MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'holder'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:23:49 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4813379&cid=t_174508_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F05%2F11%2Fholder-on-the-situation-of-violence%2F In 2010, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the launch of the “Defending Childhood” initiative to help prevent children’s and young people’s exposure to violence, mitigate its effects and put an end to cycles of violence that undermine the public’s health. During this webcast, he described his vision for this initiative and its progress so far. 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The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4813379 Wed, 11 May 2011 04:01:51 +0100 4813379 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4684276&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FgEBqscRwQUU%2F By Tim LynchYesterday, Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, held a press conference and announced that Khalid Shaik Mohammed (KSM) would be prosecuted for war crimes before a military tribunal.   It's probably fair to say, as some newspapers have noted, that the idea of bringing KSM to New York City to be tried in civilian court for the 9/11 atrocity was Holder's "signature" decision since becoming attorney general--and that that idea is now dead.    However, Obama and Holder conceded a place for tribunals more than a year ago and they could never really offer a good explanation as to why some persons would go to civilian court and why others would go before tribunals.  Like Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld, Obama and his people would just sorta decide case-by-case. Conservatives are ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4684276 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:12:23 +0100 4684276 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4549738&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FamnxoVJRyRA%2F By Michael F. CannonThe latest federal judge to declare ObamaCare constitutional claimed that Congress can regulate "mental activity," like the mental activity of choosing not to purchase health insurance.  Or shoes and ships and sealing wax.  Or my book. National Review editor Rich Lowry has an excellent column explaining why this latest, ahem, legal victory for ObamaCare "delivered a more telling blow against the law in the course of ruling it constitutional than critics have in assailing it as a travesty...It's the most self-undermining defense of the constitutionality of a dubious statute since then–solicitor general Elena Kagan told the Supreme Court that under campaign-finance reform, the government could ban certain pamphlets." I’m Not So Sure I Like Your Mental Activity i... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4549738 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:32:51 +0100 4549738 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4309719&cid=t_174508_115_f&fid=38592&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiolopolis.com%2Findex.php%2Fmy-profile%2Fmy-blog%2Fgetting-the-most-bang-for-your-buck-with-medical-equipment.html The American public seeks out products that offer them the most “bang for their buck” so to speak.  They want a car that offers great gas mileage, great safety features, and a great warranty.  They want a television that has a 50-inch flat screen, HD, and at least 1080p.  They want cell phones with unlimited texting, large data plans, and touch screens.  Durability, versatility, and cost efficiency is how most Americans do their smart shopping.Even TimeRead More... (Source: Radiolopolis Blogs) Radiolopolis Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4309719 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:06:36 +0100 4309719 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4258841&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FIQ7J2n-QcAc%2F By Julian SanchezLate last week, Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick Leahy (D-VT) in which he agreed to implement an array of policies designed to check abuse of USA PATRIOT Act powers. These include more thorough record keeping and more disclosures to Congress, prompt notification of telecommunications companies when gag orders have expired, and updated retention and dissemination procedures to govern the vast quantities of information obtained using National Security Letters. In itself, this is all to the good. But civil libertarians should pause before popping the champagne corks. Last year, the fight over the reauthorization of several expiring PATRIOT provisions opened the door to the comprehensive reform that sweeping legislation so... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4258841 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:13:57 +0100 4258841 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3891643&cid=t_174508_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F08%2Fdr-grady-michael-holder-avoid-charges-stabbing-nurse%2F Dr. Grady Michael Holder will not be charged with a criminal offense after he stabbed a nurse in the Sky Ridge Medical Center in Colorado. Holder who was in the intensive care unit being treated for alcohol-related and other medical conditions reportedly called a nurse into his room, where he stabbed her three times. (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3891643 Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:01:34 +0100 3891643 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3862055&cid=t_174508_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F08%2F12%2Fapa-tracks-attendees-with-rfid-badges%2F I’m attending the American Psychological Association’s (APA’s) annual meeting again this year. I tend to go every few years, as it’s a big convention (over 10,000 attendees) and can be a bit overwhelming. My symposium submission about online mental health interventions also got accepted, so I’m looking forward to chairing a great talk by researchers from around the world (today in Room 29B at 10:00 am). I pre-registered, so got my registration badge in the mail (hey SXSW, this is a great idea you should implement!). Then all you have to do is go to the registration area and pick up your badge holder and convention bag. There are two interesting things about the convention this year — the badges come with attached passive RFID chips. And the APA encourage... