Perle snaps at Steve from Minneapolis, What do YOU know about my family??!!

Found an effective way to get under Richard Perle's skin this morning. He was on Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning program this morning, a call inshow, pushing his new book calling for endless war.I asked him how come, if the war on terror is such an important war that all americans

Dean and the Iowa primary

A Lexis-Nexis search for articles that contain the words Howard Dean and angry within the past 3 months returned 494 articles. Going into the Iowa primary, the label angry had reached a critical mass. It probably was one of the factors that made the largely white, religious and rural Democratic

Re: Dean and the Iowa primary

I agree with Lou here. I think that Dean had the best chance against Bush -- and the media tore him down. Bush would have made a far easier target in 2000. I suspect that for all his anger, Dean actually would have been a bit to the right of Clinton. He never displayed anything radical in Vt.

Re: Dean and the Iowa primary

Michael Perelman wrote: I suspect that for all his anger, Dean actually would have been a bit to the right of Clinton. He never displayed anything radical in Vt. But the young people who support him -- I suspect -- did not know that. Many of them did. My wife, Liza Featherstone, talked to a lot

MPR Perle unnerved URL

If you go to minute 16, you can hear my question and then Perle's angry retort, What do YOU know about my family?! http://tinyurl.com/3a28y

Re: MPR Perle unnerved URL

Some of you may not know that this is not the first time that Stephen has served as a watchdog on public media. I would not have the patience to do what he does. On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:21:48PM -0600, Stephen Philion wrote: If you go to minute 16, you can hear my question and then Perle's

Re: Dean and the Iowa primary

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Louis Proyect wrote: Now that Dean has come in third in the first primary, the media smells blood and won't be happy until he is out of the race. Yeah, but that could play to his advantage. If he wins the next few -- which he well might, since Iowa is in everyway an

CA budget alternative

This column from the LA Times proposes a simple and painless way to fix California's budget problems. Painless for almost all of us and with minimum pain for the few bothered at all. Peter Camejo, the Green candidate for governor last fall -- who might be the Green candidate for president this

Re: Dean and the Iowa primary

Michael Pollak writes: Dean didn't self-destruct in Iowa. He was shoot at by everyone else. but didn't Dean look foolish because (1) he yelled like a professional wrestler after listing all the states he was going to win primaries in and (2) answered a citizen's question about the lack of

Re: Perle snaps at Steve from Minneapolis, What do YOU know about my family??!!

--- Stephen Philion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked him how come, if the war on terror is such an important war that all americans should make sacrifices for, aren't Bush's nephews or Cheney's nephews, grandchildren, or Richard Perle's grandchildren, nephews, signing up for the war

Re: Dean and the Iowa primary

The NYTimes said that it was Clark's guy who was doing the heavy lifting, finding negative stuff about Dean. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

may I see your papers please?

Title: may I see your papers please? From http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jan2004/air-j21.shtml A further attack on democratic rights All US airline passengers to undergo government background checks By Jamie Chapman 21 January 2004 Use this version to print | Send this link by email |

2 questions

Business week has a brief note saying that many companies are going private now that Oxley-Sarbanes is in effect. What he does require that could motivate such a change? Business week also had a brief note about the Enron bankruptcy plan, which was recently approved. I have not heard anything

corporate-state dirigisme; the latest installment

More gritty details at: http://www.effwa.org/pdfs/boeing_backgrounder.pdf and: http://www.effwa.org/boeing.php What the state promised Boeing By David Bowermaster and Ralph Thomas Seattle Times reporters http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/home/ A few days before Christmas, Washington Gov.

Re: corporate-state dirigisme; the latest installment

How much per job? Will it match the Mercedes deal in Alabama -- that is the biggest cost so far as I know. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu