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29506 Horowitz, again -- rank: 1000

[I suppose we could just ignore him and hope he goes away... - Luntz, it should never be forgotten, was rebuked by the American Association of Public Opinion Research for questionable techniques - like these] Chronicle of Higher Education - January 15, 2002 Commentator's Survey of Ivy League Professors Finds Few Conservatives By SCOTT SMALLWOOD David Horowitz, the former campus radical and now conservative commentator, has released a survey of Ivy League professors that he says reveals professo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 15 08:17:42 PST 2002

29507 Girlish Figure -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >This is just wrong... > >http://www.staylace.com/pinups/spook/ What if there were some men on the page? Would it still be wrong? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 15 07:47:48 PST 2002

29508 that rotten old constitution -- rank: 1000

[I forwarded John Mage's remarks to Constitution-hater Dan Lazare, who responds...] From: Dhlazare at aol.com Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:22:53 EST Doug: John Mage should reread Art. V, the final clause of which states that "no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate." Since any state can veto any deviation whatsoever from the principle of equal state suffrage, abandoning this provision would require the approval of not just three-fourths of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 15 07:44:19 PST 2002

29509 Electoral College reform (Re: Enron -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Nathan Newman wrote: > >> specific election, but fightng the overall Electoral College is >>unfortunately >> a non-starter. > >One must be a radical as the reality itself. Right now, we have a Regency >run by a braindead moron who can't even chew a pretzel and watch TV at the >same time. Hollywood couldn't make up this stuff if it tried, you know? > >Let me be even clearer: to *hell* with the Constitut ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 14 14:54:08 PST 2002

29510 Pashtun NAMBLA -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >It's hard for the owner of Bound Together to be a NAMBLA member since >Bound Together is run by a *collective*. Bound Together does sell >NAMBLA, but I understand they do so for free speech reasons. Wow - something on which anarchists and the Sparts agree! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 14 11:28:39 PST 2002

29511 new DLC recruiting ground: Hispanics -- rank: 1000

[this might be partly discounted, given the source, but it does call into question some standard pwoggie thinking] ================================== NEW DEMOCRATS ONLINE -- NEW DEM DAILY -- Pithy news and commentary from the DLC. ================================== [ http://www.ndol.org ] 14-JAN-02 [...] 1.) The Rise of the Hispanic Center Among serious political junkies, there is no topic of greater interest than the future direction of Hispanic voters. Aside from its critical importance in a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 14 11:21:51 PST 2002

29512 rationalizing family life -- rank: 1000

Subject: Daytimer for the Family From: The Hart Group <> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:35:16 -0500 The Perfect Organizational Solution for Parents January 14, 2002-If you're a parent of school-age children, you know the importance of planning and timing, and staying organized can be a daunting task On Higher Ground has developed a solution that brings order to the family: The Family Control Center may look like a simple board game, but it is an organizer of family activities with useful featur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 14 08:17:47 PST 2002

29513 Afg: aid slow in coming -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service] U.N., AFGHANS SEEK MASSIVE AID URGENTLY, DONORS WARY. The UN has issued an urgent appeal to international donors for an immediate $100 million injection to the Afghan interim government so it can pay civil servants and begin to restore a framework for government, reports the Financial Times (p.3). The appeal by Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN secretary-general's special representative for Afghanistan, was endorsed by US Senator Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 14 07:40:26 PST 2002

29514 Britain's rail meltdown -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >First let's ask why does the government say that they want it when >there actions say otherwise. I think they are appealing to a >sentiment that says rail travel is an ecologically sound form of >mass transportation while steadily rising car use is unsustainable. > >For myself, that seems like a bad argument. Increasing car use is >not a tide that can be turned by the 'good intentions' of green >utopians. It arises out of social changes that would ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 14 07:34:31 PST 2002

29515 Enron -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Nathan Newman wrote: > >> Why should Dems be bipartisan- they actually do like winning elections, > >Except Presidential ones, especially the ones where they won the popular >vote by 500,000 ballots. > >I still haven't seen one single Dem say anything about the godawful >18th-century shambles masquerading as the US electoral system. > >The Dems and the Reps are the Constitution-Taliban and the Oil-Taliban of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 14 07:05:17 PST 2002

29516 WSJ on ENE & Whitewater -- rank: 1000

[these guys can blame anything on Clinton] Wall Street Journal - January 14, 2002 January 14, 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Review & Outlook Another Whitewater? Yippee!! We hasten to agree that the Enron collapse should be investigated. On the record so far, it looks as if a bunch of natural gas salesmen got over their heads in financial wizardry and made a catastrophic mess trying to make back what they lost. But we don't know the details of t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 14 06:51:20 PST 2002

29517 NY Daily News struts its stuff -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - January 13. 2002 Confab Welcome, Crazies Not In an extraordinary act of solidarity with New York City, the World Economic Forum - a fixture in the picture-perfect Alpine ski resort of Davos, Switzerland, since 1971 - will convene Jan. 31 a few miles north of Ground Zero. Alas, so will legions of agitators who despise free enterprise and whose demonstrations have a habit of devolving into riots. Message to protesters: New Yorkers have suffered enough of late. We're mad as he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 13 15:41:16 PST 2002

29518 further problems -- rank: 1000

On further inspection, it seems that Panix is having more serious mail problems. I doubt anything is being lost, but will check this all out. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 13 11:34:44 PST 2002

29519 time warp -- rank: 1000

Sorry about all those bounced messages. I've unsub'd the offending party. Usually bounces come from the mailserver, not the subscriber, so they never get back to the list. Something was oddly configured at www.com, evidently. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 13 11:23:37 PST 2002

29520 Democrats Stumble in the Fog -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >electing Democrats will be the single focus of 99% of activists in fall 2004. I've just marked my calendar for November 2004, to remind myself to compare outturn to prediction. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 12 13:42:18 PST 2002