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18241 [lbo-talk] Coulter strikes again -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher - February 27, 2005 Her Syndicate Runs Edited Version of Ann Coulter Column By E&P Staff NEW YORK Ann Coulter, no stranger to controversy, stirred the pot some more this past week, when she took up the the still-simmering story of ex-White House reporter James Guckert, better known as Jeff Gannon, formerly of Talon News. Writing in her Feb. 23 column for Universal Press Syndicate, Coulter observed, among other things, that Guckert/Gannon was a better reporter than The ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 1 09:12:52 PST 2005

18242 [lbo-talk] A Very Long Engagement -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >BTW, who said that he can hire a half of the working class to kill the other >half? Jim Fisk. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 1 08:57:31 PST 2005

18243 [lbo-talk] Laurie Garrett's resignation letter -- rank: 1000

<http://poynter.org/forum/?id=memos> Laurie Garrett's memo to Newsday colleagues 2/28/2005 11:47:08 AM Dear Newsday Friends and Colleagues, On March 8th -- International Women's Day -- my leave of absence from Newsday ends. I will not be returning to the paper, largely because my work at the Council on Foreign Relations has proven to be the most exciting challenge of my life. But you have been through so much pain and difficulty over the last year, all of which I monitored closely and with ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 1 06:51:32 PST 2005

18244 [lbo-talk] Re: poor, white and pissed -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >This is very apropos our recent thread on how historical fraud is >treated differently depending on how congenial it is the powers that >be. Because anti-semitism actually wasn't a travelling companion of >American populism. I don't have Fraser's book here, but it's full of quotes from Jacksonians, populists, and WASP elitists like Henry Adams that are so anti-Semitic they'd make your toes curl. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 1 05:35:34 PST 2005

18245 [lbo-talk] MY ALPOLOGIES -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>[lbo-talk] MY ALPOLOGIES >>Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com >>Thu Jun 30 16:35:10 PDT 2005 ><snip> >>Just got an email offlist during my angry exchange with Yoshie >>saying I should apologize for any reference to rape. This was >>completely correct. I apologize. It is the fault of anger. > >I accept your apology. I know the national question is a very >difficult question, on which outsiders like myself ought to ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 17:30:14 PDT 2005

18246 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: June 30, 2005 Devah Pager, a sociologist at Princeton, reports on experiments showing a white ex-con has an easier time in the job market than a black who's never done time * Jonathan Tasini, keeper of the Working Life blog, on the possible split in the AFL-CIO June 23, 2005 Michael Eric Dyson, author of Is Bill Cosby Right?, on class tensions among black Americans * Christian Parenti on Bolivia and the state ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 17:26:33 PDT 2005

18247 [lbo-talk] Nixon on India, 1971 -- rank: 1000

National Security Archive Update, June 29, 2005 Nixon/Kissinger Saw India as "Soviet Stooge" in 1971 South Asia Crisis New Documents Show White House Ignored Regional Nature of Crisis and Risked Confrontation with Moscow to Look Tough http://www.nsarchive.org For more information contact: William Burr - 202/994-7032 - wburr at gwu.edu Washington, D.C., June 29, 2005 - President Nixon and his national security adviser Henry Kissinger saw India as a "Soviet stooge" during the S ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 15:49:49 PDT 2005

18248 [lbo-talk] I made it! -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Really. You want to be known as a liberal democrat? You should sue. Yeah, it's almost as bad as being identified as an economist! Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 12:55:29 PDT 2005

18249 [lbo-talk] FOMC -- rank: 1000

[No surprises here - no significant change to the language ("measured" is still there). But no sign they're going to stop anytime soon. At some point, this tightening is going to bite, but we're not there yet.] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2005/20050630/default.htm> June 30, 2005 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to raise its target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 3-1/4 percent. The Committee believes ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 12:07:44 PDT 2005

18250 [lbo-talk] George Soros, felonious druggie -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson wrote: >Since Soros, through his NGOs, has eagerly collaborated with the >Bush Administration in the various 'revolutions' staged in Esstern >Europe and the former USSR, why should there be a problem? Different Bush, different time. With these guys you're either for them or against them. Soros spent millions trying to defeat 43 - you think they'd forget that?

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 12:03:11 PDT 2005

18251 [lbo-talk] "jobs jobs jobs" (was: When is private property NOT?) -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >The main "jobs" argument is Keynesian: building pyramids might get the >economy moving again during a 1930s-type depression. Even there, >schools would be a better public works project. Joan Robinson once said something like, they Keynesians are always going on about investment. Too bad they never ask investment in what. Wish I could remember the exact quote, but I can't.

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 10:20:52 PDT 2005

18252 [lbo-talk] RE: George Soros, felonious druggie -- rank: 1000

Gary Mongiovi wrote: >I thought Davis's mentioning that Soros "lives in New York" as an >obviously negative attribute was a little screwy. "He's a felon, a >druggie, hates the president AND he lives in Gemorrah to boot; nope, >can't have this guy owning a baseball team." Spoken like a true >yahoo. Forgot - he's a Jew! Who talks like Zsa Zsa Gabor.

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 09:44:45 PDT 2005

18253 [lbo-talk] Doug's pal stands up for freedom of the press -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >In an interview on CNN, Mr. Pearlstine said the threat of fines played >no role in the magazine's thinking. "We are not above the law," he >said. > >The magazine made its decision over the objections of its reporter, >Mr. Cooper. This is the guy who essentially fired Mary Williams Walsh at the WSJ for reporting on the weird connections between CBS News and the mujahideen during the Afghanistan war. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 09:42:15 PDT 2005

18254 [lbo-talk] Goodnight John-boy -- rank: 1000

This scumbag was big on vouchers & school privatization. Sometimes you gotta applaud rich folks' propensity to fly their own planes. Doug Tommy Kelly wrote: >John Thomas Walton, (October 8, 1946 - June 27, 2005), was a son of Wal-Mart >founder Sam Walton. He was the chairman of True North Partners, a venture >capital firm. On June 27, 2005 Walton died when the CGS Hawk Arrow [1] >homebuilt aircraft (Experimental Aircraft under FAA regulation) that he was >piloting crashed in J ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 10:26:10 PDT 2005

18255 [lbo-talk] NYT "deeply disappointed" in Time -- rank: 1000

MarketWatch Market Pulse: New York Times: Disappointed Time to deliver record Thursday June 30, 9:54 am ET By Emily Church NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said in a statement that the newspaper group is "deeply disappointed by Time Inc.'s decision to deliver the subpoenaed records." Earlier Thursday, Time Inc. said it would comply with a court order under which it must provide records to a grand jury convened for the Special Counsel's inquiry in ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 09:55:32 PDT 2005