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There are by now innumerable psychological assessments of Breivik online. Practically every publication you log on to has one. And they are all rather laughable when one looks at the things upon which the various diagnoses are based: Breivik played violent computer games. So do a billion other men. Breivik did not relate well to women. That's also true of millions of American men -- particularly if you ask American women. Breivik lived with his mother well into adulthood. That too is common these days. It's almost the norm in Italy and Japan. He liked dressing up and giving himself...

The Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) has turned to antique rolling stock to boost resources battling the snow and to clear a stretch of track in southern Sweden, according to a report by Sveriges Television (SVT). The trains, old DA locomotives normally resident in the Swedish Railway Museum in Gävle in northern Sweden, have been dusted off and put back into service to clear the tracks of snow between Mjölby and Alvesta in southern Sweden. Furthermore a 100-year-old snowplough is in place alongside the tracks in nearby Nässjö, ready to be called into action if needed. "These are made of stern...

Just Exactly Where I’ve Been….Gregg Allman wasn’t kidding. On the last verse of “Wasted Words,” from the Allman Brothers Band’s “Brothers and Sisters” album, he gets the message across. Well I ain’t no saint and sure as hell ain’t no savior. Every other Christmas I would practice good behavior. That was then. This is now. Don’t ask me to be Mr. Clean ’cause, baby, I don’t know how. Summer ‘73. The Allman Brothers Band emerged from tragedy and artistic challenges to deliver what some still consider their finest studio album ever. The music was holding up great. Fans had wondered,...

Last week, we talked about the murderous rampage at ABB in St. Louis, in which 3 innocent victims were murdered (and their killer committed suicide), and 5 others were wounded, 2 critically. As is always the case in the aftermath of shooting incidents that get lots of attention, those opposed to private gun ownership are quick to exploit the outrage to advance the gun ban agenda. So, in keeping with that . . . honored tradition, we hear from Judy Larsen, in an editorial titled "Haven't we had enough?" appearing in the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Ms. Larsen can at...

Duke's Tenured Vigilantes The scandalous rush to judgment in the lacrosse "rape" case. by Charlotte Allen 01/29/2007, Volume 012, Issue 19 The Duke University "lacrosse rape case" is all but over. On Friday, January 12, the prosecutor, Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong, petitioned the North Carolina attorney general's office to be recused from the case, and the office complied, appointing a pair of special prosecutors to take over. Nifong's recusal, it is widely assumed, paves the way for the dismissal of all remaining charges against the three defendants--suspended (but recently reinstated) Duke sophomores and lacrosse team members Reade Seligmann...

I am still amazed to write these words: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. But, that is the reality, 386 years since the first Africans landed at Jamestown, Va.; 142 years since the Emancipation Proclamation; 135 years since the 15th Amendment granting citizenship to blacks; 85 years since the 19th Amendment granting women’s suffrage; 41 years since the Civil Rights Act; and 40 years since the Voting Rights Act. In the month designated for honoring black history, Rice placed an impressive new entry in the record books. No sooner was she in office than the nation’s top diplomat – the first...

You’ve decided to move to Canada but before you go you must choose a destination in which to settle. Canada, with over 10 million square kilometers of territory, is the second largest country in the world, with many wonderful cities, towns and rural communities beckoning the newcomer. The vastness of this country makes choosing a destination all that more difficult. Do you choose to live near the ocean, in the mountains, in a large city, on the prairies, or in the lake regions? Suddenly, choosing somewhere seems overwhelming! So how do you go about deciding which place is best for...

Investors seem to be betting that Congress will fix the asbestos mess this coming year.... We suspect they're too optimistic, and for now we take more heart from last week's landmark decision by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to reject the $1.2 billion Combustion Engineering settlement. ...[O}ur view is that the judiciary is finally exercising some adult supervision over a mess of its own making. Combustion Engineering, a unit of European construction giant ABB, had become a model of how trial lawyers abuse "prepackaged" bankruptcies to rake in millions for their unimpaired clients, while leaving real cancer victims with...

CHICAGO (AP) Democratic candidates John Kerry and Barack Obama held solid leads in Illinois for president and U.S. Senate heading into the home stretch before the Nov. 2 election, a new poll shows. In the presidential race, 50 percent of likely Illinois voters were in favor of Kerry, while 42 percent supported President Bush and 7 percent were undecided, according to a Chicago Tribune/WGN-TV poll published in Sunday editions. A Tribune poll one month ago showed Kerry with a 49 percent to 40 percent advantage over Bush. In the Senate race, Obama held on to his firm lead over Republican...

NEW YORK - Out on the street with protesters, there are environmentalists, pacifists, even some capitalists - selling anti-Bush T-shirts, of course.      But to Republicans here, the great unwashed sweating in and blocking the streets, are defined in one word: Democrats.      ``Frankly it reminds me of why I left the Democratic Party,'' said former Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer. ``I used to be a Democrat and I turned instead to Ronald Reagan's upbeat optimism instead of the negativity and the liberalism and the protest movement of the Democratic Party. It wasn't my cup of tea.''      Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie...