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3862055 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:30:17 +0100 3862055 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3560192&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fwomens-rights-what-happens-in-prison%2F photo: Thinkstock Everyone knows prison isn’t the nicest place in the world – we’ve all caught a minute or two of Lockdown on MSNBC or Locked Up Abroad on NatGeo. One would hope that those governing the prisons would be principled individuals; after all, inmates are in prison for committing a crime, and you’d think the guards would set an example. If that sounds a little too Hollywood, it is. According to a recent Mother Jones article, inmates at the Ohio Reformatory for Women who complained of abuse by guards were thrown into the hole (solitary confinement). As Just Detention International (formerly Stop Prisoner Rape) points out, the process of banishing prisoners to solitary confinement after reporting an incident discourages them from reporting abuse – and encoura... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3560192 Wed, 12 May 2010 18:42:38 +0100 3560192 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3511586&cid=t_174508_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F04%2F28%2Fastrazeneca-settles-case-for-520-million%2F AstraZeneca agreed to a $520 million dollar settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and a consortium of state Medicaid agencies without admitting any wrongdoing in its marketing of the atypical antipsychotic drug, Seroquel. “AstraZeneca paid kickbacks to doctors as part of an illegal scheme to market drugs for unapproved uses,” Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of health and human services, said at the event in Washington. She said the company promoted drugs for unapproved uses by children, the elderly, veterans and prisoners. Glenn Engelmann, AstraZeneca’s U.S. general counsel, released a statement saying the company denies the allegations but settled the investigation with the payment. The government said the company also paid for ghostwritten journal articles, and marketed the... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3511586 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:25:06 +0100 3511586 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3467739&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FeP19lQcwsuU%2F By Julian SanchezAs I explain in yesterday’s BloggingHeads dialogue with Eli Lake, I’m chary of relying too much on legislative “sunset” provisions to check abuse of power, especially in the shadowy world of intelligence. (For the fleshed-out version of the argument, see Chris Mooney’s 2004 piece in Legal Affairs.) After all, in January, the Office of the Inspector General had released an absolutely damning report showing that for years, FBI agents systematically manipulated their incredibly broad National Security Letter authorities to get information about Americans telephone usage without following any legitimate legal process at all. To cover those abuses, officials compounded their crimes by lying to federal courts and refusing to use an auditable compute... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3467739 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:04:02 +0100 3467739 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3231458&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FZlRzM88K57g%2F By Roger PilonToday, Politico Arena asks: Terror trials: Is it time for the administration to retreat and rethink? Is it generally mishandling the terrorism issue? My response: On no issue is President Obama getting acquainted with reality more clearly than terrorism, or so it seems.  He blazed into office, guns holstered, as the anti-Bush, putting Eric Holder’s Justice Department in charge, not of the War on Terror, a phrase he banished from his administration’s lexicon, but of “bringing those who planned and plotted the [9/11] attacks to justice,” as Holder put it in November when he announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others would be given civilian trials in downtown Manhattan.  But as the manifold costs of such a trail became increasingly apparent,... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3231458 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:37:34 +0100 3231458 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3075475&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F_BaInbbZYyM%2F By David BoazIn a report on Attorney General Eric Holder’s approach to seeking the death penalty, NPR reports: A few months after Holder made that statement, he authorized a capital prosecution in Vermont, a state that does not have the death penalty. When Ashcroft brought a federal death penalty case in Vermont seven years ago, the mayor of Burlington called it “an affront to states’ rights” and “not consistent with the values of a majority of Vermonters.” But this time, there was hardly any outcry. So the former antiwar movement doesn’t complain about President Obama’s expansion of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And opponents of capital punishment don’t protest the Obama administration’s seeking the death penalty in liberal... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3075475 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:05:12 +0100 3075475 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3008076&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FyrRVc_fGGUU%2F The Council on Foreign Relations’ Steven Simon makes a difficult case, and he makes it well, regarding the Justice Department’s decision to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in a civilian court in New York City. I agree with his bottom line: no trial can provide closure for the traumas of that day. But a judgment in New York, where the greatest suffering was inflicted, will remind us both of the narrow viciousness of the terrorists’ cause and of the enduring strength of our own values. I say again, this is not an easy case to make, and not just because of the emotions involved. Most people have already made up their mind that 1) KSM is undeserving of such treatment (the same could be said of most mass murderers); 2) that the risks posed to national security by a public trial (incl... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3008076 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:25:23 +0100 3008076 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2992658&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fuu8R-UMQ78U%2F Today, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he plans to move five prisoners from Guantanamo to New York for a civilian trial.  Holder says the prisoners masterminded the 9/11 attacks and will now face the death penalty.  Some journalists and commentators are calling this move a wholesale repudiation of the Bush policy.  Actually, no.  Holder also announced that five other Gitmo prisoners will soon be put on trial before a military commission.  Thus, the Bush framework essentially remains in place.  