|
|
|
Add free news widgets to your website and blog
|
|
Top Blogs | Art | Business | Entertainment | Health | Internet | Politics Programming | Science | Society | Sports | Technology | Top News | Video games | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Art and design Autos Books and Literature Entertainment Games Health Humor Internet Life Movies Music Nature and science News Personal Politics Software Sports Technology Travel |
Bozell Column: 'Weeds' and Marijuana Chic The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy reported last month that a teenager who has been depressed in the past year was more than twice as likely to have used marijuana than teenagers who have not reported being depressed (25 percent compared with 12 percent). The study said marijuana use increased the risk of developing mental disorders by 40 percent. So much for the "harmless" nature of pot.
There are more worrisome statistics still. The 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that among Americans age 12 and older there were 14.8 million current users of marijuana and 4.2 million Americans classified with dependency or abuse of marijuana. Addiction is a real threat. Another 2006 report found 16.1 percent of drug treatment admissions were for marijuana as the primary drug of abuse. This compares to six percent in 1992.
There surely are multiple reasons to explain the increasing use of this drug. But one reason for the trend is surely its glamorizati newsbusters.org Friday, July 04, 2008 Colombia: Íngrid Betancourt and Other Hostages Rescued Colombian bloggers praise the government for the military operation that rescued 15 hostages held by the FARC, all without a single shot being fired. This has proven to be yet another blow to the guerrilla group. Others analyze the media coverage provided to the event saying that Betancourt's rescue overshadowed the other 14 hostages. globalvoicesonline.org Friday, July 04, 2008 NBC's Pete Williams Goes Gooey for Greenhouse Conservative media critics know New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse as an overtly liberal reporter who has marched in pro-abortion protests and gives speeches about her crying at rock concerts about how conservatives have ruined the country and mangled the promise of the baby-boomer generation. But at the end of the PBS chat show Washington Week on June 27, NBC's Pete Williams praised her as a clarinet virtuoso of a reporter, the best the Supreme Court has ever seen.
GWEN IFILL, host: Before we go tonight, we want you to join us in saying congratulations and farewell to Washington Week's longest serving panelist. Linda Greenhouse has been covering the Supreme Court for the New York Times for 30 years. That's more than 2,800 bylined stories.... She's leaving the Times, among other things, to teach at Yale - what Chief Justice John Roberts, a Harvard man, recently called one of the best law schools in New Haven. I have to ask, though, what is it like to compete against newsbusters.org Friday, July 04, 2008 N.Y. Times Reporter: We're OK With Obama's Centrist Head Fakes New York Times political reporter Adam Nagourney appeared on the Charlie Rose show on PBS on June 27 to demonstrate how reporters have noticed Barack Obama trying to dance away from the hard-left positions he took in the primaries, but they still want to paint him as a special politician, not a typical one. John McCain, on the other hand, has a muddled message:
ROSE: Adam, what have you noticed about the Obama campaign? Where is it tacking?
ADAM NAGOURNEY: The candidate himself has tacked noticeably to the center on a whole bunch of issues this week, you know, whether it's his reaction to the gun control case by the court or by the surveillance vote in Congress. I mean, he's clearly taking positions now that he would have not have taken during the primary.
That tends to happen in most races. I'm not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing. He has more freedom to do it, because I think that Democrats are so intent on winning that they're giving him some latitude. You have not seen him newsbusters.org Friday, July 04, 2008 Morning Joe to Maddow: 'You've Got the Clinton Cackle Down' New chapter in the lack-of-love fest between Joe Scarborough and Rachel Maddow. As noted here and here, the pair have clashed in the past. The GOP-congressman-turned-MSNBC-h... and the Air America personality got into it again on last evening's Race for the White House, with Joe [guest-hosting for David Gregory] eventually accusing Rachel of perfectly capturing the Clinton cackle.
View video here.
The point of departure was Maddow's insistence against all evidence that Obama hasn't softened his out-of-Iraq-in-16-months position.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: The exact quote here, Rachel, and again, Rachel, you are obviously the only person here that did not hear this quote from the campaign manager, quote: "we will be --
Cut to Maddow, laughing heartily.
