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8581 [lbo-talk] Eustice Mullins anyone? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 15, 2008, at 1:12 PM, MK wrote: > I feel compelled to write interviewer Mitchel Cohen. Mitch subscribes to this list, though I don't know how carefully he reads it. > I also want to blame Doug/WBAI for this thread: without my fix of > "Behind the News", I was compelled to roam the internets looking for > leftie-bidniss chat. You are too kind! These long pre-emptions for fundraising are very frustrating. WBAI is doing 25 days of it this month, which may be record f ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 15 11:43:13 PST 2008

8582 [lbo-talk] Maximizing author benefit? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 15, 2008, at 12:47 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> Is there a general way to maximize the money that goes to an author >> when you buy a book? > > "Host his website" :-) If you're fishing for a thank you, today's your lucky day! A thousand public thanks for all the hosting service that Jordan has provided me over the years - book, radio, list + archives. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 15 11:26:17 PST 2008

8583 [lbo-talk] Obama's latest -- rank: 1000

Forget the deepening cracks in Hillary's command of the superdelegates - here's an endorsement that really matters! From today's Page Six: > Less Feeling > > THE founder of the rock band Boston is enraged that Mike Huckabee > is using his band's hit "More Than a Feeling" on the campaign > trail. He's written a letter to Huckabee demanding the GOP > candidate stop using it. "Boston has never endorsed a political > candidate, and with all due respect, would no ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 15 07:58:46 PST 2008

8584 [lbo-talk] a dime's worth of difference? -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - February 15, 2008 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/ AR2008021403895.html> Clinton, Obama Offer Similar Economic Visions By Jonathan Weisman and Anne E. Kornblut Washington Post Staff Writers WARREN, Ohio, Feb. 14 -- Hillary Rodham Clinton slammed Barack Obama during an appearance at a General Motors plant here on Thursday for what she charged was a lack of a record of achievement on the economy. But as both Democratic presidential candid ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 15 07:56:31 PST 2008

8585 [lbo-talk] race & the vote -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/2008/02/the-role-of-rac.html> The Numbers A Run at the Latest Data from ABC's Poobah of Polling, Gary Langer The Role of Race February 15, 2008 9:35 AM Race has been a riveting factor in the Democratic presidential primaries; even beyond sex, age and socioeconomics, it looks to be the single most powerful demographic in vote choices at least for nonwhites. Witness New Mexico, which Hillary Clinton last night was announced to have won by a razor-th ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 15 07:40:05 PST 2008

8586 [lbo-talk] at least he's black! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 15, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > He doesn't make an empirical claim that race inequality > doesn't exist. That'd be stupid. There's just a 10% remnant: <http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/03/ obamas_selma_speech_text_as_de.html> We're going to leave it to the Joshua generation to make sure it happens. There are still battles that need to be fought; some rivers that need to be crossed. Like Moses, the task was passed on to those who might not have been as deser ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 15 07:32:50 PST 2008

8587 [lbo-talk] Hillary - tacking left & right all at once! -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen's Politico Playbook] 1) CLINTON LOYALISTS TO ATTACK FROM RIGHT? Robert D. Novak reports this weekend: 'Strategists for Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign believe it is imperative to identify her high-flying opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, with the 'McGovern wing' of the Democratic Party - but they want to keep their candidate's fingerprints off the attack. During the two weeks remaining before the important Ohio and Texas primaries on March 4, Clinton insiders want ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 15 07:20:03 PST 2008

8588 [lbo-talk] Maximizing author benefit? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 15, 2008, at 8:07 AM, Andy F wrote: > Is there a general way to maximize the money that goes to an author > when you buy a book? Buy 'em at retail. The royalty is the same regardless of the store, as long as it's a first sale. Buying used on Amazon - authors no like, because the book is either a review copy or has already been bought. If the author has a store set up at Amazon or Powell's, s/ he'll get a cut in addition to the royalty. Sometimes authors sell copies on their own, ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 15 05:17:03 PST 2008

8589 [lbo-talk] Eustice Mullins anyone? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 15, 2008, at 12:24 AM, MK wrote: > I stumbled upon a show out of TriBeCa radio the other day, Steal This > Radio (show #27), featuring an interview with an NYU grad student > studying the history of the Fed. She mentioned Mullins name however > some of the discussion seemed to venture precariously close to > conspiracy theorizing. Anyone know anything about Mullins? Is there > any there there? Pure right-wing nuttery. For a history of the Fed's founding, you can't beat ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 15 04:29:35 PST 2008

8590 [lbo-talk] At the Brecht Forum, NYC, 2/21: Is The Economy About to Crash? -- rank: 1000

A new series of hot button discussions 3rd THURSDAYS AT THE BRECHT FORUM THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21ST 7.30 TO 9.30 PM THE BIG BUST IS THE ECONOMY ABOUT TO CRASH? "The United States has developed a new weapon that destroys people but leaves buildings standing. It's called the stock market." Jay Leno With the markets gyrating wildly, house prices in freefall, and oil at nearly $100 a barrel, the USeconomy looks to be heading towards the rocks. But is this a major crisis or merely a hicc ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 14 17:26:56 PST 2008

8591 [lbo-talk] at least he's black! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 14, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > AND voting > colorblind means that other issues are used to decide. I'm curious, Charles - do you vote? Do you do that CP thing and vote Dem to save us from the Reps? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 14 14:43:17 PST 2008

8592 [lbo-talk] U.S. split on "socialized medicine": poll -- rank: 1000

On Feb 14, 2008, at 4:51 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1444801720080214 This is an amazing spontaneous level of support (45-39) for the undefined and presumably radioactive term "socialized medicine." With an actual movement and actual political leadership, these numbers could change dramatically. The Dem candidates are consciously and deliberately not talking about this sort of thing, yet trying to appeal to an underlying sensi ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 14 14:05:47 PST 2008

8593 [lbo-talk] I'll be voting in TX Dem primary - who should I votefor? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 14, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Conyers has got a single-payer bill. (smile) He does, and it's a good one.

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Date:	Thu Feb 14 13:19:27 PST 2008

8594 [lbo-talk] I'll be voting in TX Dem primary - who should I votefor? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 14, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > In other words HRC plan is universal coverage, but not > single payer. Yeah, with insurance companies second-guessing everything, with huge administrative overhead, no monopsony buying power by the gov to push costs down, etc.

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Date:	Thu Feb 14 12:45:41 PST 2008

8595 [lbo-talk] William Kristol, uber-hack -- rank: 1000

The excellent Jonathan Schwarz dissects William Kristol's profound ignorance of just about everything: <http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174894/ jonathan_schwarz_bill_kristol_s_obscure_masterpiece>

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