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...above would create jobs, unlike Bush's rather indirect and speculative tax cuts, and they would have some social "security" benefits as well. But none are ideas to stir the soul. Democrats haven't done much soul stirring since the Kennedy era--and they haven't spent much time courting young people since then, either. (Their fixations on prescription drugs for the elderly and leaving Social Security alone are utter losers with nongraybeards.) If the Democrats want to think romantic as well as big, the obvious area is the environment. Several of the candidates have proposed dour, incremental "energy-independence...
...unabashedly patriotic. What’s more, the typical driver or fan is today a Bush Republican. Some drivers have made openly political statements in recent weeks, affirming their support for Bush’s prosecution of the war on terror. Michael Waltrip, for example, caused quite a stir with his post-race comments at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in early March. After finishing third in the UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400, Waltrip told the TV cameras “I would like to say, ‘God bless our president. I hope the whole country is behind...
...month before the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz was still certain that U.S. troops in Iraq would not stir up religious passions as they had in Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden's homeland, during Gulf War I. "The Iraqi population is completely different," Wolfowitz told National Public Radio on February 19. "The Iraqis are among the most educated people in the Arab world. They are by and large quite secular. They are overwhelmingly Shiite, which is different from the Wahabbis of the Peninsula. They don't bring the sensitivity of having the holy cities...
...Orwellian lockdown of free speech at Harvard, it is no surprise that he has since said little. No one likes to be castigated as a Stalin of the academy. But his silence has been worse. Any strongly-worded statement on the war in Iraq would be sure to stir up healthy debate and controversy, whether by challenging the prevalent anti-war mood at Harvard or by standing up to the Bush administration and the majority of Americans. Whatever his views on the war in Iraq—and it is preposterous to suggest that a man as savvy and opinionated...
...scientists may be closing in on the answer?but we do know that it caused a global disaster. In Philadelphia, 7,500 people died of it in two weeks. The supply of coffins ran out; streetcars were used as hearses. Families lay dying in their homes, unable even to stir to feed themselves. Some lingered in delirium for weeks, coughing foamy, blood-tinged sputum, while others were dead within 24 hours...