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TUCKER CARLSON: They're numbed by the endless psychotropic drugs that are handed out in every school in the country by crackpots posing as counselors and of course, they're angry. They know that their lives will not be better than their parents. They'll be worse. That's all but guaranteed. They know that. They're not that stupid and yet, the authorities in their lives, mostly women, never stops lecturing them about their so-called privilege. You're male. You're privileged. Imagine that. Try to imagine an unhealthier, unhappier life than that. So, a lot of young men in America are going nuts. Are you...

‘Damaged masculinity’ may help explain Columbine and other mass shootings mike.rosenwald@washpost.com Follow @mikerosenwald View Archive RSS Feed April 20 at 6:34 AM Columbine High Schoolshooter, Eric Harris. (AP Photo/HO) Wednesday marks the 17th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre — the terrible day in 1999 when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 and wounded dozens more before killing themselves in Colorado.In the strangely American phenomenon of mass shootings, Columbine comes up again and again. As I wrote last year: It was Columbine that changed everything…a horrifying event that occurred just as the Internet was taking root in the...

Hoping to start a bloody "race war," a black, gay, in-your-face Obama-supporting former TV reporter horrified Southwest Virginia TV viewers yesterday when he stalked and coolly murdered two white former TV station colleagues and wounded a white interview subject during a live broadcast.

Slouching Toward Columbine: Darwin's Tree of Death April 20, 2009 David Klinghoffer I've long been fascinated by the image of the Tree of Death, parallel to the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden and cryptically referred to in mystical texts explaining the Hebrew Bible: And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the Tree of Life also in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 2:9). Come and behold: as soon as night falls, the...

Schools create programs to help kids cope with and prevent bullying By Ilene Olson rep3@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle Bullying can lead to anger and tears in the classroom, on the playground and even years later as adults recall being bullied as children. "It made me feel - I don't know how to say it - embarrassed, I guess." Even so, she chose to walk away without saying anything. "I just ignored them," she said. Candiracci and McMillion both advised her, "Don't believe anybody who says that." The three sixth-graders were among the students who watched a performance at...

LANCASTER - "When I'm God, everyone dies." Those words, scribbled in a 15-year-old boy's notebook, were part of the evidence on display Friday at the Lancaster Sheriff's Station. That notebook was accompanied by a three-ring binder featuring pictures of Columbine High School killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, Oklahoma City bomber and white supremacist Timothy McVeigh and the infamous Charles Manson. The 15-year-old, a Quartz Hill resident, and a 17-year-old Lancaster resident were arrested Thursday for allegedly planning a "Columbine-style" attack on Quartz Hill High School. Their target date was next Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 2006, a date selected from...

DENVER - The parents of Columbine High School gunman Eric Harris are selling the house where the teen and his friend stored guns and bombs and videotaped themselves hatching plans for their deadly rampage. Two real estate agents whose families were affected by the 1999 school shooting will not be allowed to show the property. Both men have criticized Wayne and Kathy Harris for not doing more to stop their son's deadly plan. One of the banned agents, Rich Petrone, said he would like to see the house, referring to it as the "scene of a crime." Petrone's stepson, Danny...

Five years ago, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot up Columbine High School. Now it's clear that much of what we thought about that horror was wrong. In the weeks following the killings, commentators and psychologists filled the air with theories about what on earth could have caused those teenagers to lash out as they did. The main one was that Harris and Klebold were the victims of brutal high school bullies. They were social outcasts, persecuted by the jocks and the popular kids. But there were other theories afloat: they'd fallen in with a sick Goth subculture; they were...

In a remarkable book, Harvard and the Unabomber, about Ted Kacyznski, its author, Alston Chase, says, "The anger that motivated Kacyznski bears an uncanny resemblance to the rage that drove the schoolboys who in recent years have gone berserk, shooting classmates. Like Kacyznski, the Columbine High School killers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, were motivated by rage, not only against those they saw despoiling the environment but also against the dominant school culture that ridiculed them." "Meanwhile," Chase noted, "high schools are even less dedicated to learning than they were, choosing instead to ensure that students conform to the canons...