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28126 Corn on O'Reilly -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Oh great -- Corn is a red baiter now - just for agreeing to spew his >crap on Fox. Well let's wait to see what he says before heating up the oil. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 18 13:39:53 PST 2002

28127 bourgeois riot, DC branch -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >o is it the party line of third party folks not to care when tens of >thousands of African American votes are being stolen? RIght - how'd you guess? Only white hippies with incomes well below the levels predicted by their high levels of education should be allowed to vote. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 18 13:30:15 PST 2002

28128 Corn on O'Reilly -- rank: 1000

[This is from O'Reilly's website, promoting tonight's show. If Corn says anything like this he should be boiled in oil.] <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1315,00.html> Then, what kind of groups are really behind some of the folks leading the anti-war movement in this country? The answer might shock you... The Nation's David Corn will be here to reveal the results of his recent investigation.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 18 13:21:57 PST 2002

28129 secret court says wiretaps ok - gov't lawyer only one on the case! -- rank: 1000

Secret Court Says U.S. Has Broad Wiretap Powers By Deborah Charles WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A special, secretive appeals court on Monday said the U.S. government has the right to use expanded powers to wiretap terrorism suspects under a law adopted by Congress after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The ruling was seen as a setback for civil libertarians who have said the expanded powers, which allow greater leeway in conducting electronic surveillance and in using information obtained from the wiretap ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 18 11:34:08 PST 2002

28130 bourgeois riot, DC branch -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/TheNote.html> One thing we want to leave you with to remember us by is another excerpt from Barbara Walters interview with Al Gore and family, which airs tonight on 20/20 at 10:00 p.m. ET/9:00 p.m. CT (check your local listings). The following exchanges, while sure to interest Note readers and historians, actually won't be part of tonight's 20/20 broadcast, so you can read them only here and now: WALTERS: I'm not sure that people realize t ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 18 08:14:46 PST 2002

28131 Bush = magic? -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - November 17, 2002 Unconventional Wisdom The Ol' Bush Magic [no byline given] As if the Democrats don't already know it, George W. Bush is a magic man. Merely mentioning Dubya's name seems to be enough to sweeten the otherwise sour mood of the country, though his mojo still pales in comparison with the power that Bill Clinton once had to brighten the public's view. At least that's one way to interpret the results of an experiment conducted by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Ka ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 18 08:10:19 PST 2002

28132 Goldner additions -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 08:45:19 -0500 From: Loren Goldner <lrgoldner at earthlink.net> This is just a brief message to let you know that I have in the past couple of months added a number of new and old texts recently to the Break Their Haughty Power web site at <http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner> These include an exchange between myself and the British Aufheben group about my text The Remaking of the American Working Class, followed by a very pertinent appendix on fictitious capi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 18 07:32:56 PST 2002

28133 Fwd: Re: GROUNDED: The Feds DO maintain an air travel blacklist -- rank: 1000

What about the Salon corrections? Anyone have access to those? Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 17 13:56:23 PST 2002

28134 Pelosi - ready to rumble...with Iraq? -- rank: 1000

[How about that hilarious Nation cover featuring Pelosi with the headline, "Ready to Rumble"? Seems she's ready for a rumble with Saddam.] Pelosi Vows to Back Bush if War Comes with Iraq Sun Nov 17,11:14 AM ET By Joanne Kenen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New House of Representatives Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, a liberal who has been at odds with President Bush (news - web sites) on Iraq, pledged on Sunday to support him if the United States goes to war in Iraq. "Yes, I would support ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 17 13:35:33 PST 2002

28135 Dem insiders not too fond of Al -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - November 17 2002 THE TIMES POLL Insider Backing for Gore Is Tepid Nearly half of the Democrats surveyed say he shouldn't run again for president. Sen. Kerry and Vermont Gov. Dean find support. By Mark Z. Barabak Times Staff Writer As the Democratic Party regroups from the disappointing midterm elections and begins searching for a presidential nominee, a Los Angeles Times Poll shows that nearly half of party insiders believe former Vice President Al Gore should sit out the 20 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 17 11:04:07 PST 2002

28136 Hitchens on Mencken -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >What is the point of quoting this 1985 essay? Because he was asking for it by citing FDR's trick, and because he's on the wrong side of most of the faults he detected in the anti-Chomskyists: >Never was an open society better insulated from dissent. >The tactic is not to circulate a part-untruth so much as it is to >associate the victim with an unpardonable out-group, against which >preexisting revulsion and contempt can be mobilized. You know, those people who fi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 16 14:30:40 PST 2002

28137 Nordhaus on costs of war -- rank: 1000

[Nordhaus taught my undergrad intermediate macro course. He had us formulate policy for a U.S. economic model whose assumptions he didn't disclose. I was in my right-wing days and ran a righteously orthodox policy and drove the economy into depression.] <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15850> New York Review of Books - December 5, 2002 [...] 4. We can now collect the different estimates of the cost of the war. It should be emphasized that these estimates vary in precision and in empirical ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 16 12:27:13 PST 2002

28138 Hitchens on Mencken -- rank: 1000

Peter K. quoted Hitchens: >Teachout opens his biography on Dec. 7, 1934, with a fascinating >incident. Every year in Washington there is a grisly evening known >as the Gridiron Club dinner. It rivals other such soirees in raising >the question: which is the more painful and degrading spectacle, to >see the president fawning on the press or the press fawning on the >president? But on this occasion one of the opening ''roasts'' was to >be given by Mencken, and the reply delive ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 16 11:45:23 PST 2002

28139 the politics of bankruptcy -- rank: 1000

Nathan, the more I think about your argument on the bk bill the less sense it makes to me. If Daschle & Co. really wanted to block the bill, why'd he bring it up for a vote? Why didn't he say, "This bill won't pass while I'm running this body, and if you want to bring it up again next year, we'll filibuster it"? Why did he piss & moan about how the thumpers had spoiled his beautiful compromise with Hyde? And why did all those heroic House Dems wait until it was clear that that ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 16 10:22:44 PST 2002

28140 Dugger Says Fellow Greens Put Bush in Office-- No to Nader Run in 2004 -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Not really-- once he commits to such policies, he has to run on them. Run maybe, but govern? Since when do campaign positions bear any resemblance to actual policies? Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 16 09:45:19 PST 2002