ESPN is reporting that former Senator George Mitchell, who had been appointed by commissioner Bud Selig to investigate steroid usage in baseball in 2006 (which I wrote about on 3/30/06 and you can read here).  He has essentially been stonewalled by the teams and the players including the union ever since then and has not gotten...
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Well it seems that el Presidente and his high and mighty Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez have finally decided to reverse course and request warrants for domestic surveillance. This has been 5 years in the making, and I think the executive branch believes if they just turn around and say now we need a warrant,...
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I just saw Scrubs tonight and it was a musical. It was so well written and absolutely hysterical. Who knew the Janitor (Neil Flynn) could sing so well.Tonight’s episode centered around a patient who hears everyone singing in a musical style. So they did an entire story line as if the show were a...
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Two years ago, Muslim groups protested when the plot of the hit Fox drama ’24′ cast Islamic terrorists as the villains who launched a stolen nuclear missile in an attack on America…
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Almost half of those surveyed believe Democrats want the president’s plan for Iraq to fail….
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Iran’s president is being urged to pull back on his highly publicized nuclear brinksmanship, The New York Times will report on tomorrow’s cover.
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Psychologists and educators say American girls seek approbation by flaunting increasingly outrageous behavior.
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WOMEN who want to get pregnant may want to stay away from fast-foods and snacks, a new study shows
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A RECORD has been set for the drunkest woman caught driving a car.
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Venezuela’s National Assembly has given initial approval to a bill granting President Hugo Chavez the power to rule by decree for 18 months.
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Philanderers beware: spouses caught cheating in Michigan could end up spending the rest of their life in prison.
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It’s reported that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a registered Republican. Fabulous. I was so interested and so pleased to hear this, I was almost beside myself. I looked into it and said wow! Here is why this is so important. Dr. King chose a party, registered and stayed according to the values...
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The lamestream media told you: The Democrats very first agenda item for the 110th Congress is ethics reform. They plan to implement a near-total ban on lobbyist-funded meals, vacations, event tickets, gifts, parties, research trips, golf, private airplane flights and other forms of corrupting influence that are routine in Congress. This admirable goal will...
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I generally keep IronShrink.com free from political ideology because it is irrelevant to discussions on general psychology. But this topic is different. Political beliefs are at the core of the issue, and politics can motivate writers (like me) or researchers (like the authors) toward comfortable conclusions.
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Former Vice President Al Gore scours the countryside looking for support for a possible presidential run and attempts to emulate bible-thumping preachers while preaching a message of the need for “big government” to save the planet. Meanwhile, Gore hobnobs with the Hollywood elite many of whom wouldn’t know a Bible from a Cecil B....
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Mexico continues to be the source or entry point for the vast majority of the narcotics that are consumed in the US. Mexico is the leading transit country for cocaine and heroin consumed in the US. It is also the leading source country for marijuana and now methamphetamine. Occasionally, the federal government of Mexico...
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations is upset at what they say are nasty inaccuracies in the program “24,” and they’re not shaking their heads in disgust just because Jack Bauer’s cell phone battery seems to stay charged for an unrealistic amount of time. “The overwhelming impression you get is fear and hatred for Muslims,” said Rabiah Ahmed, a spokeswoman for...
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There they go again. White House aspirants, themselves extremely rich, attack the wealthy using the customary us versus them framework. Former Senator John Edwards’ 2004 stump speech about two Americas, one for the rich and the other for everyone else, was dusted off for last month’s announcement that he’s trying for the top spot...
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A year after disclosure of a domestic spying program that President Bush maintained was within his authority to operate, the administration shifted its position and said it would seek the approval of an independent panel of federal judges.
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Columnist Art Buchwald, who chronicled the life and times of Washington with an infectious wit for over four decades and endeared himself to many with his never-say-die battle with failing kidneys, is dead at 81.
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