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Fact-Check “This,” Associated Press!
“I think Obama’s in a league with TR,” observes historian and presidential biographer Douglas Brinkley. “He created his political reputation through the written word.” To be sure, no one has ever accused Sarah Palin, a defeated vice presidential candidate, of creating her reputation thusly. One has to wonder, then, why her book, Going Rogue,
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Non-judgmentalism revisited
Right here at the University of Kansas, where I teach a course, newly-publicized records show how many parking tickets and altercations with student employees of the university’s parking-enforcement department the head football coach has had — a lot! It beautifully illustrates three things
“Russian roulette” suicide attempts
Since writing about a recent possible suicide attempt by a graduate student in a university chemistry lab using the chemical sodium azide (see my last post, “Accidental ingestion?”), I’ve been asked about different types of suicide attempts and specifically whether, if it was a suicide
Dr. Brian v. Dr. Phil
As more details emerge about the Ft. Hood shooter, it’s looking more and more like ideology (as opposed to personal dissatisfaction or psychosis) was the primary motivating factor behind Thursday’s massacre (the death toll rose to 13 on Friday), but that hasn’t stopped others from sounding
K2
People are asking me what “K2″ (not the mountain, the intoxicant) is, so here are some basics on it: “K2″ is one of several names, including “spice” and “plant food,” for what is essentially synthetic marijuana. It’s dried, ground-up herbs (similar-looking
Three murders, all involving mental questions
Back on October 20, an Iraqi man living in Arizona allegedly ran over his 20-year-old daughter with his car because she had become “too westernized.” She’s since died. I’ve talked about “honor killings” on the air in the past. Most of the time, I think these fathers
GOP Win Key Gov. Races
Republican Governors Association Chairman Governor Haley Barbour issued the following statement about the Republican Party sweeping the governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia today: “The RGA helped two great candidates secure historic victories for the GOP tonight. By wisely investing more than
Sarah v Joe
Yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden said, “Sarah Palin thinks the answer to energy is ‘Drill, baby, drill,’ he said, leaning into the microphone. “It’s a lot more complicated, Sarah, than drill baby drill.” Palin responded, “As the vice president knows, I have
M.J., Chris Brown, an update on the CA gang-rape case, and a stressful “Study this”
In a recent interview with a London tabloid, the late Michael Jackson’s sister La Toya reportedly expressed concern that Jackson’s two sons have not yet “accepted” their father’s death.
Blaming the school in CA, another teen romance apparently turned violent, & Agassi’s example
If you watched me on Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell Thursday night, you saw us discussing the California gang-rape case (see my last two posts), and you heard some on the panel indicting the school for not having better security on school grounds. I think it’s a little too early for that. There
