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...Despite a recent infusion of federal funds to Boeing, the FIA situation has become so worrisome that Representatives Porter Goss of Florida and Jane Harman of California, respectively the top chairman and ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, last week visited Boeing's Los Angeles-area complex to investigate. They also held a closed-door hearing on the subject last week, with more planned. In part to cut wear-and-tear on existing satellites - which one source said are already operating as much as 20% below their original image-gathering capacity - and reserve time for intelligence needs, CIA Director...
What's responsible for sky-high oil and gasoline prices? To the threat of war in Iraq and this year's cold winter, add another culprit: the Administration's oil policies. That's the charge in a new Senate report produced by Democrat Carl Levin of Michigan. After 9/11, Bush developed a plan to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), a 700 million--bbl. store meant to sustain the U.S. in an emergency. Last year 40 million bbl. were added to the SPR. The report states those purchases drove up prices by adding to the demand for oil. An independent...
...comedy show in which he would deliver his trademark “rants” about various topical issues, always ending with the disclaimer: “Of course, that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong.” Though he was never a partisan Democrat in the vein of Al Franken ’73, Miller consistently skewered the GOP as an insensitive, intolerant collection of right-wing blowhards. On one show in September 1995, he said Mario Cuomo’s address to the 1984 Democratic Convention had been “fueled...
...recognize that its not the position of every Democrat on campus to be opposed to the war, but...the position of the Harvard College Democrats as an organization is in opposition to the war,” McGeary said. “That’s an important distinction to make...
...toughest challenge would be how and when to cede political control back to the Iraqis. There are no good blueprints for transforming an authoritarian regime into a democratic one. But Iraq has special disadvantages. Many experts on Iraq, both in the Arab world and the West, fear that the U.S. is glossing over the realities of imposing democracy on a country that is deeply tribal, vengeful and embittered. The vacuum left by a collapse of Saddam's iron-fisted order could ignite power struggles and vendetta killings that could trigger long-term civil strife or even the breakup...