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14896 [lbo-talk] Bush goes limp as Condi dances with Kim Jong Il -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - July 19, 2006 Conservative Anger Grows Over Bush's Foreign Policy By Michael Abramowitz Washington Post Staff Writer At a moment when his conservative coalition is already under strain over domestic policy, President Bush is facing a new and swiftly building backlash on the right over his handling of foreign affairs. Conservative intellectuals and commentators who once lauded Bush for what they saw as a willingness to aggressively confront threats and advance U.S. interests ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 19 07:07:50 PDT 2006

14897 [lbo-talk] how Hillary could win -- rank: 1000

On Jul 19, 2006, at 9:09 AM, Michael McIntyre wrote: > A post on the list a few days ago cited a survey showing that an > extraordinary number of Americans think that they are already in > the top 1% of the income distribution, or soon will be. I'm not sure this is true. After the 2000 election, David Brooks circulated this "fact," but I tracked down its origin and it turned out not to be true. Its reality base was a Time poll showing that some large share of the population ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 19 06:42:17 PDT 2006

14898 [lbo-talk] how Hillary could win -- rank: 1000

On Jul 19, 2006, at 7:46 AM, W. Kiernan wrote: > The median family income in the U.S.A. is stagnant at about > $45,000. Meanwhile the prices of many of the basics this family > needs or wants - a house to live in, gas for the car, a college > education for their otherwise career-doomed children - continue to > skyrocket up out of reach. Do you think the median voter actually > thinks of himself as "upwardly mobile"? Could well be. You're citing empirical reality, whi ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 19 06:37:28 PDT 2006

14899 [lbo-talk] making money off the immigration crackdown -- rank: 1000

[lovely photo to go with the story] <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/19/business/19detain.html? pagewanted=all> New York Times - July 19, 2006 July 19, 2006 Immigration Enforcement Benefits Prison Firms By MEREDITH KOLODNER As the Bush administration gets tougher on illegal immigration and increases its spending on enforcement, some of the biggest beneficiaries may be the companies that have been building and running private prisons around the country. By the fall of 2007, the administra ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 19 06:32:54 PDT 2006

14900 [lbo-talk] stupidest quote of the week from an American politician? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/19/washington/19marriage.html? _r=1&oref=slogin> Another Georgia Republican, Representative Phil Gingrey, said support for traditional marriage is perhaps the best message we can give to the Middle East and all the trouble they re having over there right now.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 19 06:27:28 PDT 2006

14901 [lbo-talk] anarchist FAQ -- rank: 1000

[apropos recent discussions] An Anarchist FAQ has been updated (version 11.7) Tenth Anniversary of An Anarchist FAQ! An Anarchist FAQ has been updated to version 11.7 on the 19th of July, 2006. "An Anarchist FAQ" is an indepth introduction to anarchist ideas, ideals and history. It explains why anarchism is anti- hierarchy, anti-state and anti-capitalist. It discusses why anarchists oppose the current system, how we plan to change it and what kind of society we want. "An Anarchist ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 18 15:13:35 PDT 2006

14902 [lbo-talk] Hil & Rupe -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - July 18, 2006 Hil, Rupert sly as Fox at fund-raiser BY HELEN KENNEDY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Two of the most public people in the world had a chummy breakfast yesterday, but media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D- N.Y.) tried to keep their political get-together as secret as possible. There were no Fox News cameras to record the odd couple breaking bread together at Murdoch's News Corp. headquarters in midtown, where, after years of attacking her, the con ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 18 13:17:59 PDT 2006

14903 [lbo-talk] Randian explains all -- rank: 1000

From: "David Holcberg" <DHolcberg at aynrand.org> Date: July 18, 2006 2:52:48 PM EDT To: <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: RE: Israel Should Wage War on the Palestinians We hold that government should be limited to protecting individual rights--which includes the use of the military against foreign threats. Israel--as the victim of terrorist aggression--is as justified in killing Palestinian civilians as the US was in killing German and Japanese civilians in WWII. -----Or ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 18 12:45:29 PDT 2006

14904 [lbo-talk] Perceptions of the Middle East situation -- rank: 1000

On Jul 18, 2006, at 3:30 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > One way of gauging public opinion on an issue is browsing posts to > forums > run by major media outlets. Woj, you're a social scientist. How representative are self-selected, opinionated posters? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 18 12:44:30 PDT 2006

14905 [lbo-talk] Stern calls on CEOs to solve health care crisis -- rank: 1000

[too bad all our SEIU apologists signed off, so they can't tell us why CEOs are the natural constituency for a union president to be addressing] Wall Street Journal - July 17, 2006 Horse-and-Buggy Health Coverage By ANDY STERN There is no subject that gets more discussion, analysis and lament than health care in America. Enough already. It's time to assert one simple fact: The employer-based system of health coverage is over. This may sound shocking, coming from a union leader whose members ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 18 12:41:32 PDT 2006

14906 [lbo-talk] Randians: kill 'em all, most of them are guilty anyway -- rank: 1000

[so much for limited government] Ayn Rand Institute Press Release http://www.aynrand.org/ Israel Should Wage War on the Palestinians July 18, 2006 Irvine, CA--Results from a recent poll indicate that 77 percent of Palestinians support their government's kidnapping of an Israeli soldier and 60 percent support the continued rocket fire from Gaza into Israel--this despite Israel's withdrawal of its troops and removal of its citizens from Gaza just a few months ago. "Israel should wage war ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 18 11:45:39 PDT 2006

14907 [lbo-talk] how Hillary could win -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - July 17, 2006 Hil's keys to the Oval Office By FRANK LUNTZ For all those Republicans and a few Democrats who think Hillary Clinton can't possibly be elected President, I have two words for you: Ronald Reagan. I remember it well. He was too old. He was too conservative. He was too scary. And he was elected in two landslides. The exact same kinds of assumptions about electability 25 years ago are alive and well in 2006, and they are just as wrong for Hillary Clinton toda ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 17 20:05:14 PDT 2006

14908 [lbo-talk] Bush cusses -- rank: 1000

Hear Bush say "shit": <http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages/audio/ politics/bush_g8audio.mp3>.

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Date:	Mon Jul 17 19:27:39 PDT 2006

14909 [lbo-talk] Re: Thomas Ferguson's Golden Rule: criticism? compliments? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 17, 2006, at 9:55 PM, Tim Francis-Wright wrote: > For what it's worth, Ferguson and Rogers's _Right Turn: The Decline > of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics_, published in > 1986, has a different spin on this thesis. They portray a > Democratic party that turned rightward in the late 1970s ahead of > any rightward movement by the electorate. Perhaps they overplay > the investment theory of politics a bit much. I always assumed that those passages were m ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 17 19:04:21 PDT 2006

14910 [lbo-talk] Re-intro -- rank: 1000

On Jul 17, 2006, at 9:52 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > You can't either be for or against such a structure until you have > _some_ idea of all the activity that leads from here to there. You can > no more make sense at this level of detail about the future than > someone > in 1890 could have planned the Walmart structure of today. I'm talking about some near, imaginable future, not some off-the- shelf utopia. We've got to work with what we have. You forgot to quote the "cookshops o ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 17 18:58:00 PDT 2006