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376 [lbo-talk] 2d Amendment/Rule of Law (Was: The curse of literacy) -- rank: 243

If the Framers meant to support the > individual > rights interpretation, they shoulda said so. > > But of course "they" did, in the most unequivocal > terms. > The very first phrase of the Constitution--"*We* the > people"-- > defines "people" as a plural, not a collective, > noun. A distinction that I am sure was much ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Mon Jul 19 09:47:14 PDT 2004

377 [lbo-talk] 2d Amendment/Rule of Law (Was: The curse of literacy) -- rank: 243

Justin wrote: >I don't know from the legislative history. But when it >comes to law, if the text is clear, I'm sort of a >textualist. Meaning that the law is what the text of >the law says. The legislative history is not law. >It's not even commentray. Here ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Mon Jul 19 08:12:49 PDT 2004

378 [lbo-talk] The election falls on... -- rank: 243

Louis Proyect channels Matt Taibbi: >...For those of you who didn't follow this story, Cobb snatched the >Green Party nomination away from Nader last week largely through his >embrace of the so-called "safe states" strategy... Only those "who didn't follow this story" will be taken in by this ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Wed Jul 7 10:58:03 PDT 2004

379 [lbo-talk] doug a hit on KPFK -- rank: 243

... show! > >Which show (or time slot) were you on? Jon Weiner's, 4:45-5 LA time last night.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 1 08:47:01 PDT 2004

380 [lbo-talk] match game -- rank: 243

... are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Fri Jan 23 17:02:14 PST 2004

381 [lbo-talk] Re: I'm not sorry -- rank: 243

... are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner) >But to say that one's humanity depends on the ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Jan 15 21:23:01 PST 2004

382 [lbo-talk] Liu on outsourcing -- rank: 243

... are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner) >Alexandre Fenelon wrote: > >> >> Blaming 'undervalued' yu

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sat Feb 28 20:45:14 PST 2004

383 [lbo-talk] Bush expected to announce candidacy any day now -- rank: 243

Doug asks: >Subtly argued. Very impressive. Love the clever nicknames for the >parties, >but the real winner is your point, which is....? That threatening violence against any challenge to the Dumbocratic/Republicon shared political monopoly is a sign of a real political pathology among those Liberals who have been driven into ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 19 21:11:34 PST 2004

384 [lbo-talk] Targeting Only "the Likely Voters" -> Attacks on the GP -- rank: 243

Wojtek wrote: >...The Greens and assorted lefties...waste their energies on running >candidates attracting less support than the margin of statistical >error. Nonsense. Elections are not random samplings, they are enumerations, for which the "margin of statistical error" is zero. Inaccuracies in the enumeration can be caused by fraud (Florida 2000 ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Tue Feb 17 13:55:19 PST 2004

385 [lbo-talk] Bush expected to announce candidacy any day now -- rank: 243

Doug wrote: >...I know many people who voted for Nader in '00 - including two >members of my own household - who wouldn't do it today, and I think >there are many like us. The desire to evict Bush is uppermost in >almost every left-of-center American mind today, including many ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Tue Feb 17 12:57:58 PST 2004

386 [lbo-talk] Kerry is playing a different game now -- rank: 243

Joseph Gerson wrote: > If it comes down to it, I will - holding my nose and stomach - >vote for Kerry. Just about anybody but Bush. But I'll do so without >illusions. Mr. Gerson is from Massachusetts. If his vote and that of his circle of influence might make any difference as ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Tue Feb 10 20:03:30 PST 2004

387 [lbo-talk] hedonic pricing update -- rank: 243

... are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Fri Feb 6 13:31:41 PST 2004

388 [lbo-talk] Re: Nader: -- rank: 243

Kelley wrote: >>>....boo fuckin' hoo. i'm with nathan: the point is to win and the >>>democrats pursued whatever means they could to win.... The Florida atmosphere sure seems to have a mindmelting effect. The Kerrey campaign lost no opportunity to do whatever it took to lose, from supporting Bush's ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Wed Dec 15 17:18:11 PST 2004

389 [lbo-talk] Question about soviet planning -- rank: 243

>Eugene Vilensky wrote: > >>What is the name of those production tables that, for example, told >>central planners in the early soviet days how many kilos of x and z >>material it would take to produce y product? Do I have the concept >>right about how those worked? > >You mean input ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Fri Dec 3 20:55:47 PST 2004

390 [lbo-talk] Democracy and Constitutional Rights -- rank: 243

Rught, I agree with Shane here totally, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise.Plato certainly did not think that the Athens of hsi day was the sort of society that acheived the ideal of justice in his Republic. I am glad that Shane, who knows more about this than ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sat Aug 14 10:27:44 PDT 2004