The Executive will decide on a case-by-case basis who will be held prisoner (overseas, Gitmo, here in the USA), and who will be tried in civilian court, and who will be tried before a military commission. By way of background, these prisoner controversies (habeas corpus, waterboar... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2992658 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:27:01 +0100 2992658 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2934659&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F6e7y8qitCgw%2F This, finally, is too much: Eric Holder, Attorney General of the United States, walked up to former DC Councilman Kevin Chavous at an event and told him to pull an ad criticizing the administration for its opposition to the DC school voucher program. The Attorney General of the United States! This is as outrageous and shameful as it is consistent with other administration hostilities toward free speech (see also here) and freedom of the press. There is a deep revulsion to such behavior in this country. It is not a Republican or a Democratic revulsion, it is an American one. Obama administration officials seem not to understand that, but voters will help them get the message the next time they go to the polls. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2934659 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:29:16 +0100 2934659 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2927289&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fv4NwTDrOfkc%2F This report from USA Today tells the story of several patients who were harassed and threatened by federal agents. Excerpt:  ”In August 2002, federal agents seized six plants from [Diane] Monson’s home and destroyed them.” This report from the San Francisco Chronicle tells the story of Bryan Epis and Ed Rosenthal.  Both men, in separate incidents, were raided, arrested, and prosecuted by federal officials.  The feds called them “drug dealers.”  When the cases came to trial, both men were eager to inform their juries about the actual circumstances surrounding their cases–but they were not allowed to convey those circumstances to jurors.  Federal prosecutors insisted that information concerning the medical aspect of marijuana was “irrele... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2927289 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:32:07 +0100 2927289 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2828186&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FgT-ocop5HCg%2F Despite Barack Obama’s frequent paeans to the value of transparency during the presidential campaign, his Justice Department has incensed civil liberties advocates by parroting the Bush administration’s broad invocations of the “state secrets privilege” in an effort to torpedo lawsuits challenging controversial interrogation and surveillance policies. Though in many cases the underlying facts have already been widely reported, DOJ lawyers implausibly claimed, not merely that particular classified information should not be aired in open court, but that any discussion of the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” of detainees to torture-friendly regimes, or of the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping, would imperil national security. That may—emphasis on m... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2828186 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:51:30 +0100 2828186 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2452380&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FQqeN183F-9U%2F  The current Attorney General, Eric Holder, left DC’s Covington and Burling to return to the Justice Department, where he held a senior post during the Clinton years.  Holder’s mission is to supposedly ”rein in the free market excesses of the last eight years.”  Bush’s people are done with their own crackdown and are now returning to DC’s big law firms to warn their client business firms about the coming crackdown by Holder’s prosecutors.  This is sorta like the GOP legislators who are now trying to lodge complaints about Obama’s spending.  Despite the rhetoric, both sides aggrandize federal power and then enrich themselves (pdf) while advising businesspeople on how to comply with myriad regulations  from the alphabet agencies. F... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2452380 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:38:51 +0100 2452380 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2375840&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FlRSZZkWT9SI%2F Editor’s Note: Cato scholar Ilya Shapiro is blogging about the NAMUDNO v. Holder case from the Supreme Court, and will provide dispatches throughout the Court’s session. As I walk away from the Court, with the sounds of the NAACP rally fading in the distance, I’m no clearer on how this case will be resolved than when I went into the building early this morning. This uncertainty mostly results from the rather technical issues surrounding the Voting Rights Act’s “bailout” provision, as well as how narrowly the Court will want to construe the municipal utility’s challenge (as-applied, facial, or some other novel formulation). What is clear is that the “liberal” justices, especially Ginsburg and Breyer, were downright hostile to the idea o... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2375840 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:12:52 +0100 2375840 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2375846&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F87wxu-u4z3E%2F I write this from the Bar Members’ line waiting to be let into the Supreme Court courtroom for the final argument of the term. Today the Court hears Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No.1 (”NAMUDNO”) v. Holder. This is a challenge to the controversial Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which requires, among other things, any change in election administration in certain states and counties to be “precleared” by the Department of Justice in Washington. This is, of course, a remnant of the Jim Crow era, and southern states’ massive resistance to attempts to enforce the 15th Amendment. In 1965, Congress included Section 5 — which would otherwise be an unconstitutional infringement on peoples’ right to run their own elections locally &#... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2375846 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:49:16 +0100 2375846 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2284346&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FBxOoV0GA-nE%2F Sen. Chuck Grassley, who can always be counted on to stick the federal government’s nose where it doesn’t belong, is criticizing Attorney General Eric Holder’s teeny-tiny steps toward a less oppressive enforcement of drug prohibition. Holder said on Wednesday “that federal agents will target marijuana distributors only when they violate both federal and state law. This is a departure from policy under the Bush administration, which targeted dispensaries under federal law even if they complied with the state’s law allowing sales of medical marijuana.” Grassley says that marijuana is a “gateway” drug to the use of harder drugs and that Holder “is not doing health care reform any good.” As Tim Lynch and I wrote in the Cato Handbook f... