Thursday, October 30, 2008

Palin vs. Chavez

Imagine - a place where the state levies no taxes on individuals, but instead taxes oil companies a significant amount, and uses those revenues to support the government's own functions, and even to provide significant benefits worth hundreds or thousands of dollars to each citizen.

Is this Hugo Chavez's Venezeula? Or Sarah Palin's Alaska?

idea from:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/11/03/081103
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Saturday, October 04, 2008

Nuclear waste piling up at U.S. hospitals - Health care- msnbc.com

Nuclear waste piling up at U.S. hospitals - Health care- msnbc.com:

Tubes, capsules and pellets of used radioactive material are piling up in the basements and locked closets of hospitals and research installations around the country, stoking fears they could get lost or, worse, stolen by terrorists and turned into dirty bombs.

Ahmadinejad accepts Israel's right to exist | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Peter Tatchell: Ahmadinejad accepts Israel's right to exist | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk:

The Iranian president has said he would accept a two-state solution if the Palestinians agree. So where are the headlines?