America Talks | with David Zublick

YOU ARE CRAZY: New Psychiatric Guidelines Target Hoarding, Child Temper Tantrums

It’s not a stretch to suggest that Americans are over medicated. In 2011 doctors across the nation wrote an astounding four billion medical prescriptions, amounting to an average of 13 prescriptions for every man, woman and child in the United States. In the next few weeks the American Psychiatric Associations is releasing their updated fifth version their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5); the so-called ‘bible’ of psychiatric diagnoses. The new manual promises to take mental illness and the use of prescription drugs to a whole new level. You may not be considered “crazy” or “mentally ill” today, but under the ...

New Precedent: Armed Domestic Drones Will Soon Be Reality

A new precedent has been set. Despite extensive denial that drone strikes would endanger Americans, Attorney General Eric Holder has now openly admitted that four US citizens were killed through overseas drone strikes since 2009. While not on United States soil, the deaths of the US citizens in nations like Yemen and Pakistan highlight the new precedent being set by US government heads who wish to use drones as a form of lethal enforcement on US soil. With Holder admitting that Americans have already died via drone strikes following his statements that Obama can alreadyinitiate drone strikes on US soil, we are now seeing the way ...

IRS Official In Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office

The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation. Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today. Her successor, Joseph Grant, is taking the fall for misdeeds at the scandal-plagued unit between 2010 and 2012. During at least part of that ...

Report: Military Quietly Grants Itself Domestic Policing Powers

Washington - The Pentagon has quietly granted itself the power to police the streets of US towns and cities without obtaining state or local consent. The Long Island Press reports that the military has altered a regulation in the US Code titled "Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies," adding vague language allowing military intervention in "civil disturbances": Federal military commanders have the authority, in extraordinary emergency circumstances where prior authorization by the President is impossible and duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situation, to engage temporarily in activities that are necessary to quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances. Full ...

Acting IRS Commissioner Resigns In Wake Of Agency Scandal

President Obama said Wednesday that acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller has resigned in the fallout of the agency scandal in which conservative groups were targeted. The president made the announcement in a brief statement at the White House, following a meeting with Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew in which they reviewed an inspector general’s report on the issue. Obama said Lew asked for the resignation and Miller agreed, after being on the job since November 2012. The targeting of Tea Party groups and others appears to have started as early as 2010. Full Story.