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For several days we have been communicating with a new source who claims to have devastating inside information about the current state of the Church of Scientology... When the pandemic struck, the Church’s response was a program which laid out “protocols” that all staff and all public Scientologists had to follow. These included wearing a mask and gloves at all times while not in your own home, as well as other rigid mandates, some of which bordered on impossible to follow. The most ridiculous mandate was that the staff of Class V orgs had to keep a statistic of “Number...

Why is the arrogant and lazy mainstream media so clueless ? Can they not see it ? Can they not hear it ? Can they they not smell the big ol' messy Democrat it takes every couple of hours ? Why are they ignoring the 800 pound simian in the room ? ( Please note: Poiliticalcorrectthinkpol has outlawed the original saying unless the word "gorilla" is replaced by the word "simian". Any failure to adhere to this policy will result in a nasty protest letter signed by 400 of George $oros' most politically reliable rabbis. Other penalties may include angry...

Bachmann Migraine Story Underscores Lingering Stigma Nancy A. Melville July 22, 2011 — In a summer of unusually heated political turmoil and mudslinging from both sides of the aisle, the medical issue that has unexpectedly become caught in the crossfire seems somehow appropriate — migraines, and specifically, Rep. Michele Bachmann's migraines.The GOP presidential candidate's migraines became big news this week following a report on the Daily Caller Web site that an adviser to Representative Bachmann (R-Minnesota) said the congresswoman suffers from "intense" migraines, that when she gets them "she can't function at all," and she "takes all sorts of pills" for...

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain declined to raise questions about fellow contender Michele Bachmann's health Thursday night, dismissing the Minnesota congresswoman's migraine headaches as a "non-issue" in the GOP contest. "If she's showing up for her events, and she's doing what she needs to do as a United States congresswoman, people shouldn't worry about her migraines," Cain told The Associated Press after a fundraiser for the New Hampshire GOP.

I've been plagued with migraines for years. So when the Daily Caller reported that GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann has had severe migraines, it took my colleagues but minutes to propose that I write on the controversy. I resisted, but this story is a big talker. I've got a personal angle. I'm a columnist. What else could I do? Some people give migraines; some people get them. We, the chosen few, do both. According to the Daily Caller's anonymous sources, the Republican congresswoman from Minnesota takes medication to control her migraines - which, she confirms, sometimes have been "incapacitating" and...

"You are in overall good general health" Meanwhile Bachmann now leads nationally, at least according to one pollster... what are your black ops crew going to come up with now now, Mitt? Donald Trump (remember him?) is weighing-in again. He said yesterday on CNN that the old-guard GOP is misplaying their hand terribly by providing demagoguery material to the Left, and have brought back Obama "like the Phoenix" by doing ill-advised deals with him.  In sharp contrast to that, Trump sees Michele Bachmann as "highly underrated". Say what you want, but (famously) this is a guy who knows management talent when he sees...

The story about Michele Bachmann's migraines was not the product of a "liberal media conspiracy." Instead, it was a "calculated hit piece" by one of Bachmann's rivals for the Republican presidential nomination. That's the view emphatically propounded by John Heilemann on Morning Joe today. As evidence, the New York magazine writer and Game Change co-author noted that the story first appeared in the conservative Daily Caller. According to Heilemann, the story was the result of a "calculated leak of opposition research" by a Republican campaign. Meanwhile, sisterhood was powerful for Mika Brzezinski. The MJ co-host sneered at the migraine story,...

Congressman Ron Paul – Michele Bachmann’s challenger for the GOP nomination who also happens to be a medical doctor – weighed in for the first time on the congresswomen’s revelation that she long suffers from migraines. “I think it is probably legitimate to know. But I don’t think that it disqualifies someone from running for office. I don’t think that should be the deciding factor on how well she does but I would say that the information is reasonable to know about,” said Paul.

Bachmann Releases Doctor's Note on Migraines as Pawlenty Says Candidates Must Be Able 'To Do All of the Job, All of the Time' July 20, 2011 4:12 PM ABC News' Matthew Jaffe (@matthewbjaffe) reports from Indianola, Iowa: When Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty descended on Iowa today, both faced questions about whether or not Bachmann's migraines would impede her from doing the job of president. Meanwhile, Bachmann issued a letter from the Attending Physician of the U.S. Congress arguing that Bachmann's migraines occur "infrequently and have known trigger factors of which you are aware and know how...

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) today released the following letter from her doctor to clear up, once and for all, the question of whether her migraines would interfere with her ability to be president. Dear Congresswoman Bachmann – The enclosed summary regarding your experience of migraine headaches is provided to you as per your request. You are overall in good general health. You have a well-established diagnosis of migraine headaches with aura for which you have had an extensive evaluation by both my office and by a board certified consulting neurologist. Your evaluation has entailed detailed labwork and brain scans all...

