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19996 [lbo-talk] Reps splintering on SS? -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - April 27, 2005 GOP May Be Splintering on Social Security By Jonathan Weisman and Michael A. Fletcher Washington Post Staff Writers A badly divided Senate Finance Committee yesterday held the first hearing examining President Bush's efforts to restructure Social Security. While the Democrats remained united in their opposition, there were signs of cracks in the Republicans' support for the president. After months of political positioning, the stakes were high as the committee to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 27 07:20:22 PDT 2005

19997 [lbo-talk] crime & American Indians -- rank: 1000

At 7:15 AM -0400 4/27/05, NewsFromNCJRS at ncjrs.org wrote: >"American Indians and Crime: A BJS Statistical Profile, 1992-2002" >is available from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) website at >http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/aic02.htm. > >This 56 page document summarizes data on American Indians in the >criminal justice system and reports the rates and characteristics of >violent crimes experienced by American Indians. This report updates >a previous ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 27 07:03:06 PDT 2005

19998 [lbo-talk] union-busting at Columbia -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050509&s=washburn> TheNation.com - April 25, 2005 Columbia Unbecoming by Jennifer Washburn Print this article E-mail this article Write to the editors Take Action Now! Click here for info on Washburn's new book University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of American Higher Education, recently released by Basic Books. n recent months, a growing chorus of conservative critics has decried the existence of a liberal orthodoxy on college campuses and c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 27 06:54:19 PDT 2005

19999 [lbo-talk] HRW calls for 9-11 style cover-up (?) -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >I doubt he could even spell "geopolitical". It is unlikely he is >capable of abstract thought. Worse than a gentleman's C: <http://www.americanpolitics.com/bushtranscript.html>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 27 06:48:20 PDT 2005

20000 [lbo-talk] Horrorwitz coming to NYC! -- rank: 1000

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY! -------------------------------------- EMERGENCY ORGANIZING MEETING WED. APRIL 27 7 PM CAFE 212 LERNER HALL The Columbia College Republicans have decided to bring one of the country's most hateful bigots and McCarthyites to speak on campus this Friday at Noon - David Horowitz. The announcement for their event is pasted below. For those not familiar with him, Horowitz is one of the figures behind Campus Watch, a website set up to "monitor" Middle East professors, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 27 06:32:32 PDT 2005

20001 [lbo-talk] The suicide of New Left Review -- rank: 1000

turbulo at aol.com wrote: >In the article that Kagarlitsky reviles, "Renewals," (NLR, New >Series, #1, Jan./Feb., 2000) Perry Anderson writes in a footnote: > > "It is a matter of logic that there is a third possible reaction >to the turn of the time, that is neither accommodation or >consolation: namely, resignation--in other words, a lucid >recognition of the nature and triumph of the system, without either >adaptation or self deception, but also witho ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 26 16:38:28 PDT 2005

20002 [lbo-talk] housing boom -> sprawl -- rank: 1000

[from Goldman Sachs's daily economic letter] >In sum, it is difficult to chalk up today's stratospheric home >sales figure purely to one-off factors. Instead, it can be >viewed as the counterpart to large home price increases on the >coasts (see 'Pricey on the Seaside,' US Economics Analyst 05/15, >April 15, 2005). In most of the country, there is still plenty >of space for new homes; the Census Bureau's Midwest and South >regions account for a disproportionate 88% of the ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 26 16:17:43 PDT 2005

20003 [lbo-talk] Sowell on "black rednecks" -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >Basically it's another spin on the white-trash/n-word formula, which >has been playing in this country for a long time. A more constructive, less bigoted way of looking at it would be to see the old south as an extremely polarized and economically stagnant region that left its working class of all colors in a very undeveloped state. Before he was drafted into directing the Institute for Southern Studies, Chris Kromm was thinking about doing a book on the south as our own in ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 26 12:57:26 PDT 2005

20004 [lbo-talk] dregs and drugs -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Carrol Cox wrote: > >>It's aesopian language, Kelley. For almost 40 years now it has been very >>unfashionable for leftists to sneer at "Commies" and they needed a >>substitute. So they substituted "Puritan-Baiting" for "Red Baiting." No >>real difference -- both practices are based on using a label with no >>material content but with immense emotional force. > >Hey, I could swear there were actual comm ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 26 12:29:58 PDT 2005

20005 [lbo-talk] dregs and drugs -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >It's aesopian language, Kelley. For almost 40 years now it has been very >unfashionable for leftists to sneer at "Commies" and they needed a >substitute. So they substituted "Puritan-Baiting" for "Red Baiting." No >real difference -- both practices are based on using a label with no >material content but with immense emotional force. Hey, I could swear there were actual commies at one time. It was all an illusion? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 26 12:20:45 PDT 2005

20006 [lbo-talk] "5000 Worker March": activistism gives rise to planning meeting -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Thanks for the help on how to even frame the problem. The real property >, yes. > >I have this fantasy about a web of finance capital sort of sitting on top of >the city like a giant net in the form of debtor-creditor relationships. (If >a web is not the right metaphor, what might be ?) Municipal bonds in the >first place, but , with an army of Marxist accountants, I'm thinking it >might be possible to map the whole range of financial relations, ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 26 10:06:21 PDT 2005

20007 [lbo-talk] economic pessimism -- rank: 1000

[from Gallup ed-in-chief Frank Newport's Tuesday Briefing] Economy There's little question that Americans' views of the U.S. economy remain bleak. Gallup's new economic data show more than 6 in 10 say the economy is getting worse, rather than better -- and that's just one of a number of recent measures showing rampant economic pessimism. The Conference Board's consumer confidence numbers are due out Tuesday and although I'm writing this before they have been made public, I would be very much sur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 26 09:38:13 PDT 2005

20008 [lbo-talk] Re: class clothing -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >Carrol Cox wrote: > >I am astounded at the sheer tackiness at pretending to know the >inner motives and daily behavior of several hundred million >strangers! > >Sheer vulgarity. > >-------------- > >You, I, all of us, generalize about politics, economics, culture all >the time, no? I'm waiting for an explanation of why a generalization like this is ok: At 12:59 PM -0600 12/31/04, Carrol Cox wrote: >the total culture of the u.s. workin ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 26 08:04:33 PDT 2005

20009 [lbo-talk] Sowell on "black rednecks" -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I think he has a point here, but he seems to prematurely dismiss the effects >of slavery. The factor that differentiates between Blacks who were sons of >immigrants and Blacks who were descendants of US slavery is precisely their >exposure to slavery. So slavery can be an explanatory factor here. It's amazing, the lengths the right will go to to deny the effects of slavery and racism. But I thought it was perversely satisfying to watch Sowell go after Sout ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 26 07:54:30 PDT 2005

20010 [lbo-talk] This I can't believe -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I am not sure whether the NPR does this to merely fulfill its mandate as the >empire's mouthpiece for the professional class, or in response to popular >demand of that class. Years ago I had Janine Jackson of FAIR on my radio show, to react to one of many right-wing hits on PBS. She argued that the right would never want to shut down PBS - they would just keep beating up on it so that it would move to the right to forestall further attacks. Of course, they'd ne ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 26 07:45:34 PDT 2005