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2284346 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:11:34 +0100 2284346 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2284355&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FNoT-w7ex4VU%2F Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement that the federal government will end raids on medical marijuana distributors is terrific news. The Bush administration’s scorched-earth approach to the enforcement of federal marijuana laws was a grotesque misallocation of law enforcement resources. The U.S. government has a limited number of law enforcement personnel, and when a unit is assigned to conduct surveillance on a California hospice, that unit is necessarily neglecting leads in other cases that possibly involve more violent criminal elements. This shift in policy is also more mindful of the constitutional principle of federalism by allowing the states to try different policy approaches, and it is more respectful of the division of opinion within the medical community about ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2284355 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:43:15 +0100 2284355 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2249701&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FzMIFdxay2UA%2F Attorney General Eric Holder said recently that in order to quell the violence spilling over from the drug war in Mexico he will push to reinstate the ban on “assault weapons” in the United States. But, says Legal Policy Analyst David Rittgers in today’s Cato Daily Podcast, a policy like that won’t do much to quell violence. The [drug] cartels have access to lots and lots of money because of our prohibitionist policies in the US. And because of this money they can get these weapons whether we have them legal or illegal…and they’ll have access to the black market to get fully automatic machine guns if they want them. … If you like the war on drugs, you’re going to love the war on guns. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2249701 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:59:56 +0100 2249701 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2249705&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FYME3h3x6VAQ%2F As I said earlier this week, Eric Holder’s push for an “assault weapons” ban is a misguided policy that will not have any serious impact on Mexican drug cartels.  It really ought to be called a “ban on semi-automatic firearms with politically incorrect cosmetic features,” but that doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.  I am pleased to see that CNN is providing coverage of this that notes (1) the difference between semi-automatic sporting arms and machine guns and (2) that Mexican authorities are not releasing the serial numbers of firearms seized from the gangsters.  This is probably because many of these guns are coming from the Mexican government, not American gun stores.  The drug cartels are putting up billboards to recruit soldiers and policemen ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2249705 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:54:31 +0100 2249705 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2234427&cid=t_174508_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FLvSfP3wCOiw%2F Attorney General Eric Holder recently announced that the Obama administration will seek a new federal “assault weapons” ban.  This is an ill-advised policy that defies common sense. The ban would be a revival of a law passed in the early years of the Clinton administration that expired in 2004.  The law prohibited the sale of newly-manufactured magazines holding more than ten rounds of ammunition and having two of five cosmetic features on semi-automatic rifles.  If you had a pistol grip and a detachable magazine, you couldn’t have a bayonet lug.  More recent proposals have attempted to ban “barrel shrouds,” which the rest of the world calls “handguards” - the place you put your hand (instead of on a hot barrel) to prevent burning it while firi... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2234427 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:27:29 +0100 2234427 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1512091&cid=t_174508_125_f&fid=34819&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflapsblog.com%2F2008%2F06%2F12%2Fbarack-obama-watch-another-obama-vp-mistake-eric-holder%2F Former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder and Pardon Attorney Roger Adams testify on the pardon that former President Clinton gave to Marc Rich during a Senate Judiciary Hearing February 14, 2001 in Washington DC Now that James Johnson has resigned as a member of Barack Obama’s Vice President search committee, Flap wonders why a character like Eric Holder continues to serve in the same capacity? In a new book about Bill Clinton, Clinton in Exile by Chicago author Carol Felsenthal, Holder — then the No. 2 man in the Clinton Justice Department, with responsibility for pardons — was seen as “so ambitious to be attorney general in the expected Gore administration” that he “played ball” with a Gore confidant, Jack Quinn, who was Rich’s lawyer. Fe... FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1512091 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:13:46 +0100 1512091 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1311007&cid=t_174508_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F03%2F18%2Fwhats-that-smell-internet-addiction-disorder-in-the-news%2F It must be March, because “Internet addiction disorder” is again making the news rounds, spurred on by a new editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry. It published an editorial by Jerald J. Block, M.D. pushing for “Internet addiction disorder’s” inclusion in the upcoming DSM-V. Block is an Oregon psychoanalytic psychiatrist, not a researcher. So I couldn’t help but wonder what leads him to write such an editorial? Dr. Block owns a patent on technology that can be used to restrict computer access. Dr. Freedman has reviewed this editorial and found no evidence of influence from this relationship. So wait a minute… A patent is potentially worth money if turned into a product (or if the patent holder sues others who already have products tha... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1311007 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:06:41 +0100 1311007