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Adam Schiff: "If the cashier in South San Francisco at 10 o'clock at night believes that Democrats are a---h---s because the shampoo was locked up and my stuff got stolen out of the trunk, we've got a major problem that we have to address."

I've been following the YouTube reactions to Sound of Freedom. A week ago or so, the YouTube videos and reactions were endless. Now it seems like almost all of the videos referring to it are older than a week old. This is odd as there have been so many interviews with Cavezial and Ballard. Here's what comes up in a YouTube search when I search by most recent upload date: Song of the Dragon and Freedom/Light Guiding Ceremony/Prologue:Act 3 1 view 7 hours ago De Libertate: Sounds of Freedom and Hope from Ukraine [updated] 17 views 8 hours ago Concerning...

I'm not convinced they're really this stupid.

No opinion pieces having particularly incited my ire at my normal haunts of the NY Times, LA Times or Boston Globe this morning, I ventured over to the Huffington Post, and found this beauty by Cliff Schecter, "Are You Psychotic? Because Empirically That Makes You Susceptible To Being A Republican."It in turn touted a study by a social work master’s student at Southern Connecticut State University purporting to find that there exists "a direct link between mental illness and support for President Bush."And how does the study's author explain the results? “If your world is very mixed up, there’s something...

LOS ANGELES — A new study by Harvard University and the National Institute of Mental Health (search) claims that 46 percent of all Americans will, at some point in their lives, develop a mental disorder.

Last week, I wrote a column about Jose Padilla, AKA the "dirty bomber." In order to avoid repeating myself, let me give short-shrift to my argument and sum up as briefly as possible. I argued then, and believe now, that the U.S. government has the right and, in this case, the obligation to run roughshod over many of Padilla's rights. Padilla is an enemy combatant. And, according to the Constitution, legal precedent, international law and, most of all, common sense, the U.S. government has the right to treat enemy combatants as, well, enemy combatants -even when the combatant in...