Joshua Kinberg, producer of Bikes Against Bush, poses with his newly developed writing bike near his home in Brooklyn, New York on August 23, 2004. The bike is able to write messages on the pavement using a set of five paint cans attached to the back of the bike. Kinberg will ride the bike for a few hours during each day of the Republican National Convention while the public will determine the messages written by the bike by suggesting phrases on his website. Those phrases will be relayed via cellphone to the computer on the bike which in turn tells...

Six months ago I ventured in this space that the Democratic position on the war in Iraq was the single most critical question in U.S. politics. The statement made on Monday by John Kerry is the climactic event in this matter. Sen. Kerry said that notwithstanding all that is known now, whatever have been the developments in the past year, if he had it to do again, he'd vote as he did: in favor of giving the president the power he requested, before going on to wage war in Iraq. Kerry made this faintly more tolerable to the anti-war segment...

Just my observation and I hope you spread the word to your local talk radio and to the national talk radio shows. Let people in your circle of friends and your co-workers in on the worst kept liberal secret, those concerts are for HATERS. It's plainly labeled "Concerts Against Bush". It's not about love, it's about hate. So by their own words, those performing and those attending are HATERS. This is the HATEFEST TOUR OF AMERICA.

The Heat is On (Boston, MA) From the hallways of the Fleet Center to the bar stools of Loch Ober, the Democrats here are giddy at the prospect that their long national nightmare--their time in the wilderness--is almost over. Boston is their spiritual home. They are doing their best to keep the primal anti-Bush outbursts to a minimum. They even managed to keep Howard Dean on a relatively short leash. (Remember, for Teresa Heinz Kerry, telling someone to "shove it" actually is good behavior!) The Dems have a token Southerner on the ticket - always a sign that they are...

Hope for great election died with Dean Email this story Printer friendly format BY KEN KURSON Ken Kurson is co-author, with Rudolph Giuliani, of "Leadership." July 27, 2004 It should have been Dean. All over New York City - and many other sure-thing Democratic locales - young volunteers are trying to register other volunteers. Their clipboards and t-shirts and classified newspaper ads do not say "Kerry '04." They say "Help Defeat Bush." That's a problem for John Kerry, and it's a problem for the electorate. I support President George W. Bush and would vote for him regardless of his Democratic...

In an election year, it is the front pages of the nation's major papers that set the tone for how political stories are covered. The Los Angeles Times is a major player in the election by any reckoning -- and the decisions it makes about how to place stories on its front pages help determine how the public thinks about politics

Al-Qaeda is changing its tactics. After targeting Western expatriates and security forces in the first phase of its terrorist attacks in the Kingdom, it has now turned its attention to oil companies and could later go for urban guerrilla war as part of its strategy to destabilize the Kingdom, according to a Saudi political scientist. Dr. Abdullah Al-Otaibi, assistant professor of political science at King Saud University, told Arab News the May 1 attack on a petrochemical complex in Yanbu followed by Saturday’s shootout in Alkhobar’s APICORP Compound showed a consistent pattern. Al-Qaeda terrorists “are out to strike against the...

GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT INTELLIGENCE BRIEF Al-Qaida driving U.S. out of Saudi Arabia Amid terror threat, ambassador telling Americans to get out Posted: May 15, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia has been threatened by an al-Qaida operative who has escaped the clutches of the American military for more than two years, reports Geostrategy-Direct, the global intelligence news service. Despite Saudi government efforts, al-Qaida operatives like Mustafa Abdul Kader Abed Al Ansari are driving the 35,000 Americans and many of the companies they work for out of Saudi Arabia. About 3,000 Americans work in the oil...

May 14, 2004, 6:51PM Lummus worker dies of wounds from Saudi attack Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle An ABB Lummus Global employee from Houston, who was wounded in a terrorist attack at the company's office in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, died today in a Houston hospital, the company reported. Thomas Washburn, the 40-year-old head manager of ABB's project in Yanbu, was shot in the throat in the May 1 attack, which killed four other employees and an ABB contractor. He was flown out of Saudi Arabia on May 8 and his condition had deteriorated in recent days, said company spokeswoman Patti McDonald....

Is anyone else getting dizzy watching the recurring cycle of Bush-Vulnerability/DNC Dem Planning Session/TV-Print-Media-Buzz Coordination/Worldwide Panic Onslaught/Comittee Hearings/More Panic-Distress-Doubt-Fear-Uncertainty/Polltaking/Fizzle that has run from Enron to Blackouts to Bush Knew to Corporate Accounting to Interest Rates (OHNOMYGOD!) to Gas Prices (OOOH!) to Global Warming (KYOTO-OH-MY!) to Bush Knew II (Condi Must Go!) and everytime when the crusade du jour fails to kick Kerry up significantly then the issue is jettisoned and the next round of the campaign is launched (Toot!). American voters should demand barf-bags.