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  • Donald Trump Has a Mental Health Problem and It Has a Name

    Tuesday, September 09, 2025
    Donald Trump has a mental health condition known as narcissistic personality disorder. Here are some of the symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder. React with rage or contempt and try to belittle other people to make themselves appear superior. Have an unreasonably high sense of self-importance and require constant, excessive admiration. Make achievements and talents seem bigger than they are. Behave in an arrogant way, brag a lot and come across as conceited.   read more
  • New at the Library: Checking Out Human Beings

    Friday, December 24, 2010
    Want to know what life is like for those working in law enforcement, or for someone enduring poverty and homelessness? You could read about these ways of life, or you could learn about them by checking out a person at the public library in Toron...   read more
  • Tennessee Highway Patrolman Can Sue after Demotion for being Republican

    Friday, December 24, 2010
    A federal appeals court has allowed a Tennessee highway patrolman to sue the state for being demoted on partisan grounds. Robert Eckerman claims he was busted down to sergeant from lieutenant because he is a Republican working in a Democratic ad...   read more
  • Ambassador to Benin: Who is James Knight?

    Friday, December 24, 2010
    U.S. ambassador to Benin since September 30, 2009, James Knight is a Vietnam veteran and experienced diplomat who has spent almost his entire career serving in African countries.   Knight served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. He late...   read more
  • BP Oil Deal Behind Release of Lockerbie Bomber: Senate Report

    Thursday, December 23, 2010
    Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, was not released from prison in Scotland and returned home to Libya because he was near death, contend four U.S. senators. Rather, al-Megrahi was freed in large part because of a l...   read more
  • Army Throws another Billion Dollars at Training Afghan Police

    Thursday, December 23, 2010
    If at first you don’t succeed, spend, spend more money. That’s the Department of Defense’s solution for training Afghanistan’s still-not-ready-for-primetime police force, which has suffered from corruption, incompetence and illiteracy. But it’s ...   read more
  • ATF Asks for Emergency Order to Report Sales of Assault Weapons on Mexican Border

    Thursday, December 23, 2010
    Seeking to slow the sale of assault rifles to Mexico’s drug cartels, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) wants an emergency regulation adopted by January that would require certain gun dealers along the southwestern bor...   read more
  • Army Ranger School Giving Way to Education by Real Combat

    Thursday, December 23, 2010
    Who needs simulated hell when the real one is available? That’s the attitude of many in the U.S. Army who are skipping the service’s elite Ranger School at Fort Benning, Georgia—where soldiers endure 60 days of simulated combat under grueling co...   read more
  • “Hallelujah Chorus” Leads to Shopping Mall Evacuation

    Thursday, December 23, 2010
    So much for culture trumping consumerism. At a shopping mall outside Sacramento, California, thousands of singers descended on the Westfield Galleria in Roseville to perform a rendition of Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus.” But before a single note c...   read more
  • As WikiLeaks Prepares for Bank Exposure, Federal Regulators Cringe

    Wednesday, December 22, 2010
    Bank regulators in Washington may cringe as much as those running the financial institution targeted for the next WikiLeaks bombshell.   WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has promised to release “tens of thousands” of internal documents from a ...   read more
  • Drone Crashes into Backyard in El Paso, Texas

    Wednesday, December 22, 2010
    An unmanned aircraft from Mexico crashed last week into the backyard of an El Paso, Texas, home, presumably while looking for drug smugglers along the U.S. border.   American officials from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) were ...   read more
  • A Loan Modification Solution Backfires

    Wednesday, December 22, 2010
    With too many lawyers taking advantage of struggling homeowners, the California legislature approved a new law preventing attorneys from getting paid until they have finished helping their clients with loan modifications. The problem with this s...   read more
  • Saddam Hussein Had Qur’an Written in His Blood

    Wednesday, December 22, 2010
    It took three years and 57 pints of his own blood for Saddam Hussein to have a special copy of the Qur’an printed, and today, no one in Iraq knows exactly what to do with it.   Saddam commissioned the work on his 60th birthday in April 1997 an...   read more
  • Army Ranger Wins Bronze Star…and Pastry Chef Award

    Wednesday, December 22, 2010
    Army Master Sergeant Mark Morgan knows how to mix it up on the battlefield and in the kitchen.   The 16-year veteran and Army Ranger served two tours in Iraq and four in Afghanistan, and received the Bronze Star along the way for his service. ...   read more
  • Supreme Court Hearts Big Business

    Tuesday, December 21, 2010
    Both statistical and anecdotal evidence suggests that the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts is the most business-friendly of any Supreme Court in the last 50 years.   A study prepared for The New York Times by legal scholars ...   read more
  • Senators Allowed to Own Stocks in Military Companies, but Their Staff Is Not

    Tuesday, December 21, 2010
    Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who make critical decisions affecting the U.S. military, are allowed to own stock in defense contractors. Their staff, however, cannot, nor can appointees to the Department of Defense who must be a...   read more
  • House Republicans Defeat Bill Opposing Child Marriage

    Tuesday, December 21, 2010
    Legislation intended to end the practice of child marriage worldwide was defeated last week in the U.S. House by Republicans, much to the astonishment of the bill’s supporters.   The bipartisan International Protecting Girls by Preventing Chil...   read more
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