Word: moralisms
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...greater danger in the Craig scandal is that it could further alienate the party's social conservative base, said Stephen Schneck, head of the politics department at Catholic University in Washington. "Republican leaders are frantic, fearing a cataclysmic collapse of the perceived moral high ground vis-?-vis the Democrats among Evangelicals and Catholics - not only among swing voters, but among the base," said Schneck...
...address, an actor with garments evoking a past century pranced around the floor of the legislature sporting an anguished look. He shook his fists and waved his arms, pleading loudly with the crowd. He was portraying independence hero Simon Bolivar, reciting some of the Liberator's most famous speeches. "Moral y luces are our first needs," he pleaded. "A people isn't satisfied being free and strong, but wants to be virtuous." The idea of "moral y luces," roughly translated as "morals and enlightenment," was intended by Bolivar to convey that Venezuela, while free from Spanish rule, still needed plenty...
...them are becoming more like Americans. The fact that the title refers both to a room in a fancy hotel and to a set of movements in a musical sequence gives you some sense of how Theroux can charge his compulsive stories with the resonance and craft of darkly moral fables...
...Salvatierra is right that a one-sided approach to immigration - enforcement alone - will most likely fail. But it will fail for economic, as much as moral, reasons. Agriculture and service sectors still rely too much on hardworking immigrants, regardless of their legal status. Even the whispers of a crackdown have stirred fear in the restaurant industry and added to the angst of farmers, who have steadily reported labor shortages throughout the summer. And the lure for workers to come here is as strong as ever. A Pew Hispanic Center study released today shows Latino immigrants, legal and illegal, have made...
...least no simple one - aside from just flying less, as the Heathrow activists demanded. And there's little sign of that happening, as air passenger numbers rose 6.3% globally through the first half of 2007. So, expect similar protests in the future. The activists at Heathrow threw out a moral challenge to those well-off on a global scale (anyone who can afford a JetBlue ticket) to stop flying in order to save the poor from the effects of climate change. It's not quite that simple, but until technology and policy catch up - which still seems a long...