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5821 SOMETHING DIFFERENT: Green Candidate Leads for CA Legislative Seat -- rank: 149

For something a bit different, it appears that the Green Party will have their first state legislative seat representing Oakland, CA. The Green Party candidate appears to be leading the special election to defeat the Democratic candidate (who just recently was mayor of Oakland). Here is the SF CHRONICLE article: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Bock ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Wed Mar 31 11:29:43 PST 1999

5822 Brad, Oskar, Noam -- rank: 149

>Brad, > >You neglected to quote the lead sentence of the Economist article, which >read: > ><<All accross Europe, it appears, the powers that be were quietly >delighted when Oskar Lafontaine resigned as Germany's finance >minister.>> > Do you really think that the _Economist_ is delighted that Oskar Lafontaine resigned? Or that ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Mon Mar 22 11:51:39 PST 1999

5823 Brad, Oskar, Noam -- rank: 149

Brad, You neglected to quote the lead sentence of the Economist article, which read: <<All accross Europe, it appears, the powers that be were quietly delighted when Oskar Lafontaine resigned as Germany's finance minister.>> Is this meant to disprove Chomsky's thesis that there was <<euphoria' in 'jubilant' financial markets ...

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Author:	Seth Ackerman
Date:	Mon Mar 22 08:21:04 PST 1999

5824 Brad, Oskar, Noam -- rank: 149

... chancellor of the exchequer, or Bill Clinton to > appoint Ralph Nader as his Treasury secretary. By and large, it is better

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Author:	Tom Lehman
Date:	Sat Mar 20 18:36:42 PST 1999

5825 Brad, Oskar, Noam -- rank: 149

... chancellor of the exchequer, or Bill Clinton to appoint Ralph Nader as his Treasury secretary. By and large, it is better ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Sat Mar 20 15:31:08 PST 1999

5826 Helping Carrol with Irony -- rank: 149

On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:19:13 -0600 Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes: >This happens at several levels in a passage in one of my earleir >posts, that responding to Doug's interpretation of a paragraph >in *Capital*. Funny you should mention this. Angela and I had a ...

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Author:	alexlocascio at juno.com
Date:	Sat Mar 20 00:51:49 PST 1999

5827 Death Penalty -- rank: 149

> > Subject: RE: Death Penalty Max wrote: > > >My impression is that very few on the U.S. left have > > >any support for the death penalty. This dovetails > > >with their absolutism on abortion and their general > > >isolation from the working class. Yoshie responded:> > > Wrong! Abortion used to be more popular and death ...

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Author:	Ingrid Multhopp
Date:	Fri Mar 5 11:27:04 PST 1999

5828 Death Penalty -- rank: 149

Ingrid, > on a certain level, I'd love to agree with you, because I do think that the way in which many on the left discuss these and other issues does tend to alienate people who would otherwise be receptive to progressive causes. But I also think you're a bit ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Fri Mar 5 12:43:30 PST 1999

5829 Death Penalty -- rank: 149

> > Subject: RE: Death Penalty Max wrote: > > >My impression is that very few on the U.S. left have > > >any support for the death penalty. This dovetails > > >with their absolutism on abortion and their general > > >isolation from the working class. Yoshie responded:> > > Wrong! Abortion used to be more popular and death ...

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Author:	Ingrid Multhopp
Date:	Fri Mar 5 11:26:58 PST 1999

5830 LEFT THINK TANKS? -- rank: 149

... Institute for Women's Policy Research, The Sentencing Project, the Nader orbit.... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 5 10:12:18 PST 1999

5831 booze next! -- rank: 149

... to four drinks at one occasion" is "at-risk behavior." Nader could probably do a good business in selling hair shirts ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 3 10:13:05 PST 1999

5832 Buchanan, sole voice against free trade? -- rank: 149

... trade > >and neglect everyone on the liberal side > >except Ralph Nader, who isn't a politician. > > > >So equations of anti-free ...

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Author:	Tom Lehman
Date:	Tue Mar 2 08:50:49 PST 1999

5833 Buchanan, sole voice against free trade? -- rank: 149

... trade >and neglect everyone on the liberal side >except Ralph Nader, who isn't a politician. > >So equations of anti-free ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 2 08:21:30 PST 1999

5834 Buchanan, sole voice against free trade? -- rank: 149

... trade and neglect everyone on the liberal side except Ralph Nader, who isn't a politician. So equations of anti-free ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Tue Mar 2 07:15:00 PST 1999

5835 the fringe center -- rank: 149

[Micah Sifry's look at the state of 3rd party politics in the U.S., a hotbed - or warmbed - of the "radical center."] From: msifry at publicampaign.org Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:04:11 -0500 To: msifry at publicampaign.org Subject: Sifry on Reform Party MIME-version: 1 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 26 09:30:13 PDT 1999