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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
  • Obama Eases Restrictions on Gifts of Consumer Electronics to Cuba

    Sunday, September 13, 2009
    The Obama administration has taken yet another step towards improving trade between the United States and Cuba. New rules crafted by the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security will allow Cuban-Americans to send packages to relati...   read more
  • Health Insurance Stocks Go Up After Obama Speech to Congress

    Saturday, September 12, 2009
    Whether or not President Barack Obama’s speech on Wednesday advanced the cause of health care reform, it did help the stock portfolios of health insurance companies. The Associated Press reported the following day that shares of many insurers went...   read more
  • Competing Keys to the City; One Goes to Glenn Beck, Another to Jon Stewart

    Saturday, September 12, 2009
    About 30 miles separate the towns of Mount Vernon and Bellingham in Washington state, but a much greater distance separates their mayors. Conservative Mayor Bud Norris of Mount Vernon likes Fox News commentator Glenn Beck, and recently he decided ...   read more
  • Auto Industry Bailout Looks Like a Loser for Taxpayers

    Saturday, September 12, 2009
    From a purely financial standpoint, the auto industry bailout was not a wise maneuver on the part of the federal government. It can be argued that the assistance was necessary to avert even more job losses in an already recession-wracked economy, ...   read more
  • Can a Failed Agency be Trusted to Oversee Oil Industry?

    Saturday, September 12, 2009
    Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar wants to revamp the nation’s oil-and-gas royalty system to encourage more efficient drilling for fossil fuels on federal lands. The idea makes sense, but the problem lies in its execution—or rather, who will b...   read more
  • Blog Awards Announced…in Cuba

    Saturday, September 12, 2009
    The times they are a-changing, in Cuba, where a collection of cyber aficionados came together to celebrate the Communist country’s first-ever blog awards. As Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez put it, A Virtual Island was more than just a ceremony—it was...   read more
  • Pentagon Begins Massive Suicide Study

    Saturday, September 12, 2009
    With more soldiers dying of suicide than in combat this year, the military is looking for a solution to this problem through a three-year, $50 million study. The study will include psychological assessments and DNA samples of half a million soldie...   read more
  • Best Employers for Workers over Age 50

    Friday, September 11, 2009
    With the U.S. workforce getting grayer and grayer, the leading advocacy organization for older Americans wants people to know which companies or institutions get it right with regards to those 50 and above. According to the AARP’s “2011 Best Emplo...   read more
  • Too Much Salt Costs U.S. $26 Billion in Health Care Costs a Year

    Friday, September 11, 2009
    A blander diet could mean a richer wallet for the United States, if only Americans could cut back on their salt intake. A new study conducted by researchers at the RAND Corporation found Americans consume about 3,400 milligrams of salt per day—whi...   read more
  • U.S. No Longer #1…in Per-Capita Carbon Dioxide Pollution

    Friday, September 11, 2009
    The United States is no longer the worst per-capita polluter when it comes to contributing to the problem of global warming. Australia is now number one. But neither country, nor most other industrial nations, is at risk of suffering from the wors...   read more
  • Turkey Fines Time-Warner Group $2.5 Billion

    Friday, September 11, 2009
    Criticizing the leader of Turkey has cost the media group, Doğan Yayin, dearly. The government’s Tax Ministry fined Doğan—a conglomerate of newspapers and television stations that includes CNN-Turk, a Turkish-language version of CNN jointly owned ...   read more
  • South African Government Supports Apartheid Class Action Suit against Ford, GM, IBM

    Friday, September 11, 2009
    In a complete reversal from the previous administration, South African President Jacob Zuma has endorsed a class action lawsuit filed in U.S. courts against American corporations that did business in South Africa when apartheid was still in effect...   read more
  • The Insidious Growth of Overdraft Fees

    Thursday, September 10, 2009
    Overdraft fees have become a lucrative business for banks, especially in recent times when consumers easily run short of cash in their checking accounts. Banks are expected to reap $27 billion in overdraft charges on ATM card transactions alone th...   read more
  • Malpractice Reform: Lawyers More Powerful than Doctors

    Thursday, September 10, 2009
    Republicans and conservative Democrats in support of health care reform want any plan adopted by Congress to include a curb on medical malpractice lawsuits. They argue that such a change would help bring down health care costs—by reducing the habi...   read more
  • Most Stressed City in the U.S.? Chicago

    Thursday, September 10, 2009
    Chicago is not only the Windy City but also the most stressed out. This finding is according to Forbes’ annual survey for 2009 ranking the top cities in America where stress is overflowing. The magazine took into consideration several quality-of-l...   read more
  • Dick Cheney Disrupted British Terror Investigation, but Saved Himself from Prosecution

    Thursday, September 10, 2009
    On Monday, a British jury convicted three British Muslims of plotting to blow up more than half a dozen planes over the Atlantic, but three years ago, officials in the United Kingdom were worried that their investigation of the plot was almost foi...   read more
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