Sunday, March 6, 2011

Anonymous donors spent $132M on 2010 campaign ads - Politics - Decision 2010 - msnbc.com

Anonymous donors spent $132M on 2010 campaign ads - Politics - Decision 2010 - msnbc.com

— Anonymous or unlimited corporate spending allowed by the Citizens United ruling represented 15 percent of all federal political spending in 2010.

— Spending allowed by Citizens United accounted for $85 million in all 2010 Senate races, $40 million of which went to the ten costliest contests.

Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy - NYTimes.com

Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy - NYTimes.com: "Then, like many psychiatrists, he treated 50 to 60 patients in once- or twice-weekly talk-therapy sessions of 45 minutes each. Now, like many of his peers, he treats 1,200 people in mostly 15-minute visits for prescription adjustments that are sometimes months apart. Then, he knew his patients’ inner lives better than he knew his wife’s; now, he often cannot remember their names. Then, his goal was to help his patients become happy and fulfilled; now, it is just to keep them functional."

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Bill Summary

Bill Summary: "This bill defines 'sharia' as the set of rules, precepts, instructions, or edicts which are said to emanate directly or indirectly from the god of Allah or the prophet Mohammed and which include directly or indirectly the encouragement of any person to support the abrogation, destruction, or violation of the United States or Tennessee Constitutions, or the destruction of the national existence of the United States or the sovereignty of this state,"

Bill Summary

Bill Summary: "This bill defines 'sharia' as the set of rules, precepts, instructions, or edicts which are said to emanate directly or indirectly from the god of Allah or the prophet Mohammed and which include directly or indirectly the encouragement of any person to support the abrogation, destruction, or violation of the United States or Tennessee Constitutions, or the destruction of the national existence of the United States or the sovereignty of this state,"