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It is customary to make resolutions for the New Year. Often these include vows to lose weight, exercise more, or clean out the garage. Almost as often, the resolutions are broken before the end of January. Rather than these praiseworthy but easily discarded goals, may I suggest a different set of resolutions.

Laziness isn’t just a matter of laying about doing nothing; those taking the lazy way need to work on their lazy skills RESOLVING TO sharpen up your act for 2010? Why bother? Lazy sods get just as much thanks as the rest and do less harm. I have long been of this view – now I have backing from no less a source than the Management-Issues blog which worries about such things as “What does ‘responsible leadership’ really mean?” and “How do you manage brilliant people?” In his article, Peter Taylor, author of The Lazy Project Manager , reminds us...

Two resolutions to affirm the U.S. Constitution failed to get traction in the House this week, but they sure kicked up a lot of mud. House Joint Resolution 26, sponsored by Rep. Michael More, R-Gallatin Gateway, and House Joint Resolution 24, sponsored by Rep. Joel Boniek, R-Livingston, would have gotten state representatives on the record opposing what the sponsors said were excesses of the federal government. HJ24 sought to urge Congress to “adopt a constitutional, sustainable, and sound monetary system and cease further credit creation and borrowing.” HJ26 aimed to affirm states’ rights and condemn “encroachment of those rights by...

Many of you have asked for a central location to stay up to date with state sovereignty bills.  While the idea of centralizing information and/or control over a movement of this kind seems to fly in the face of the principles of decentralization that the Tenth Amendment Center stands for, we have gladly succumbed to popular demand with this informational post.We’ll do our best to keep this post updated when new bills are introduced.  If you feel something is missing from the list, please don’t hesitate to contact us to let us know.  It’s essential that people on the front...

Wondering what the connection between Oprah’s weight gain, using less plastic in your life, and those pesky New Year’s resolutions could possibly be? [...] University studies have discovered that it takes approximately 6 to 9 months to change a habit, to change the brain’s pathways. No wonder people give up after a few weeks of trying to quit smoking, or dieting, or (yes!) trying to stop using plastic. No one ever told them that it takes times to change the brain’s pathways!

Making self-improvement New Year's resolutions often leaves people feeling worse, the British mental health charity Mind warned Thursday.

Whatever you resolve to do differently in 2009, vow also to develop a strategy to make it happen. Otherwise, expect failure. So says John O'Neill, director of Addiction Services for The Menninger Clinic in Houston.

Over the years, Americans have used New Year’s as a time to reflect on the previous stretch of 365 days and to introduce new change into their lives; this year, Americans can look to a new administration committed to unsubstantiated change as a role model. “Each year, I made specific goals to reach during the year and explained the actions I would take to reach those goals,” said Barton Shrinque, a Roaring Spring dairy farmer. “But all I got at the end of the year was more concrete goals for self-improvement. It’s a real slog. I think it’s time for...

"Year after year I go through the usual panoply of diet, exercise, and church-going promises, and every year I get the same results—fatter, lazier, and more in trouble with the Big Guy. This year I finally figured out what I have been doing wrong. It isn’t me that needs to make New Year’s resolutions for myself...."

Melissa mayor mailing resolutions to fellow mayors to stop state from using gas tax funds for non-road projects BY DANNY GALLAGHER, McKinney Courier-Gazette Melissa Mayor David Dorman said he sits in his office everyday and watches as cars zoom down State Highway 121, a road that will soon start collecting tolls from drivers who use it to get to Dallas, McKinney, Frisco or the Dallas North Tollway and back again. Dorman said before that happens, he wants to know the roads his citizens and drivers are paying the state to use will be maintained and built with those funds. “I...

MONTGOMERY The state Senate may have been locked down for most of the year, but it did find time to endorse a widely discredited urban legend spread by the John Birch Society. The upper chamber passed a joint resolution April 10 sponsored by state Sen. Rusty Glover, R-Semmes, claiming that Canada, Mexico and the United States are moving toward a "North American Union" and working on construction of a "NAFTA Superhighway" to link the countries and report edly destroy their sovereignty. "It's about retaining independence," said John McManus, the president of the John Birch Society, in a phone interview Mon...

