Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York Post columnist complained shrilly that Christians, in death, get short shrift. "To so many media figures, Christians ? specifically evangelicals, orthodox Catholics and others who believe in traditional Judeo-Christian moral teaching ?- are not victims, but victimizers," wrote the columnist, Rod Dreher. "If Larry Gene Ashbrook, guns blazing, had walked into a synagogue, gay bar, an abortion clinic or even a black church service, there is no doubt what the government, cultural and media elite?s reaction would be." Dreher is right about one thing: Ashbrook?s massacre is a hate crime, and might even have been stamped as such...
...voters. Will this year be different? McCain, of course, has an entire presidential campaign riding on the possibility; expect him to shout it from the rooftops when his bill gets its mid-October day of debate on the Senate floor. Bill Bradley could choose to lend some moral oomph from outside the ring. But the biggest noise could come from McConnell himself. The House victors are urging McCain & Co. to try an old-time tactic from the civil rights days ? actually making McConnell filibuster himself hoarse in the name of the fat wallets. He?d probably just read the Bible...
Monster courses like Moral Reasoning 22, "Justice," and Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics," which draw about 1,000 students to Sanders Theatre respectively, aren't going anywhere...
...gather the facts and proposing that a reputable outsider head the new investigation. The extremely deliberate Reno would accede to all that later but seemed to be plodding two steps behind the nimbler FBI director. It wasn't the first time Freeh rushed to stake claim on the moral high ground. Reno's supporters say she deserved better...
...economic one, about fairness and fate, about vanity and values. Which side effects would we tolerate? What if making kids smarter also made them meaner? What if only the rich could afford the advantage? Does God give us both the power to re-create ourselves and the moral muscles to resist? "The time to talk about it in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now," says bioethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania. "If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street...