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36526 Weyrich letter -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >no because i think that the heart of a right wing philosophy is the >idea that things have *always* gone bad for them. they've beent >rying to stave off social and economic change and that was the heart >of conservative politics during the rise of modern political >ideologies. As Bill Buckley put it in the first issue of National Review, his aim was to stand athwart the tracks in front of the oncoming locomotive of the 20th century and yell "Stop!," or so ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 8 11:29:43 PDT 2000

36527 Clinton: welfare reform responsible for lower teen birthrates -- rank: 1000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release August 8, 2000 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT I am very encouraged by new data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing that teen birth rates in the United States have reached their lowest level since record keeping began 60 years ago. These preliminary data for 1999 show that birth rates amon ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 8 10:33:54 PDT 2000

36528 Weyrich letter -- rank: 1000

[The text of the Weyrich letter, from Conservative News Service <http://www.conservativenews.org/InDepth/archive/199902/IND19990218c.html>.] 18 February, 1999 By Paul Weyrich CNS Information Services (Editor's Note: This is the full text of Free Congress President Paul Weyrich's open letter to conservative leaders, as posted on the organization's web site.) Dear Friend: Late last year, I had the opportunity of speaking to the Conservative Leadership Conference on the state of the conservat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 8 09:39:28 PDT 2000

36529 Luntz -- rank: 1000

[The polling "community" isn't very fond of Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster. His polling for the Contract with America turned out to be very misleading, much to Newt's chagrin. He's also the guy who did the famous poll showing more Gen Xers believe in UFOs than think they'll get a Social Security check - what Luntz didn't report is that most Gen Xers would like a Social Security check someday. Here's a taste of the latest Luntz controversy.] A Statement by the National Council on ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 8 09:24:31 PDT 2000

36530 The Evil of Two Lessers? -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >when exactly did clinton defeat the >moral police? was it in signing the >defense of marriage act, e.g.? Of course not, which is why I said "the Clinton years," and not Clinton himself. It's the fact that there was very little public support for impeachment, and that the likes of Paul Weyrich went nuts, admitting for the first time that the U.S. was not a moral majority being manipulated by a gang of elite immoralists, but in fact the majority itself was im ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 8 08:45:52 PDT 2000

36531 The Evil of Two Lessers? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Why not take it, at least in part, as a reflex against >untrammeled markets and their social implications? When >Marx says criticize religion, doesn't he mean separate >the wheat from the chaff? I guess you could say that Nader and Buchanan are criticizing untrammeled markets. Bush has actually been doing a bit of that too, with his "Prosperity With A Purpose" line. (From his acceptance speech: "The rising generations of this country have our own a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 8 08:22:09 PDT 2000

36532 antichrist Jew Senators -- rank: 1000

A charming dispatch from the fringes: <http://www.christianbiblestudy.org/MOS/_MOSOPS/Jewseat1.htm>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 8 07:53:35 PDT 2000

36533 Lieberman on Hormel -- rank: 1000

[on the one hand, on the other...] Congressional Record, July 10, 1998 BEYOND THE CULTURE WARS: HOW WE CAN REDISCOVER COMMON MORAL GROUND Senator Lieberman (D-CT) ...The conflict over homosexuality's place, the place of homosexuals in our society, I think, offers a contemporary example of this tension that is very real in our lives and in our discussions and debates. Let's start with the reality that many Americans continue to believe that homosexuality is immoral and not just because the Bible ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 8 07:25:56 PDT 2000

36534 The Evil of Two Lessers? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Quite true. And to the extent that Lieberman shares Clinton's general >policies (which he does), voting for Lieberman is like getting Clinton >while condemning him - the ultimate having your cake and eating it too. >Or so Gore hopes at least :) But, damn, I still think one of the few positive achievements of the Clinton years was handing a decisive defeat to the moral police. And now we have fucking Jerry Falwell praising Lieberman as an "excellent choice. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 8 07:04:25 PDT 2000

36535 Fwd: Re: Fwd: Fires were started -- rank: 1000

[Jeff St Clair responds to James Heartfield's odd thought. - Doug] X-From_: sitka at home.com Mon Aug 7 17:17:27 2000 Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 14:45:03 -0800 From: "Jeffrey St. Clair" <sitka at home.com> Reply-To: sitka at home.com Organization: CounterPunch X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Re: Fwd: Fires were started Is he talking about the forest fires in Montana? If so, it's almost the opposite. Aggressive fire sup ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 7 14:19:57 PDT 2000

36536 The Evil of Two Lessers? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The moralists didn't lose the impeachment battle; the people who wanted to >make political decisions based on that moralism lost. In fact, Lieberman >is the perfect embodiment of the basic public attitudes and desires of the >American people- "Bad President, bad bad President - sin no more and keep >that stock market rolling." No I don't believe that. Clinton's approval ratings rose with the crisis and stayed there. Following Zizek's analysis of Wa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 7 14:08:15 PDT 2000

36537 The Evil of Two Lessers? -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >The wretched George Will actually had a good (well, accurate) point about >Lieberman's attractiveness to the clapped-out Gore Democrats: Bush's >selection of Cheney, the former defense secretary, brings up the glory days >of the Gulf War; Lieberman is one of only 10 Democrats in the Senate who >voted for the use of force against Saddam Hussein. (Gore of course was >another, while 45 voted no.) > >Also, the following item was in Sam Smith's newslett ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 7 11:19:14 PDT 2000

36538 The Evil of Two Lessers? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >It is really that bad, IMO. With the GOP, you've got a ticket >headed by a guy desperate to prove he's no longer a drunken, >coked-up fratboy, backed by a running mate chosen for his supposed >gravitas. With the Democrats, you've got a ticket headed by a guy >desperate to prove he's absorbed no bad habits from that Hot Springs >high roller he's been hanging with, backed by a running mate chosen >for his supposed gravitas. One way or another, this count ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 7 11:01:17 PDT 2000

36539 Prowse on the other America -- rank: 1000

[This is kind of amazing. When Prowse was posted to DC some years ago, he morphed from a rightish social dem into an unabashed admirer of Hayek and the American way - to the point of embarrassing his colleagues on the FT. Now he's back in the UK, filing pieces like this.] BACK PAGE - WEEKEND FT: From liberty back to equality again: PAUSE FOR THOUGHT: Michael Prowse waits for 'the other America' to reassert its traditional beliefs as two conservative parties fi [sic] Financial Times, Aug 5, 2000, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 7 13:06:18 PDT 2000

36540 healers' contracting styles -- rank: 1000

"African Traditional Healers and Outcome--Contingent Contracts in Health Care" BY: KENNETH L. LEONARD Columbia University Department of Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=229475 Paper ID: Columbia University Working Paper No. 9900-02 Date: May 2000 Contact: KENNETH L. LEONARD Email: Mailto:KL206 at columbia.edu Postal: Columbia University Department of Economics Room 1022 420 W. 118th Street New Y ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 7 12:14:38 PDT 2000