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4441 [lbo-talk] Conservatism -- rank: 1000

On Sep 14, 2009, at 3:06 PM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote: > Of course there are many conservatives > who will deny that there is a problem > here, but as I said before, contemporary > conservatism is pretty much brain dead, > so no surprises there. Well yeah, but the left ain't cooking with gas now either.

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4442 [lbo-talk] Conservatism -- rank: 1000

On Sep 14, 2009, at 2:30 PM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote: > There was among other things the > obvious thing that a full throated defense > of free market capitalism is incompatible > with the defense of traditionalism, since > capitalism itself is the greatest force > for undermining and destroying time hallowed > traditions as Marx noted long ago. Of course you could deny that the market destroyed tradition and say instead that you need the moral inheritance of religion ...

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4443 [lbo-talk] Conservatism -- rank: 1000

On Sep 14, 2009, at 11:58 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > Oh, and Scruton wasn't the first to say that meat-eating was a mark > of the higher species - Engels also insists that the vegetarians got > it wrong, meat was a vital leap in evolution. Ah! A stage-ist approach to evolution. Engels was clearly a species-ist. Doug

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4444 [lbo-talk] Christian Parenti on chocolate -- rank: 1000

[Christian asked me to post this to the list.] <http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2009/9/14/free_the_truth_a_response_to_kevin_bales > September 14, 2009 Free The Truth: A response to Kevin Bales Democracy Now! recently interviewed Kevin Bales, founder of Free the Slaves. Journalist Christian Parenti wrote a response to that interview which we have posted below. Parenti is an investigative journalist who has covered issues of child labor in the chocolate industry in Côte d Ivoire for Fo ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 14 08:39:49 PDT 2009

4445 [lbo-talk] left aiding right -- rank: 1000

How the angry liberals reinforce the role of the right as agenda- setters: http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/agenda-setting/

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Date:	Mon Sep 14 08:32:56 PDT 2009

4446 [lbo-talk] Conservatism -- rank: 1000

On Sep 14, 2009, at 9:24 AM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote: > Bill Buckley, while not himself a particularly original thinker Buckley, though, like Reagan, was able to bridge the gap between the traditionalist and libertarian sides of the conservative movement - between the cultural and economic camps. > Now the mainstream of the US and UK ruling classes began to openly > embrace the ideas that people like Hayek, Buckley, Milton Friedman, > Kirk and their friends had been advancing ...

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4447 [lbo-talk] Signs of the Times -- rank: 1000

On Sep 13, 2009, at 3:38 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Is equality such a turn-off to Americans? To a large portion, yes. To much of the portion that's not, they're delusional from the febrile disease known as Obamamania. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 13 12:47:40 PDT 2009

4448 [lbo-talk] fresh punditry -- rank: 1000

Fresh punditry on income /poverty, health care, liberal delusion, the Gipper's discursive grip http://bit.ly/ddXUx

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Date:	Sun Sep 13 12:45:50 PDT 2009

4449 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73801817 > or <http://tinyurl.com/3bsaqb> opening commentaries now at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> Facebook group: <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53240558375>. ---------------------------------- ...

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4450 [lbo-talk] The Straight Dope: Dowsing and the ideomotor response -- rank: 1000

On Sep 13, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: >> I'm not sure that appealing to hypothetical invisible, unverifiable >> unconscious thought processes is much better than appealing to >> hypothetical invisible, unverifiable psychic powers. > > Again, if you read the article... Michael, this is the Internet! No one reads articles.

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4451 [lbo-talk] signs of the times -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen] SPOTTED, among all the 'Don't Tread on Me' flags at yesterday's taxpayer rally at the Capitol: 'JESUS SAVES, OBAMA SPENDS' ... 'OBAMA LIES, GRANDMA DIES' ... 'COMMIES AND LIARS AND CZARS ... OH MY!' (with a nice photo of Dorothy and Toto) ... 'GLEN [sic.] BECK FOR PRESIDENT' ... 'It's the Constitution, Stupid' ... and the all- purpose, 'I CAN'T CARRY 20 SIGNS. IT ALL STINKS.' HuffPost featured the tasteful, 'BURY OBAMACARE WITH KENNEDY.;

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4452 [lbo-talk] WH: illegals won't be able to *buy* coverage -- rank: 1000

On Sep 12, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Open Borders! > > Close down the Prison System > > National Health Service. > > No Troops abroad. > > Even if there isn't a eft in this country but only a lot of leftists, > and even if there doesn't appear to be much chance of building a left > _at this time_, we at least could think like w e were lefdtists and > not > a bunch of weenies. Feel better now?

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4453 [lbo-talk] Back Again/Obamacare & Afghanistan -- rank: 1000

On Sep 12, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > When will progressives ever learn? <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Obama.html> "Never did the possibility of disappointment offer so much hope. That s not what the candidate means by that word, but history can be a great ironist."

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Date:	Sat Sep 12 17:19:50 PDT 2009

4454 [lbo-talk] WH: illegals won't be able to *buy* coverage -- rank: 1000

These guys suck more every day - a position worse than the Senate Finance Committee's: <http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/illegal-immigrants-could-not-buy-insurance-on-new-exchange-white-house-says/ > Illegal Immigrants Could Not Buy Insurance on New Exchange, White House Says By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN The White House on Friday said it would bar illegal immigrants from purchasing health coverage through a proposed insurance marketplace. But the administration also said ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 11 18:51:11 PDT 2009

4455 [lbo-talk] How do I resubscribe? -- rank: 1000

In the header of every post, there are these lines: > List-Unsubscribe: <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/options/lbo-talk > >, <mailto:lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > List-Archive: <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk> > > List-Post: <mailto:lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> > > List-Help: <mailto:lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org?subject=help> > > List-Subscribe: <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/l ...

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