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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
  • Release of Documents Showing Timing of CIA Destruction of Torture Tapes

    Friday, December 04, 2009
    Destruction of the CIA tapes revealing the torture of detainees came immediately after news accounts reported the existence of secret prisons overseas, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU says CIA cables...   read more
  • Confusion and Incompetence in Immigrant Detainee System

    Friday, December 04, 2009
    The United States system for detaining illegal immigrants is a mess, filled with examples of unlawful arrests of citizens and legal residents by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, according to multiple investigations from governme...   read more
  • Taiwan Offers E-Readers to its Students

    Friday, December 04, 2009
    Taiwan’s Ministry of Education will offer e-readers in 2010 to its primary school students as it plans to further digitalize education and promote reading. The e-readers are essential components of Taiwan’s five-year $1.55 billion dollar program d...   read more
  • Loss of U.S. Missile Production Monitors in Russia Leads to Partisan Finger-Pointing Back Home

    Thursday, December 03, 2009
    Since the end of the Cold War, a small group of American arms control inspectors has been stationed in Votkinsk, Russia, to verify how many new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) are produced by the United States’ former adversary. But as...   read more
  • Aetna Plans to Lose 600,000 Customers by Raising Prices

    Thursday, December 03, 2009
    Insurance company Aetna thinks it’s better off by scaring away customers. Company officials plan to hike premiums next year to reverse the downward trend of Aetna’s profit margin, which fell from 11.1% in 2007 to 6.9% in the third quarter of 2009....   read more
  • DuPont Sued for Covering Up 25 Years of Polluting Ohio River

    Thursday, December 03, 2009
    DuPont has known since 1984 that its chemical plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia, was polluting local water supplies in nearby Washington County, Ohio, but did not tell local residents or do anything to correct the problem, according to environme...   read more
  • Beware of Web Sites Ending in .cm

    Thursday, December 03, 2009
    Surfing the Internet can sometimes feel like playing Russian roulette when visiting websites for the first time, because of the growing risk of encountering viruses or other malware with a simple click of a mouse. One way to minimize this risk is ...   read more
  • Reservists Seek VA Health Benefits for Covert Actions

    Thursday, December 03, 2009
    Participating in secret military operations has meant falling into a bureaucratic void for some American service members unable to draw on veterans benefits. For about 50 members of the 707th Airlift Squadron, which flew some of the first missions...   read more
  • House Bill Proposes Surtax to Pay for Escalating Afghanistan War

    Wednesday, December 02, 2009
    If the United States is going to send another 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan, which means billions of dollars more in costs, then the government should have the ability to pay for it, instead of just borrowing more money or robbing other programs ...   read more
  • Sen. Cantwell Wants to Use Anti-Gambling Laws to Regulate Wall Street

    Wednesday, December 02, 2009
    “Derivatives” is just another word for gambling, as far as U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) is concerned, so she wants anti-gambling laws applied to Wall Street in an effort to end the era of “casino capitalism.” In the wake of last year’s finan...   read more
  • U.S. Public Wants Out of Afghanistan; NY Times and Washington Post Want In

    Wednesday, December 02, 2009
    Two of the nation’s most respected newspapers have expressed through their editorial pages a diametrical position from that of the general public on the Afghanistan war, according to an analysis by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). A majo...   read more
  • English Town Hires Official Tweeter

    Wednesday, December 02, 2009
    Mike McTimoney has the distinction of becoming the first Tweeter-in-residence in the United Kingdom, following his hiring by the town of Darlington in County Durham in the northeast of England. McTimoney, an IT lecturer at Queen Elizabeth Sixth Fo...   read more
  • Elementary School Shut by Plastics Factory Pollution Seeks Damages

    Wednesday, December 02, 2009
    School officials in Addyston, Ohio, are suing a foreign-owned plastics company over cancer-causing air pollution from a local factory that forced the closure of an elementary school four years ago. Meredith Hitchens Elementary was shuttered in 200...   read more
  • Obama Refuses to Order Release of Decades-Old Intelligence Documents

    Tuesday, December 01, 2009
    Millions of secret government documents are scheduled to be declassified at the end of this year—unless President Barack Obama extends the deadline like his predecessors have done. Reports out of Washington indicate the White House is hurriedly pr...   read more
  • Report Details Health Consequences of Coal Mining and Energy Production

    Tuesday, December 01, 2009
    There’s no denying the importance of coal to the nation’s energy supply, providing nearly half of the electricity used by Americans. But a group of medical researchers has decided to make clear the price that the human body pays for the U.S. relyi...   read more
  • Gamer Sues Sony over Disabled Access to Virtual Worlds

    Tuesday, December 01, 2009
    Alexander Stern of Los Angeles can’t play Sony’s role-playing video games like EverQuest because of his disabilities, so he’s suing the company under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Due to problems with his eyesight and “multiple learning dis...   read more
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