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Post-War Mental Health Woes: Gender a Key Factor
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 29) -- The "battle of the sexes" might prove to be more than just a tired cliche: According to a new study, a gendered distinction in the mental health problems that plague military servicemembers might help experts identify effective prevention and treatment strategies. Female veterans are more likely to be diagnosed with depression after serving in a war zone, while men appear more prone to post-traumatic stress disorder. The San Fransisco VA Medical Center study of 330,000 veterans, all of whom served between 2002 and 2008, found a clear divergence between male and female ...
Kirk, Giannoulias Spar in Illinois Senate Debate, but No Knockout Blows
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyCHICAGO -- Illinois Senate rivals Democrat Alexi Giannoulias and Republican Mark Kirk clashed over character in their debate here on Tuesday night, landing no knockout blows in a highly negative race that has been deadlocked for weeks. The debate -- the second of three -- comes as both campaigns are focused on turning out their base vote as polls show some 15 percent of Illinois voters seem hopelessly undecided as to who should fill the seat once held by President Obama. Meanwhile, the Illinois airwaves are blanketed with ads suggesting the race is between a mob banker and a serial ...
The Mark Kirk and Richard Blumenthal Cases: What NYT and Post Told Readers
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyNow that Senate front-runners Mark Kirk and Richard Blumenthal have both been snared by wartime lies, it is an apt time to codify the Iron Law of Political Fabrication: If you insist on peddling fiction in a political campaign, fabricate untruths about your opponent's conduct, not your own military service. Why Blumenthal, Connecticut's longtime Democratic attorney general, and Kirk, a five-term Illinois GOP congressman, felt compelled to embellish their military records remains a mystery best left to Freudian analysis. Moralists have rendered their own harsh verdicts on Blumenthal and Kirk, ...
Mark Kirk's Week in the Hot Seat: A Timeline
By Dana Chivvis - Politics DailyMark Kirk's horrible, terrible, no-good very bad week keeps getting worse. Everything was sunny for Kirk, the Republican candidate for Barack Obama's Senate seat in Illinois, as he headed into Memorial Day Weekend. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., a Democrat, was reportedly about to back his campaign, and he had won extra credit with Jewish groups by supporting a bill to prohibit federal funding for companies in violation of the Iran Sanctions Act. But by the end of the week, storm clouds were gathering. And by now, of course, his campaign is swept up in a veritable perfect storm of unfavorable ...
Mark Kirk on the Defensive in Illinois Senate Race After Military Award Flap
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFor the first time in the Illinois Senate race, GOP nominee Rep. Mark Kirk is on the defensive after being caught claiming a Navy award he did not earn, Intelligence Officer of the Year in 1999. Both of Chicago's daily newspapers ran editorials on Wednesday blasting Kirk, a commander in the Navy Reserves since 1989, for embellishing his service record. Kirk's rival is Democratic candidate Alexi Giannoulias, the state treasurer who never served in the military. Giannoulias had been facing criticism from Kirk over the failure of his family-owned Broadway Bank, where Giannoulias once worked ...
Opinion: Blumenthal Finally Goes to War
By Alan Colmes - AOL News(May 18) -- Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal seemed a shoo-in to replace Chris Dodd in the U.S. Senate. That is, until word came that he told an audience in 2008 that he had served in Vietnam. Blumenthal never served in Vietnam. The story broke Tuesday in The New York Times. Hey, wait a minute! Isn't The New York Times, if you listen to just about every conservative in the United States, actually named "The Liberal New York Times," and solely devoted to overthrowing every right-wing officeholder? According to Kevin Rennie, a political columnist for The Hartford Courant and a ...
Obama Denies Rebuking Clark
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyAt a press availability today, Sen. Barack Obama denied that he had repudiated General Wesley Clark's comments about Sen. John McCain's military service. Clark said on Sunday's Face the Nation that McCain's military service was not necessarily a qualification for the office of president. "I don't think that riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president," he said. The McCain campaign produced no fewer than eight press releases from former military supporters of McCain decrying Clark's comments and calling them an attack.Yesterday, Sen. Obama gave a ...
'Heroes' - New McCain Spot
By Greg McNeilly - Politics DailyFollowing up on yesterday's mulit-generational bio-spot, John McCain's campaign has released another :90 second spot titled "Heroes." ...
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