Reality TV presents plenty of moral dilemmas

Drunk girls break a window to get into a locked house. A man lies about his grandmother's death to earn sympathy in a game. A contestant says she wants to stab another contestant in the face. A woman drives drunk as cameras keep rolling — and viewers keep watching.

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TV's dark heroes stretch moral boundaries

Questions swirled during this year's presidential election about whether an African-American or a woman could be elected president of the United States.

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The just will burn in Hell?

I would consider myself an atheist...

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This weekend I was cheered to read about entrepreneur Jim Prevor, CEO of Phoenix Media Network, who made good points about Washington managing health care.

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Despite major controversy over the destruction of human embryos, the US National Institutes of Health last week approved 13 new human embryonic stem-cell colonies for federally funded research.

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A little different Perspective.

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The research, to be published Friday in the Journal of Public Health, was compiled from more than 23 million hospital records from 37 states between 1988 and 2005.

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In all the lobbying and bargaining in Washington, D.C., we seem to have forgotten about the moral imperative to take care of the sick. One issue that is bandied about is that a public health care option would be too expensive. Why are we counting cost? This is America.

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Clergy who helped Rifqa should be scrutinized

What has been printed about the situation with Fathima Rifqa Bary and her family does not seem to be affecting anyone's conscience.

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Stress Kills; Got a Joke With A Moral To It? Post It Here!!!

U.S. doctors point to stress as being a major killer of the American population. In these economic times, stress is probably working overtime killing us.

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ou just have to admire the set on John Ensign. The C Street Republican who had his parents to pay $96,000 in hush money to his mistress is now saying that his affair broke no laws, unlike Bill Clinton's.

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Irfan Hussain has an argument with Roberto Delmaestro in the UK and reflects on the drone attacks, its role on terror and moral relativism. Does the end justify the means?

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The late Republican political strategist, Lee Atwater, a brilliant Machiavellian, used to invoke what he called "The Napoleonic Maxim:" Never interfere with the enemy when he's in the process of destroying himself.

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The National Education Association needs to leave my kids alone.

Apparently, during this year's NEA convention, a rousing and compelling retirement speech was given by the NEA's General Counsel Bob Chanin. It was heartwarming, charming, and I have to admit, even funny.

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Here we go again, although it sounds like THIS author actually makes some sense. I won't be here for a few days to answer you guys.... ...gone fishin!

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n President Barack Obama's moral and constitutional universe, unfettering abortion and coddling terrorists trump innocent life. But most Americans reject his anti-life calculations.

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Get Over It!

Forsyth, GA - A Spiritual Reflection for HealingThis morning I awoke bright and rested but lingering in the recces of my mind were travails of others I loved and others that I didn't love as our Lord teaches us.

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Liberty University will no longer recognize its campus Democratic Party club because its parent organization stands against the conservative Christian school's moral principles.The club, which has about 30 members, will no longer be able to use Liberty's name, hold on-campus meet …

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Former Mexican President Vicente Fox has joined three other ex-leaders of Latin American nations calling for the decriminalization of marijuana. Fox, who was Mexico's president from 2000 to 2006, said the current policy is clearly not working.

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King Abdullah II of Jordan interviewed by David Gregory And he had some interesting things to say..... "GREGORY: Bottom line on this, do you think you can defeat an enemy like Al Qaida without resorting to what some people would consider torture?

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Superstition Incarnate; or One Person's Belief in a Divine God is Yet Another's... .

Morality, Justice, Social Acceptance and Honesty. A language of the Gods--or a kind of Human's patterning of Self in the belief of a God-concept? Straight up, all God's and their rules of fear and worship are a sham, or at best an abject fear-of-the-(unexamined)-known.

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The title of a "religious liberty ad campaign" challenging same-sex marriage, released by the National Organization for Marriage.

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This brief but interesting discussion describes a dilemma that emergency nurses may encounter. It is typical of other ethical dilemmas nurses may face, regardless of where they practice.

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"I just think it's immoral to create life and destroy it in the name of science," said Georgia State Sen. Ralph Hudgens. "In Nazi Germany they did experiments with human beings. I don't want to see that done here."

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If they are otherwise to be destroyed, then does not the good that can be done to heal disease outweigh protecting a non-existent potential? Theologians must advise the bishops that there is a difference between metaphysical potentiality and this specific case. More Articles

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Many people recognize Lincoln as one of the greatest presidents ever. Yet he may have just been a racist that, instead of using slaves, wanted to deport them so the whites could have their jobs. So now we can only ask if Lincoln had any more moral than Bush did when they were t …

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A deserter from the US army seeking asylum in Germany pleads his case this week in a hearing that could have major political and legal ramifications.

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