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7231 [lbo-talk] Clinton base moving Obama-wards -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/107407/Obama-Surge-Fairly-BroadBased.aspx> Barack Obama s widening lead over Hillary Clinton among Democrats nationwide brings with it important gains among Clinton s core constituencies, including women, whites, and the non-college educated. Obama is now the overwhelming favorite among 18- to 29-year- olds, men, and postgraduates.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 20 04:40:43 PDT 2008

7232 [lbo-talk] Megabus.com: competition for Greyhound -- rank: 1000

On May 19, 2008, at 7:45 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:\ > Megabus to halt service in L.A. Hmm, they (and Bolt) are just starting up in the northeast. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 19 19:45:31 PDT 2008

7233 [lbo-talk] record review: "the fatality, sparow-hawk and disastrous band in the alternative music of lust" -- rank: 1000

On May 19, 2008, at 5:46 PM, B. wrote: > Only one thing worthy of reply: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp_PIjc2ga4 Is he the Weird Al of the Balkans?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 19 14:58:37 PDT 2008

7234 [lbo-talk] record review: "the fatality, sparow-hawk and disastrous band in the alternative music of lust" -- rank: 1000

<http://www.amazon.com/Anthems-Laibach/dp/B0002YCURU> [4 stars] IS THIS THE END OF LAIBACH's WORK???, October 17, 2004 By Zlatko Gjorgjioski "LAIWERK" (Macedonia) - See all my reviews 25 year's hard working for Slovenian band LAIBACH reagent with this first compilation of them. First cd of this album is a collection of the best of Laibach's songs from '80'S to 2004 (including the lust studio album WAT and some previously unreleased material). But second cd contains mixes, som ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 19 13:58:12 PDT 2008

7235 [lbo-talk] the flag pin, etc. -- rank: 1000

On May 19, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Lame! Whose grandparents DON'T have military backgrounds? The Swiss' > and Costa Ricans'? Well, mine ran away from the Italian police after writing a column denouncing the king in a socialist paper. Then he came to the U.S. and became a conservative Republican. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 19 09:43:59 PDT 2008

7236 [lbo-talk] more from Packer on the end of the Right -- rank: 1000

[...] Between the Mass and the forum, I had lunch with David Frum. His mood was elegiac and chastened. He now realized that, in 2001, Bush had been right and he had been wrong at their first meeting: the Party did need to change, but not in the way Bush went on to change it. "It wasn't a successful Presidency, and that's a painful thing," Frum said. "And I was a very small, unimportant part of it, but I was a part of it, and that implies responsibility." Frum has made h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 19 09:12:35 PDT 2008

7237 [lbo-talk] Packer: it's over for the right -- rank: 1000

[and let's hope it's over too for the cruise-missile liberals like Packer too! but I doubt it] <http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/26/080526fa_fact_packer? printable=true> THE POLITICAL SCENE THE FALL OF CONSERVATISM Have the Republicans run out of ideas? by George Packer MAY 26, 2008 [...] [Rick] Perlstein argues that the politics of "Nixonland" will endure for at least another generation. On his final page, he writes, "Do Americans not hate each other enough to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 19 09:04:29 PDT 2008

7238 [lbo-talk] the flag pin, etc. -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] Obama goes into this phase with a new shield on his suit jacket: "The flag pin that appeared on Barack Obama's lapel is just the opening salvo of Operation Patriotism for the Democratic presidential candidate," Julianna Goldman writes for Bloomberg News. "Obama plans to use speeches and campaign events to reinforce his patriotic image to America by evoking his grandparent's military background. He also plans to speak sometime this summer near Punchbowl Nation ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 19 08:49:15 PDT 2008

7239 [lbo-talk] what Americans find "morally acceptable" -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/107380/Cultural-Tolerance-Divorce- Grows-70.aspx> [...] % finding morally acceptable divorce 70% gambling 63 death penalty 62 medical research using stem cells from human embryos 62 sex between unmarried man and woman 61 medical testing on animals 56 having baby outside marriage 55 buying/wearing animal fur 54 doctor-assisted suicide 51 homosexual re ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 19 04:24:56 PDT 2008

7240 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood 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> now also broadcast on KPFA, Berkeley! (details below) "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 -------------------------------------------------- Newly/recently posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 18 13:40:09 PDT 2008

7241 [lbo-talk] right freaked by McCain on climate -- rank: 1000

[via Mike Allen] McCAIN CLIMATE POSITION INFLAMES THE RIGHT - L.A. Times A1, "GOP struggles to reinvent without losing itself: The party agrees it must change or face catastrophe in November. But that's about all members can agree on," By Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten: "Republican strategists who once sought to annihilate McCain for his independence are now enthusiastically backing his candidacy, offering strategic advice and affirmation of his conservative credentials. T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 18 09:28:17 PDT 2008

7242 [lbo-talk] Obama & Clinton camps plan merger -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/17/ AR2008051702425.html> Rival Camps Plan Inevitable Merger Clinton, Obama Supporters Discuss Combined Effort to Win in November By Matthew Mosk and Chris Cillizza Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, May 18, 2008; A01 Top fundraisers for Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have begun private talks aimed at merging the two candidates' teams, not waiting for the Democratic nominating process to end before they star ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 18 09:25:22 PDT 2008

7243 [lbo-talk] negative freedoms -- rank: 1000

On May 17, 2008, at 11:33 AM, Eric wrote: > Yes. The provision of food, housing, and education always also > commands, to be responsible, be normal, parent and behave in > acceptable ways. And paternalistic is the right word, as Harvey is > most nostalgic for the welfare state (positive liberty) without > seeming to be aware of its normalizing regulations (paternalism) -- > <http://www.metamute.org/en/The-Battle-of-all-Mothers>, for example > -- that is, when, as in th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 17 19:53:03 PDT 2008

7244 [lbo-talk] negative freedoms, perhaps better termed -- rank: 1000

On May 17, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Eric wrote: > In 1965 -- perhaps the apex of the postwar > truce, before the peace started obviously fraying -- 16% American > families were poor. In 2000 -- perhaps the apex of neoliberalism, > before the dotcom bust and 9/11 and as worldwide resistance to it was > becoming obvious -- it was 13%. Obviously there was no great > poverty-reduction happening with Keynesianism. The U/S. poverty line is an absolute measure, meaning that it was fixed in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 17 19:51:23 PDT 2008

7245 [lbo-talk] negative freedoms, perhaps better termed -- rank: 1000

On May 17, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Eric wrote: > But this is exactly what the Keynesian arrangements you and andie and > Harvey love so much did. And it did it very well. The labor truce may > have brought more guarantees but it didn't mean any less misery or > exploitation. Less misery than what? A world of your imagination, or the world of the working class in the USA after, say, 1982, compared with 1947-73? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 17 19:39:01 PDT 2008