Haley Barbour’s racist civil rights era revisionism The Daily Kos by Joan McCarter December 20, 2010 Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has a strategy for beating Sarah Palin to the teabaggers’ support in the 2012 primaries. Digby calls it his "Southern Strategy," consisting of a the dogwhistle message that "racism in America was always overblown with […]
Family Research Council Criticizes Senate for Putting Social Agenda Ahead of Military Mission December 23, 2010 Family Research Council (FRC) today criticized the vote by the U.S. Senate to pass cloture for a bill that sets in motion a repeal of the 1993 law on homosexuality in the military, commonly referred to as "Don’t Ask, […]
Obama the Great – if he does say so himself Washington Post By Dana Milbank December 23, 2010 It took President Obama fewer than 50 days to go from shellacking to swashbuckling. Seven weeks earlier to the day, the president faced harsh questions about his leadership as he took responsibility for Democrats’ loss of the […]
I sometimes wonder why all of this business about the Pharmaceutical Industry’s invasion of Academic Psychiatry is such a front burner issue for me now, but wasn’t so much before I retired. Is it that I now have the leisure time to think about such things? Is it because I now realize that the epicenter […]
A few days back, I mentioned my nagging concerns about the Paxil/GSK/STI story [message in a bottle…]. Given the amount of manipulation of the medical literature and the C.M.E. process by GlaxoSmithKline in promoting the drug, I was beginning to question how the drug got on the market in the first place. When I read […]
I recall thinking that DADT was a reasonable solution back in 1993. It was a compromise. The law blocked the military from investigating people’s sexual orientation [since homosexuality was "incompatible with military service" since WWII]. In return, Gay soldiers kept their sexual orientation to themselves. It’s 17 years later, and DADT looks oppressive [which it […]
Bishop Eddie Long Agrees to MediationHuffington Postby Morris W. O’KellyDecember 6, 2010 With little fanfare or news coverage, the four sexual coercion lawsuits confronting Bishop Eddie Long had the first hearing recently, with both sides opting for mediation to avoid a trial. Why no major news outlet or editorial columnist has discussed the implications of […]
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time… POGO’s third reply to letters from Dr. Schatzberg and Dr. Nemeroff POGO by Scott H. Amey December 16, 2010 In response to your third letter, and after additional reviews of the numerous documents in our possession, the Project On Government Oversight will not be altering […]
I was pointed to this article because of it’s meta-analysis of logic, but even though it doesn’t have to do with my recent topics, the analytic process of the author deserves wide attention: Why I Shouldn’t Read Non-Systematic Review Articles: Special Pleadings and Undercover Authors Healthcare Renewal by Dr. Roy Poses 12/16/2010 He begins with […]