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4516 [lbo-talk] the Republican base, race, and "socialism" -- rank: 1000

[from a report by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, as in Stanley Greenberg: "the press and elites continue to look for a racial element that drives these voters' beliefs but they need to get over it"] The self-identifying conservative Republicans who make up the base of the Republican Party stand a world apart from the rest of America, according to focus groups conducted by De- mocracy Corps. These base Republican voters dislike Barack Obama to be sure which is not very surprising a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 28 18:05:29 PDT 2009

4517 [lbo-talk] gore vidal is an old, cranky prick -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > That whole interview. Here's the lowlight on Polanski's victim: "I > really > don t give a fuck. Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young > hooker feels as though she s been taken advantage of Oh yeah, and I forgot his recent praise of Tim McVeigh as a patriot and a constitutionalist. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 28 17:58:27 PDT 2009

4518 [lbo-talk] gore vidal is an old, cranky prick -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2009, at 6:21 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > He's funny, he's sharp, he has always been way ahead of most of the > liberal-left on empire, Israel, Kennedy, etc. What's not to like? His anti-imperialism comes from the right. He's a nativist who defended Pim Fortuyn when I interviewed him just after Fortuyn's assasination. From a cultural purity angle. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 28 17:21:15 PDT 2009

4519 [lbo-talk] nativity and income more divisive than race, say Americans -- rank: 1000

[and not just white Americans] http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1354/social-conflict-in-america

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 28 15:17:02 PDT 2009

4520 [lbo-talk] diverity, City-style -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Andy wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> That >> is, if capital is supple enough to co-opt any politics, why do >> antiracists earn such harsh denunciations -- even, in Michaels's >> case, >> hatred -- when their failures are in the end no different from other >> political movements'? They failed, so what? Every movement does. > > I'm getting the impressio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 28 11:09:50 PDT 2009

4521 [lbo-talk] diverity, City-style -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > On 10/28/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> Fund to invest in gender diversity >> By Richard Milne >> Published: October 26 2009 02:00 | Last updated: October 26 2009 >> 02:00 > > I've been meaning to ask you this: Since you've said repeatedly in the > past that capital is able to recuperate/use/profit from everything, > which I agree with, why the invective against identity politic ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 28 09:21:20 PDT 2009

4522 [lbo-talk] diverity, City-style -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Michael Pollak for pointing this out] <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ada6d18c-c1ce-11de-b86b-00144feab49a.html> Fund to invest in gender diversity By Richard Milne Published: October 26 2009 02:00 | Last updated: October 26 2009 02:00 One of the first funds to focus on investing in companies with a high number of women in senior roles is to launch in the coming weeks, backed by Cherie Blair and the former prime ministers of Canada and New Zealand. The Women's Leadership Fund, sta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 28 08:23:41 PDT 2009

4523 [lbo-talk] Scalia's nuts -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > FWIW, IMHO, the debate about whether buttsex is a right actually > points out one of the big problems with the Lazare view. What > really made the constitution "frozen" isn't checks and balances. > It's rather the opposite. What froze the constitution was John > Marshall's invention of judicial review and the idea of judicial > supremacy -- the idea that the Supreme Court is the branch with > power to settle di ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 28 07:42:58 PDT 2009

4524 [lbo-talk] new Postone published online -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2009, at 6:40 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > all the whiners on the list complaining about identity politics And who might those be?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 28 04:31:07 PDT 2009

4525 [lbo-talk] Scalia's nuts -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Did Scalia use those as examples in this speech or is that the > blogger's addition? I didn't see a link to the speech. http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/146308

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 27 19:48:04 PDT 2009

4526 [lbo-talk] Scalia's nuts -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, the awl was quoted: > >> <http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/scalia-the-constitution-is-there-to-keep-us-from-doing-butt-stuff >> > > >> Here's the second one. It's a little more recent. It comes from >> Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who made an appearance with >> fellow Justice Stephen Breyer in Arizona yesterday. >> >> The whole purpose of a constitution is to c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 27 18:37:57 PDT 2009

4527 [lbo-talk] Scalia's nuts -- rank: 1000

<http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/scalia-the-constitution-is-there-to-keep-us-from-doing-butt-stuff > Scalia: The Constitution Is There To Keep Us From Doing Butt Stuff Let's play a quick game of compare and contrast! Ready? Look at the following two statements. You may already know the first one. We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 27 18:06:19 PDT 2009

4528 [lbo-talk] separation of state and culture -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2009, at 7:14 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Are there any humans at all on the Euro? As I recall, on the coins but not the bills. And the monuments are all generic, right?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 27 17:15:41 PDT 2009

4529 [lbo-talk] LBO 122 and coffee up my nose -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Max S.? Dennis P.? Or is this one of those "if I tell you I'll > have to kill you" scenarios? Like the ID says, "Che Biscayne once lived and worked in this world, but he s since gone straight." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 27 16:37:10 PDT 2009

4530 [lbo-talk] Timmy & Ben luv Goldman! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a7T5HaOgYHpE> New York Fed s Secret Choice to Pay for Swaps Hits Taxpayers By Richard Teitelbaum and Hugh Son Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- In the months leading up to the September 2008 collapse of giant insurer American International Group Inc., Elias Habayeb and his colleagues worked nights and weekends negotiating with banks that had bought $62 billion of credit-default swaps from AIG, according to a person who has worked with Habay ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 27 15:07:49 PDT 2009