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3001 [lbo-talk] Elena Kagan, socialist -- rank: 1000

The conclusion of Elena Kagan's Princeton undergrad thesis, transcribed by Brad De Long. She was clearly some sort of leftist back in 1981. It's going to be fun to watch her run away from this: <http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/05/elena-kagans-undergraduate-thesis.html > In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories rather than of social ...

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Date:	Mon May 17 08:50:44 PDT 2010

3002 [lbo-talk] not everyone is critical of Andy Stern -- rank: 1000

[Here's one for Stern's fans out there. Without him, no health care reform. And he understands the redeeming qualities of Wal-Mart. No more effective strikes!] http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2010/05/14/andy-stern-s-legacy-not-all-bad.aspx Posted Friday, May 14, 2010 2:57 PMAndy Stern's Legacy: Not All Bad Jonathan Alter Friday's Washington Post story about Andy Stern leaving the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) with debts offers a revealing look at the internec ...

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Date:	Sun May 16 05:11:01 PDT 2010

3003 [lbo-talk] Introduction -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2010, at 5:14 PM, Jay R wrote: > I work on Wall > Street as a senior vice president at a private equity firm. We welcome all kinds here! Howdy. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 14 15:04:08 PDT 2010

3004 [lbo-talk] Please help the Grand Ole Opry -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Yeah, but if you were managing a venue, how would you deal with a > performer > who showed up drunk and kicked out the stage lights? A temporary ban > is a > lot nicer than what I would do. He was Johnny Fucking Cash, man. Why do you love this tough guy thing? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 14 14:37:49 PDT 2010

3005 [lbo-talk] Stern leaves behind a weakened SEIU -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > As usual, Doug, your "creative" headline editing left out the part > where > SEIU's membership doubled under Stern's watch. That's kind of > important, no? To what end? How much has that doubling benefited the membership, or changed politics in the U.S.? What has all that growth done for the working class? And with all that growth, how'd he end up leaving the union deeply in debt and massively discredited among a lot of ...

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Date:	Fri May 14 12:29:17 PDT 2010

3006 [lbo-talk] LBO News from Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Precisely. And I don't even understand Joanna's irritation. So some > people have been covering their ass. That is new? The 'facts' of 9/11 > are irrelevant to the outrageousness of the U.S. invasion of > Afghanistan. Even the official government explanations don't cover up > the wrongness of their actions Yup. If you have to base your arguments against imperial war on the exposure of a "conspiracy," then you're making t ...

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Date:	Fri May 14 10:38:07 PDT 2010

3007 [lbo-talk] Stern leaves behind a weakened SEIU -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> Andrew Stern departs the SEIU now weakened by infighting and expenses >> By Alec MacGillis >> Washington Post Staff Writer >> Friday, May 14, 2010; 9:37 AM > > [ . . . ] > >> And it has cut deals with employers who would allow certain >> workplaces to >> unionize in exchange for SEIU settling fo ...

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Date:	Fri May 14 10:11:18 PDT 2010

3008 [lbo-talk] Please help the Grande Ole Opry -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2010, at 11:48 AM, B. wrote: > "You think NYC gets a lot of help from the rest of the USA?" > > Maybe selectively, a la 9/11. Compare that to New Orleans in Katrina > and ... even now (BP/Transocean oil spill)? The South has a disproportionate influence on national politics. The South more or less dominates one of the two major parties and Southerners have long had a major influence in Congress. The South gets a lot of aid from Washington, and then rails again ...

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Date:	Fri May 14 08:58:00 PDT 2010

3009 [lbo-talk] Please help the Grande Ole Opry -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2010, at 1:39 AM, B. wrote: > You can go here to donate keeping the Grand Ole Opry afloat (no pun > intended) during the recent torrential floods: <http://www.opry.com/> > > Oh, yeah, and NOLA, another hub of great American culture/music, is > also under threat. Is it because it's "the SOUTH" that no one gives > it immediate attention now -- or what? > > What if the Grand Ole Opry was in Manhattan? You think NYC gets a lot of help from the rest ...

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Date:	Fri May 14 08:25:43 PDT 2010

3010 [lbo-talk] Stern leaves behind a weakened SEIU -- rank: 1000

[Millions on attacking other unions, hundreds of thousands for the dreadful Jo-Ann Mort to buff the image with academics & bloggers, a million for a stupid movie. Fighting dissidents is like fighting terrorists! Wow.] <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/14/AR2010051402142.html > Andrew Stern departs the SEIU now weakened by infighting and expenses By Alec MacGillis Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, May 14, 2010; 9:37 AM In celebrating her election last w ...

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Date:	Fri May 14 08:09:22 PDT 2010

3011 [lbo-talk] Larry Kramer uncorks one -- rank: 1000

REMARKS MAKE BY LARRY KRAMER AT ACT UP/HealthGap DEMONSTRATION AGAINST OBAMA, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2010, ST. REGIS HOTEL, NEW YORK CITY: Obama is not my president. Obama is not your president. Obama does not like AIDS. Obama does not like gays. Now what are we going to do about it? Because we continue to sit on the sidelines while our world is denied us, yes, our world, which is as much our world as anyone else s, is denied us. Our rights are denied us. Our love is denied us. We are even deni ...

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Date:	Fri May 14 07:59:30 PDT 2010

3012 [lbo-talk] unintentional comedy from a huckster -- rank: 1000

Hi Doug, Gary Null wants to be friends with you on Facebook.

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Date:	Thu May 13 08:39:11 PDT 2010

3013 [lbo-talk] Charter schools a civil rights failure -- rank: 1000

On May 12, 2010, at 7:20 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > I gotta ask if my posts are coming in plain text. Mailman makes everything into plain text. The only problem is when the coding boosts the size over the length limit - it bounces to me and then I have to approve it. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 12 16:33:59 PDT 2010

3014 [lbo-talk] Charter schools a civil rights failure -- rank: 1000

[Don't mean to single out Joanna, but this bounced because HTML coding boosted its size to 60k. When Mailman stripped the code, it slimmed down to 5k. Plain text please!!!!!] On May 12, 2010, at 6:40 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > > > Press Release: New Report Explains that Charter Schools' Political > Success is a Civil Rights Failure > > http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/news/pressreleases/pressrelease20100204-report.html > > > > Los Angeles February 4, ...

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Date:	Wed May 12 16:02:43 PDT 2010

3015 [lbo-talk] immigrants crash a Tea Party -- rank: 1000

On May 12, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Bill O'Connor wrote: > >> I hope this will put the lie to the liberal "outreach" to the >> teabaggers. > > It won't. The liberal conviction that change comes through persuasion > of its opponents is an article of faith, not dependent on empirical > confirmation. But in the case of the TPers, the liberals want to exaggerate their threat - fascists! right here in River City! - so we all dumbly vote for Demo ...

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Date:	Wed May 12 13:14:09 PDT 2010