REFUGIO, Texas - With an abandoned Wild West-vintage town of storefronts slumbering just a block from old US 77, tiny Refugio is a place where myth and reality coexist in a ghostly silence. more stories like this Obama faces heat over aide's NAFTA remarks to Canadians Texas, Ohio could decide Dem nomination Canada says didn't misrepresent Obama over NAFTA McCain tags Dems on trade treaty NAFTA seen differently in Ohio, Texas And now this South Texas outpost is swept up in one of the more intriguing tests of myth vs. reality in today's political life: the battle over the so-called...

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A New Year, a new you - that's what most of us like to believe, and it's what all those grim New Year resolutions are about. Lose weight, earn more, get fit, get a new job - all will make you happier. But will they? Or are there more realistic ways to help make 2008 better? Surprisingly, it is possible to approach the question of happiness scientifically: it even has a name - Hedonics, the study of happiness. And now, amid all the cod psychology of self-help books, key points are emerging that may actually make a difference. Here are...

When most of us make resolutions for the new year, we phrase them as "things to do": "I'm going to lose 10 pounds this year," or "I'm going to join a gym (and actually go)." But I'm taking a slightly different tack with my slate of 2008 resolutions. My list includes common mistakes people make when it comes to money - and when I say "people," I definitely include myself. Let's all resolve not to make these blunders in the new year. And make sure you get through the entire list: I've saved the most important point for last. -...

Democrats have introduced resolutions in the House and Senate that would censure President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., introduced the censure resolutions in the Senate on Aug. 4; New York Democrat Maurice D. Hinchey introduced them in the House a day later. One resolution (S Res 302, H Res. 625), would censure Bush and Cheney for “misleading the American people” about the need to invade and occupy Iraq, as well as for poor planning and conduct of the war. The other measure (S Res 303, H Res. 626) would censure Bush and...

HotAir has a must see video of Rudy Giuliani talking about the senselessness of non-binding resolutions and what's wrong with Washington from the Mayor's appearance on Lary King Live. In case you haven't seen him make this case in the last few days, this is must see viewing: http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/14/video-rudy-on-non-binding-resolutions/?s=videoTranscript: GIULIANI: I mean, you can look at the practical and common sense conclusion on that anyway you want. But there's something more important than that. We have a right of free speech in this country and we elect people to make decisions. Here's what I would prefer to see them do,...

I was listening to my colleague Hugh Hewitt's radio show the other when he was interviewing Republican Sen. Norm Coleman from Minnesota. It was nice to hear Sen. Coleman's apparent disdain for the idiotic, meaningless, non-binding Senate resolution complaining about the President's troop surge plan. In fact, here's what Sen. Coleman said to Hugh: [Bottom line is I voted against the resolution that I think is…I’m going to be very blunt…is a pull-out resolution. This isn’t an abandon Iraq resolution. The words don’t exactly say that, but I listened to John Murtha testify, and I listened to the reaction of...

Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who along with John Warner and Chuck Hagel are pushing forward the defeatist Levin-Warner resolution, objects in an interview with Eleanor Clift to the candor that has entered into this debate, and in particular to the assertion that such resolutions embolden the enemy --an observation that general Petraeus and Secretary gates have bothmade. Senator Collins also expands on why she is pushing this "non-binding" resolution, asserting that she hopes the deployment --underway and under the command of the general who designed it and who was unanimously confirmed last week-- would be canceled by the president....

The Washington Post reports at least five Republicans are committed to supporting the Levin-Warner resolution, but this does not square with what has been reported to me, and I won't be trusting the MSM to report this debate fairly. I do not believe that either Norm Coleman or Gordon Smith have declared that they will be voting for the defeatist resolution --rightfully called a "vote of no confidence" by John McCain yesterday-- and the GOP caucus may hold together and kill the resolution in its crib. The seven Republicans up for re-election in 2008 and listed by the Post as...