Archive for the Personal Responsibility Category


No Joke, We’re broke

by Art Lindsey III President Obama declared Wednesday night on ABC News that without healthcare reform the federal government would go bankrupt. “If we don’t pass it, here’s the guarantee: the people who are watching tonight, your premiums will go up, your employers are going to load up more costs on you. Potentially they’re going [...]

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After “Teaching the GOP a lesson” in ’06, America is stuck Paying the Tuition

So, here we are on the verge of a national health care system. It’s the subject that has dominated the news cycle and been at the heart of nearly every political debate in America since Barack Obama decided to make it the centerpiece of his 2008 presidential campaign. We’ve been preoccupied with the indications of [...]

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“Humiliation” is a crime

Oy. A deaf teenager has won a landmark discrimination case after she was humiliated on sports day because she could not hear announcements telling her to stop running, it has emerged. Laura Trudgill, 13, is profoundly deaf but was not provided with an individual signer on sports day to help her understand the complicated rules [...]

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On strikes on Gaza by Israel and how some of us may want to react.

This is a more difficult post to write than the last one. This one means a wake up for me and many others who so far have managed to treat world events as academic. The realm of debate and moral and ethical games. Israel has retaliated against Gaza by air strikes against military targets and [...]

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With all due respect,

What have you done lately to help yourselves?

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They need zippers, not condoms