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Scientists have long searched for a biological basis for psychopathy, a behavioral disorder attributed to chronic immorality. While previous studies have found no clear evidence, Professor Declan Murphy of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London believes he has found an area of the brain that is decidedly different in a psychopath as compared to a normal person. It is unsurprising that much of the research to date has focused on the amygdale (the part of the brain involved with emotions and aggression) and the orbitofrontal cortex (which deals in decision making). However, an unstudied area is the uncinate...

The Talented Mr. Madoff By JULIE CRESWELL and LANDON THOMAS Jr. /snip An easy answer is that Mr. Madoff was a charlatan of epic proportions, a greedy manipulator so hungry to accumulate wealth that he did not care whom he hurt to get what he wanted. But some analysts say that a more complex and layered observation of his actions involves linking the world of white-collar finance to the world of serial criminals. They wonder whether good old Bernie Madoff might have stolen simply for the fun of it, exploiting every relationship in his life for decades while studiously manipulating...

Rahm the Enforcer 12/28/08 In Washington, where big personalities create even bigger legends, Democrat Rahm Emanuel has achieved mythic status. He throws cells phones. He once sent a dead fish to a pollster who displeased him. At a dinner to celebrate Bill Clinton’s 1992 election, Emanuel repeatedly stabbed the table with a steak knife, shouting the names of his political enemies. Journalists have trouble quoting him, because his routine utterances are replete with profanity.“Rahm is a little intense,” Barack Obama once said.As even Emanuel concedes, “I wake up some mornings hating me, too.”Emanuel’s political intensity has a darker side. His...

An abortionist who claims to have destroyed more than 20,000 unborn children and who once was Hillary Clinton's OB-GYN says he is doing "God's work" when he terminates a pregnancy. "Embryos and fetuses spontaneously aborted – most, but not all of those 'canceled' by 'God' – are ... luckless human souls," wrote William Harrison, referring to an ancient poem describing the plight of mankind. "But a few spontaneous abortions occur in desired pregnancies with no discernable abnormalities. For those girls and women and their families whose circumstances would make their babies 'luckless human souls,' I 'cancel' them before they become...

HOW COULD SHE GO THERE!? Hillary, Political Psychopath* http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/25/123312/547/223/522533Sun May 25, 2008 at 03:40:57 PM PDT WHEN YOU SAY THE WORD "sociopath"most people think of serial killers. But although many serial killers are sociopaths, there are far more sociopaths leading ordinary lives. Chances are you know a sociopath. I say "ordinary lives," but what they do is far from ordinary. Sociopaths are people without a conscience. They don't have the normal empathy the rest of us take for granted. They don't feel affection. They don't care about others. But most of them are good observers, and they have learned how...

OBAMA TAKES ALL 3; AS HILLARY CRIES AGAIN

"Today" show Matt Lauer asked presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton on Friday if she has a connection to indicted developer Tony Rezko after flashing an undated photo of the two posing with President bill Clinton. ... Clinton said she did not remember taking the photo and said she doesn't even remember meeting Rezko...

It’s no secret that Hillary Clinton views herself as a member of the God Squad, divinely anointed to shepherd the masses to greater gender consciousness. “Hillary acts as though she has been chosen by God,” recounts Edward Klein, author of The Truth about Hillary. “I find her to be among the most self-righteous people I’ve ever known,” explains former New York Times reporter Bob Boorstin. And during her senate campaign Hillary glowed approvingly whenever Black preachers declared her “a woman of God.” But how many persons know how Mrs. Clinton’s messianic streak may lead to her political undoing? During her...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that calling the families of the campaign staffers taken hostage at her Rochester, N.H., office last week was the most difficult part of the ordeal. "Those were the most emotional moments, I have to tell you, calling them in the first instants to tell them what had happened," she told reporters after a campaign stop in eastern Iowa. Clinton said that while it was a traumatic experience for her staffers, "they performed magnificently under pressure." "They were cool, they looked out for one another," the Democratic presidential candidate said. "They kept...

Police in Clackamas County are looking for a man they say locked three live pigs in his house in the hopes that they would trash the place. All because he was upset the home went into foreclosure. Lovett bought a home on SE Wildcat Mountain Drive in Eagle Creek a few years ago. In January the house went into foreclosure. Neighbors told police that Lovett was extremely distraught over the the situation. He apparently told several that he had put the animals inside the house over a week ago and even joked about the fact that they did not have...

