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37081 Reps delaying EITC -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >This is no >Legitimation Crisis, but is sure is funny. Sometimes it's real tempting to take the H.L. Mencken route and give up taking American politics seriously and just treat it as a circus. Today's Wall Street Journal has a story on a chain of for-profit Christian charter schools - which uses E. Don Hirsch's cultural literacy canon, by the way. William Gaddis could hardly have done better. And then there's George W. going on about the "East Timorians," a sequ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 15 07:35:07 PDT 1999

37082 dangers of compassionate conservatism -- rank: 1000

[The WSJ editpage is truly a demented place.] Wall Street Journal - September 14, 1999 THE DANGERS OF CONSERVATIVE COMPASSION By David Frum, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of "How We Got Here," a history of life in the 1970s, forthcoming from Basic Books. As slogans go, "compassionate conservatism" is a work of genius. It combines the left's favorite adjective with the right's favorite noun in the most spectacularly effective recombination since Procter ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 20:13:28 PDT 1999

37083 Reps delaying EITC -- rank: 1000

[This is ridiculous; the government is running in the black and they do this.] Wall Street Journal - September 14, 1999 GOP BUDGETEERS TRY TO DELAY TAX-CREDIT PAYMENTS TO POOR By DAVID ROGERS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are considering a plan to delay billions of dollars in tax-credit payments to poor families to help offset spending elsewhere for education and social services next year. Earned-income tax credits, which cost about $30 billion annuall ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 19:28:25 PDT 1999

37084 hunger site -- rank: 1000

[This smells funny. Anyone know anything about it?] >just got this.... seems kosher. > >The Hunger Site >---------------- > >This is a really neat website. All you do is click a button and >somewhere in >the world some hungry person gets a meal to eat at no cost to you. > >The food is paid for by corporate sponsors. All you do is go to the site > >and >click. But, you're only allowed 1 click a day so spread the word the >others. > >Visit the site a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 11:10:54 PDT 1999

37085 The 20th Century - The Economist -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Doug, did not Eberstat write a great deal about the excess deaths in the >Soviet Union prior to the restoration of capitalism due to alcoholism >and the like? If so, the post refers to an excess in addition to an >excess of deaths. Eberstadt did write about that, which was also a favorite theme of the New York Review of Books in the 1980s. Most of Eberstadt's piece is pretty bad, but citing him writing in a Heritage journal is a nice way to prevent people fr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 10:55:09 PDT 1999

37086 Wolfie on Russia -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily press clipping] WEST AIDS RUSSIA FOR GLOBAL STABILITY: WORLD BANK. The West supports Russia, despite the corruption there, because of the former Soviet state's economic and military stature on the world stage, Reuters reports World Bank President James Wolfensohn said in Copenhagen yesterday. "The reason we need to help is that the whole of the former Soviet Union represents not only an economic threat or economic opportunity, but politically it does have a som ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 10:45:04 PDT 1999

37087 Counterpunch vs Josh Mason -- rank: 1000

[The new ish of Counterpunch has a piece attacking Josh Mason's comments on an earlier CP article. Since the article is a response to a posting to this list, I'm going to ignore Alex Cockburn's objections to circulating CP articles. Josh is off the list while he sets himself up in grad school, so I'm cc'ing him on this. It's a little odd to treat Josh's personal opinion as a response from The Building itself. The article also seems to be arguing with points other than the one's Josh made. But he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 10:26:34 PDT 1999

37088 Gun nuts and the 2nd -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >My understanding is that it is the SC that determines what the >Constitution says, and it has made no ruling on the meaning of >the 2nd. Dan's article says it's the consensus of legal scholars and historians now that the Second Amendment does refer to the individual right to bear arms - and that the liberal dodge, which is to focus on the "well-regulated militia" language, is all wrong. Read the article and see. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 10:07:27 PDT 1999

37089 The 20th Century - The Economist -- rank: 1000

Tony Evans wrote: >Nosing around the Economist online I see their survey of the 20th >Century includes a "league of evil" (governments). The Soviet Union >heads the table (surprise) with 62 million civilians killed between >1917-91. Next comes Red China with 35 millions killed. I was just nosing around some of the social stats for Russia & its neighbors. Extrapolating from WHO estimates, Nicholas Eberstadt, writing in the Heritage Foundation's Policy Review (of all plac ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 10:02:27 PDT 1999

37090 MULRONEY TOAST OF REAGANITES -- rank: 1000

[from Sid Shniad - no date given] The Ottawa Citizen MULRONEY TOAST OF REAGANITES Brian Mulroney's election was a 'great victory' for Americans, and they agonized over ways to make him look good at home, confidential White House documents reveal By Lawrence Martin Push Canada toward American market values. "Prod" the Canadian government to jack up military spending. Move on free trade because it's a "great victory" for the United States. Thank God, Trudeau is gone. Thank heav ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 09:58:05 PDT 1999

37091 Greenspan -- rank: 1000

from Gallup's weekly update: "50% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan; 13% have an unfavorable opinion; 16% have no opinion and 21% say they have never heard of him [August 16-18, 1999]" Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 09:52:11 PDT 1999

37092 NATO's deadly legacy -- rank: 1000

Telegraph (London) - September 13, 1999 NATO'S DEADLY LEGACY IN KOSOSVO WILL CAUSE YEARS OF SUFFERING By W F Deedes in Pristina A TOUR round some of Kosovo's ubiquitous minefields makes painfully clear that many of the casualties suffered by civilians are being caused by cluster bombs dropped by Nato from the air rather than mines sown by the Serbs or Kosovo Liberation Army. Since the refugees returned to Kosovo in June there have been 232 casualties attributed to mines, or around 80 a month. It ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 09:40:47 PDT 1999

37093 SF Food Not Bombs harrassed by City Government - solidarity needed! -- rank: 1000

[In how many places on earth can you get arrested for feeding the hungry?] Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:00:23 -0700 (PDT) From: <sffnb at iww.org> *Please Distribute Widely* San Francisco FNB has been ordered by the police to cease serving free food or face citations and possible arrest. Friends and comrades, San Francisco Food Not Bombs has had a long history of harrassment and repression on the part of City government and the police. For many years we were arrested routinely, food confiscat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 09:35:43 PDT 1999

37094 sending babies to China -- rank: 1000

[here's a story that has it all] New York Times - September 14, 1999 Women Keep Garment Jobs By Sending Babies to China By SOMINI SENGUPTA he spent her days at home with her newborn son, knowing that every day she did not work was another day without money to pay back her $20,000 smugglers' debt. She spent her nights awake, hushing the baby so he would not disturb her husband or the three other restaurant workers who shared their three-room apartment in northern Manhattan. She named the boy Henr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 08:37:52 PDT 1999

37095 Cool 87-Year-Old -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >Kurt Anderson - about whom I know little - writes in Slate: I've always had a soft spot for Andersen since he gave me a blurb ("nifty & original") when LBO was very young. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 13 22:36:52 PDT 1999