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26191 non-voters -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >If >memory serves, Labor Party refused to take a position on abortion to >avoid pissing off catholic sentiments of Latino supporters. Specifically Baldemar Velasquez and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 15 15:05:17 PST 2003

26192 LaRouchies: fascist Buckley promoted Lieberman -- rank: 1000

Thanks to Michael Pug, of course: <http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2002/2928buckpac.html >

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Date:	Wed Jan 15 14:57:50 PST 2003

26193 Belgium getting ready to try Sharon -- rank: 1000

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2662635.stm> BBC Wednesday, 15 January, 2003, 19:28 GMT Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt says he supports a change to the country's law on human rights, to allow the prosecution of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for alleged war crimes. Mr Verhofstadt said on Tuesday he did not object to parliament broadening the scope of the law so that a war crime could be prosecuted "no matter where the person accused of the crime is located," Belgi ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 15 14:17:02 PST 2003

26194 Hitch in WSJ -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Certainly no problems with certainy as far as what they believe, >but rather with the proposals from non-conservatives. ...and they're certain they're wrong! Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 15 13:44:32 PST 2003

26195 Approaching Sh*tstorm? -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Well, the odds are rising that I'm about to receive a massive >incoming sh*tstorm launched by the assembled right-wing hacks of >America. > >And all because I pointed out that Glenn Hubbard's current line on >deficits and interest rates is... inconsistent with what he says in >his textbook. I saw you quoted somewhere the other day saying he needs to get out of Washington. He said in his text that higher deficits => higher interest rates, right? But ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 15 13:40:41 PST 2003

26196 Hitch in WSJ -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Of course Buckley and his friends have always used that >line of argument against leftists, claiming that they had >a better recognition of all of the complexities >and contradictions that would subvert the best efforts >of leftwing reforms. I don't think Buckley & Co. have ever had problems with certainty. He's Catholic, after all! Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 15 13:36:12 PST 2003

26197 Hitch in WSJ -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: > > the tergiversation." > >Exactly, how does Buckley think that you have been guilty of waffling >or equivocation? Not that - in this sense (from Dictionary.com): "the act of abandoning a party or cause." I.e., turning on the POR and publishing a quasi-marxist newsletter. > Now, I think that you have been guilty of that >on occasion, Hardly - just an appropriate recognition of the complexities and contradictions. And adherence to Drisco ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 15 11:32:13 PST 2003

26198 Hitch in WSJ -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Is Bill Buckley going to be there? I'm wondering. I sure hope so. I sent him the first ish of LBO with a cover note explaining my POR past and he wrote back saying "I regret the tergiversation." I'm hoping my old pal Wally Olson will be there. Wally holds a fellowship at the Manhattan Institute, where he discovers and circulates sensation stories of litigation, as part of the great "tort reform" offensive. And Grover "Rocky" Rees, who picked ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 15 11:08:23 PST 2003

26199 9% Re: Gallup: Bush favors the wealthy, but so what? -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 at 5:34pm Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >here are the gallup monthly averages for W: > > approve disapprove > >10/01 88% 9% > >11/01 87% 9% > > That probably means we have 9% of the American > population who are firmly on the left, come hell or high > water. That ain't shabby. same numbers daddy had 11 years ago. A bit better than Daddy's actually: 1/90 80% 11% 2/90 73% 16% 3/90 72% ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 15 11:05:19 PST 2003

26200 loan losses? what loan losses? -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - January 15, 2003 Loose Accounting Rules Keep Defaults Off Books -- for Now By JONATHAN WEIL and HENNY SENDER Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL So much corporate debt. So many defaults. So why haven't the losses shown up yet on the books of companies exposed to the debt? Chalk it up in part to some elastic accounting rules that companies easily can game to mask their losses. And that could lead to some mean surprises in the months and years ahead, when the companies ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 15 11:01:51 PST 2003

26201 The Triumph of Hope Over Self-Interest -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >>Michael Pollak wrote: >> >>>Just out of curiousity: what's the average annual salary in the 81st >>>percentile? >> >>For total household income in 2001, the upper limit of the fourth >>quintile was $83,500, and the bottom of the top 5% was $150,499 >><http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/h01.html>. > > >This is for households, right? That is, single individuals are >omitted from this tabulation, ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 15 10:57:20 PST 2003

26202 TOWARD A MAXIMUM ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Yes. I've been in that situation twice -- and when it happens, it's a >rush like nothing else I know. And when small groups try to fake it, >it's one of the stupidest things I know. The young woman who broke apart >the local SDS back in 1969 by joining the Weatherman got her arm broken >during the Days of Rage. The last time I saw her, she was passing >through town from east to west and consulting an astrology guide to see >what bus she should take. I wond ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 15 10:47:16 PST 2003

26203 Hitch in WSJ -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >I think calling Hitchens a right-winger is >cheap, lazy and stupid. I never did. I've said he's moved right, and he himself has said he's glad Thatcher won, that Bush is a pretty good guy, and that he's exploring his libertarian side. Maybe it's because I was a rightwinger once that I'm more sensitive to the taxonomic subtleties than your average leftist. Speaking of which <http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/bs/36/henwood.html>, since membership in the Yale Party of the ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 15 10:35:37 PST 2003

26204 le Carre: U.S. has gone mad -- rank: 1000

Times (London) - January 15, 2003 The United States of America has gone mad John le Carré America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War. The reaction to 9/11 is beyond anything Osama bin Laden could have hoped for in his nastiest dreams. As in McCarthy times, the freedoms that have made America the envy of the world are bei ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 15 10:27:17 PST 2003

26205 DEA guy jailed for leaking info -- rank: 1000

Fulton County (Georgia) Daily Report - January 15, 2003 DEA Employee Gets Prison Term for Leaking to Reporter R. Robin McDonald A federal judge in Atlanta has imposed a one-year prison sentence on a former intelligence analyst charged with stealing government information and leaking it to a London newspaper. In a case that the U.S. Attorney in Atlanta says establishes a significant precedent, federal prosecutors assigned a media market price to the leaked information high enough to ensure a felo ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 15 09:18:16 PST 2003