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6961 [lbo-talk] WSJ: this time, health care reform "has wings" -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - November 20, 2008 This Time Around, Health-Care Revamp Has Wings By LAURA MECKLER WASHINGTON -- The effort to overhaul the nation's health system will begin next year with one clear advantage over previous attempts: A wide variety of interest groups are rooting for it to succeed rather than plotting to kill it. That is a stark contrast to the last big health-care initiative in the early 1990s, when many of the same groups helped block any major change. In addition, Bara ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 20 07:47:58 PST 2008

6962 [lbo-talk] GMAC, Cerberus, and ResCap -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2008, at 2:14 AM, John Harp wrote: > Can someone explain why Detroit's subprime investment's have NOTHING > to do with today's hearing or the requested handout? I just don't get > why every comment about it is either about 1)armchair speculations on > how to be a detroit ceo 2)cheap shots at the uaw. No one said they have nothing to do with the industry's problems. But for years, gains in finance offset losses in vehicle production. Now there are losses in finance too. O ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 20 07:31:55 PST 2008

6963 [lbo-talk] Randian Personal Ads -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2008, at 9:37 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > I spent a curious weekend at a conference about a year or so ago > organised by the American Dream Coalition, who were most of them, > though they did not shout about it, Ayn Rand enthusiasts. I found > them mostly quite personable... The organizer of The Nation's fundraising cruise also does National Review's cruises. He said that the passengers on the Nation's cruise were far more agreeable than NR's, but that the Nation's ta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 20 07:16:34 PST 2008

6964 [lbo-talk] race and gay marriage -- rank: 1000

The Gay Marriage Vote When Californians voted by 52-48 percent for a gay marriage ban Nov. 4, it wasn t the first time: A similar measure passed by 61-39 percent in 2000, then was rejected by the state s courts. The new version bypassed the courts by amending the state s Constitution. What changed in the two votes? Support for banning gay marriage dropped among most groups, producing the narrower margin. But it increased in one, African-Americans, and that contributed greatly to the measur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 19 12:52:38 PST 2008

6965 [lbo-talk] Holder -- rank: 1000

Our likely new AG: <http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202421950304> The day after the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, Eric Holder Jr. is working from Covington & Burling's elegant new Manhattan offices inside the year-old New York Times Building. He's there to prep Fernando Aguirre, the CEO of Chiquita Brands International Inc., for an interview with "60 Minutes," which will be broadcasting a segment on the company's past involvement with Colombian right-wing para ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 19 09:23:08 PST 2008

6966 [lbo-talk] legal news -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1118082douche1.html> Alleged "Douchebag" Sues Author Las Vegas man sues over appearance in recent "Hot Chicks" book NOVEMBER 18--Claiming that he has been unfairly branded a "douchebag" in the book "Hot Chicks with Douchebags," a Las Vegas man has filed a libel lawsuit against the volume's author and publisher. Michael Minelli, a 27-year-old club promoter, claims that the inclusion of his photograp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 19 09:21:20 PST 2008

6967 [lbo-talk] Why Blacks opposed Prop 8 -- and a simple way -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Chris Doss: > > That Afro-Americans tend to come from the south is an anecdote? > > .......... > > Please don't be difficult. > > Surely you understand the context, which is that those southern roots > were over-used as an explanation for the Prop 8 outcome. Curious that a Southern heritage would determine votes on Prop 8, but not on anything else. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 19 09:02:28 PST 2008

6968 [lbo-talk] Emanuel: gonna throw long & deep -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - November 19, 2008 Emanuel Sets a Challenge By JONATHAN WEISMAN President-elect Barack Obama's incoming White House chief of staff challenged chief executives and other business leaders Tuesday night to join the new administration in a push for universal health care, saying incremental increases in coverage won't be acceptable. "When it gets rough out there, a lot of business leaders get out of the car and say, 'We're OK with minor reform.' I'm challenging you toda ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 19 08:59:38 PST 2008

6969 [lbo-talk] fivethirtyeight on Prop 8--- generational not racial -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2008, at 12:00 AM, SA wrote: > It's nice to know that younger voters supported Prop 8 less than > older ones - though it's not surprising - but this blog post makes > no sense. Just because there was a young-old gap doesn't mean there > wasn't a black-white-(latino) gap. Obviously it was generational, > but it was also racial. Silver conflates first-time voters with the higher turnout. It could be that the higher turnout came from people who hadn't voted in years. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 19 08:39:00 PST 2008

6970 [lbo-talk] Amity Shlaes: Tired of bashing FDR/New Deal, Shlaes is now going after Keynes -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2008, at 4:59 AM, B. quoted the execrable Shlaes: > Keynes taught that spending, especially spending by consumers, is > the way out of a slowdown. No he didn't. He was concerned with the investment behavior of what he always called "entrepreneurs." They invest, based on expectations for profit. Those expectations are formed, in part, by the expected spending on consumption. If those expectations are gloomy, as they are now, then the state has to do the investing. D ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 19 08:38:14 PST 2008

6971 [lbo-talk] Great Depression II watch -- rank: 1000

The Washington office of Ed Hyman, Wall Street's favorite economist, has a couple of interesting observations in today's policy commentary: * Right after the election, it looked like the Dems had performed under expectations in the Senate races, and were going to lose Lieberman. Since election night, they've won Oregon and Alaska, have a shot in Minnesota, and kept Lieberman. Getting quickly to the bottom line: this could "change the outlook" on the Employee Free Choice Act. * Rel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 19 08:24:04 PST 2008

6972 [lbo-talk] Why Blacks opposed Prop 8 -- and a simple way -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > There's been zero "personal vituperation". Absolutely. A model of civil debate even. Listmom

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Date:	Wed Nov 19 08:11:15 PST 2008

6973 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Repeal Prop 8 -- rank: 1000

Hi, Have you signed the pledge to repeal Prop 8? I just did. And over 200,000 other people have signed the pledge from the Courage Campaign, CREDO Mobile, and MoveOn.org to repeal Prop 8 and restore marriage equality to California: http://www.couragecampaign.org/RepealProp8 Usually, discussions of political issues wind down after elections, but Prop 8 is not about politics. It is about love, equality and civil rights. That's why we cannot let the passage of Prop 8 stand. We all need to talk ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 19 08:09:04 PST 2008

6974 [lbo-talk] Can the auto industry borrow AIG's lobbyist? -- rank: 1000

It occurred to me, reading Mitt Romney's op ed in the Times this morning (appended below), that this crisis is likely to be "solved" by essentially breaking the UAW. The union may continue to exist in name, but they'll suffer sharp rollbacks in wages and benefits, and the retirees will get screwed. It will be truly amazing if this happens under a Democratic president and a strongly Democratic Congress, but maybe that's the only configuration of power under which it could happen. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 19 08:07:07 PST 2008

6975 [lbo-talk] Baraka on closeted chumps and pimpable figments -- rank: 1000

On Nov 18, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Charles Brown wrote: >>>> Doug Henwood > > Did you? The interview happened because his publisher, Akashic Books, > put him onto me. > > ^^^ > CB: Oh, cool. Good show, old chap. The book is worth checking out: <http://www.akashicbooks.com/talesoftheout.htm>. There are some stories, which seem thinly disguised histories, about watching some of his former radical friends go straight when they join the Newark city government. And how ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 18 13:48:33 PST 2008