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Remember when Hollywood liberals claimed to care about the world's poor? Man, those were the days. Now the richest people in Southern California, who sit on top of a booming $35-billion industry, are using their impressive political clout to punish the struggling citizens of South Africa, Mexico and Romania for having the nerve to think that their tiny domestic film industries could so much as bite Hollywood's ankles. And our politicians are falling all over each other to service Hollywood's poor and huddled masses, doling out heaps of protectionist corporate welfare that our government cannot begin to afford. In Los...

Gov. Calderon wound up her latest lobbying efforts here Tuesday for the island's Section 956 economic initiative, but so far the proposal had not surfaced in President Bush's tax cut plan undergoing scrutiny in both the House and the Senate. While the governor maintained, "We don't have any firm expectations" that the island initiative would become part of the massive tax program, sources report that efforts were being made to get the Puerto Rico provision attached to a new Senate version that was introduced Tuesday and will be marked up by Thursday in the Finance Committee. Finance Chairman Charles Grassley,...

The presence of Pro-Navy protesters today in front of the gates at Camp Garcia in Vieques will be nothing but a provocation, according to anti-Navy activists. They say the group Renacer Estadista is merely trying to provoke trouble, though Renacer claims that is not their goal. Renacer is expected to turn over to military personnel a document expressing its support for military practices in Vieques. But anti-Navy activist Robert Rabin said, "We will not allow the pro-Navy to provoke our people." The anti-Navy movement will be joined today by controversial Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, who is to visit...