| Nader launches exploratory website
Ralph Nader, the consumer activist whom many Democrats blame for costing them the White House in 2000, launched an exploratory committee website today. The site asks "Which side are you on?" and features a litany of criticisms of corporate America. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore won the popular vote but was edged out in the Electoral College by Republican George W. Bush after the US Supreme Court stopped a recount in Florida. Nader, the Green Party candidate, won about 2.8 million votes nationwide, or nearly 3 percent of the vote. But his vote in close, key states helped swing the election to Bush. .
Wild Card -- Tuesday PM
In two years, the proposal will come up again, and if he succeeds in convincing the public that there is a kinder and gentler Duane, the public will approve the plan with modifications. This is a big one for Duane and he is not going to let it go this easily. Steve Badraun
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Wind-driven snow sends cars careening into ditches
The notice said there were numerous cars in the ditch and motorists were advised against driving on county roads as well as highways.The Sheriff’s Department had also banned towing at that time, according to the advisory sent out by Lt. George Fountas.A warm-up of temperatures into the low 30s on Sunday was just enough to combine with blowing snow to make North Iowa roads particularly icy, causing multiple headaches for area law enforcement officials, drivers and towing companies.No injuries were reported." ‘Car in the ditch, car in the ditch, car in the ditch,’ that’s all I’ve heard this afternoon," said a spokeswoman for the Floyd County Sheriff’s Department on Sunday. "The roads are slick, icy and people need to slow down."It was the same story being told by dispatchers about activity on Interstate Highway 35."Nothing major, people in ditches — people who don’t know when to stay home," said a Worth County dispatcher."I can’t tell you the number of 9-1-1 calls I’ve forwarded on to the State Patrol," agreed a dispatcher for the Clear Lake Police Department.
Profound' changes to Quebec health care proposed
A task force has proposed "profound" changes to Quebec's health care system, including a greater role for the private sector and a bigger contribution from taxpayers. Among the working group's more radical proposals is that doctors be allowed under certain restrictions to practise in both the public and private systems and that private insurance companies be authorized to insure services currently covered under the public health program. The government should also allow private firms to manage hospitals by testing their efficiency through pilot projects that could eventually lead to "productive new options" according to the report. The head of the task force, former Liberal minister and insurance company executive Claude Castonguay, said people are demanding changes to an "incoherent and rigid" system and should be given the freedom to choose the kind of health care services they want.
New guidelines boost folic acid recommendation
I'm a feminist too, I just think it's better to have the warnings, then to not have them. If they said, since you are a woman, and therefore may get pregnant, I could understand your issue. Posted 13/12/07 at 3:13 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
Obama: Beware 'Reverse Bradley'
Obama's finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don't even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped flowing passively by, and, just for an instant, contracted around you, made you aware of its presence, and your role in it. He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair. The other great leaders I've heard guide us towards a better politics, but Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves, to the place where America exists as a glittering ideal, and where we, its honored inhabitants, seem capable of achieving it, and thus of sharing in its meaning and transcendence Actually, pompous isnt really the word for this passage. There's a sort of hectoring naivete, as if Klein's too inexperienced to know that "call us back to our highest selves" is a drained cliche.
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