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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
  • Government Employees in Bangladesh Ordered to Stop Wearing Suits…to Save Energy

    Friday, September 04, 2009
    Male government officials in Bangladesh, from civil servants to cabinet ministers, are going casual to work. In order to save electricity in the energy-starved country, the nation’s female prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, ordered men employed by the...   read more
  • Pirate Success Rate Dips as Attempts Increase

    Friday, September 04, 2009
    Since 2007, pirate attacks have increased off the Horn of Africa, one of the world’s most highly trafficked passageways, but their success rates have declined. In 2007, there were only 19 pirate attacks, but 63% were successful. The following year...   read more
  • Jobs Available with Federal Government

    Friday, September 04, 2009
    Within the next three years, the federal government will be hiring more than 250,000 workers to meet growing demands for skilled workers ranging from health to legal services. A new report by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service says feder...   read more
  • How to Identify Phony “Grassroots” Groups on the Internet: Anne Landman

    Friday, September 04, 2009
    With front groups, defined as organizations that claim to represent one agenda while really serving another, popping up everywhere these days, Anne Landman at PR Watch has offered up ways to figure out who really is behind the likes of FACES of Co...   read more
  • China Controls Rare, but Important Minerals

    Thursday, September 03, 2009
    What OPEC is to oil, China is to rare earth elements, and the Chinese government is now taking advantage of its control over such materials to expand its economic clout. China possesses 93% of the world’s rare elements, and virtually all of the gl...   read more
  • CIA Refuses to Release Original Bush Directive on Secret Prisons

    Thursday, September 03, 2009
    Documents compiled by the CIA’s inspector general relating to the agency’s secret interrogation program will not be released, according to CIA’s National Clandestine Service office. The agency is refusing to turn over materials to a federal court ...   read more
  • Feuding French Mayors Aim One-Way Streets at Each Other

    Thursday, September 03, 2009
    The collision that commonly takes place between the left and the right in politics has manifested itself in France where two local leaders have literally aimed their constituencies at one another. Tired of the commuter traffic that has plagued the...   read more
  • Holder Revives Civil Rights Enforcement

    Thursday, September 03, 2009
    After enduring years of what critics called neglect on the part of the Bush administration, the Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. is planning to bolster its civil rights division. For starters, Holder intends to add 50 n...   read more
  • EPA Takes Aim at Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming

    Thursday, September 03, 2009
    Following up on its promise in April to go after greenhouse gases, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Monday that it will declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant if Congress does not act soon. EPA chief Lisa Jackson told la...   read more
  • Withdraw U.S. Troops from Afghanistan: George Will

    Wednesday, September 02, 2009
    With obstacles mounting from both the enemy and the government in power, the U.S. should rethink its strategy in Afghanistan and dramatically downsize its forces, writes conservative columnist George Will. The current plan by President Barack Obam...   read more
  • Another Reason to Avoid Cocaine

    Wednesday, September 02, 2009
    Americans who use cocaine have a one-in-three chance of snorting the drug laced with Levamisole, a potent medication used to de-worm cattle. Officials with the Drug Enforcement Administration say Colombian drug smugglers have been adding Levamisol...   read more
  • Mother Loses Baby in Mississippi Because She Doesn’t Speak English

    Wednesday, September 02, 2009
    Not knowing English apparently disqualifies a woman from being a good mother, according to some health officials in Mississippi. Cirila Baltazar Cruz is a 34-year-old illegal immigrant and restaurant worker from Mexico who speaks neither English n...   read more
  • California Town Debates Naming Park after Famous Racist

    Wednesday, September 02, 2009
    Twenty years after his death, Nobel Prize-winning physicist William B. Shockley is still creating controversy because of his support for eugenics, the long discredited belief that intelligence is hereditary and racially based, thus justifying huma...   read more
  • Former NBA Player Now Fighting in Iraq

    Wednesday, September 02, 2009
    NBA players who compare big games to that of going to war have nothing on Tim James. The former first-round draft pick of the Miami Heat gave up his basketball career last year and joined the U.S. Army, becoming the first former NBA player to serv...   read more
  • Ambassador to Oman: Who Is Richard Schmierer?

    Wednesday, September 02, 2009
    On June 11, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated a career diplomat with extensive experience in the Middle East to be the next ambassador to Oman. Richard J. Schmierer was born in New Jersey circa 1952, and earned a B.A. from Lehigh University i...   read more
  • U.S. Packs Up 1.5 Million Pieces of Equipment to Ship Out of Iraq

    Tuesday, September 01, 2009
    Not since the end of the Vietnam War has the U.S. military faced as large a task of hauling home weapons and equipment as it does in Iraq. More 1.5 million pieces of hardware, ranging from the 65-ton Abrams tank to antennas weighing a few pounds, ...   read more
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