Bookworm on Sep 25 2008 | Filed under: Euthanasia, Morality, Uplifting stories
In the wake of Sarah Palin’s appearance on the national political scene, some Obama supporters made some pretty deranged statements about the Palin family decision to go ahead with a pregnancy when they knew that the baby would have Down Syndrome. There was a lot of eugenics-type talk about the social utility of handicapped children [...]
Bookworm on Jul 24 2008 | Filed under: Conservative ideology, Hollywood, Morality
What our kids hear, day in and day out, is moral relativism. It’s the top note to their lives, whether it comes on TV, in cheesy movies, on the news or, most commonly, at school. That might not be the only lesson they’re learning, though. The other lesson, the subliminal one, might be about good [...]
Don Quixote on Jul 10 2008 | Filed under: Corruption, Morality
Some discussion in one of the comment threads prompts me to ask, do you really care whether your favorite politician is corrupt? Sure, we’d all like our favorites to be pure as driven snow. But, seriously, assume McCain is your man and you believed Obama would do serious damage to America (or assume the reverse; [...]
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