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15286 [lbo-talk] Renters Getting Screwed - or Why Eminent DomainisaDistraction -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The Institute for Justice, which you keep quoting, is in tight coordination >with the Oregon-style regulatory takings movement, because they know the >more tools of land management they eliminate for local governments, the more >uncontested sprawl and high-profit development they can promote. Except that eminent domain is more typically used to promote high-profit development than the kind of high-minded development you're talking about. For a guy who's obsessed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 28 05:19:16 PST 2006

15287 [lbo-talk] the conservative mind -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MIND National Review and Its >Times. By Jeffrey Hart. > >----- > >FUCK AMERICA. Quick & hard? Long & slow? From the front or behind? Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 05:09:58 PST 2006

15288 [lbo-talk] Renters Getting Screwed - or Why Eminent DomainisaDistraction -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >For example, the same folks pushing this absolutist defense against eminent >domain also just won a court decision upholding a law banning "regulatory >takings" of land property in Oregon. The same rhetoric of defending small >property owners is used to attack all sorts of regulations in the same >property rights rhetoric. I know all about this. I've been following Ron Arnold's work for the last 10 years. I can tell shit from shinola. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 27 16:56:37 PST 2006

15289 [lbo-talk] Renters Getting Screwed - or Why EminentDomainisaDistraction -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >Can anyone point to a state which is contemplating legislation with real >teeth in it which would maintain the expropriation power but, crucially, >limit it to purposes of public rather than private development? That would >help persuade those like myself that this is campaign worth supporting. I posted the link to the Institute for Justice's model legislation. You can get links from there to actual bills. Here it is again. Doug ---- As it turns out, this is pr ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 27 16:08:28 PST 2006

15290 [lbo-talk] CFR fellow calls for US withdrawal from Iraq -- rank: 1000

<http://cfr.org/publication/9320/iraq_will_stabilize_only_if_we_pull_out.html> Iraq will stabilize only if we pull out Author: Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies December 1, 2005 Newsday "The question remains: Can Iraq edge closer to democracy while under foreign occupation? The answer is that American occupation, with its daily violence and infringements, only empowers radical voices in Iraq, making civil war-not democracy-the more likely outcome. The path to stabil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 27 14:31:27 PST 2006

15291 [lbo-talk] Renters Getting Screwed - or Why Eminent DomainisaDistraction -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: >THE California Democratic Party has quietly thrown its weight behind >a movement to stop the government from using eminent domain to buy >people's property against their will and then handing it over to >another private owner. Uh-oh, this should create a crisis in NathanLand! Guess they don't realize they're objectively promoting racism. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 27 14:29:57 PST 2006

15292 [lbo-talk] CFR on civil war in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Further to the demented assertion that the Council on Foreign Relations wants, nay planned, a civil war in Iraq: <http://cfr.org/region/405/iraq.html> Sectarian violence in the wake of this week's attack on the Shiite Golden Mosque in Samarra have raised fears that an Iraqi civil war is imminent. Civil war would destroy the chances of the newly elected central government and create even more instability across the region.

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Date:	Mon Feb 27 14:27:25 PST 2006

15293 [lbo-talk] Renters Getting Screwed - or Why Eminent DomainisaDistraction -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Your position is reactionary just from the pure racial dynamics of most >states. Others disagree: <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169926,00.html> "The taking of private property for private use, in my estimation, is unconstitutional. It's un-American, and it's not to be tolerated," said Rep. Maxine Waters (search), D-Calif., in a press conference Tuesday afternoon. "This is not a partisan issue." ------- <http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 27 14:08:05 PST 2006

15294 [lbo-talk] Renters Getting Screwed - or Why Eminent DomainisaDistraction -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >So fine, you are blocking politically with the rightwing on their >legislation. You want white state legislators to tell many minority-led >city council people that they are too incompetent to resist real estate >interests, so they "shouldn't have" such powers. > >Your position is reactionary just from the pure racial dynamics of most >states. In the name of stopping some abuse, you want to gut democratic >rights of local cities. > &g ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 27 13:51:41 PST 2006

15295 [lbo-talk] Renters Getting Screwed - or Why Eminent Domainisa Distraction -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But even you said that having state laws strip local governments of power >over eminent domain was not the policy you favored. What you refuse to >hear is that I agree that abuses to eminent domain and have REPEATEDLY >listed alternative policy goals that would rein in eminent domain abuses by >corporations, yet you keep ignoring that the policy being debated is state >governments stripping local governments of power. One of the awful things about life i ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 27 13:01:23 PST 2006

15296 [lbo-talk] Conservatives happier than liberals -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >less emotional than that of >The Nation. You must get a different edition of the magazine from the one I get. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 27 12:40:36 PST 2006

15297 [lbo-talk] Conservatives happier than liberals -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >It figures. Guilt tripping and malcontentedness seem to be pre-requistes >for being on the left. Little wonder that some folks (like Horowitz or >Hitch) get tired of all this negativism after a while and jump the ship ;) Have you ever spent time with the American right? It's full of fear and hatred. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 27 10:17:29 PST 2006

15298 [lbo-talk] NYT on equity risk premium -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Doug asks: > >>Why, if stocks are more volatile than bonds, should they return more? > >I think there's a clue buried in this story: > >>>there may just be something >>>special about American capital markets > >Note the emphasis on _American_ capital markets. And there is: it's >called liquidity, transparency, and regulation. Despite all the >terrible stories you hear, on par, it's very difficult to be a >publically tra ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 27 10:16:05 PST 2006

15299 [lbo-talk] Renters Getting Screwed - or Why Eminent Domain isa Distraction -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But the point is one Carroll brought up, the fact that you were mentioning >ED is because you were following the talking points of the rightwing that >want to make ED the main topic of public debate. You know, it's not enough to discredit an idea by saying it's "rightwing." You have to engage the idea on its merits. Sometimes the right even has a point. In this case, there are real issues of class power that the right is tapping into and elite liberals ar ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 27 08:53:10 PST 2006

15300 [lbo-talk] Malcolm Gladwell puts his faith in healthcare 'market innovations' -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Doug Henwood asks: > >> Why is this guy so popular? He seems like a hack and >> a bit of a turd to me. > >Isn't that pretty standard for popular authors among the business set? It is, but he didn't start out as a business hack, did he? I thought the business class subsequently adopted him. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 27 08:41:55 PST 2006