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36511 Loverman on the minwage -- rank: 1000

I asked Chris Lehmann to clarify his claim that Lieberman opposed the minimum wage increases. As he put it, he was against it until the Republicans caved on the issue. Chris pointed to this passage, from an article by Theda Skocpol in the Jan/Feb 97 ish of Mother Jones: >During 1995 and 1996, the New Democrats opposed the popular minimum >wage increase. They also urged, in the words of DLC chair Sen. >Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), an end to "the current system of >unconditional go ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 10 07:49:14 PDT 2000

36512 Joe on bkcy -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Since the bill still has to be combined with the House version in >committee (with Clinton threatening to veto it in its present form), this >is not the clearest bill to evaluate anyone on. For example, if Lieberman >had voted "no", he could be attacked for voting against an increase in the >minimum wage. Hmm, Chris Lehmann, who's a careful guy, says he voted against the min wage increase. And that bkcy bill was so evil that he should have voted ag ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 9 14:51:09 PDT 2000

36513 drug war -- rank: 1000

Welcome to TomPaine.com http://www.tompaine.com/ UP FRONT THIS WEEK: The cost of the War on Drugs ... and whether it's been a failure. These are two of the big issues facing the country today and yet neither the Democrats nor Republicans are talking about them. The only people who have been are the speakers at the Shadow Convention. Click here to read our New York Times op ad: http://www.tompaine.com/opad/ TomPaine.com's Shannon Hall tells the story of Gloria, the ex-girlfriend of a drug deal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 9 13:13:57 PDT 2000

36514 it's Adorno's fault, too, which is why he's in hell -- rank: 1000

<kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca> wrote: > > Re: Paul M. Weyrich >> A brief history lesson is in order here. The ideology commonly known >> as political correctness has its origins in the work of the Frankfurt >> School, formally the Institute for Social Research, which was >> established at Frankfurt University in Germany in 1923... > >The FS celebrated its opening on Sunday June 22, 1924. So you're implying that everything else Weyrich said was ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 9 12:16:33 PDT 2000

36515 Verizon strike & high-tech -- rank: 1000

[The BLS displaced worker survey cited in the CBS MarketWatch piece is at <ftp://146.142.4.23/pub/news.release/disp.txt>.] TheStandard.com - MediaGrok - August 9, 2000 Will Verizon Strike Foretell the Fate of Unions? Any company that has more than 86,000 workers on strike automatically disqualifies itself as a typical tech company. Nonetheless, the media is turning the strike at the telecommunications monolith Verizon into a referendum on the place of unions in the new economy. Not surpris ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 9 14:20:40 PDT 2000

36516 Joe on bkcy -- rank: 1000

Nathan, what was it that UE guy said about Lieberman on bankruptcy? This Yahoo! summary of his voting record has him voting for that evil legislation twice: <http://politics.yahoo.com/politics/Features/Elections/Connecticut/S/Lieberman__Joseph/vote.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 9 13:27:51 PDT 2000

36517 The Evil of Two Lessers -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >Chris Lehmann says Lieberman voted against increasing the minimum wage. >http://www.feedmag.com/templates/daily_master.php3?a_id=1239 That's not all. Writes Lehmann: >It turns out that in this small order of business, Lieberman affords >his running mate no relief from the, uh, stain of Clintonism. >Despite his high-profile moralizing, Lieberman is one of Clinton's >oldest political associates (Clinton volunteered in Lieberman's >maiden campaign, for Connecti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 9 11:21:45 PDT 2000

36518 it's Adorno's fault, too, which is why he's in hell -- rank: 1000

<http://www.freecongress.org/press/offpress/000324pwfcc.htm> Free Congress Commentary - March 24, 2000 Who's Nuts? By Paul M. Weyrich In December 1997, Free Congress Foundation celebrated its 20th anniversary with a gala dinner. The guest speaker was Charleton Heston. He gave one of the finest speeches I have been privileged to hear, on the subject of the culture war (not guns). For those who just arrived from some other planet, a culture war has been raging in this country ever since the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 9 11:18:38 PDT 2000

36519 Nader: No Traction with Union members -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Even in Michigan, where the UAW-dominated unions have been most pissed at >Clinton-Gore over trade, Nader does not seem to get a significant bump in >support from union members over nonunion members. > > An EPIC-MRA poll, conducted 8/4-7, surveyed 600 likely voters; >margin of error +/- 4% (release, 8/8). > >General Election Matchup > ---------Union Affil-------- > Now 7/00 Lib Mod Con Member Ho ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 9 09:46:47 PDT 2000

36520 debt relief bad for debtors -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] THE HARSH CONSEQUENCES OF DEBT FORGIVENESS. Anne Krueger, professor in humanities and sciences, and director of the Center on Economic Development and Policy Reform, Stanford university, and T.N. Srinivasan, professor of economics at Yale university, write in an op-ed in the FT (p.11) that heavily indebted countries spend more on debt servicing than they do on their social sectors, such as education and health. Therefore, the argument goes the debt ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 9 09:41:03 PDT 2000

36521 male-friendly colleges -- rank: 1000

[Finally, a long-neglected research need addressed!] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - August 9, 2000 'Men's Health' Ranks Best and Worst Colleges for Male Students By BROCK READ The latest entrant into the crowded field of college rankings: Men's Health magazine, which names the 10 most "male-friendly" colleges (Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities are among the chosen) and the 10 most "antimale" colleges (Antioch College and Brown University receive the harshest ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 9 09:35:39 PDT 2000

36522 Fwd: USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup: Lieberman lifts Gore's standing in polls -- rank: 1000

USA Today - August 8, 2000 Lieberman lifts Gore's standing in polls By Laurence McQuillan, USA TODAY NASHVILLE -- Vice President Gore on Monday chose Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, a political centrist sometimes called "the conscience of the Senate," to be his running mate on the Democratic ticket. "The vice president asked me if I would do him the honor of running with him, and I said, 'Believe me, it's my honor,' " said Lieberman, the first Orthodox Jew chosen to be on a m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 9 09:30:55 PDT 2000

36523 [anarchist-forum] Police Plans re:d2k -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I like the older joke about the Republican >rainbow coalition: off-white, bone white, and French vanilla. So why you convinced Bush is gonna lose? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 8 15:53:14 PDT 2000

36524 healers' contracting styles, HMO's -- rank: 1000

D.L. wrote: > To whom..., > > > Now here's a good business to be in: > > "provide more unobservable medical effort than other providers from >which > patients can choose." > > The traditional healers should all immediately get jobs at HMO's. Someone should do a paper on economists' use of "unobservable." It's the magic residual in the total factor productivity equations; it's the reason women and blacks are paid less ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 8 15:23:11 PDT 2000

36525 The Evil of Two Lessers -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Does this mean that America no longer has a significant problem of >anti-Semitism ? Only a very small crackpot minority are >anti-Semitic, no significant voting bloc. Gore must have so >concluded. Norman Finkelstein and Lenni Brenner agree. We'll see if they're right. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 8 13:10:43 PDT 2000