Personal Responsibility

Alimony Reform

Fred Silberberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living


Fred Silberberg

While the initial concept of alimony was intended to assist someone in taking steps to support himself or herself, our existing system has turned into a system of private welfare.

Christopher Bizilj's Family Files Suit: Family Blames Teen For 8-Year-Old's Uzi Death At Gun Show

AP | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home


SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — The family of an 8-year-old boy who fatally shot himself at a gun show in western Massachusetts say the Uzi submachine gun ...

Life Sucks And It's Society's Fault

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living


Russell Bishop

Sure, you can blame the advertisements, the TV shows and the greedy bankers if you want, but it still comes down to who drank the Kool-Aid, not who made the Kool-Aid.

Starting Over After a Recession: Helping Obama Build an Economic "House on a Rock"

Ryan Mack | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business


Ryan Mack

President Obama has his five pillars that he plans to use as a foundation for strengthening the economy. We can use these same pillars to apply to our daily lives.

Why I Divorced the Democratic Party: A Response to My Health Care Critics

Keli Goff | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics


Keli Goff

When I started writing about young Black voters, I found that I had much more in common with some of my subjects than with some of the liberals I had worked with and for.

How Obama's Nobel Prize Will Affect Our Children

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living


Danielle Cavallucci

The trouble in awarding this prize to the president in advance of delivery on promise, is that we set the precedent that one needs only have a thought or an idea to be rewarded.

The Hamlet Secret: Joyful Living!

James M. Lynch | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living


James M. Lynch

Whatever the result, whatever happened, it is all your "fault" (read "responsibility"). By adopting this stance, you become empowered to take on any situation no matter what.

Will We Ever Hear the Message Instead of 'Shooting the Messenger?'

Deane Waldman | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics


Deane Waldman

We owe it to ourselves to consider Congressman Roe's Healthcare Reform Bill memo, as our important concern, without reference to our biases, should be the message itself, not the messenger.

Family Fun and Fitness

Peter Clothier | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living


Peter Clothier

We are reminded by the current debate about health care that we are, as a nation, doing a pretty poor job of taking care of the bodies we have been given to inhabit for the course of our earthly lives.

You Can Never Get Enough Of What You Don't Really Want

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living


Russell Bishop

As difficult as things may be, there's almost always something we can do to improve...Fundamentally, the most important choice any of us can make when confronted with life challenges is how we respond.

Personal Responsibility: In Education? Yes! In Health Care? No!

Deane Waldman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics


Deane Waldman

When President Obama gave his speech on health care, he spoke as though the phrase personal responsibility did not exist.

Healthcare is an Unprincipled Non-System.

Deane Waldman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics


Deane Waldman

Everyone knows that you cannot cure a sick anything -- patient or system - without a correct diagnosis. What is the diagnosis for sick, "broken" healthcare?

They Are Still Practicing Bad Medicine -- on Medicine (and Therefore on Us).

Deane Waldman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living


Deane Waldman

Given a fundamentally flawed, unsupportable health care system, we need a new one rather than changing where some dollars flow and adding new dollars that we don't have in the first place.

ObamaCare Is Not "a Good Start." They Are Blowing an Opportunity to fix Health care.

Deane Waldman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics


Deane Waldman

We need an extended, all-media national dialogue, not violent, partisan town hall meetings in response to a Plan devised behind closed doors.

Seeing Through the Food Industry's "Personal Responsibility" Smoke Screen

Rob Smart | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green


Rob Smart

"Personal responsibility" is used as a smoke screen to cover the tracks of industrial food, tracks that run roughshod over the mirage of choice and personal responsibility.

A Practicing Doctor's Prescription for Health Care Reform

Dr. Jordan Shlain | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home


Dr. Jordan Shlain

The government has no problem regulating Wall Street, nuclear energy, the health care system and the legal system. Where are the regulations for maintaining personal health?

Government Cuts Expenditures -- Only We Can Cut Costs

Deane Waldman | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics


Deane Waldman

Without a totally new health care system, cutting health care costs means reducing usage -- rationing. You have to decide just one thing: who will be the rationer?

The Personal Responsibilty to End Racial Profiling

Mark Thompson | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics


Mark Thompson

The "personal responsibility" argument suggests that there is some inherent pathology within African Americans that is disabling. The word plays well politically among moderate and conservative Whites.

Do We Have Inalienable Responsibilities to One Another?

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living


Amitai Etzioni

Family is more than chicken soup.

Do You Have a "Right" to an Oil Change?

Deane Waldman | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics


Deane Waldman

Can you have a "right to health care" without any responsibility: both by paying for it and by being an active partner in it?

Chrysler & GM: What Happens if Your Car Blows Up?

Don McNay | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business


Don McNay

I know I'll never forget that horrible sight, I guess I found out for myself that everyone was right. Won't come back from Dead Man's Curve. -Jan a...

Health Care: Scientific or Rational?

Kim Evans | Posted 05.26.2009 | Living


Kim Evans

It's time we started thinking about things differently. If a reliance on proven demonstrated science has gotten us exactly to where we are now, perhaps a shift of focus to rational is the best move we can make.

Harry Potter's Five Steps to Courage

Tom Morris | Posted 05.21.2009 | Living


Tom Morris

Who would have guessed that the world's most popular fictional wizard could teach us all a thing or two, or five, about courage, change, and dealing with daunting challenge?

The Murder Of Kitty Genovese

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics


Linda Milazzo

If Kitty's murder has prevented Bystander Effect or Diffusion of Responsibility in those who were offended by the human failings that resulted in her death, then she was was a hero.

Key Difference Between Modern Liberalism and Conservatism: Nuance

Sahil Kapur | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics


Sahil Kapur

The alleged tenets of modern conservatism are great; they just need to be tempered with reality. That's where liberalism steps in.