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Richard E. Vatz

Dr. Richard E. Vatz is professor of Rhetoric and Communication at Towson University.
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A Quick Early-on Handicapping of Obama Administration Scandals: Watch, but Don’t Bet

Whither 3 Administration scandals? Benghazi is the worst.

Defending Howard Kurtz: the Best Media Critic in American Journalism

Top media critic Howard Kurtz has been savagely attacked for a few unintentional errors. He deserves much better.

From The Washington Times April 4, 2013: VATZ: The fraudulent diagnosis for mass murderers

Focusing on psychiatric diagnosis and cure as a method to curtail mass murder and mass murderers is doomed to fail

Newtown and the Ever-increasing Audiences for the Myths of Mental Illness

Newtown has spawned a war against "mental illness;" it will come to no good.

The Ingenuous 7 Year-old Josh Welch and the Abuse of Power at Park Elementary in Brooklyn Park

Josh Welch is a very likeable and age-appropriate person. His school officials? Not so much.

Capital Punishment: Questions for Death Penalty Repeal Supporters

Capital punishment public policy creation requires robust and substantive debate. Here are some insufficiently discussed matters.

President Barack Obama’s 2013 State of the Union: All Promises and Hints; Few Results

President Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union: Great Style and Obfuscating Substance

Maryland and the Politics of Capital Punishment: the Lack of Honest Debate

The debate in Maryland over the death penalty lacks good clash and is characterized by the ignoring of important arguments.

Prank Callers, Jacintha Saldanha and the Unspeakable Act of Unjustified Suicide

Jacintha Saldanha's suicidal victims are her children and loved ones, not she.

Politics

An Unbiased Criticism of Alex Mooney’s Nonsubstantive, Contradictory Defense

Criticism of Alex Mooney as state chairman is met with nonsubstantive, ad hominem attack.

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