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NEWS ABOUT: paranoia

paranoia stories: 6 news summaries
OLD RELEASES

 The Best of 
 Cold War Cinema 

With the Evil Empire as the bad guy, Hollywood made some great flicks

Nov 9, 09 2:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Maybe the reason Betsy Sharkey is feeling nostalgic about Cold War flicks is that the era offered a clear, if flawed, idea that we were the good guys. Regardless, it made for some good movies. The Los Angeles Times critic's faves, by "capricious category":
  • Aliens: With "subtexts
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entertainment • Hollywood • film • Soviet Union • Cold War • Matt Damon • James Bond • The Day the Earth Stood Still • Sean Penn • spies • Alfred Hitchcock • movies • Paul Newman • paranoia • Robert Ludlum • Evil Empire • Jason Bourne • Henry Fonda • Fail-Safe • Dr. Strangelove • The Falcon and the Snowman • Torn Curtain • Brother From Another Planet

PAUL KRUGMAN


 Paranoid GOP 
 Could Make US 
 'Ungovernable' 

Whack jobs' seizure of Republican Party 'no laughing matter'

Nov 9, 09 7:37 AM CST
(Newser) - The kind of paranoia that made last week's health care reform protesters wave signs showing corpses at Dachau is nothing new in right-wing American politics, but the fact that these people actually wield power is new—and deeply troubling, writes Paul Krugman . "The GOP has been taken over by... More »

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Republican Party • Glenn Beck • Paul Krugman • right wingers • Sarah Palin • paranoia • midterm elections

OPINION

Glenn Beck's Paranoia
Is a Gold Mine

Gold to guns, scribe says there's profit to be made off right wingers

Oct 20, 09 11:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Move over Jim Cramer. When it comes to possibly unhinged investment gurus, Mike Madden of Salon says he’s going with Glenn Beck and G. Gordon Liddy. Ever since advertisers began boycotting Beck, gold sellers have been grabbing space. The weirdest ad features G. Gordon Liddy mocking Fed policies that... More »

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investment • Glenn Beck • gold • commodities • right-wing media • paranoia • G. Gordon Liddy

 Quaids' Wild Ride 
 a Tale of Drugs, Paranoia 

Texas arrest for stiffing hotel bill is just the tip of the iceberg

Sep 29, 09 1:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - The arrest of Randy and Evi Quaid in Texas for stiffing a California hotel is only the latest twist in a bizarre tale of unpaid bills and paranoid fantasies. A private investigator hired by the Quaids—she’s out $17,000—tells Diane Dimond the actor and his wife owe... More »

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Saturday Night Live • entertainment • Hollywood • assassination • Heath Ledger • bills • labor unions • murder plot • paranoia • Natasha Richardson • David Carradine • Randy Quaid • Evi Quaid • Diane Dimond • Phil Hartman • Bryn Hartman • Chris Penn

OPINION

Dear GOP, Americans Are Just Not That Into You: Maher

It's time to move on; Republican obsessing getting creepy

Apr 24, 09 10:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The GOP is not coping well with loss. After a long, torrid affair with America, Republicans have gotten dumped, and they're hurting, writes Bill Maher in the Los Angeles Times. Now they’re going a little crazy, worrying about all the wrong issues, talking about secession and reeducation camps, throwing... More »

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Rick Perry • Republican Party • Bill Maher • Obama administration • paranoia • Michele Bachmann • President Obama • tea parties

Doc, I Think I'm on Reality TV

Psychiatrists see Truman Show delusion so often it's got its
own syndrome

Aug 28, 08 12:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - In The Truman Show, Jim Carrey's life was nothing more than a reality TV program, with actors playing his friends and family and millions of viewers watching his every move. Those themes of surveillance and artificiality pervade the lives of a growing number of psychiatric patients—people who think they... More »

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psychiatry • psychology • surveillance • psychosis • Jim Carrey • delusion • paranoia • The Truman Show • Truman Syndrome

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