SCARBOROUGH: -- out of Iraq at 16 months, at the most." And then [Obama] went ahead and said yes, "because I'm the Commander-in-Chief, but I will still listen" --
Back to Maddow, literally doubling over in laughter.
SCARBOROU newsbusters.org Friday, July 04, 2008 Happy Fourth of July from all of us at NewsBusters! Topics in today's show: a skewed LA Times poll, further declines in Iraq violence, Heather Locklear's depression, and your tax dollars at work creating an anti-flatulence vaccine for sheep.Like the show? Get involved! Add NewsBusted as a friend on MySpace, do battle with the leftists on our YouTube channel, or embed today's episode on your blog. Doing any of the above helps us take NB's message of truth to people who'd never see it otherwise.Think you're funny? Send us your (short) jokes to rightstuffcomedy@yahoo.com. If we use them, we'll pay you $50. newsbusters.org Friday, July 04, 2008 Washington Post & Other Papers Lose 27th Amendment to the Constitution Nearly two years ago on Newsbusters, I floated a proposal that newspapers require their editorial and other writers to police themselves for accuracy by requiring them to turn in footnotes with their copy. The process would force writers to check information they think they know that isn't so.
Had editors at the Washington Post, Hartford Courant, Sacramento Bee and Raleigh News & Observer taken my advice, they could have prevented a howler of an error from appearing on their opinion pages this week, in which a writer and fact-checking editors at all four papers apparently forgot the existence of the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
In an op-ed titled (in the Washington Post version) "Three Cheers for July 2," writer Andrew Trees writes:
The Bill of Rights as we know it also is not what was initially proposed. The original first two amendments, one of which concerned the number of constituents each member of Congress had and one regarding congressmen's salarie newsbusters.org Friday, July 04, 2008 Beijing Announces Traffic Rules to Combat Air Pollution Danwei says Beijing recently announced traffic rules that will be in effect during the Olympics. The rules dictate that from July 20th to September 20th 2008, only cars with license plates ending in odd numbers can drive, among other rules. Authorities estimate the new rules will cut down on Beijing's traffic by 70 percent [zh]. [...] globalvoicesonline.org Friday, July 04, 2008 Rising costs cancel 4th of July celebrations. The rising costs of imported fireworks, local budget crunches, “high fuel and transportation costs,” and the tight economy have canceled fireworks shows across the country.
What you may not see tonight: thinkprogress.org Friday, July 04, 2008 Rosie O'Donnell: Being on 'The View' Like Getting Raped in Prison Wow, that Rosie O'Donnell is one classy gal, isn't she?On Wednesday, the "comedienne" did a guest stint at a Cyndi Lauper concert in Vancouver, Canada, during which she called Ann Coulter a bitch, and rather indelicately compared her experience on "The View" to the scene in the movie "Born Innocent" when Linda Blair was raped in the shower at a girls' reformatory.I kid you not.What follows is a partial transcript of this disgrace (video embedded right), along with a clip from Friday's "Red Eye" on Fox News featuring a response from guest Ann Coulter (readers are warned of strong language and sexual content): I hate Ann Coulter. That bitch is annoying, let me tell you right now...And speaking of annoying, remember "The View?" Do you get it here in Canada? It was a cute, little tea party show with the ladies turned into a women's prison film. We were tough girls elbowing each other shaving down spoons into shank (?), "Come here, you newsbusters.org Friday, July 04, 2008 1 2 3
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Available opinions archives.
|
Widgets -
Premium News widgets -
News widgets -
Opinions widgets -
Video Widgets -
Web Games -
News search -
News directory -
RSS feeds -
Search RSS feeds -
Opinions RSS feeds
Aggregated News:
Top news - Business - Entertainment - Health - Industry - Internet - IT - Politics - Science - Sports - Technology - USA - Video games - World news
Feedzilla's articles:
Mattresses
© 2008 Butterfly Effect SA
Aggregated News:
Top news - Business - Entertainment - Health - Industry - Internet - IT - Politics - Science - Sports - Technology - USA - Video games - World news
Feedzilla's articles:
Mattresses
© 2008 Butterfly Effect SA