June 21st, 2007 by Mark Beemsterboer Thursday, June 28th, at 9 p.m EST, Howard University will be hosting a Democratic Presidential forum on PBS. The debate will be moderated by Tavis Smiley, host of TAVIS SMILEY a late-night PBS talk show. All eight Presidential candidates have been invited to the debate, which will focus on issues ranging from health care
Cluster Munitions June 14th, 2008 by Senator Gravel 111 nations signed on to a draft treaty this last month in Dublin, Ireland to outlaw the use of cluster munitions by their military forces. The United States boycotted this conference to produce a humane treaty. Cluster munitions contain dozens to hundreds of bomblets designed to explode above ground, inflicting maiming and
June 11th, 2007 by Mark Beemsterboer Austin American-Statesman MANCHESTER, N.H. — The road to Saint Anselm College is marked with long Burma Shave strands of political placards. The name I see most is Biden. But all the Democratic Party candidates for president will be there. A two-hour debate between candidates starts within an hour. As I approach the campus, I
May 29th, 2007 by admin FUTURE DEBATES Mark your calendars for future 2007 presidential debates sponsored by the Democratic National Committee: July 23 – Charleston, SC August 19 – Des Moines, IA September 26 – Manchester, NH October 30 – Philadelphia, PA November 15 – Las Vegas, NV December 10 – Los Angeles, CA Plan a “Meet Mike” Friendraiser /
May 29th, 2007 by admin Democratic Presidential candidate Mike Gravel has a strategy to end the war in Iraq by September 2007 -- with all U.S. troops home by Christmas 2007. Recognizing that under our Constitution the power of the Congress is superior to the power of the President, Senator Gravel proposes that Congress pass a law making the war
May 20th, 2007 by alex More Like Cicero Than Quixote By RALPH NADER May 8, 2007 Like a fresh wind coming down from Alaska--the state he represented as a U.S. Senator from 1969--1981, Mike Gravel is determined to start a debate about the fundamentals of democracy in his quest for the Democratic Party's nomination for President. People who heard his
May 17th, 2007 by alex Former U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel, D-Alaska, is running, at age 76 and after years out of the public arena, the longest of long-shot candidacies for the presidency. Gravel, now living in Virginia, served in the U.S. Senate from 1969 to 1981. He’s most well-known for releasing the Pentagon papers during the Vietnam War. His iconoclastic