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Scientists Study Woman With No Fears
By Lee Speigel - AOL News(Dec. 19) -- Is there anything you're not afraid of? Imagine what it must be like to never experience fear of any kind. A woman with a rare genetic disorder, Urbach-Wiethe disease, isn't frightened by anything – haunted houses, spiders, snakes, movie monsters, death threats, being attacked or robbed, the Live Science website reports. Researchers at the University of Iowa have done their best to scare the 44-year-old woman, identified only as "SM" for confidentiality reasons. University of Iowa Department of Neurology / AP An undated image of a brain scan ...
Murkowski: Alaskans Rejected Politics of Anger
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(Nov.18) -- Sen. Lisa Murkowksi, claiming an improbable write-in victory in Alaska's Senate race, signaled her independence Thursday and said voters in the state rejected the politics of anger in choosing her over a tea party candidate endorsed by Sarah Palin. "The numbers are what they are and they clearly indicate Alaskans have not only spoken, they have written it down," she said in an interview from Anchorage with NBC's "Today" show. Murkowski's ultra-conservative Republican opponent, Joe Miller, has yet to concede, but the Associated Press called the race for the incumbent on Wednesday ...
Attack Ads: In the Screening Room
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Opinion: After 9/11 -- We Have Nothing to Hate But Hate Itself
By Sherry Jones - AOL News(Sept. 10) -- Shortly before my book "The Jewel of Medina" was going to his store shelves, my U.S. publisher pulled the plug. The book is about A'isha, the most powerful and influential woman in the history of Islam. It presents the religion and its founders in a clear, objective -- human -- fashion, wrapped in one of the most beautiful and poignant love stories ever told. Nevertheless, three months before the August 2008 publication date, Denise Spellberg, a professor of Middle Eastern studies at the University of Texas, read an advance copy and warned the higher-ups at Random House that it ...
Opinion: We're Becoming a Nation of Haters
By Noah Blumenthal - AOL News(July 9) -- California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa takes pride in opposing the Obama administration. Democratic Reps. Henry Waxman and Nancy Pelosi played that role when George W. Bush was in office. Keith Olbermann provides a nightly list of "Worst Persons in the World," a personal hate list as much as anything. And Rush Limbaugh's hate rants range from drug addicts to illegal immigrants to, of course, all things liberal. The BP oil disaster spawned hate ranging from The Wall Street Journal to ihatebp.com. There is a trend in America in which we are more and more idolizing people who have ...
Opinion: What Are We So Afraid Of?
By Marcia Meier - AOL News(May 26) -- Fear. Can you feel it? Right there in the pit of your stomach. It's a gnawing, knotty presence that makes your pulse quicken and your mouth go dry. Fear has taken the nation hostage. It's a collective anxiety rooted in 9/11 and fueled by years of war on two fronts. Add to that the collapse of many of the nation's biggest banks and two years of job losses, bankruptcies, home foreclosures and lack of health insurance. Mix with divisive politics driven by radio talk show hosts and special interests, and you have a recipe for a destructive us-vs.-them mentality. Surveys show we have ...
Politics of Fear Still Very Much Alive
By Dave - Politics DailyJanuary 20, 2009: "We come together because we have chosen hope over fear and unity of purpose over conflict and discord." February 5th, 2009: "Because we know that if we do not act, a bad situation will become dramatically worse and a crisis will turn into a catastrophe for families and businesses." Boy I'm sure glad we elected the hope-y and change-y president over that mean old scaremonger from the GOP! Calm down, Dave. It's just words, man, just words. ...
Politics of Fear
By Dave - Politics DailyUh-oh! Looks like some of Obama's ardent supporters (Moveon.org) are still using the "Politics of Fear&qutot; This despite Obama saying quite clearly that we should not use fear to score political points. Or maybe that's just fear of terrorists. Fear of Republicans is apparently quite alright.Hotair, from whence I was tipped to the moveon ad, has a good response for the worried mom: mom here hasn't yet grasped that (a) President McCain won't be setting Iraq policy for the next 18 years, let alone the next hundred, (b) MoveOn's candidate of choice has himself been dropping some dark hints ...
'Clinton's Laws of Politics'
By David Knowles - Politics DailyHere's handy video from 2004, when John Kerry was the Democratic nominee, and the party was all reading from the same script. So here's your question for the day. ...
Can't Stand the Heat?
By Dave - Politics DailyHillary's new campaign message to Barack is cutting... If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. BAM! But Obama gives it right back, not having any of it and appealing to not using fear and "calculation" to divide us. It's a nice sentiment and I'm certain it plays well to the areas where Obama does well. College educated liberals and such. Just as Clinton's message will likely resonate with the blue-collar folks she's been having such great success with. What I find interesting, and Obama fans find irritating, is that Hillary's line of attack sounds like it could have came from ...
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