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3106 [lbo-talk] more on Frum -- rank: 1000

[From Mike Allen. Interesting. When the right was on the rise, the intellectuals led the moneymen. Now it's reversed.] Good Friday morning. EXCLUSIVE: David Frum told us last night that he believes his axing from his $100,000-a-year 'resident scholar' gig at the conservative American Enterprise Institute was related to DONOR PRESSURE following his viral blog post arguing Republicans had suffered a devastating, generational 'Waterloo' in their loss to President Obama on health reform. 'Ther ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 26 06:13:23 PDT 2010

3107 [lbo-talk] MHL on Countdown -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2010, at 10:44 PM, SA wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Contrary to Pavement, no one on staff wears dashikis. > > No colonized wrath? No shining new path? Nor converted castle of Moorish design (a reference to Marx?).

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 25 20:14:59 PDT 2010

3108 [lbo-talk] purge on the right -- rank: 1000

[Oh well, he's always welcome back as a guest on Behind the News.] <http://capitalgainsandgames.com/blog/bruce-bartlett/1601/groupthink-right-would-make-stalin-proud > David Frum and the Closing of the Conservative Mind MAR 25 Bruce Bartlett As some readers of this blog may know, I was fired by a right wing think tank called the National Center for Policy Analysis in 2005 for writing a book critical of George W. Bush's policies, especially his support for Medicare Part D. In the years s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 25 18:56:00 PDT 2010

3109 [lbo-talk] MHL on Countdown -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2010, at 9:38 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I didn't know there was a left weekly in the u.s. What is it called? > Who > pugblishes it? That's pretty funny. Contrary to Pavement, no one on staff wears dashikis.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 25 18:53:06 PDT 2010

3110 [lbo-talk] Awesome new right-wing wiki -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2010, at 9:29 PM, Chris Maisano wrote: > Today I learned that I am a leading member of the left-wing > conspiracy to destroy America from an awesome new website called > KeyWiki: http://keywiki.org/index.php/Main_Page. If only any of us > had 1/100th of the influence and power that the loony right thinks > we do, especially me, a lowly public librarian and congenital > malcontent. > > Here's Doug's entry: http://keywiki.org/index.php/Doug_Henwood. Look > up ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 25 18:42:47 PDT 2010

3111 [lbo-talk] MHL on Countdown -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2010, at 9:08 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > No disrespect to Dennis, but I want Doug to get a column. He's been > an editor there for a decade and they don't do crap with his stuff > which is just what they need -- economic expertise and lively > writing. It's a crime that a left weekly doesn't have an economics > columnist. Even the fucking New Yorker has one. Minor correction: I'm a contributing editor, which means next to nothing, and it's been for closer to 20 yea ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 18:21:37 PDT 2010

3112 [lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Funny, it's made plenty of Diggers, Mennonites, and other white people > communists over the centuries. That's very nice. It's not doing that now. And those weren't the dominant effects ever.

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 18:08:12 PDT 2010

3113 [lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2010, at 2:21 PM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote: > African-Americans > are by and large, theologically quite > conservative, gets the bright idea > that political conservatives can > base an appeal to African-Americans > on that basis. This, however, never > gets very far. They never try very hard, because, well, you know, a lot of white conservatives just don't like black people. Matt Taibbi has a bit about this in his book on the 2004 campaign. He volunteered ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 11:41:43 PDT 2010

3114 [lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2010, at 1:49 PM, SA wrote: > So what exactly is the political effect of believing in the > inerrancy of the bible? It makes white people more conservative than they should be.

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 11:22:58 PDT 2010

3115 [lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > In the present thread the error appears in the form of explaining the > politics of fundamentalists in terms of their religius thought rather > than explaining their religious thought in terms of their politics. You mean that fundamentalism as a pre-existing condition of American life has no effect on the political evolution that people take? That the religiosity of Americans compared to other first worlders isn't something of interes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 25 07:59:08 PDT 2010

3116 [lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2010, at 7:38 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > So, which is the real meaning, "a voice crying in the wilderness, > prepare me the way of the lord" or "a voice crying, in the > wilderness prepare me the way of the lord"? "Real meaning." Quaint.

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 07:57:05 PDT 2010

3117 [lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2010, at 9:45 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > BTW you can't comment on the Bible except in the loosest way unless > you know Greek and Hebrew, because different English translations > vary very widely. Like I said before, most people process the bible in a single dominant translation - King James, RSV, whatever. That's the living social document. Given your propensity toward commenting on all sorts of things you know little about, I'm surprised you're such a stickler on this all- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 24 19:05:47 PDT 2010

3118 [lbo-talk] Americans and the bible -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:47 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > For instance, when I say "theism" I'm usually thinking of highly > sophisticated bodies of doctrine and the ontological argument(s) and > Five Ways and so forth, whereas I suspect other people think I'm > talking about evangelist idiocy and the twaddle that is taught in > Sunday School. Your kind is of almost no political or social import. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 24 18:09:08 PDT 2010

3119 [lbo-talk] Americans and the bible -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > I would have liked a fourth option in the poll, between "inspired" and > fables, because to commit to "fables and legends" is the equivalent of > calling it worthless and meaningless (or pernicious and something like > evil). Hmm well I'm not sure I buy this. Fables and legends are far from meaningless and/or worthless - fictions can tell us a lot about human life. But I wouldn't want to grant the fables and l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 24 15:09:42 PDT 2010

3120 [lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2010, at 5:19 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Doug: 'I could wax Derridean and say that all texts are > multiplicities, but the average bible reader - no, about 95% of > bible readers - treat the thing as a unitary document, the fucking > word of God, the ultimate author.' > > No so in the Church of England... No, I was referring to the Church of the USA.

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Date:	Wed Mar 24 15:05:11 PDT 2010