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.

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— 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."

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,"

Small Nuclear War Could Reverse Global Warming for Years?

Small Nuclear War Could Reverse Global Warming for Years?

Fuck it.........Drop the Bomb to Save Us All

Researchers: Gene therapy may treat depression - USATODAY.com

Researchers: Gene therapy may treat depression - USATODAY.

Most modern depression drugs aim to affect brain levels of the hormone, serotonin, which was recently linked to p11 in its effects on mood. So, Kaplitt and colleagues, who included Nobel Prize-winning brain cell researcher Paul Greengard of Rockefeller University, first sought to cure mice bred to have depressive symptoms such as listlessness by infecting the "reward center" of their brain with a virus carrying a gene for the protein. The team has pioneered safety experiments aimed at treating human Parkinson's patients with gene therapy.

Tea Party Patriots Warn Congressional Republicans - NYTimes.com

Tea Party Patriots Warn Congressional Republicans - NYTimes.com: "Representative Joe L. Barton, Republican of Texas, heard the displeasure firsthand when he addressed the conference on Friday night. He called the $61 billion in cuts that cleared the House “the largest spending cuts in history” and a “good start in the right direction,” but Tea Party activists were having none of it.

“More!” the crowd cried."