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5386 [lbo-talk] BHO alarming Zionists -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23207.html> Obama faces growing pressure on Israel By: Ben Smith June 1, 2009 08:05 PM EST As President Barack Obama prepares to depart for his first trip to the Arab world, the administration s escalating pressure on Israel to freeze all growth of its settlements on Palestinian land has begun to stir concern among Israel s numerous allies in both parties on Capitol Hill. My concern is that we are applying pressure to the wrong party in this ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 1 17:44:06 PDT 2009

5387 [lbo-talk] Why Public Option Is Defective; Why Only Single-Payer Will Do -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2009, at 5:31 PM, M wrote: > Here is an older paper about administrative costs (which is where I > think they think the savings would come from).http://www.pnhp.org/publications/nejmadmin.pdf Yup, that's the paper. Himmelhandler told me they just updated those numbers with medical care inflation. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 30 18:21:31 PDT 2009

5388 [lbo-talk] The Moral Case for Health Care -- rank: 1000

On Jul 29, 2009, at 5:45 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > This is exactly backwards. What made the Holocaust possible was the > rational, bureaucratic calculation. If the Nazis had been > "overwhelmed" by passion and emotion, they wouldn't have been able > to effectively plan the deaths of millions of people. So where did they get the desire to kill millions? Was that rational too? Ever read Mein Kampf? It bubbles over with hate. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 29 18:31:15 PDT 2009

5389 [lbo-talk] so much for that "progressive" turn -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/121946/Early-Read-2010-Suggests-Midterms-Competitive.aspx > July 29, 2009Early Read on 2010 Suggests Midterms Could Be Competitive Democrats hold slight edge in 2010 vote among registered voters by Jeffrey M. Jones PRINCETON, NJ -- If the elections for Congress were held today, 50% of U.S. registered voters say they would vote for the Democratic candidate in their district and 44% for the Republican candidate. Gallup uses this "generic" ballot to mea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 29 12:14:49 PDT 2009

5390 [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:	Wed Jul 29 12:07:21 PDT 2009

5391 [lbo-talk] Why Public Option Is Defective; Why Only Single-Payer WillDo -- rank: 1000

On Jul 29, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Of Course. This is what comes of the toothless politics that > believes in > persuading people on ethical grounds to do the right thing. The > Insurance Companies write a bill which Congresds passes & Obama signs, > which will make life a bit rougher for many in the U.S. and make > government programs even more of a stink in the nostrils of the > public, > thus making it even more difficult to mount serious political & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 29 09:26:37 PDT 2009

5392 [lbo-talk] post-news, etc. -- rank: 1000

[From The Awl's daily email.] Oh hi, You know, I didn't want to put this on the Internet, because I do believe that negative attention is also a form of attention that attention-seeking people are happy to receive! In this modern world, attention is actually currency. And there are many people that I do not wish to pay. So, just between us horses here in the barn, I'm kind of reeling over this interview with (yes, sorry) Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired and the author of the new book &qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 29 05:18:31 PDT 2009

5393 [lbo-talk] gotta love that Senate -- rank: 1000

<http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/07/the-powers-that-be.php > The Powers That Be [Matthew Yglesias] Not to just keep flogging a dead horse endlessly, but it does strike me as worth noting that when you read a puff piece in The New York Times about the Gang of Six bipartisan dealmakers in the Senate that vast power is being wielded by people who, in a democratic system of government, would have almost no power. We re talking, after all, about Max Baucus of Montana, Kent ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 28 14:04:47 PDT 2009

5394 [lbo-talk] further proof that economics is a debased profession -- rank: 1000

[from the WSJ's daily Real Time Economics] Does Health Insurance Make You Fat? A recent economics paper may give skeptics of President Barack Obama's push for near-universal health care new ammunition. The argument? Health insurance makes you fat. Americans who have health insurance, either private or public, are more likely to gain weight or become obese, wrote authors Jay Bhattacharya and Kate Bundorf from Stanford University, Noemi Pace from University College London and Neeraj Sood from ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 28 13:34:58 PDT 2009

5395 [lbo-talk] Black scholar arrest angers Obama -- rank: 1000

On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:18 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > one of the > things that brought me back to this list in the last few days was > that it > seems to be about the only place i can turn among my friends to find > people > reading this episode the way i do. Please stick around!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 28 12:25:11 PDT 2009

5396 [lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in -- rank: 1000

On Jul 27, 2009, at 8:46 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > "For example, Marx claims that when a communist stands in front of > 'a crowd of scrofulous, overworked and consumptive starvelings', he > sees 'the necessity, and at the same time the condition, of a > transformation both of industry and of the social structure'.12 Marx > is asserting that for those who share his outlook these 'facts' > contain their own condemnation and a call to do something about > them. If an i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 27 18:03:51 PDT 2009

5397 [lbo-talk] My Space vs. Facebook, race and class distinctions -- rank: 1000

On Jul 27, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Left-Wing Wacko wrote: > Bad new for lefties on Facebook! :) I could swear I read this a year ago. Facebook looks good and MySpace looks like crap. Am I saying the same thing in a different way? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 27 18:02:01 PDT 2009

5398 [lbo-talk] who made Gates #1? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 27, 2009, at 8:08 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > So, I think one thing that's going on, is Reed is also > pissed off at the general intellectual climate in the US that > privilages guys like Gates who follow standard fare mostly mediocre > academic writing, and basically don't say much we haven't heard > before. Reed likes my writing, so I'm biased in his favor. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 27 17:13:15 PDT 2009

5399 [lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in -- rank: 1000

On Jul 27, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > on the list my proposition applies > only to Doug Thanks for clarifying!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 27 14:50:00 PDT 2009

5400 [lbo-talk] text of the Gates 911 call -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5323874/the-911-call-that-got-henry-louis-gates-busted > Lucia Whalen, the Harvard Magazine fundraiser who called in the report of a break-in at Gates' house after she saw two men forcing the door open, makes it very clear that she wasn't sure a crime was being committed she apparently had been urged to call the police by another neighbor she passed on the street, and didn't seem to want to be involved at all. From the call: Whalen: I noticed two suitcases, so I'm n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 27 11:56:35 PDT 2009