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On Monday December 8 ABC offered a Primetime Special: Whos to Blame? Obesity in America: How to Get Fat Without Really Trying. Peter Jennings advanced the notion that assigning personal responsibility is the problem, not the solution. Americans, Jennings ...

Having already issued such gems as the following, we have to wonder why ABC is risking its glass house Monday night, December 8, palavering about how the obesity epidemic in the United States is the fault of the federal government and the food industry: u ...

ABCs Meredith Vieiras offered viewers a look into the causes and costs of obesity without devolving into an indictment of those who produce and distribute food products in America. Instead, she took her audience on a very human journey and then turned to ...

     In an article entitled: Alarms Sounded On Cost of GOP Bills; Lawmakers Increase Spending to Win Votes Jonathan Weisman continues his bleat to the effect that the federal government isnt collecting enough taxes and this time he tries to shift the focu ...

     Conservatives have no problem letting the market rule, whether we are talking about ideas or the economy. Liberals, on the other hand, are only in favor of market-driven decisions when the outcome is what they prefer. One important lesson from the il ...

Safe Under Any Conditions? Offering young drivers a false sense of security By Paul F. Stifflemire, Jr.   Today, the U.S. has one of the world's lowest highway death rates. There were only 1.51 deaths in the U.S. per 100 million vehicle miles travele ...

     Well, who's to blame for the growing childhood obesity epidemic in America? According to a new report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), some of the biggest culprits are companies that specifically market junk food to chi ...

     In October 2002 she was in Washington, protesting President George W. Bushs plan to go to war with Iraq. She was part of what the Village Voice called a sprawling mass of 100,000 individuals, families, and batches of friends who, to paraphrase Spike ...

For The Media, Blackout Was All About Blame While the nature of the energy industry has changed since 1965 we are no more dependent on reliable electricity than upon reliably accurate news reporting. By Paul F. Stifflemire, Jr. " Shortly before 5:15 ...