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5206 [lbo-talk] negligible and stupid -- rank: 1000

On Mar 6, 2009, at 11:04 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > "Originating" might be too strong -- or, come to think > of it, it might not. But it's amazing how few people understand > what Carrol has pointed out here -- what is, at the very least, > the collusive and symbiotic character of this "move to the right". > > Whoever starts the dance -- they both follow. Ok, then - who started the dance? Who's calling the tune?

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Date:	Fri Mar 6 20:18:31 PST 2009

5207 [lbo-talk] negligible and stupid -- rank: 1000

On Mar 6, 2009, at 10:11 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > hen the DP began its steady move to the right, creating room for > elements in the RP to move their party even further to the right. You have any actual evidence that the DP led this rightward move, or does it just flow from your axioms, as Paul Davidson might say? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 6 20:17:08 PST 2009

5208 [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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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 6 14:34:20 PST 2009

5209 [lbo-talk] negligible and stupid -- rank: 1000

On Mar 6, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Michael Perelman wrote: > War on Drugs > Enemies list > I can't remember the name of the plan to hold enemies of the state. A lot of movement conservatives don't go for this sort of thing. Two of my Party of the Right colleagues made speed in their dorm room. About half the POR was libertarian, and libertarians don't like enemies lists and mass detention. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 6 14:08:17 PST 2009

5210 [lbo-talk] fresh punditry -- rank: 1000

Fresh punditry on the state of the economy - with an analysis of the highly sucky February U.S. employment report - at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 6 12:15:23 PST 2009

5211 [lbo-talk] poll: religion a comfort for the poor -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/116449/Religion-Provides-Emotional-Boost-World-Poor.aspx > March 6, 2009 Religion Provides Emotional Boost to World s Poor In low-income areas, religiosity linked to more enjoyment, less worry by Steve Crabtree and Brett Pelham WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A tour of the world's most religious countries wouldn't be all mountaintop shrines and magnificent temples -- it would also take you to some pretty bleak places. Gallup Polls in 143 countries reveal that among count ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 6 11:41:30 PST 2009

5212 [lbo-talk] original cranky sixties guy -- rank: 1000

[this is the article that inspired the Gawker post I just sent] <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/05/AR2009030501541.html > Where Is Our Radical Youth? By Ron Charles Sunday, March 8, 2009; Page B01 In 1969, when Alice Echols went to college, everybody she knew was reading "Soul on Ice," Eldridge Cleaver's new collection of essays. For Echols, who now teaches a course on the '60s at the University of Southern California, that psychedelic time was fi ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 6 11:30:20 PST 2009

5213 [lbo-talk] kids today -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5165556/college-radicalism-replaced-by-tucker-max> KIDS THESE DAYS College Radicalism Replaced by Tucker Max By Hamilton Nolan, 12:25 PM on Fri Mar 6 2009, 4,421 views Back in the sixties, college kids read books books about revolution and sex and drugs. Today, college kids read Harry Potter books and whine about cops touching their Macbooks. Who's responsible? Tucker Max. A cranky old Sixties guy in the Washington Post points out that in less than two generations, co ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 6 11:25:37 PST 2009

5214 [lbo-talk] Ed Hyman watch -- rank: 1000

Ed Hyman, who embodies tomorrow's conventional wisdom on Wall Street today, declared this morning: "A global New Deal is called for."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 6 08:21:05 PST 2009

5215 [lbo-talk] From moves on... -- rank: 1000

From: Al From <dlc_admin.main.dlc at dlc.org> Date: March 6, 2009 10:21:11 AM EST To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: A Statement from DLC Founder and CEO Al From After 24 years at the helm, I plan to step down this spring as chief executive officer of the Democratic Leadership Council. Bruce Reed, the DLC's president and former domestic policy advisor to President Clinton, will become CEO. I am immensely proud of the DLC's success. The DLC has exceeded the dreams I had for it when I formed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 6 07:22:59 PST 2009

5216 [lbo-talk] IT innovation and "the Markets" -- rank: 1000

On Mar 6, 2009, at 12:09 AM, SA wrote: > When corporations plan, they have the advantage of being able to > plan based on market prices. Which means, in practice, that they raise and lower prices to reflect demand (and to squeeze competitors). When they introduce a product, setting a price is no trivial matter. So, these "market prices" are the result of trial, error, and guesswork. There's no *theoretical* reason why planners couldn't do the same thing. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 6 04:06:47 PST 2009

5217 [lbo-talk] negligible and stupid -- rank: 1000

On Mar 5, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Michael Perelman wrote: > Wow! John Schmitz! At least he had family values. Is his daughter > out of > jail? Is his son still with Xe? My god, I didn't know that Mary Kay Letourneau is his daughter. Damn. Nor did I realize at the time that he was thrown out of the JBS for being too far right! Re: Nixon and the right, there's this interesting passage from his Wikipedia entry: > When Richard Nixon, whose permanent residence at the time was in San > ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 5 19:03:55 PST 2009

5218 [lbo-talk] negligible and stupid -- rank: 1000

On Mar 5, 2009, at 4:16 PM, SA wrote: > But movement conservatives never saw Nixon as one of their own. No kidding. My first presidential votes, when I was a movement con back in 1972, were for John Ashbrook in the Rep primary and for John Schmitz in the general, because Nixon wasn't conservative enough. Wage & price controls, yikes! Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 5 18:42:10 PST 2009

5219 [lbo-talk] End Times expert!! -- rank: 1000

[This is from A. Larry Ross communications, a right-wing PR shop.] FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Jodi Phillip 972.267.1111 jodi at alarryross.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE END TIMES EXPERT AVAILABLE TO DISCUSS THE ABC S OF THE GLOBAL APOCALYPSE: Pastor Phil Hotsenpiller Ties Art, Biblical Prophecy and Current Events to the World s End WHO: Phil Hotsenpiller, an expert on interpreting biblical end times prophecy and a teaching pastor at the Southern California megachurch, Yorba Linda Friends Church. WHA ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 5 12:03:55 PST 2009

5220 [lbo-talk] IT innovation and "the Markets" -- rank: 1000

On Mar 5, 2009, at 1:32 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > And of course we do have 70+ experience of socialist (nonmarket) > entrepreneurship and attempts at innovation in a variety of > countries -- some fairly advanced industrially, like the DDR and > Czechoslovakia. The results are not quite as grim as Hayek predicted > but they are not promising. Janos Kornai have a revealing char > comparing innovations introduced by state socialist vs. capitalist > counties. I don't hav ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 5 10:41:20 PST 2009