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1816 [lbo-talk] It provokes screams from the left -- rank: 1000

On Jul 27, 2011, at 10:16 PM, SA wrote: > The question was why Obama thinks it won't hurt his reelection, not why he wants to do it in the first place. Because he's trying to position himself as the "reasonable" alternative to a gang of loons. And, like they say in the movies, it might just work. Doug

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1817 [lbo-talk] It provokes screams from the left -- rank: 1000

On Jul 27, 2011, at 6:39 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Why is it so hard to acknowledge that Obama supports poicies he believes in? Why all this byzantine speculation? You're exactly right. Doug

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1818 [lbo-talk] Enzo Traverso: The Hate Factory: Xenophobia and Racism in Europe -- rank: 1000

On Jul 27, 2011, at 5:21 PM, Ferenc Molnar wrote: > dh: I interviewed Gore Vidal an hour or two after Fortuyn was killed. Vidal's first reaction: "probably a homophobe." When I said, probably not, Vidal expressed sympathy for Fortuyn's POV about "protecting" liberal Europe from the illiberals. > > fm: Yikes! I love the old girl but sometimes he talks complete rot. I'm jealous you got to interview him, though... I was star-struck, but he's also kind of icky. He's ...

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1819 [lbo-talk] Enzo Traverso: The Hate Factory: Xenophobia and Racism in Europe -- rank: 1000

On Jul 27, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Ferenc Molnar wrote: > I'm glad Traverso mentions Pym Fortuyn whose openly gay identity appeared to attract rather than repel supporters of his xenophobic platform. I interviewed Gore Vidal an hour or two after Fortuyn was killed. Vidal's first reaction: "probably a homophobe." When I said, probably not, Vidal expressed sympathy for Fortuyn's POV about "protecting" liberal Europe from the illiberals. Doug

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1820 [lbo-talk] It provokes screams from the left -- rank: 1000

On Jul 27, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > I think you have to accept that or > accept that he really does want to cut MC and SS. He does. It's the elite consensus, and he represents nothing if not elite consensus. Doug

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1821 [lbo-talk] Bill Gates, education reformer -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2011, at 5:27 PM, // ravi wrote: > Permission to share? http://cl.ly/1o2C1D3w111m17040W0B > > ravi Nice. For sure. Doug

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1822 [lbo-talk] Jeffrey Sachs, of all people, calls for a third-party movement -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Joanne Landy wrote: > Who'da thunk it, given Sachs's record of calling for "shock therapy" for post-Communist Eastern Europe? He's changed. http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Sachs.html

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1823 [lbo-talk] The political incorrectness of Thomas the Tank Engine -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2011, at 3:00 PM, c b wrote: > Sir Topham Hat is a bad guy A four-year-old Ivan found him very scary at the Holidy Train Show (a wonderful even held every December at the New York Botanical Garden). Doug

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1824 [lbo-talk] recidivist hack watch -- rank: 1000

[from the FT] Breaking News Alan Greenspan: Regulators must risk more, and intervene less Since the devastating Japanese earthquake and, earlier, the global financial tsunami, governments have been pressed to guarantee their populations against virtually all the risks exposed by those extremely low probability events. But should they? Guarantees require the building up of a buffer of idle resources that are not otherwise engaged in the production of goods and services. They are employed only if, ...

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1825 [lbo-talk] Bill Gates, education reformer -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2011, at 2:27 PM, Seth Kulick wrote: > In the interview, Gates says what cheers him up when he gets > "depressed about giving money in this area": > > On the fraught issue of school choice, his foundation has been a > strong advocate of charter schools, and Mr. Gates is particularly fond > of the KIPP charter network and its focus on serving inner-city > neighborhoods. "Whenever you get depressed about giving money in this > area," he volunt ...

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1826 [lbo-talk] ] Fwd: [Pen-l] "Today, We are all Norwegians?" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2011, at 2:57 PM, // ravi wrote: > Ironic since it is the very refusal to reason that makes the phrase problematic. To me, the phrase represents the following argument: > > 1. I have a strong opinion based on personal taste > 2. I realise that there is reason to suspect that this opinion is unfounded > 3. I choose not to defend it using argument > 4. Instead I will offer a backhanded apology by calling your view PC Or, "I'm about to say something ignorant and b ...

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1827 [lbo-talk] If McCain had won -- rank: 1000

On Jul 24, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > And after you romp in this rhetoric for a while, start reading accounts of what FDR _did_ in 1937-8 after being overwhelmingly reelected. Boom! Up went the unemployment rate again. And FDR was soon on the phone urging Gov. Murphy of Michigan to call out the National Guard to suppress the sit-down strikes. And of course the New Deal was strictly for whites only. The DP hasn't really changed. It responds to great pressure -- if and ony if that pr ...

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1828 [lbo-talk] Germany rising? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2011, at 5:44 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > But the question I have is how will the newly immiserated PIIGS be able to afford German exports...? Apparently Germany doesn't care. Maybe they prefer to buy up peripheral assets cheaply.

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1829 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 Freshly posted to my radio archive (actually the files have been there for a while, but the web gateway wasn't updated - if you subscribe to the podcast, you've gotten these already) <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: July 23, 2011 James Galbraith on deficit hysteria and the single-volume collection of four books by his father, John Kenneth Galbra ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 23 14:45:16 PDT 2011

1830 [lbo-talk] happy birthday to our favorite curmudgeon -- rank: 1000

Facebook tells me that today is Carrol Cox's birthday. Hope it's a tolerably happy one, Carrol.

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