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5626 [lbo-talk] Obama, campus peacenik -- rank: 1000

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0109/Obama_student_lefty.html?showall January 13, 2009 Obama, student lefty [Ben Smith] A writer for the conservative magazine Human Events, Evan Gahr, last week unearthed another scrap of Barack Obama's slim paper trail: A March, 1983 reported article for a Columbia University magazine, Sundial. Gahr sent on a copy of the article, which I've posted in full here. Written just months before Obama graduated, this is not exactly his best work, but it offer ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 14:45:02 PST 2009

5627 [lbo-talk] BHO's evolution on SSM -- rank: 1000

<http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2009/01/obama-loved-gay-marriage-rights-once-upon-a-time.html > Obama Loved Gay Marriage Rights... Once Upon a Time CHICAGO - During his run for Illinois state Senate in 1996, Barack Obama stated his unequivocal support for gay marriage, according to an exclusive story in the Jan. 14, 2009 Windy City Times newspaper. (that's tomorrow, so i don't have a link yet...I wanted to share this press release from Tracy Baim with you right away ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 14:02:40 PST 2009

5628 [lbo-talk] Hitch to O'Reilly: "we barely got our trousers off..we should pursue this" -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5129933/bill-oreillys-disaster-date-with-chris-hitchens >

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 12:28:15 PST 2009

5629 [lbo-talk] Lou Proyect reviews The American Ruling Class -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Lou for the kind words. I actually haven't seen the movie, though I do love the fact that it got me into the IMDb: "Doug Henwood...Himself - economic essayist] Among the pleasures of John Kirby s 2005 documentary The American Ruling Class is watching Doug Henwood coolly dissect a hedge fund manager in his own office. Since the movie was written by and features Lewis Lapham as a kind of Virgil escorting two recent fictional Yale graduates into the hell of class society, it ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 12:00:23 PST 2009

5630 [lbo-talk] Cook: One big Israel objective: controlling the Rafah border -- rank: 1000

On Jan 13, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Michael Pollak quoted: > Israel believes the current invasion will have achieved nothing > unless > this time it regains absolute control of the Rafah border, > undercutting > Hamas's claims to be running the Strip. I.e., turn Gaza into a hellhole under total lockdown.

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 10:25:22 PST 2009

5631 [lbo-talk] Stewart on Gaza -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Peter Ward wrote: > It is discouraging that we still need the approval of a famous > somebody to validate our opinions. Huh? It was good to see Stewart evolving to a better position, and also says something encouraging about public attitudes, which he must be sensitive too.

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 07:49:04 PST 2009

5632 [lbo-talk] Wolf: The US deficit needed is 10% of GDP indefinately -- rank: 1000

On Jan 13, 2009, at 7:02 AM, Charles Turner wrote: > If so, is Wolf asserting that "balancing" is the requirement for > countries like China to consume more of what they produce, and the > U.S. > to produce more of what it consumes? Yup, that's it. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 07:43:45 PST 2009

5633 [lbo-talk] Doug - unemployment... Re: Roubini -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Patrick Bond wrote: > Who's this guy John Williams?: "Noted statistician John Williams > (shadowstats.com) reports that biases in measurement have > understated the job loss over the last 12 months by 1,150,000 jobs. > Williams reports the unemployment rate as it was measured prior to > reforms designed to minimize the measured rate of unemployment. > According to the methodology used in 1980, the US unemployment rate > in December 2008 re ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 12 15:54:36 PST 2009

5634 [lbo-talk] Stewart on Gaza -- rank: 1000

It's a video, not a text. Maybe some ambitious sort could transcribe it. On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > When I enlarge the font to make it readable the lines run off the > screen > rather than wrapping. Could someone post some excerpts from this to > the > list. The only way I couild read it would be to paste to a Word file > and > then reformat etc. Is it worth that trouble? > > Carrol > > Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> MaWybe I was wron ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 12 08:00:26 PST 2009

5635 [lbo-talk] Stewart on Gaza -- rank: 1000

Maybe I was wrong about US public opinion. Jon Stewart has been mostly awful on the Middle East. This is anything but: <http://www.thankyoujonstewart.com/>. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 11 19:07:36 PST 2009

5636 [lbo-talk] WINEP -- rank: 1000

On Jan 11, 2009, at 3:26 PM, SA quoted: > Barack Obama's transition team on Friday denied a report in a > British newspaper that the president-elect wants to open secret > talks with Hamas. So this would be *worse* than Bush, since, as Sara Roy pointed out on my radio show the other day, they've been secretly talking with Hamas for some time. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 11 12:34:05 PST 2009

5637 [lbo-talk] Will Congressional Dems fix ARRP? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 11, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > I've been thinking that maybe tax cuts are (already) less effective > in doing much of anything this time around because profits and > incomes are down. We've already got a huge "tax cut" coming in the > form of simply lower revenues and lost jobs ... And in Wall Street thinking, lower energy prices are a kind of "tax cut," and that hasn't helped much either. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 11 12:32:30 PST 2009

5638 [lbo-talk] longing for the Bush days -- rank: 1000

I posted a vague memory of this the other day. Jonathan Schwarz tracked down the details (thanks!). Doug ---- <http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/002783.html> How Did Reality Get On My TV? This week Keith Olbermann had on former National Security Council staffer Hillary Mann Leverett. In a deeply shocking maneuver, she told the truth about the US, the mideast, and the incoming Obama administration: <blockquote> OLBERMANN: The other thing that will change, if not on the 20t ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 11 10:35:20 PST 2009

5639 [lbo-talk] Guardian: Obama prepared to talk to Hamas -- rank: 1000

On Jan 10, 2009, at 8:20 AM, RCu8598882 at aol.com wrote: > Let's face it: Obama is a brilliant politician and really not > responsible > for what people fantasize about him. Much like Reagan, he campaigned > in a > nebulous fashion so that many Americans thought he was a reasonable > chap and > ignored what he had been saying and doing for the many years since > he walked out > on the AFL-CIO. Reagan was a movement conservative with a long history on the right and a ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 10 05:51:05 PST 2009

5640 [lbo-talk] more bad press for SEIU -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - January 9, 2009 Troubles in Service Workers' Union May Dim Hopes for Labor By Alec MacGillis Washington Post Staff Writer President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for labor secretary will go before Congress today embodying the hopes of a movement that views Obama's victory as a chance to reverse years of union decline. But labor's prospects are already being shadowed by controversies besetting the Service Employees International Union, the country's fastest-growing union and ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 9 14:28:56 PST 2009