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6721 [lbo-talk] Why the Dems lost the White Working Class -- rank: 1000

On Oct 21, 2008, at 12:37 PM, SA wrote: > Bartels' methodology is deeply questionable. His definition of the > "white working class" is whites in the bottom third of the income > distribution, which comes to a bit more than one fourth of whites. <http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/kansasqjps06.pdf> In an earlier version of this review I interpreted those passages as suggesting that the people Frank had in mind were people with low incomes. Thus, I proposed to "foll ...

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6722 [lbo-talk] Why the Dems lost the White Working Class -- rank: 1000

On Oct 21, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Mining electoral > data from the General Social Survey, they found that the decline in > white working-class support for Democrats occurred in one period-- > from > the mid-seventies until the early nineties, with a brief lull in the > early eighties--and has remained well below fifty per cent ever > since. <http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/kansas.pdf> What s the Matter with What s the Matter with Kansas? La ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 21 08:59:25 PDT 2008

6723 [lbo-talk] Did Marx get it all right? -- rank: 1000

Wow, three of the commenters are James Heartfield's former comrades in the former RCP - Frank Furedi, Mick Hume, and Claire Fox. An odd cross- section. On Oct 20, 2008, at 5:08 PM, John E. Norem wrote: > > Karl Marx: did he get it all right? > > > As financial markets crash, the reputation of Karl Marx soars. So > has his time come at last? Our writer examines the evidence, while > other commentators from the Left discuss his validity > > > http://www.timeson ...

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6724 [lbo-talk] you can be the next Joe the Plumber! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.johnmccain.com/joe/> How are you Joe the Plumber? Tell us in 30 seconds... During Barack Obama's recent event in Toledo, Ohio, "Joe the Plumber" asked a simple question and got a surprising answer from the Democratic nominee. When he asked why Barack Obama's tax plan was going to punish him for working hard and living the American Dream, Barack Obama responded, "When you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." In that brief exchange, the A ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 20 12:26:33 PDT 2008

6725 [lbo-talk] Palin: it's Billy Kristol's fault... -- rank: 1000

On Oct 20, 2008, at 12:01 PM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote: > So Doug, as a onetime member of the right-wing > intelligentsia, can you tell us how much > of the squabbling among the conservative > chattering classes over the Palin nomination > is just a continuation of the ongoing battle > between paleocons and neocons? It's some of that, but I also think it's a battle between the more serious people and the total hacks. William Kristol is the leader of the hacks. Doug

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6726 [lbo-talk] Things I will never understand: Fear of Tax -- rank: 1000

On Oct 20, 2008, at 10:53 AM, shag wrote: > To my knowledge, there are about a dozen folks here, generally > lurkers, > who aren't necessarily leftists who read the list nonetheless. A certain National Review personality is one of them. If you're reading, HI! Doug

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6727 [lbo-talk] Palin: it's Billy Kristol's fault... -- rank: 1000

...but at least he saved us from having to look at Joe the Senator. From The Note: > Is this how hockey moms run? Jane Mayer charts Palin's political > rise in The New Yorker. Palin "owes more to members of the > Washington élite than her rhetoric has suggested," Mayer writes. > "Upon being elected governor of Alaska, Palin began developing > relationships with Washington insiders, who later championed the > idea of putting her on the 2008 ticket." > > ...

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6728 [lbo-talk] The return of Hooverville -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2008, at 4:47 PM, martin wrote: > On Oct 18, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > >> >> "The move comes as a result of the growing number of evictions that >> involve >> renters, most of whom are dutifully paying their rent every month, >> only to >> later learn their landlord has fallen behind on mortgage payments >> and the >> building has gone into foreclosure," Spokesman Steve Patterson told >> IPS. &g ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 18 13:58:04 PDT 2008

6729 [lbo-talk] Buchanan: the coming backlash -- rank: 1000

[Biden to the left of the Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders!] The Coming Backlash by Patrick J. Buchanan 10/17/2008 <http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29093> As Americans render what Catholics call temporal judgment on George Bush, are they aware of the radical course correction they are about to make? This center-right country is about to vastly strengthen a liberal Congress whose approval rating is 10 percent and implant in Washington a regime further to the left than any in ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 17:58:44 PDT 2008

6730 [lbo-talk] It's Teh Bigneth, stoopit -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2008, at 6:49 PM, wrobert at uci.edu wrote: > This comes up in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory. Adorno argues that the > aestheticization (probably spelled wrong, but so it goes) is linked > to its > domination. Before the domination of nature occurs, nature is > viewed as > ugly and dangerous. A cursory glance at U.S. literature tends to > confirm > this. I will expand at request or angry denunciatio Request.

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6731 [lbo-talk] Joe the Plumber, $250k+ business owner, as average American? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2008, at 6:31 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > hat exactly is included in "nonresidential?" Bank accounts, stocks > and bonds, 401k/403b, second house, what else? Everything - vehicles, real estate other than the primary residence, royalty claims, etc. Doug

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6732 [lbo-talk] press release of the day -- rank: 1000

[A. LARRY ROSS COMMUNICATIONS 4300 Marsh Ridge Rd - Suite 114 Carrollton TX 75010 972-267-1111 * www.alarryross.com] FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Melany Ethridge 972.267.1111 melany at alarryross.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DYNAMIC CREATION MUSEUM SEES MAJOR GROWTH SINCE OPENING LAST YEAR New Exhibits, Expanded Gardens Provide Fuller, Richer Experience PETERSBURG, Ky., October 17, 2008 In the year and a half since the high-tech, state-of-the-art Creation Museum opened near Cincinnati, it has seen ...

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6733 [lbo-talk] Joe the Plumber, $250k+ business owner, as average American? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2008, at 6:52 PM, John Thornton wrote: > All this is seats of the pants stuff so maybe someone will come > along with hard data and show me that 18% of the US has savings of > $100,000 or more and it really is "not at all uncommon" but I'm not > holding my breath. Here are some numbers I worked up from the SCF 2004. It shows net worth by percentile, divided into residential (value of principal residence less mortgage on that residence) and nonresidential (excl ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 15:08:46 PDT 2008

6734 [lbo-talk] Nouriel Roubini clearly demented -- rank: 1000

[This has been going on for several days. The latest...] <http://gawker.com/5065268/journalists-are-bunch-of-wimps-blackmailed-by-gawker-says-dr-meltdown > NOURIEL ROUBINI, SELF-REFERENTIAL, THE PANIC OF '08, NEW YORK MAGAZINE Journalists Are 'Bunch of Wimps' Blackmailed By Gawker, Says Dr. Meltdown Some background: Nouriel Roubini is an economist known for his longstanding pessimism, at the peak of his professional reputation, vindicated by the financial crisis. The NYU academic, when ...

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6735 [lbo-talk] Why strong US dollar and declining gold price. -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2008, at 5:07 PM, ken hanly wrote: > Why is the US dollar staying strong and gold prices often declining. > Are not the numbers of US dollars being vastly inflated by the > bailouts and huge defence spending Etc. Why arenèt people fleeing to > gold for safety rather than the American buck. Banking crises are deflationary on balance - the bailout effect is outweighed by the credit contraction. As for the USD vs. the EUR: we got the disease first and others are catching ...

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