taxes are too high for the middle class and the working poor. i never thought i would see the day when a republican candidate in congressman hutchinson here would criticize me for wanting to cut people s taxes too much. i subscribe to the governor beebee model. this is a similar debate to what they had eight years ago, when the governor said we will save on the sales tax on groceries because we can afford that. anderson hutchinson said it was an empty promise. fast-forward, 80% of the tax has been taken off and the law has passed to take the remaining 20% off. i subscribe to the same model. my plan is this, we will balance the budget first, fund education and public safety. with revenue growth we will in the let my plan for lower and fair taxes. you have manufacturers, pre-k, and a third one that escapes me. a three-pronged approach. which one takes precedence? here is what i think is important, and his campaign, i have said here are my priorities. here is my vision. he
so-called, radicals from the 60s, named howard dean was about to run away with the nomination leaving all the other candidates, putting john kerry, far behind. it was this fact and this fact alone that caused john kerry who subsequently won the nomination to repudiate his support for the war, to stab his country in the back and to betray the young men and women he had voted to send into harm s way. of course, no republican use words like this to describe what he did to in july 2003 the whole democratic party fell into line with kerry betrayal and began accusing bush of lying to snooker the country into war. so he said the war was concocted in texas to benefit bush s oil cronies, and dick cheney s former company halliburton. they said the war was immoral, illegal and unnecessary. they said bush lied and people died. and this weekend is sabotage of america s effort to destroy the islamic terrorist in iraq and the middle east that lasted for the next five years. what was the re
host: hello, or scharf. it is wonderful to have you here today. i found your book fascinating. it was a terrific read and i am thrilled to be here. you know, one of the great things about being here and talking to you is i get to ask you about the big questions. it questions that most people would not have to answer. that is the real fun of this book. so your book is called the copernicus complex. so maybe you could tell us what that is. guest: absolutely. tanks, ingrid. so, the copernicus complex is really a phrase that is trying to capture one of the aspects of what i think is perhaps the biggest question we as a species can ask. and sometimes we ask it nonscientific way. the book is really about the scientific question of whether or not we are alone in the universe. title the copernicus complex is the way we feel about ourselves and a complex that we carry around with us that on the one hand from copernicus we learned that we are not central, not special in any w
culture in scotland, it sent too contested. which is good. and everyone who lives in scotland, permanent residency in scotland, qualified commonwealth citizen gets a vote. i am german, the accent never goes away. i am german. i have residency in scotland. i lived there for five years, once you get permanent residency you get to vote. if you are a scott that moved to england, you don t get a vote it. is the same for the scottish parliament. some don t like that, obviously it is not majorly contested because, this is the scottish parliament franchise. some didn t like that it is an agreed franchise. the idea, who lives in scotland, votes, that includes, i think 10% now of people who were born in england. for example, who have residency in scotland. that is the voting franchise, the only change was the lowering of the voting age to 16. that is a cross party consensus. geographically splits within scotland, we do see splits, there was a pole in glasscow, the crucial thing is. for
discussion of what the special relationship with the u.s. would be in the event of a yes outcome? it is really interesting, i remember the individual, it the day where we presented our new research results, gosh, we will be out of all the media today. we were still in. when the statement was made by president obam ait didn t move the polls either way, neither did it in january, when boroso made his statements, the substantial answer, i think, the issues about what happens in scotland dominate the decision making. we have seen interventions, i think, and slightly aneck do theal here, if you live in scotland, if you ever have been to scotland, it is never fruitful to try to tell scotts from the outside what to do. there is relatively little response to that. it is not they don t care, that it dwnt matter, people discussed it. it was not what people were basing their issues on. the core issues for people is what happens in scotland in the future. those issues were discussed. t