:	Tue Jun 27 07:19:10 PDT 2006

14538 [lbo-talk] Vidal on Kissinger -- rank: 1000

On Jun 27, 2006, at 1:33 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> They were competing to get a story, not maximizing >> shareholder returns. > > It turns out to be the same thing. If only. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 27 03:41:57 PDT 2006

14539 [lbo-talk] Vidal on Kissinger -- rank: 1000

On Jun 26, 2006, at 11:08 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > This was even true during the 'golden age' (tm) -- I was struck, re- > reading All The President's Men, how much more worried Woodward & > Bernstein were about getting scooped by ABC than they were about > bringing down the President. They were competing to get a story, not maximizing shareholder returns. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 21:08:43 PDT 2006

14540 [lbo-talk] Ward Churchill to be Fired -- rank: 1000

On Jun 26, 2006, at 11:19 PM, Michael J. Smith wrote: > Maybe so, but his scholarly sins are really irrelevant. Academe > is full of shabby scholars and desperate chancers writing risible > nonsense in little-read quarterlies. Churchill is no more a sinner > now, > scholastically speaking, than he was when they crowned him with > Lycean laurel. The sins for which he is being punished are political, > not scholarly ones. It would be much nicer if he were Noam > Chomsky, bu ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 21:07:53 PDT 2006

14541 [lbo-talk] Labor Scumbags Line Up For Lieberman -- rank: 1000

On Jun 26, 2006, at 7:26 PM, mike larkin wrote: > http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2006/06/ > labor_lines_up.php#002174more > > "For the first time Monday, momentum swung U.S. Sen. Joe > Lieberman's way in his effort to beat back a spirited primary > challenge. Lieberman clicked with the crowd while challenger Ned > Lamont stumbled at the state AFL-CIO convention at New Haven's Omni > Hotel. Meanwhile, AFL-CIO President John Olsen said he's lined up > t ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 21:06:29 PDT 2006

14542 [lbo-talk] Vidal on Kissinger -- rank: 1000

On Jun 26, 2006, at 9:35 PM, Alex wrote: > Even if consolidation isn't the reason news sucks, it is done in > part as a way > to reduce costs spent on news gathering, right? My beef is that it's not about concentration, it's about competitive pressures to maximize profit (which means minimizing costs most of the time). > Maybe more reporters doesn't > make for better news, but at least they can cover more. Also, isn't > concentration of control over important things bad just ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 19:56:33 PDT 2006

14543 [lbo-talk] O'Reilly on Iraq -- rank: 1000

[just catching up with last Thursday's popbitch] >> War pig << >> Iraq - it could be worse Bill O'Reilly is a conservative TV pundit on Fox News, presenting The O'Reilly Factor, cable TV's highest-rated news show. This is his opinion on what America should be doing in Iraq. "See, if I'm President, I got probably another 50-60 thousand with orders to shoot on sight anybody violating curfews. Shoot them on sight. That's me... President O'Reilly... Curfew in Ramadi, seven ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 14:48:45 PDT 2006

14544 [lbo-talk] ABC/WP poll on Iraq -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: IRAQ and POLITICS 6/25/06 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 5 p.m. Monday, June 26, 2006 Slight Lift Eases Bush off the Brink; Difficulty on Iraq Hampers Democrats Slightly less negative views on Iraq have eased George W. Bush's job rating off the political brink, while the lack of a better idea what to do there is helping to complicate the Democrats' opportunities in this fall's midterm election. Bush is hardly in the clear: Just 38 percent in this ABC News/ Washin ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 14:19:54 PDT 2006

14545 [lbo-talk] some Dems try to think... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 26, 2006, at 5:10 PM, B. wrote: > I read through that page a bit, kept seeing phrases like "[we need > to] pick themes that resonate in red states," and another theme was > how to finesse their portrayal in the media, rather than > qualitative party change. Yup. It seems like the DLC reborn, with some liberal backup sung by Meyerson & Teixeira.

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 14:16:15 PDT 2006

14546 [lbo-talk] some Dems try to think... -- rank: 1000

...and the results aren't so pretty: <http:// www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/currentissue.php>

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 13:13:42 PDT 2006

14547 [lbo-talk] NAFTA and Illegal Immigration Connection -- rank: 1000

On Jun 26, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Auguste Blanqui wrote: > Interesting. Do you know of anything written by them on this? > (Yes, I'm too lazy to go search now.) Julio's on the list, so he can answer for himself. Dunno about Massey - he's got a CV on his website. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 12:35:12 PDT 2006

14548 [lbo-talk] RM -- rank: 1000

[I've been asked by RM to forward this] RETHINKING MARXISM CONFERENCE rm06 October 26-28, 2006 University of Massachusetts, Amherst Join Ernesto Laclau Julie Graham Stephen Resnick Rick Wolff Susan Buck-Morss Kojin Karatani Liza Featherstone Stephen Cullenberg David F. Ruccio Susan Jahoda Antonio Callari Warren Montag Sut Jhally Carole Biewener Jonathan Diskin Erik Olsen Bruce Roberts Blair Sandler Eray Duzenli Philip Kozel and many others in an international gatherin ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 10:25:04 PDT 2006

14549 [lbo-talk] NAFTA and Illegal Immigration Connection -- rank: 1000

On Jun 26, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Auguste Blanqui wrote: > I read many assertions from the left today about how NAFTA and neo- > liberal development more generally is fueling illegal immigration. > While I'm not doubting the connecting, I would like to get more > specific about extent. Has any one run across any more detailed > stories or preliminary studies on the extent to which 1990s-now > illegal immigration can be attributed to changes in Mexican > political economy? The ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 10:08:46 PDT 2006

14550 [lbo-talk] KR on TR -- rank: 1000

[not mentioned is the fact that TR read and wrote serious books] <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1207825,00.html> Jun 25, 2006 Lessons from a Larger-than-Life President By KARL ROVE Theodore Roosevelt is one of the most remarkable figures in America's story. Adventurous, brave, opinionated, a larger-than-life personality, he was a man of action, energy and motion. T.R. loved what he called "the literature of history"--and wanted to be a key actor in America ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 08:21:56 PDT 2006