Word: moralizations
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Those Americans who seek refuge from the moral compromises of contemporary politics in the idyllic past of the Founding Fathers—the devoted friends of liberty and the oppressed—might want to dream about a different...
...it’s inane to write a playbook on winning an election in 2006 and not address the so-called “moral values” issues. It’s also insulting to those who do care about such issues—not all of whom are Republicans...
Americans are very good at debating morality and very bad at reaching any conclusions about it. In an ethically relative world like ours, all manner of moral felons - corporate criminals, drug peddlers, even killers - have at least some constituency that's willing to hear them out and show them mercy. Not so pedophiles...
...Nearly everywhere, pedophilia earns its perpetrators the full villagers-with-torches treatment. We don't want them in our communities, we don't want them in our world. Even in prison they're outcasts, becoming the moral underclass of the moral underclass - the untouchables' untouchables - chased into the rabbit hole of protective isolation and mauled to death if they emerge. And be honest: Do they deserve any better? Maybe not. But maybe society as a whole does. The nation teetered between sorrow and rage last week after Charles Roberts, a 32-year-old milkman in Pennsylvania's Amish country, committed...
...lost ideologically. To win the war on terrorism we must win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world. Those in the Muslim mainstream must isolate the terrorist fringe within their own communities and eliminate their popular support. To win Muslim hearts and minds, we must regain the moral high ground. Over the past five years, we have sunk to the level of our antagonists. Our actions have driven moderate Muslims to become supporters of extremists and created a seemingly endless supply of terrorist recruits. We must begin to reverse this course by adhering to the rules on prisoner treatment...