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15571 [lbo-talk] Hillary donates to pro-lifer -- rank: 1000

Washington Times - February 8, 2006 Hillary backs donation to pro-lifer By Donald Lambro THE WASHINGTON TIMES Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is defending a $10,000 campaign contribution she gave to a pro-life Democratic Senate candidate who is fiercely opposed by pro-choice feminist groups that have been her strongest allies. Continuing to pursue a political strategy aimed at moderating her liberal image, the New York senator said Monday that her political action committee, HillPac, gave Pennsylvan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 8 08:08:58 PST 2006

15572 [lbo-talk] how the cartoons became a global phenomenon -- rank: 1000

[meant to forward this yesterday - the story of how the controversy was stoked begins about halfway down] Wall Street Journal - February 7, 2006 How Muslim Clerics Stirred Arab World Against Denmark Newspaper Cartoons Unite Religious, Secular Forces; Dossier Fans the Flames By ANDREW HIGGINS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL COPENHAGEN - When Flemming Rose, the cultural editor at Denmark's leading newspaper, published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad late last September, he got an angry ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 8 07:57:10 PST 2006

15573 [lbo-talk] Berlusconi-olympics-political opportunism -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >I'm currently contemplating if I should start a blog on NPR's news >programming. But wouldn't you have to listen to it then? Yuck. I'd rather watch Fox - it's so much more fun. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 8 07:38:55 PST 2006

15574 [lbo-talk] Re: Iran and the Left in a Moral Snare -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> >-Nathan, the counter-examples you point to range from the alarming to >-the repulsive. Calling India essentially Hindu would be a very >-controversial position for lots of Indians. > >And yet, that was the message of the British when they split Pakistan off >from India. The British took religious differences and declared them the >basis for nationalistic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 7 16:03:35 PST 2006

15575 [lbo-talk] response to Fitch on single-payer -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >SEIU resisted single >payer plans as long as they were impartial and ignored immigrant worker >needs, but then endorsed a single payer plan that covers them. The SEIU's health care project, Americans for Healthcare, says nothing about single-payer. They're now pushing Maryland-style legislation, which is a pretty half-assed approach. Here's there "About us" page <http://www.americansforhealthcare.com/about/>, which is so mushy it almost slips off th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 7 15:56:09 PST 2006

15576 [lbo-talk] response to Fitch on single-payer -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >SEIU resisted single >payer plans as long as they were impartial and ignored immigrant worker >needs, but then endorsed a single payer plan that covers them. Do you have any evidence that that's the reason Sweeney voted against single-payer within the AFL-CIO in the early 1990s?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 7 15:47:32 PST 2006

15577 [lbo-talk] Horowitz List of 100 Most Dangerous Professors in U.S. -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >The Professor's Colleges and Universities Victor Navasky? This man is delusional.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 7 15:04:38 PST 2006

15578 [lbo-talk] response to Fitch on single-payer -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Honest single payer advocates to this day admit that this is a big drawback >to single payer. See the California HealthCare Foundation site here: >http://www.chcf.org/topics/healthinsurance/coverageexpansion/index.cfm?itemID=105322&model=single_payer > >"By generally accepted standards of fairness, the single-payer approach >rates high in terms of providing access to coverage. This approach achieves >universal coverage without requiring anyone ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 7 14:41:55 PST 2006

15579 [lbo-talk] IMF: running out of money and meaning -- rank: 1000

Washington Times - February 6, 2006 Deficit forces IMF to rethink role By William McQuillen BLOOMBERG NEWS Early repayments from fund's biggest borrowers leave shortfall The International Monetary Fund's loss of two of its biggest borrowers last month has left the lender with a widening budget shortfall and renewed questions about its role in the global economy. In the past six weeks, Brazil made early repayment of $15.5 billion it owed and Argentina repaid $9.5 billion in debt two years ahead o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 7 13:26:45 PST 2006

15580 [lbo-talk] Re: Iran and the Left in a Moral Snare -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Seth Kulick" <skulick at seas.upenn.edu> >-What other country is so concerned, in such a respectable >-way, with the "demographic problem"? It's just another way of saying that >a >-certain segment of the population breeds too fast, as Edward Said once >-characterized Peace Now's position. > >What other countries? Most of Europe worrying about birthrates by north >africans and ot ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 7 13:18:58 PST 2006

15581 [lbo-talk] Iran and the Left in a Moral Snare -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > > >joanna wrote: >>Completely agree with you Doug. The fundamental Israeli nationalism >>rests on a claim of "blood" NOT religion and is a witness to its >>noxious 19 C. roots. And the lack of a common culture was a huge >>problem with the founding of Israel and continues to be a problem. > >-I like Joel Schalit's point that wit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 7 12:29:12 PST 2006

15582 [lbo-talk] Iran and the Left in a Moral Snare -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Nathan Newman wrote: >-I think a Pal right of return is pretty phantasmic. israel exists, >-isn't going anywhere, and really shouldn't be undone at this point. >-But you're referring to a right of return to countries that more or >-less existed in their present form. Israel was created less than 60 >-years ago mainly to accommodate Europeans, and a language was revived >-that hadn't been spoken in over a thousand years. There's really not >-much else ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 7 12:26:17 PST 2006

15583 [lbo-talk] Congress risks becoming irrelevant -- rank: 1000

[Gotta love the right: first it was the UN, now it's Congress. Do as Bush says, or you're irrelevant!] Washington Times - February 7, 2006 Wartime surveillance and Congress TODAY'S EDITORIAL Technology, terrorist methods and the means to counteract them are constantly changing. Will Congress change too? If lawmakers act rightly in the wake of this week's National Security Agency hearings, they will change the statutes that govern electronic surveillance to comport with what the Constitution inhe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 7 11:39:29 PST 2006

15584 [lbo-talk] Pandora -- rank: 1000

Pointed to on Susie Bright's blog: <http://www.pandora.com/>. Enter an artist or a song, and it creates a playlist keyed to your initial selection.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 7 11:14:41 PST 2006

15585 [lbo-talk] How Gay Are You? -- rank: 1000

Mark Bennett wrote: >No kidding? Well, that would explain some of the scores. To the man >with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Or something like that. True, but it works both ways. With my score, I could go either way! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 7 08:37:52 PST 2006