Month: April 2012

Report: Anti-psychotics wrongly prescribed in nursing homes

USA TODAY:  Many nursing homes are typically using anti-psychotic drugs in residents who display agitation and combative behavior, but who should not be administered the powerful sedatives, a Boston Globe report based on government data has found. The Globe based an investigation on data received 19 months after it filed a Freedom of Information Act […]

LETTER: Judicial Corruption Alive and Well in Pennsylvania

For the last 22 years I have been basically screaming from the rooftops that Judicial Corruption is not only real but also prevalent in the Pennsylvania’s Courts. Until a person is thrust into the Court System, one has no basis to conclude the courts are anything but fair and honest. That is exactly how I felt until I experienced my own rude awakening back in the 1990’s.

A Politically Incorrect Study; Challenging a President

EDITOR:  The following  article  is from a retired surgeon who has interviewed several thousand Californian applicants for permission to use medical marijuana. When I realized, relatively early in the course of screening Cannabis applicants in 2001, that all were chronic users to one degree or another, I saw the examinations required by Proposition 215 as an […]

The Trust Molecule

WALL STREET JOURNAL…Since 2001, my colleagues and I have conducted a number of experiments showing that when someone’s level of oxytocin goes up, he or she responds more generously and caringly, even with complete strangers. As a benchmark for measuring behavior, we relied on the willingness of our subjects to share real money with others […]

LANCASTER SUNDAY NEWS

News article “State says county must reveal hotel tax collection” reports: Sunday News Editor Marv Adams said, “We are pleased with the ruling by the state Office of Open Records. I hope the county doesn’t try to delay again what we have seen from the beginning as information that the public has a right to […]

Paul Krugman: Ben Bernanke Has ‘Been Assimilated By The Borg’

HUFFINGTON NEWS: …“I think what’s happened to Bernanke, as they say, he’s been assimilated by the Borg,” he said. “He’s become more concerned, probably unconsciously, with defending the Fed’s institutional safety, because it’s the apostle of price stability, than with doing whatever he can to get this economy moving. Which if he’d listened to Professor […]

Remarks by Former Official Fuel Israeli Discord on Iran

From the NEW YORK TIMES: The recently retired chief of Israel’s internal security agency accused the government of “misleading the public” about the likely effectiveness of an aerial strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, ratcheting up the criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak from the country’s security establishment.

Officials: Core Al-Qaida ‘Essentially Gone’

NEWSMAX:   U.S. intelligence officials say almost a year after the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida is essentially gone, but its affiliates still present a threat to the U.S. homeland. One official says core al-Qaida’s new leader Ayman al-Zawahri still aspires to hit the United States, but the threat of a sophisticated, […]