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3136 [lbo-talk] Brad Delong on the Republican roots of Obamacare -- rank: 1000

On Mar 23, 2010, at 11:47 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/201077/The_curious_triumph_of_RomneyCare > > The conservative DNA of ObamaCare is hardly a secret. "The Obama > plan has a broad family resemblance to Mitt Romney's Massachusetts > plan," Frum wrote. "It builds on ideas developed at the Heritage > Foundation in the early 1990s that formed the basis for Republican > counter-proposals to ClintonCare in 1993-1994.&qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 21:30:19 PDT 2010

3137 [lbo-talk] Cloward-Piven strategy for single payer? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 23, 2010, at 4:51 PM, SA wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Of course, in the present environment, this would lead to calls to >> shred Medicaid. > > But the present environment just produced a major expansion of > Medicaid. Just wait.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 14:39:07 PDT 2010

3138 [lbo-talk] Nation: Teabaggers constitute "sedition" -- rank: 1000

On Mar 23, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > This is a new high in inanity, and not a good way for people on the > Left to think. Oh, I forgot, The Nation isn't on the Left. > > http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/544116/is_this_the_birth_of_a_nation?rel=EmailNation God, she's awful. She using the same structures as Bush, just changing the terms. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 13:42:07 PDT 2010

3139 [lbo-talk] the cost of the humanities -- rank: 1000

[This is by a college classmate of mine who teaches at UCLA.] Chronicle of Higher Education - March 21, 2010 The Humanities Really Do Produce a Profit By Robert N. Watson The humanities philosophy, art history, English literature, Slavic languages, musicology, and the rest are quaint, elderly relatives that the real, serious, modern university (consisting of technological researchers and the professional schools) subsidizes out of charitable tradition but has trouble pampering during difficu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 09:03:09 PDT 2010

3140 [lbo-talk] CNN HCR poll -- rank: 1000

On Mar 22, 2010, at 11:23 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> CNN has a new poll on health care reform, taken over the weekend: >> <http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/03/22/rel5a.pdf> >> Results: >> 39% Favor >> 43% Oppose, too liberal >> 13% Oppose, not liberal enough >> 5% No opinion >> So, the favor + not liberal enough = 52%. > > With a nod to Carrol: I'm stoked by this poll. 13% of the U. S. > po ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 08:08:32 PDT 2010

3141 [lbo-talk] Cloward-Piven strategy for single payer? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 22, 2010, at 11:47 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > > Yeah, but single payer could actually happen. >> > > When could it actually happen? Damned if I know, but it's conceivable in a way that a total, NHS- style nationalization isn't. E.g., through the universalization of Medicare. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 08:07:13 PDT 2010

3142 [lbo-talk] Cloward-Piven strategy for single payer? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 22, 2010, at 11:22 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > http://theactivist.org/blog/a-cloward-piven-strategy-for-single- > payer : > Chris' full piece Of course, in the present environment, this would lead to calls to shred Medicaid. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 08:06:26 PDT 2010

3143 [lbo-talk] emerging pundit consensus: Reps have some problems -- rank: 1000

After the Mass election, it looked like the Reps were on the run. Did they peak too early? Now the pundits are all declaring the GOP to be in serious trouble. E.g.: http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=888F6430-18FE-70B2-A8E78DC80BDF871C

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 07:57:49 PDT 2010

3144 [lbo-talk] Cloward-Piven strategy for single payer? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 22, 2010, at 10:37 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > One point of contention: If we suppose ourselves to be engaged in a > long-term struggle we're not going to win any time soon, why should > it be > for single-payer rather than a national health service? Presumably > most of > us actually want the latter and would consider it far preferable to > the > former, no? Yeah, but single payer could actually happen. It's much less disruptive than a total overhaul - you could g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 22 20:17:32 PDT 2010

3145 [lbo-talk] Facebook absurdity -- rank: 1000

"Karl Marx poked you. Poke him back?"

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 22 18:29:13 PDT 2010

3146 [lbo-talk] CNN HCR poll -- rank: 1000

CNN has a new poll on health care reform, taken over the weekend: <http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/03/22/rel5a.pdf> Results: 39% Favor 43% Oppose, too liberal 13% Oppose, not liberal enough 5% No opinion So, the favor + not liberal enough = 52%. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 22 18:01:59 PDT 2010

3147 [lbo-talk] JPMorgan Chase gets dumped on -- rank: 1000

On Mar 22, 2010, at 6:33 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > I actually happen to know that it was mud, imported for the occasion > from > Coal Mountain, West Virginia. Damn, stories are often more fun before fact-checking. Still, they deserve it.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 22 15:48:44 PDT 2010

3148 [lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin -- rank: 1000

On Mar 22, 2010, at 3:34 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Come on, Doug. We were both there and know that pomo was never a > coherent set of doctrines or even a collection of specific readings > (as, e.g., at another extreme New Criticism was). Mentioning > Foucault and Butler is not enough. > > It was the pomoists who "didn't engage actual texts"; Eagleton > certainly did I can't find Eagleton's book right now, but I distinctly remember he said in the preface that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 22 12:50:41 PDT 2010

3149 [lbo-talk] PNHP on The Bill -- rank: 1000

On Mar 22, 2010, at 3:22 PM, ken hanly wrote: > Do you have a link to the group's release? http://pnhp.org/news/2010/march/pro-single-payer-doctors-health-bill-leaves-23-million-uninsured

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 22 12:30:06 PDT 2010

3150 [lbo-talk] help wanted: trend curator -- rank: 1000

http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/new-york/markcomm/culture-and-trends-curator-youtube-new-york/index.html The role: Culture and Trends Curator, YouTube - New York This role requires a savvy, dedicated writer who enjoys discovering news events and trends as they develop on YouTube - and can relay what those trends say about how the Internet is changing society. Part digital anthropologist, part web journalist, this person will be the type who can discover the cool indie band bef ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 22 12:11:05 PDT 2010