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14641 [lbo-talk] Reps see Iraq as electoral winner -- rank: 1000

On Jun 15, 2006, at 11:32 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > I say, in the movies Iraq as electoral winner just might work but > not in real life. Of course not. But it just has to "work" through Nov 7. That's all they care about. > GWB's plummeting ratings got a dead-cat bounce (as they say on > Wall St.) For what it's worth, The Note declared it a "live-cat bounce" the other day. Doug

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14642 [lbo-talk] violent crime up -- rank: 1000

On Jun 15, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Doug admits finally: > >> That's not what I'm saying. > > Maybe that's not what you're _meaning_ but it is what you're > _saying_ ... A sample of what I said: > On Jun 13, 2006, at 9:09 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > > >>> Switzerland is another frequent counter-example. >>> >> >> I'm always troubled by 'counter examples' to flawed points. >> There's no counter-example to the claim th ...

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14643 [lbo-talk] Reps see Iraq as electoral winner -- rank: 1000

[as they say in the movies, you know, this just might work] Los Angeles Times June 15, 2006 THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ The Republican Party's Iraq Offensive The war may not be popular, but the GOP is betting that steadiness and clarity are, and that Democrats won't be able to muster enough by November. By Peter Wallsten and Maura Reynolds Times Staff Writers WASHINGTON The Iraq war is the most immediate foreign policy problem besetting the Bush administration. But as a political issue, the Whi ...

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14644 [lbo-talk] Noonan on the Dems -- rank: 1000

[damn, she can be good - the lead sentence is pure genius - the rest of it leaves something to be desired - just how are pragmatism and social conservatism the wave of the future?] <http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110008516> PEGGY NOONAN Untangling Webb Ronald Reagan's Navy secretary runs for Senate as a standard-issue Democrat. Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT The Democratic Party is that amazing thing, out of power for six years and yet exhausted. They're p ...

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14645 [lbo-talk] why the Reps will win -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Riddle us this, Note readers and Batman fans: Which party's fall message is already clear and which party's is not? For the Democrats, there is: the Biden view on Iraq; the Murtha view on Iraq; the Kerry views on Iraq; the Senate caucus's ever-dynamic debate about what the party should stand for; the mass conspiracy of silence over taxes and health care, taxes and the rich, and taxes and taxes; Together, We Can Do Better; Togethe ...

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14646 [lbo-talk] violent crime up -- rank: 1000

On Jun 15, 2006, at 9:35 AM, Matt wrote: > Wait, "some" is what is dubious. Aren't we concerned about "some" > when it means "an overwhelming majority". An overwhelming majority > of gun owners are never going to be violent criminals at all, not just > never going to *shoot* someone. I think Jordan's point is that the > case hasn't been made that the legit question - why is the US so > violent - validly leaps to "well there's all those guns ...

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14647 [lbo-talk] Hunter S. Thompson meets Samuel Johnson... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 15, 2006, at 12:13 AM, Michael J. Smith wrote: > ... or so I'd like to think. > > I realize this falls into the Department of Shameless > Self-Promotion, but... Not a prob for me - it's well worth promoting. But why "undercover"? Couldn't you just walk in like everyone else? Doug

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14648 [lbo-talk] Bill O'Reilly at home -- rank: 1000

address & pix: <http://cryptome.org/billo-birdseye.htm>

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14649 [lbo-talk] Fwd: An Evening with Ambassador L. Paul Bremer -- rank: 1000

On Jun 14, 2006, at 5:53 PM, Michael Perelman wrote: > Where is young Duncan running? Colorado's 5th, which includes Christian right epicenter Colorado Springs. He's a bible-thumper, gun nut, and right-to-lifer. Supports the Pres on Iraq - and "I encouraged the Coalition Provisional Authority to strongly consider a 2nd Amendment type clause in the Iraqi constitution to help ensure Iraq s freedom following departure of US soldiers" <http://bremerforcongress.org/platform_natio ...

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14650 [lbo-talk] CFR: Bush revo, RIP -- rank: 1000

[I just got the email offering an advance look to CFR-accredited media at the new ish of Foreign Affairs - I can't share the full text, but here's a teaser] The End of the Bush Revolution Philip H. Gordon From Foreign Affairs, July/August 2006 Summary: The Bush administration's "revolutionary" foreign policy rhetoric has not changed, but its actual policies have: after squandering U.S. legitimacy, breaking the domestic bank, and getting the United States bogged down in an unsucce ...

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14651 [lbo-talk] Fwd: An Evening with Ambassador L. Paul Bremer -- rank: 1000

[ah the delights of being a Yale alum] > From: Duncan Bremer<duncan at duncanbremer.us> > Date: June 14, 2006 5:06:50 PM EDT > To: Douglas Henwood<DHENWOOD at PANIX.COM> > Subject: An Evening with Ambassador L. Paul Bremer > Reply-To: duncan at duncanbremer.us > > You Are Cordially Invited > To Join > Your Yale Classmates > for an evening with > Ambassador L. Paul Bremer > > On Behalf of Duncan Bremer for U.S. Congress > > Tuesday June 20t ...

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14652 [lbo-talk] violent crime up -- rank: 1000

On Jun 14, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Why does the average gun owner own a gun? At <http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/pdf/t262.pdf> we learn that gun owners are disproportionally white, male, Protestant, Republican, and Southern. Gosh, sometimes life just lives up to cliches, doesn't it? Doug

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14653 [lbo-talk] Kerry, slow on the uptake -- rank: 1000

[since he's only now responding to the Swift Boat gang, it's appropriate that he's just developing a position on Iraq] <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> In an interview with the Boston Globe's Rick Klein, Sen. Kerry said he has "learned from the mistakes of his campaign, including his inability to articulate an easily understood position on the war. Now, drawing on his experience as a Vietnam-veteran-turned-war-critic in the early 1970s, he is making clear ...

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14654 [lbo-talk] the Dems' plan -- rank: 1000

[this'll turn it around for 'em!] USA Today - June 14, 2006 New Direction' is new theme for Democratic plan Party leaders hope platform remaps '06 races By Kathy Kiely USA Today WASHINGTON Democratic House and Senate leaders are planning to reduce the cost of student loans and prescription drugs, raise the minimum wage and launch an effort to develop alternative fuels if they win back control of Congress. In an interview Tuesday with USA TODAY, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi previewed ...

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14655 [lbo-talk] violent crime up -- rank: 1000

On Jun 14, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Ok, my turn: Are you predestined to be a violent criminal because > you happen to live within the (now greatly expanded and widely > populated by immigrants) borders of a country that is purported to > have had a violent frontier mentality? Destined? No. More likely than an otherwise similiarly situated foreigner? Probably yes. That's how statistical models work. Weren't you just complaining about bad statistics? Doug

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