Lies are self-abandonment. They are a place where we avoid showing ourselves exactly as we are, and so ultimately they come from fear.
Graham Bensinger | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment
He retired from the game just before the Steroid Era came to light. While he previously denied illegal performance enhancing drug use, those denials stopped when under penalty of perjury.
Mike Robbins | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
As I've been making my way through my feelings of remorse, embarrassment, and confusion - I've been thinking a lot about the well-known saying, "We teach best what we most need to learn.
Jim Wallis | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
With an issue like health, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debate.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
I see racial sub-texts in the intensity of the attacks on Obama -- not in the disagreements per se, but in the viciousness of the rhetoric.
Lanny Davis | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
The irony is that Rep. Wilson would have been reasonable in saying that Mr. Obama's statement on Wednesday night's speech was not entirely accurate or, at least, was ambiguous or incomplete.
Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy
"I decided to sue when My communications to humans were ignored by the few whose personal agendas were believed by the many," God said.
James Heffernan | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
Handicappers who rate this episode a win for Obama overlook the fact that what the president said should have been false. If your parents are illegal, says the bill, we don't care how sick you get, or even if you die.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living
The BIG lies, the ones we consider most serious, are usually told by and to the people with whom we are most intimate.
Norman Horowitz | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics
Wikipedia defines this word as: "... American political jargon that is used as a strong pejorative description of some kind of attack that the speaker...
David O. Stewart | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media
Remember James Frey's "memoir" which turned out to be largely false? This month, the liars are back, and lying continues to be a winning strategy.
Nicole Williams | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business
It's a tactic used in business all the time: Sell it whether you have it or not, and then find a way to deliver.
Stu Kreisman | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
The first reaction from Republicans has been to marvel at the courage Sanford has shown in owning up to his discretions. But he uses religion only when it's convenient for him.
Los Angeles Times | Karen Ravn | Posted 07.12.2009 | Living
Bill Moore of Pacific Grove was barely in his 20s when he found out he had cholesterol trouble. This was bad news for Moore because his father had ...
James M. Lynch | Posted 07.02.2009 | Entertainment
A true friend is one who will tell you the truth whether or not you want to hear it, whether it might endanger the status quo of the friendship or not.
realsimple.com | Jenna Mccarthy | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living
Nearly any adult will tell you that lying is wrong. But when it comes to avoiding trouble, saving face in front of the boss, or sparing someone's feel...
Leighann Lord | Posted 06.21.2009 | Comedy
Watching high level political and security leaders play a national game of He Said, She Said is disappointing and embarrassing. It means Bowling for Soup has it right when they sing their signature song "High School Never Ends."
Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.20.2009 | Comedy
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich lashed out today at the current Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, calling the congresswoman unfit to be Speaker of the House "because she's not a good enough liar."
Sandy Goodman | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
Nancy Pelosi, this week, accused the CIA of lying. Who, journalists collectively ask, could ever accuse the CIA of lying? Who indeed? Almost anybody, it seems to me.
Lisa Guest | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
The more we hide, the more we have reason to hide and the more such treacherous thinking causes missteps and wrongful living.
Oprah.com | Lisa Kogan | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
The story goes that, as a child, George Washington chopped down the backyard cherry tree and then admitted the whole sordid affair to his beloved fath...
Yahoo! News | Robert Roy BrittEditorial DirectorLiveScience.Com | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
A new technique that separates truth from lies finds it takes about 30 percent longer to fib. The computer-based analysis, reported in The Times of...
Libby Mitchell | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
My young niece and nephew are becoming liars. They don't do it mean spiritedly, most of the time they are just trying to make a story better, or win a...
Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics
To those who are already planning for the 2012 elections: if challenged by a reporter to back up your claims, simply say, "The issue isn't about facts. It's about starting a necessary discussion."
Stu Kreisman | Posted 01.03.2009 | Media
Wow. I just watched GW's first "exit interview" with Charles Gibson on ABC. Was this man actually elected President of the United States twice? (Okay ...
Isha Judd | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living