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...speech titled "The Moral Test of Our Generation," John Edwards cast his race against front runner Hillary Clinton as a moral crusade. By accepting corporate campaign cash, he argued, she perpetuates a culture of corruption. Edwards made no explicit references to God or faith but decried "winning elections at the cost of selling your soul" and cited "the one moral commandment that makes us Americans: to give our children a better future than we received." While his opponents have more robust religious-outreach efforts, the Methodist Southerner may have hit just the right notes for cultural conservatives. [SECULARIST=1] [THEOCRAT...
This is a legal and geopolitical issue as well as a moral one. Brazil has successfully challenged our cotton subsidies in the World Trade Organization (WTO), and a recent congressional report admitted "all major U.S. program crops are potentially vulnerable to WTO challenges." When U.S. officials urge the world to embrace free markets and free trade, the inevitable response is, What about your farm programs? "Our credibility is zero," says economist Daniel Sumner, a former Assistant Agriculture Secretary who runs the University of California's Agricultural Issues Center. "Every other country thinks of us as a liar and a crook...
...just that rich people have more money and no problem spending the equivalent of 400 items off McDonald's dollar-item menu on a dinner for two. Over the past few years, they've also turned paying more into a moral cause no right-thinking chef could argue against: free-range, local, sustainable, organic, hormone-free, heirloom, slow food. As a result, top chefs have had to increase their budgets to find the obscure variety of beet grown only by Shakers or the cow that has been massaged, seen Radiohead live and enjoyed Tantric sex before being slaughtered with love...
Even Mukasey said at his confirmation hearing that it's "not constitutional for the United States to engage in torture in any form, be it waterboarding or anything else." But when Democrats asked for clarification in writing, the answer he gave on Oct. 30 dodged all the big moral and legal questions. He couldn't call waterboarding illegal, he wrote, because he doesn't know whether the U.S. has used it and doesn't want to give America's enemies insight into U.S. techniques...
...pledging to put an end to the “game-playing in Washington.” Four days later, ten thousand gathered at the same location in a national day of anti-war activity. In place of cute campaign slogans and rhetorical flourishes about “moral character” and “political backbone,” the speakers denounced Democrats and Republicans alike for complicity in an imperial occupation. Candid, heterogeneous speech replaced the official, recycled prose of four days before. At free speech tables following the march, students coordinated coalitions and outlined visions. Whereas...