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The psychiatrist who treated suspected movie-theater shooter James Holmes made contact with a University of Colorado police officer to express concerns about her patient's behavior several weeks before Holmes' alleged rampage, sources told ABC News. ... Fenton would have had to have serious concerns to break confidentiality with her patient to reach out to the police officer or others, the sources said. Under Colorado law, a psychiatrist can legally breach a pledge of confidentiality with a patient if he or she becomes aware of a serious and imminent threat that their patient might cause harm to others. Psychiatrists can also...

Ted Nugent vs. a deluded Jewish congresswoman by Rabbi Dovid Bendory, Rabbinic Director, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. Copyright 2012 JPFO Ted Nugent and Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership go way back. We may not agree with Ted on all of his high-volume pronouncements, but on the Second Amendment, Ted Nugent and JPFO see eye to eye. Chair of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is presently alleging that Nugent threatened the life of President Barack Hussein Obama. Judge for yourself – go here. Wasserman Schultz is one of the leading gun prohibitionists in Congress....

Altmire Statement on Upcoming Health Care Vote March 19, 2010 "I ran for Congress in large part because I believe we need to find a way to bring down the cost of health care. I also ran for Congress with a simple promise: I would do my best to represent my district and to give western Pennsylvania a voice in Washington, not the other way around. "I regret that this year-long process of debating health care reform has resulted in a final product that I cannot support. The cost of inaction on health care is great, but it would be...

PITTSBURGH -- The Penguins' locker room is defending team captain Sidney Crosby from unattributed criticism of his decision not to go on "The Late Show With David Letterman."

Senator John McCain has introduced a bill that if passed will drive up the cost of dietary supplements and restrict your access to them. This bill seeks to give the FDA complete and arbitrary control over what supplements you are allowed to have... The bill being spearheaded by Senators John McCain and Byron Dorgan represents the kind of federal regulation that is not only ineffective, but also suffocates innovation in ways that inflict permanent damage to this nation’s economic vitality. The bill supposedly originates from the controversy surrounding the use of steroids by Major League Baseball players. Since some unethical...

Need help identifying the following snow tracks: This is the third time I have found some strange animal tracks on my land. I live in western pa, 25 miles from Pittsburgh in the land of murrymom. The area is rural on the edge of suburban development. These tracks I photographed (iPhone) while snow blowing. The gate is 6 to 8 feet and the single track may be a double paw print. The single track is larger than my hand. The tracks entered my property near a wood pile (breaking a five wire electric fence) and traveled over two hundred feet...

My Daughter forwarded this to me. I don't know if this has been posted previously, however I promise it will put a smile on your face. This also is another great tea party theme. Enjoy The Government Can

“My grandfather marched in Patton’s army, but I cannot know what it is to walk into battle like so many of you,” he told a small group of veterans here Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz.

My daughter's middle school performed FOTR this past week and I was searching for an online version of Anetevka when I found this wonderful gem. From the comments section. "This is a rehearsal presented to the press held on Dec. 14, 2005 in Tokyo. The actor who plays Tevye is Mr. Masachika ICHIMURA, famous Japanese actor"

BP's board and London-based executives were informed of widespread corrosion at the UK oil giant's Alaska field two years before the company was forced to shut it this week, citing "unexpectedly severe corrosion". On May 22 2004, Chuck Hamel, an advocate for BP workers in Alaska, took the charges directly to Walter E. Massey, chairman of the environment committee of BP's non-executive board of directors. In the letter, Mr Hamel told Dr Massey that in the previous four years BP employees and contract workers had brought to him concerns about safety, health and threats to the environment at Prudhoe Bay,...

Print this story | Email it to an associate. Vol. 11, No. 20 Week of May 14, 2006 Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry BP: Learning from oil spill lessonsJohnson, Beaudo explain what they think happened in Prudhoe Bay’s largest spill and what the company is learning from the incidentAlan BaileyPetroleum NewsOn March 2 a BP well pad operator discovered a leak in the transit line that delivers oil to the trans-Alaska pipeline from Gathering Center 2 in the western operating area of the giant Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska’s North Slope. The...

The Alaskan natural gas pipeline might finally get rolling. One of the principal conglomerates has agreed to the proposed terms outlining a risk-sharing arrangement, which has given the $24 billion project better odds than at any time in 25 years. The construction of this pipeline is considered vital in the effort to bring Alaska's vast natural gas reserves to the rest of the United States. That gas would help alleviate price pressures that have been driving up consumers' heating bills. And that's why Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski and ConocoPhillips have agreed to a potential deal whereby the state would finance...

A week or two before the issue of the supposed National Guard memos on President Bush's military service came up, I speculated on this site about the emergence of a new cyber-public in response to the discrediting of many of the traditional news media. Luck made me a prophet: the exposure of the memos as forgeries was a textbook example of what I had been talking about. Minutes after the hapless CBS had thrown its nicely aged "evidence" up on the screen, the bloggers were at work. Little Green Footballs and Power Line took the lead. The venerable Instapundit quarterbacked....

A chimpanzee has taken up smoking and spitting, according to China's Xinhua news agency. It is unclear why Feili, 13, has started smoking but her zoo keeper said it was because she was frustrated. She has turned from a "gentle girl" into a "shrew", said Liu Bing, director of Zhengzhou zoo, Henan province. Mr Liu said Feili's partner at the zoo was 28 years her senior, and was unable "to meet her sexual demands". Feili was not addicted to nicotine, he said, but was just imitating tourists. However, she does appear to be quite keen on smoking - and has...

Next Airing: Friday, Dec 12 @ 1am ET/PT Nazi Guerrillas After the end of WWII, Allied forces faced guerrilla bombings and attacks in occupied Germany--Nazi loyalists tried to derail reconstruction by sabotage and killing collaborators, while Werewolves, an underground organization of die-hard SS officers, boasted of rebirth of the Party. Find out if their bark was worse than their bite in a 2-hour investigation into how Werewolves terrorized military and civilian targets, and the Allied attempt to purge Germany's past at denazification tribunals. TV PG

Reactive Power and the Blackout John Hanger, President and CEO, Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future (PennFuture) Peter Adels, General Counsel, Citizen's for Pennsylvania's Future (PennFuture) While the investigation into the August 14 blackout continues, problems with reactive power are being looked into and given lots of attention - apparently for good reason. Voltage drops related to reactive power caused blackouts on the Pacific Coast in 1996 and in France in 1978. PJM itself came close to a blackout due to reactive power problems in 1999, avoided it, and took corrective steps. Yet, by having rigorous regional monitoring of reactive power and...

Nah, there's no bias in the media. It's all in the muddled minds of confused conservative readers. Then along comes a story that irrefutably shows bias for all the world to see, like this one by a stringer for Reuters. Note the last sentence in her article. Written originally in the Charleston Daily Mail by Deanna Wren, and picked up by the Wall Street Journal: Why did Reuters put my name on a horribly slanted story? CHARLESTON, W.Va.--This is from a story that Reuters news service ran this week with my byline: Jessica Lynch, the wounded Army private whose ordeal...

China sacked its Health Minister and the mayor of Beijing yesterday and cancelled a week-long May Day holiday after suddenly increasing the figure for Sars cases in the capital. Beijing has more than 700 confirmed and unconfirmed cases, ten times more than initially admitted, putting it among the communities hit hardest in the world, behind only Guangdong province and Hong Kong. Even now there are doubts whether all the figures in China have been revealed. The government's actions come after an emergency politburo meeting on Thursday ended weeks of lies and evasions by top officials who tried to deceive World...

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