Experts: Paranoia may be more common than thought

If you think they're out to get you, you're not alone. Paranoia, once assumed to afflict only schizophrenics, may be a lot more common than previously thought.

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Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new President will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil, and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and to hope for the best.

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Glenn Beck mysteriously killed. The GOP driven out of Congress. Obama proclaims himself the "Lost Imam." And more. It's January 2011.

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Touching the elevator button, shaking hands? Millions aren't out of FEAR OF THE BUG.

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Right-Wing Paranoia: Death Polls and Threats of Military Coup Against Obama

Secret Service Wants to Know Who Posted Poll on Facebook Asking 'Should Obama Be Killed?' Amid Continuing High Spike in Death Threats Against the President; Meanwhile, Columnist at Right-Wing Magazine Predicts a 'Seven Days in May'-Style Coup d'Etat to Overthrow Obama and Establi …

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Conspiracy theorists -- and by conspiracy theorists, I don't mean anyone who believes in particular conspiracies (which occur all the time), but rather those who maintain that a single vast conspiracy suffices to explain the better part of human affairs -- claim to be hard-boiled …

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Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798. These four acts of Congress were meant to protect the new nation from French immigrants. They reflected a broad paranoia that French newcomers would poison American minds and weaken the new American government.

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The current bestsellers by conservative pundits are gripping. One "weds the operatic impulses of the demagogue to the grim mutterings of the conspiracy theorist." Reading another is "sort of like hearing 'Animal Farm' as told by Dick Cheney."

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My fellow Americans, and by that I mean only the true Americans.

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excerpt: ""Glenn Beck's history of indulging in extremism -- not just turning a blind eye to its presence, but promoting it outright to an audience of millions -- is so deep and wide that whatever indiscretions Jones might be guilty of fade into total insignificance.""

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White Americans Attacking Our President

Despite the hopeful (and premature) declarations that America is in a "post-racial" place in history, events this year have proved these false. What are these events? First, an enormous increase against the President's life.

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"I believe what we're seeing is an orchestrated attempt to radically change this country from what the founders had in mind," Broden said. "There is a deliberate attempt on the part of Marxist, socialist and … Darwin atheists who are changing this country."

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"I'm talking about the extremists within [liberal] ranks who have become very, very vocal," Donohue said. "And over the last several decades what we've seen is an all-out assault. This kind of new atheism.

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From the original LA Time's article -- Nation again awash in 'Wirtism':

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Glenn screaches with tremors in his voice, " There is a revolution going on and they think they can get away with it quietly..... There is a coup going on ...it has been done through the guise of an election."

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The article is on two pages. If you prefer to view it on one page, with fewer graphics, click here.Is the federal government building secret camps to lock up people who criticize President Barack Obama?

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The truth is that the factors that made politics so ugly in the Clinton years — the paranoia of a significant minority of Americans and the cynical willingness of leading Republicans to cater to that paranoia — are as strong as ever.

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Glen Beck, of Fox News after mounting losses in advertising. "Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention," said John Michaels, Senior Communications Manager at LexisNexis in an email to ColorOfChange.org. "We have suspended further advertising during Mr.

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This certificate instantly proves that Brian Cohen, the guy everyone mistook for Jesus Christ as shown in the documentary "Life of Brian," was actually born a Kenyan.

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On privacy, paranoia, cultural trends and the online experience

I had been toying with publishing a reworked version of this article for some time. I know it got virtually no notice as it was written when I was first coming out of the greenhouse, months back.

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Michael Jackson found himself in the files of the East German secret police because of a concert he gave right next to the Berlin Wall in 1988, Bild reports.

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The human mind is alway prey to deep interior impulses we can't consciously control, this being due to the operative parts are also the deepest and oldest parts or our brains

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Narcissism.  Xenophobia.  Superstition.  Bigotry.  Sadism.  Cultism.  Denial.  Sexual predation.  Arrested development.  Delusion.  Bullying.  Dissociation.  Paranoia.  Repression.  Obsession.  Avarice.  Egotism.  Insecurity.  Pathological lying.  God complex. …

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The world press is marking the 35th anniversary of the bar code. So many people have grown up with it that it no longer appears to be the sinister innovation it once seemed; as my friend Jackson Lears remarked to the New York Times:

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"But even more disturbing is that people are so upset about being called out on the lack of openness and transparency in the process, they are now using intimidation and "blacklisting" to try and silence the DSM critics: What was particularly chilling about this episode is t …

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Moreover, this week we learned that the administration is trying to get the Arabs themselves to write the Quartet's new plan.

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