Clean the Gulf, Clean House, Clean Their Clock New York Times By FRANK RICH June 18, 2010 PRESIDENT Obama is not known for wild pronouncements, so it was startling to hear him liken the gulf oil spill to 9/11. Alas, this bold analogy, made in an interview with Roger Simon of Politico, proved a misleading […]
Chuck Grassley is a 77 year old Republican Senator from Iowa who is a religious right guy and a member of the "C Street" [The Family] who votes like this: Chuck Grassley [R-Iowa]: In 2005, Charles Grassley received a 7 percent rating on the Republicans for Environmental Protection’s (REP) environmental scorecard. He voted in a […]
Last night, I ran into a Democrat friend – rare in these parts. We were trying to talk, but the guy across the table couldn’t tolerate it. He said something about "fair taxes" and was off and running about his small [medium actually] business being overtaxed. The he was talking about "Obama doesn’t believe in […]
I have obviously been stirred up by the re-emergence of the story of Dr. Charlie Nemeroff who became Chairman of Psychiatry at Emory several years after I left the Department over 20 years ago: the trivialization of america … accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative… do no harm… who is not telling the truth? yes… […]
The Neurobiology of Child Abuse and Neglect Since the days of Sigmund Freud, clinicians have observed that early-life trauma may lead to adult psychopathology. At the 161st Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Charles Nemeroff, MD, PhD, presented recent research that suggests a neurobiologic underpinning for this association. … Dr. Nemeroff concluded, “We need […]
I’m speaking now totally for myself. I’m not speaking for the Republican Party. I’m not speaking for anybody in the House of Representatives but myself, but I’m ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday. I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what […]
BP chairman talks about the ‘small people,’ further angering gulf Washington Post By Ann Gerhart June 17, 2010 BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg attempted an earnest apology Wednesday for the worst environmental accident ever to befall America, but it will be remembered for only two words: "Small people." Svanberg came with other BP executives to the […]
After a couple of days in which I’ve read just about everything the Internet has to offer about Dr. Nemeroff, former Chairman at Emory who is now being born-again at the University of Miami, I finally found the bottom of what has been bothering me about this whole business. It’s in almost every article. Here’s […]
BP to Suspend Dividend and Set Up Fund for Oil Spill Claims The New York Times By JACKIE CALMES and HELENE COOPER June 16, 2010 WASHINGTON — The White House and BP agreed on Wednesday that the oil giant would create an independent $20 billion fund to pay claims arising from the worst oil spill […]