Day: July 29, 2004

Wag the Dog??? Just-in-time-production? See CNN’s… Just-in-time-production? See CNN’s Breaking News Alert: “Security forces have captured a high-level al Qaeda operative in a raid in central Pakistan, Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said.” Then, after you see that, remember that we noted in May and then The New Republic reported out extensively early this month,…

The Fear III Fear of Death Wins Minds and Votes, Study Finds: “President Bush may be tapping into solid human psychology when he invokes the Sept. 11 attacks while campaigning for the next election, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.Talking about death can raise people’s need for psychological security, the researchers report in studies to be…