This morning, the Daily Caller published a story I was inclined to leave to others: Michele Bachmann suffers from severe migraines. But now the Bachmann camp has suddenly invited a whole lot more scrutiny to the story. At an event today, ABC News reporter Brian Ross tried to ask her about her condition, and according to another reporter on the scene, Time’s Michael Crowley, Bachmann’s handlers got pretty rough and aggressive with Ross: "Ross dashed after Bachmann, repeatedly asking whether she had ever missed a House vote due to a migraine. She ignored him. Ross pursued her into a parking...

GOP presidential hopeful and Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann today released the following statement to respond to reports that she experiences “incapacitating” migraines: Like nearly 30 million other Americans, I experience migraines that are easily controlled with medication. I am a wife, a mother, a lawyer who worked her way through law school, a former state senator who achieved the repeal of a harmful piece of education policy in Minnesota, and a congresswoman who has worked tirelessly fighting against the expansion of government and wasteful spending. “Since entering the campaign, I have maintained a full schedule between my duties as...

With questions growing surrounding a Daily Caller report about her suffering incapacitating migraines, Michele Bachmann just put out this statement to try to tamp down the issue, in which she said she takes prescription medicine to control the pain and it would "not affect my ability to serve as Commander in Chief": "Like nearly 30 million other Americans, I experience migraines that are easily controlled with medication. I am a wife, a mother, a lawyer who worked her way through law school, a former state senator who achieved the repeal of a harmful piece of education policy in Minnesota, and...

The Daily Caller’s Jonathan Strong drops a bombshell on the Michele Bachmann campaign today with a report that migraines incapacitate the presidential hopeful on a regular basis. The headline also alleges “heavy pill use,” a loaded phrase that insinuates some sort of addiction — an insinuation that the story fails to support. An unknown number of unnamed sources form the basis of this story: The Minnesota Republican frequently suffers from stress-induced medical episodes that she has characterized as severe headaches. These episodes, say witnesses, occur once a week on average and can “incapacitate” her for days at time. On at...

In late July 2010, Rep. Michele Bachmann’s then-communications director, Dave Dziok, told his boss that he planned to take a new job with the public relations firm Edelman. Dziok had worked for Bachmann for two and a half years, a relatively long period by the standards of her office, and was leaving on good terms. Staff turnover can frustrate any employer, but Bachmann responded more dramatically. Dziok’s departure triggered a debilitating medical episode that landed the congresswoman in urgent care. “Within 24 hours she was in the hospital,” a former aide says. Bachmann was admitted to a Washington, D.C. hospital...

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) suffers from incapacitating, stressed-induced migraines, The Daily Caller reports, questioning her fitness to be President. The report cites multiple sources close to the GOP presidential candidate confirming the condition, and lists multiple hospital stays and trips to urgent care centers for treatment. "She has terrible migraine headaches. And they put her out of commission for a day or more at a time. They come out of nowhere, and they’re unpredictable,” a Bachmann adviser involved in her 2010 congressional campaign told The Daily Caller. A spokeswoman for Bachmann, Alice Stewart, confirmed ”she suffers from migraines and they’re...

Los Angeles, CA (May 26, 2011) – Precision tinted lenses have been used widely to reduce visual perceptual distortions in poor readers, and are increasingly used for migraine sufferers, but until now the science behind these effects has been unclear. Now research published in the journal Cephalalgia, published by SAGE, uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for the first time to suggest a neurological basis for these visual remedies. The new research shows how coloured glasses tuned to each migraine sufferer work by normalizing activity in the brain. The researchers saw specific abnormal brain activity (known as hyperactivation) when migraine...

A bit off topic, although Obama does tend to give me severe headaches. I have a 12 year old daughter that has been suffering from pretty severe migraines for about two years, 2-3 a week, about 3 bad ones a month, w/out aura. I had migraines as a kid, into adulthood, and in my early forties still get one or two severe migraines, w/ aura per year. I use Maxalt for these, the only thing that even sort-of works, and I still need to lay down and ride it out for several hours. The neurologist wants to put my daughter...

LONDON - Aspirin may work to prevent a first heart attack or stroke in those at high risk, according to a fresh look at earlier aspirin studies. Aspirin has been widely used for long-term protection in patients who have previously had a heart attack or stroke, but evidence suggests 40,000 extra lives could be saved each year if those with high-risk conditions received aspirin treatment. Colin Baigent, a Medical Research Council (MRC) scientist who lead the research, said the study shows aspirin is beneficial in a wider range of conditions than previously believed, including high-risk conditions such as angina, peripheral ...

LOS ANGELES - American scientists have found the first evidence of a genetic link to migraines. Scientists have known for a while that migraines appear to run in families, but this is the first time a specific region on a chromosome has been linked to migraines with aura, also called classic migraines. The University of California, Los Angeles researchers analyzed blood samples from 50 Finnish families. Each of the families had three or more members who suffer from migraines. The scientists looked for genetic markers in common among the blood samples. They found three common markers linked to the fourth ...