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8926 [lbo-talk] Labor? -- rank: 1000

So Labor's really at the bottom of the list, isn't it? Spend $100 million, send scores of thousands out to work the phones and knock on doors, and you don't even get the time of day! --- Obama to name veterans affairs chief Sunday: aides CHICAGO (Reuters) Barack Obama will announce his choice to head the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs at a planned news conference on Sunday, aides to the president-elect said on Saturday. Obama is scheduled to hold a news conference in Chicago at 2 p.m. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 6 10:55:10 PST 2008

8927 [lbo-talk] The right to own bloody great weapons: was nominally about clemency -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2008, at 12:28 AM, Bill Bartlett wrote: > What about the right to bear nuclear arms? Is that implied as well? At a campaign appearance back in the 1994 Republican sweep, the Indiana Congressman-to-be John Hostettler was asked what his principle of gun regulation was. He said that anything the gov can own, private citizens should be free to own as well. When asked if that extended to nuclear weapons, he paused a moment and said yes. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 6 06:23:56 PST 2008

8928 [lbo-talk] blacks about as morally conservative as Republicans -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2008, at 10:01 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > What the hell is your point? That was your sixth post of the day, following 7 and 8 days. You're on moderation. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 20:02:38 PST 2008

8929 [lbo-talk] Paris reading Gary -- rank: 1000

[FOr those of you who enjoyed the quackery of WBAI alum Gary Null - source unknown] PARIS HILTON has splurged on self-help books after her split from BENJI MADDEN. The heiress was spotted in LA carrying a number of titles, including GARY NULL'S Living in the Moment: A Prescription for the Soul, which offers advice on how to live life to its fullest potential.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 18:16:03 PST 2008

8930 [lbo-talk] CAP's stimulus -- rank: 1000

[This is something of an idea factory for the Obama gang, or at least they like to think that.] <http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/12/second_stimulus.html> How to Spend $350 Billion in a First Year of Stimulus and Recovery By Will Straw, Michael Ettlinger | December 5, 2008 The time is right for a set of federal policies designed to provide stabilization, stimulus, recovery, and growth. Without action, there is too great a risk of further collapse and an ever-worsening spiral ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 14:16:06 PST 2008

8931 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Frank vs. Bartels update] -- rank: 1000

[Bartels tells me he just posted a comment.] <http://www.themonkeycage.org/2008/12/wheres_the_american_working_cl.html > Based on a very quick reading: The conceptualization and measurement of class offered here seems interesting and useful, though I m unclear how one would know whether it is more or less useful or appropriate than other measures for addressing this or any other specific political question. I m not entirely sure what to make of the statistical analyses. There are no in ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 5 13:34:44 PST 2008

8932 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Frank vs. Bartels update] -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2008, at 4:20 PM, SA wrote: > For exactly that reason. The rhetoric just doesn't seem credible. > "We're going to raise your wages and give you free health care." "Oh > yeah?" But Edwards said all the right things - he didn't overpromise, either. It was just a solid, pro-labor, social democratic program. He was Southern, too. And not a funny-looking wuss like Kucinich, though there was the haircut problem. And he flopped. And why can't Nader get any vot ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 13:30:10 PST 2008

8933 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Frank vs. Bartels update] -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2008, at 2:04 PM, SA wrote: > Given the timing and the lack of effect from wedge issues, my > interpretation is that Lane Kenworthy was right: His paper [http://tinyurl.com/6du6xw > ] concludes that the WC shift against Dems was caused > >> perhaps most importantly by changes in working-class >> whites' confidence in the Democrats' ability to deliver the goods >> on particular >> issues. The key issues were material ones. If that were true, why don't ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 5 13:03:30 PST 2008

8934 [lbo-talk] Catholicism, was Re: blacks about as morally conservative as Republicans -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: >> I was under the impression that lots of black rappers are, in fact, >> religious. No? > > > Kurtis Blow tried a career revival, pun inte Hey, Yo Majesty! are lesbians and devout Christians.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 12:59:58 PST 2008

8935 [lbo-talk] Catholicism, was Re: blacks about as morally conservative as Republicans -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Chris Doss wrote: His 5th post of the day. Following a total of 15 in the previous two days. The limit is 3. Any more overposting and it's moderation time.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 12:57:18 PST 2008

8936 [lbo-talk] Nicholas Kristoff tweets -- rank: 1000

When the death of civilization meets an uber-hack: <http://twitter.com/NYTimesKristof>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 10:23:59 PST 2008

8937 [lbo-talk] Frank vs. Bartels update -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2008, at 12:33 PM, SA wrote: > I d be interested to see a public response from Bartels, if he s so > inclined. Just asked him if he's working on anything.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 10:08:57 PST 2008

8938 [lbo-talk] blacks about as morally conservative as Republicans -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2008, at 9:36 AM, Wendy Lyon wrote: > And while obviously there is not a one-to-one correlation between > Catholicism and anti-abortionism, it's quite clear to me that the > influence of the Church here in Ireland is a hugely significant factor > both in the rigidity of the abortion laws and in public opinion Ditto Nicaragua, where the Sandinistas imposed a strict anti-abortion law.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 5 06:47:00 PST 2008

8939 [lbo-talk] who's gonna take the hit in auto -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - December 4, 2008 Auto Bailout Will Leave Many Victims By LIAM DENNING In a classic Monty Python sketch, a shifty pet-shop owner tries to distract John Cleese from the fact that his parrot is dead by repeatedly pointing out the deceased bird's "beautiful plumage." Similarly, the debate on bailing out Detroit's three auto makers often seems to play out in a theater of the absurd. Senior industry executives make a great show of driving down to Washington in hybri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 4 13:25:43 PST 2008

8940 [lbo-talk] Damon Silvers: The signal theory of labor law -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:05 PM, James Straub wrote: > if mary beth maxwell gets sec of labor Hmm, I'm guessing not likely. But maybe I'm being too cynical.

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Date:	Thu Dec 4 13:19:13 PST 2008