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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
  • Was Removal of Border Patrol Abuse Investigator just a Cover-Up for a Failed System?

    Sunday, June 15, 2014
    At least 28 people have been killed by CBP personnel since 2010, and an internal review of the agency’s shooting policy was kept under wraps for more than a year before coming to light. In light of these troubles, CBP’s head of internal affairs for the past eight years, James F. Tomsheck, was moved to another assignment this week. Tomsheck’s supporters say he was made a scapegoat for a system that wasn’t interested in righting its wrongs.   read more
  • Slovenia’s Ambassador to the United States: Who Is Božo Cerar?

    Sunday, June 15, 2014
    In 2007, Cerar became Slovenia’s representative to NATO. He returned to Ljubljana to serve again as state secretary in the foreign ministry in 2012. Since coming to Washington, Cerar has been active in the Slovenian-American community, including a stint as a judge of a polka contest at the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame.   read more
  • Tonga’s Ambassador to the United States: Who Is Mahe Tupouniua?

    Sunday, June 15, 2014
    In 2009, he was made ambassador to China for two years. Tupouniua then returned home as secretary for Foreign Affairs and subsequently as secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade. In 2013, Tupouniua went to New York to assume his posts at the UN and as ambassador to the United States.   read more
  • Congressional Audit Finds Industrial Radioactive Materials Poorly Secured

    Saturday, June 14, 2014
    At least four vehicles transporting these radioactive materials have been stolen since 2005, according to the GAO. Some companies use a loophole in Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations that makes storage requirements less stringent for smaller amounts of nuclear materials. So the companies with large amounts of the materials simply divide them up and store them in smaller containers.   read more
  • Supreme Court Rules that Coca-Cola can be Sued for Leaving Pomegranate out of Pomegranate Drinks

    Saturday, June 14, 2014
    The soft drink giant was sued by Pom Wonderful for selling a competing beverage, Pomegranate Blueberry Flavored Blend of Five Juices, which contains almost no pomegranate. The Coca-Cola product has, the court said, only 0.3% pomegranate juice, but 99.4% apple and grape juices.   read more
  • Muslim Convert to Christianity Sues Church for Publicizing his Conversion

    Saturday, June 14, 2014
    Keeping the baptism a secret was vital, Doe says, because under some interpretations of Islamic law, Christian converts can be punished by beheading. Such a threat became very real for the plaintiff after Syrian militants saw the conversion notice and took him prisoner. He alleges that he was tortured, stabbed, shot and nearly had his head cut off before escaping.   read more
  • Grenada’s Ambassador to the United States: Who Is Angus Friday?

    Saturday, June 14, 2014
    While at the UN, Friday was a strong advocate for remediation of the effects of global climate change for Grenada and other island nations. In 2009, Friday went to the World Bank, where he was a specialist in international climate policy. Given his experience working on climate change, it’s perhaps not surprising that Friday is one of the few diplomats who rides his bicycle to work in Washington.   read more
  • Equatorial Guinea’s Ambassador to the United States: Who Is Ruben Maye Nsue Mangue?

    Saturday, June 14, 2014
    Ruben Maye Nsue Mangue presented his credentials as Equatorial Guinea’s ambassador to the United States to President Barack Obama on September 17, 2013. Equatorial Guinea has a reputation as having one of the world’s worst human rights record, one which Nsue has spent much of his career defending.   read more
  • In a First, Federal Court Panel Rules Collection of Cellphone Tower Data without a Warrant is Unconstitutional

    Friday, June 13, 2014
    The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which oversees cases in Alabama, Florida and Georgia, on Wednesday rejected what has become a routine practice by law enforcement: tracking a suspect’s location via their cell phone. These violations of privacy, according to critics, have gone on without police having to establish probable cause of criminal activity by individuals.   read more
  • Armed Robber becomes First in Chicago to be Convicted Using Facial Recognition Technology

    Friday, June 13, 2014
    Chicago Transit Authority surveillance cameras had recorded Martin in the act of using a gun to threaten subway riders in order to steal their cell phones. Using NeoFace, law enforcement compared the image of Martin’s face to the police department’s database of nearly 5 million criminal booking photos.   read more
  • GAO Audit Accuses Obama Administration of Lowballing Cost of Maintaining Nuclear Arsenal

    Friday, June 13, 2014
    In the case of the Minuteman III missile, which has served as the backbone of the nation’s land-based nuclear deterrent since the 1970s, GAO auditors found the administration left out all future funding for replacing these weapons, saying the program was “not yet defined.” As for a new bomber, the Air Force said those costs were “too sensitive” to include in the report.   read more
  • U.S. Hits Pakistan with First Drone Attacks in almost 6 Months

    Friday, June 13, 2014
    Presumably in response to the attacks, the U.S. hit suspected militants on June 11 and 12 in two different locations, Miramshah and Dande Darpa Khel. The latter was the site of a notorious U.S. drone strike on September 8, 2008 that killed 23 people, including eight children, as well as other strikes since then. The latest airstrikes reportedly killed a total of 16 people in North Waziristan.   read more
  • For Good Health, Eat Your Watercress and Chinese Cabbage…and Forget Onions and Blueberries

    Friday, June 13, 2014
    It isn’t enough to eat fruits and vegetables to maintain a healthy lifestyle. You have to make sure they’re “powerhouse” fruits and veggies (or PFVs). The highest scoring PFV was watercress, at 100, followed by Chinese cabbage (92), chard (89.3), beet green (87.1), spinach (86.4), chicory (73.4) and leaf lettuce (70.7).   read more
  • U.S. has Averaged One School Shooting Every 4 Days in 2014

    Thursday, June 12, 2014
    As of June 10, the date of the most recent shooting at Reynolds High School in Oregon, there were 37 recorded gunfire incidents at schools in the U.S., according to Everytown for Gun Safety, a pro-gun-control group. That averages to a shooting every 4.4 days. A little more than half of the incidents have taken place on college campuses (20), with the other 17 occurring at secondary schools.   read more
  • With the Defeat of Eric Cantor, Congress Loses its only Jewish Republican

    Thursday, June 12, 2014
    Cantor was the only Republican member of Congress who was Jewish, and had been the only Republican Jewish member of the House of Representatives since the retirement of Ben Gilman of New York in 2003. There are still 33 Jews in Congress; 12 in the Senate and 21 others in the House. However, they’re all Democrats or independents who caucus with them.   read more
  • FAA Awards First Commercial Land Drone License…to BP to Help Oil Pipelines in Alaska

    Thursday, June 12, 2014
    The flights mark the first use of UAS above land by a company. Previously, the FAA had granted approval for commercial drones to fly only over Arctic waters for surveillance purposes. BP is using AeroVironment’s Puma AE drones to perform aerial surveys. The flights, which began on June 8, are intended to support the company’s efforts to maintain roads and pipelines that transport oil.   read more
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