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28561 re Jon Stewart -- rank: 1000

So what's this mean? Is Cosby a closet Red? Doug Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Cosby said the same thing on Arsenio. >I remember it clearly; wasn't often you heard >Aptheker's name on a network tv show. > >mbs > > >One of my greatest shocks on TV came a few years ago when I saw Bill Cosby >interviewed by, I think, Larry King. Cosby was asked what American writer or >political figure he admired most. King probably expected him to say Martin >Luther King or something. Ins ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 9 20:58:44 PDT 2002

28562 Milton Friedman, hero of accumulation -- rank: 1000

Thursday May 9, 6:41 pm Eastern Time Reuters Market News Bush, Greenspan honor economist Milton Friedman By Adam Entous WASHINGTON, May 9 (Reuters) - Economist Milton Friedman, an inspiration for the modern conservative revolution in government, celebrated his upcoming 90th birthday at the White House on Thursday, winning praise from Alan Greenspan, who mused about putting him in charge of Federal Reserve policy. President George W. Bush called Friedman, who preaches free enterprise in the face ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 9 16:03:59 PDT 2002

28563 Gore in '04? -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>Chicago Sun-Times - May 9, 2002 >> >>Who'll stop Gore in '04? >>BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST > >First Jude Wanniski and now this! > >Are you aware of how many mystical Eastern mental disciplines I have >to immerse myself in before I dare begin to read such people? I need >to be prepared, not to have them just show up in my inbox! Novak is vile, but if he's reporting the thinking of senior Dems accurately, don't you think that' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 9 16:01:29 PDT 2002

28564 a spore for Alan? -- rank: 1000

At 6:55 PM -0400 5/9/02, Yahoo! Alerts - News wrote: >Anthrax traces at U.S. Fed could be false positives (Reuters) >The Federal Reserve said on Thursday it found traces of anthrax on >about 20 pieces of its mail at an outside facility, but a U.S. >official quickly said that the preliminary test could be wrong or >due to cross-contamination from earlier incidents. >For the full story, go to: >http://rd.yahoo.com/alerts/email/news/*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story& ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 9 16:01:58 PDT 2002

28565 Gore in '04? -- rank: 1000

Chicago Sun-Times - May 9, 2002 Who'll stop Gore in '04? BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST A senior, politically savvy Democratic House member is in a quandary. He is expecting a telephone call from Al Gore to feel him out for 2004 presidential support. How can he stave off the former vice president without really saying no? This congressman feels the party's strongest candidate may be Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, a newcomer who has just shown himself unready for prime time. The lawmak ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 9 15:11:38 PDT 2002

28566 guns & burglaries -- rank: 1000

"The Effects of Gun Prevalence on Burglary: Deterrence vs Inducement" BY: PHILIP J. COOK Duke University Sanford Institute of Public Policy National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) JENS LUDWIG The Brookings Institution Economic Studies Program Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=310473 Paper ID: NBER Working Paper No. W8926 Date: May 2002 Contact: PHILIP J. COOK Email: Mailto:cook at pps.duke.edu Postal: ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 9 13:35:18 PDT 2002

28567 Slavoj on video -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 9 13:10:19 PDT 2002

28568 anthrax from US army -- rank: 1000

NEW SCIENTIST - NEWSFLASH -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthrax attack bug "identical" to army strain The DNA sequence of the anthrax sent through the US mail in 2001 has been revealed and confirms suspicions that the bacteria originally came from a US military laboratory. The data released uses codenames for the reference strains against which the attack strain was compared. But New Scientist can reveal that the two reference strains that a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 9 13:02:43 PDT 2002

28569 Welfare State -- rank: 1000

Ismail Lagardien wrote: >Let's take three indicators > >How much is the Federal government spending (Today) on > >Pensions > >Health Care > >Education > > > >And how much did it spend in 1950 - 1960 - 1970 - 1980 - 1990 - 2000 Detailed historical budget stats start in 1962, so let's start there, and continue at 10-year intervals until 2002. Figures are percentage of GDP using the official budget classifications (education includes "training and social ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 9 12:09:24 PDT 2002

28570 Welfare State -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >TANF is a $16b program in a $2 trillion budget. There >are lots of reasons to criticize it, but meanwhile we have >had the creation and expansion of other welfare programs. >The catch is they are conditional on employment and they >have funding problems that so far have been lurking but >not fully come into view. I don't think this adds up to >"a decline of the welfare state." There is some change >on the edges and some stagnation, but tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 9 11:55:09 PDT 2002

28571 Dennis Miller's racist rant -- rank: 1000

Ooops. Just goes to show you've got to factcheck everything, even from sources presumed reliable. Sorry, Dennis Miller. Fuck you, Larry Miller. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 9 11:50:27 PDT 2002

28572 Dennis Miller's racist rant -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >is this for real? authentic? is there a link or something somewhere? As far as I know. I heard someone quoting it in the gym the other morning who'd seen him do it on TV. And the guy who forwarded it is pretty reliable. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 9 09:19:13 PDT 2002

28573 Dennis Miller's racist rant -- rank: 1000

[someone who thought this was amusing sent this to me] From Dennis Miller: "A brief overview of the situation is always valuable, so as a service to all Americans who still don't get it, I now offer you the story of the Middle East in just a few paragraphs, which is all you really need. Don't thank me. I'm a giver. Here we go: The Palestinians want their own country. There's just one thing about that: There are no Palestinians. It's a made up word. Israel was called Palestine for two tho ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 9 08:46:57 PDT 2002

28574 Bush decides Arafat must go -- rank: 1000

New York Post - May 9, 2002 ARAFAT'S OUT By URI DAN and DEBORAH ORIN May 9, 2002 -- President Bush has decided that Yasser Arafat has got to go - and that Mideast peace talks will remain on hold until the aging Palestinian leader has become nothing but a figurehead, a top Israeli source said yesterday. During Bush's talk with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Tuesday, they reached a "full understanding" on the "need for a complete change in the Palestinian Authority" - i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 9 08:34:23 PDT 2002

28575 Terror Inc. -- rank: 1000

Tahir Wood wrote: >(The natives are morally superior because they are closer to nature, >etc. etc., which I think is only one step, or perhaps only half a ! >step, removed from the idea that revolutionary change can only be >brought about at the periphery). But then you get the quote from Engels on how the British workers had been completely bourgeoisified, and hopeless as revolutionary subjects. How do you respond to that? Doug

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Date:	Thu May 9 08:27:21 PDT 2002