EXCLUSIVE Stab maniac out shopping Morgan ... in town centre     By JOHN COLES  A CRAZED knifeman doing life for stabbing 17 women shoppers is being let out unsupervised — to go SHOPPING.Woman-hater David Morgan, 43, was warned he may NEVER be freed over his terrifying rampage in a department store.But the psychiatric patient now spends up to four hours a day wandering among unsuspecting female shoppers in Stafford town centre.Morgan, serving TEN life sentences, is even allowed to go boozing.   Terror ... after Morgan's 1994 knife rampage     On one trip he sported a T-shirt...

Clinton turns 60: Second wind with the Stones By Laszlo Trankovits Aug 18, 2006, 12:20 GMT Washington - Bill Clinton is a master of self invention. Nearly every American knows the photograph of the star-struck 16- year-old youth, worshipfully shaking the hand of President John F Kennedy - symbolic of his teenage dream to live in the White House someday. Nearly six years after the end of his spectacular presidency, Clinton is still mining the suggestive power of photographs. His picture is everywhere - at the AIDS conference in Toronto with Bill Gates, in Southeast Asia with the elder President...

A psychologist who teaches at Johns Hopkins University came to Little Rock last week to work on his book that will propose that Bill Clinton has a mental condition that's actually an element of historic greatness.The author, John Gartner, contended in a previous book that Americans have achieved inordinate wealth because ours is a nation of people who had the gumption to take chances. From that heritage, his theory goes, we have seen the spread of a gene that causes the occasional person to have chemical and brain wave actions called hypomanic.

WILLIAM Jefferson Blythe III was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Ark. After his mother remarried, he took the family surname, Clinton. Clinton was a good student. He enjoyed playing the saxophone and even considered a professional musical career. While in high school, a fortuitous meeting with President John Kennedy led him to choose a life of public service.

DOCTORS should be allowed to help to kill terminally ill patients with or without their consent, a leading professor of medical ethics said yesterday. Emeritus Professor Len Doyal said that doctor-assisted deaths were already taking place in Britain on a “regular and recurring basis” and needed to be better regulated. He said that many doctors took part in a form of euthanasia by withdrawing essential treatment to “alleviate suffering”. Writing in the Royal Society of Medicine journal Clinical Ethics, Professor Doyal said: “When doctors withdraw life-sustaining treatment, such as feeding tubes from severely incompetent patients, it should morally be recognised...

ISRAEL’S prime minister designate, Ehud Olmert, yesterday denounced the president of Iran as a “psychopath” and likened him to Adolf Hitler, in a growing confrontation over the Iranian nuclear programme.The attack on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel to be “wiped off the map”, came as it emerged that the head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, secretly discussed the nuclear programme with officials in Washington last week. Meir Dagan, the Mossad chief, is believed to have passed on the latest Israeli intelligence on covert Iranian plans for enriching uranium, with a warning that Tehran may be nearer...

Man confesses in grisly death By Bryan Dean and Chad Previch Staff Writers PURCELL - A loner here confessed Friday to killing his 10-year-old neighbor, Jamie Rose Bolin, telling FBI agents searching a container in his apartment: "Go ahead and arrest me. She is in there. I chopped her up," police wrote in an affidavit. Kevin Ray Underwood, 26, intended to eat Jamie's body and had targeted other potential victims, police said. Investigators alleged Saturday that Underwood hit Jamie on the head three times with a wooden cutting board, smothered her with his hand and duct tape, tried to cut...

(Former Vice President Al Gore, who previously supported the Defense of Marriage Act and civil unions, was the keynote speaker at the Human Rights Campaign Gala on March 25, 2006, at the Century Plaza Hotel. This is an excerpt of his speech.) Abraham Lincoln once said, "I do good and I feel good. I do bad and I feel bad, and that is my religion." As a Christian, I was taught at an early age that the single most important departure in Christianity from the Judeo-Christian tradition as a whole was embodied in the simple teaching -- God is Love....

N.J. Nurse Gets Consecutive Life Terms By GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes ago Killer Charles Cullen has been sentenced multiple consecutive life sentences in prison and will not be eligible for parole for 127 1/2 years. Relatives of the victims of New Jersey's worst serial killer lashed out at Cullen, a former nurse, during his sentencing hearing Thursday, calling him "the monster" and blaming him for wrecking their lives. "My heart, it aches for my son," said Mary Strenko, whose 21-year-old son was Cullen's youngest victim. "I walk around with a hole in my heart." Cullen, 46, was...