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Confronting hundreds of delegates at the California State Democratic Convention this March, presidential hopeful Howard Dean proved he had more backbone than most mainstream Democrats. “What I want to know is what in the world so many Democrats are doing supporting the President’s unilateral intervention in Iraq,” he belted. And ever since, the weak-kneed centrists in the Democratic Leadership Council have tried to shut him up. After all, say Al Frum, John Kerry and Joe Lieberman, taking a stance against the President’s foreign policy demonstrates weakness abroad...
Martin Scorsese is as much a movie fan as he is a moviemaker. He poured his love for classic American and Italian films into two four-hour documentaries that are their own kind of classics. Now he is making a big Hollywood picture about Howard Hughes, a giant figure in business, aviation and movies. And he has signed Leonardo DiCaprio, star of the biggest hit in Hollywood history, to bring the legend to screen life...
Last week the President restated the obvious: retreat is not an option. Iraq cannot be left an anarchic, terrorist state. Every major Democrat running for President, including Howard Dean, agrees--and most go further than Bush, asserting that more money and manpower are needed to secure the peace. But the President has stubbornly resisted sharing with the American people a detailed assessment of the situation in Iraq: the fact that we may still be there a decade from now at a cost of hundreds of billions. The Pentagon--the civilian leadership of the Pentagon, that is--stubbornly insists that...
...slow to tackle the Japanese. True, Gephardt has called for an "international minimum wage," which free-trade purists (I am one) see as a disguised way to make poor countries' exports more expensive on international markets. Similarly, at the Democrat contenders' debate last week in Albuquerque, N.M., Vermont Governor Howard Dean said "we cannot continue to ship our jobs to countries where they get paid 50? an hour." But so far, no Democrat has yet made a full-blown attack on the trade deficit with China or suggested protectionist policies to reverse it. If that position continues to hold, give...
...sixth day of the strike, Jackson was arrested along with over a dozen other union supporters for disorderly conduct when they obstructed traffic at an intersection in protest.Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean also expressed support for the striking workers at a rally. Dean was in town to drop off his daughter, a Yale student...