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Chinese officials are being told to dump their mistresses, avoid hostess bars, and shun extravagances as part of the Communist party's efforts to clamp down on the corruption that is threatening its rule and sullying its reputation.
An attempt by Hamas police to detain a young woman walking with a man along the Gaza beach has raised alarms that the Islamic militant group is seeking to match its political control of the coastal territory with a strict enforcement of Islamic law.
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.
Turkey's leader, a devout Muslim, talks a lot about morality these days. It's language that alarms secular Turks, who fear the government plans to make religion a part of their lives.
Catholic Insight Opposes Homosexual Office SeekersThe position of mayor is a representative one, representing the citizens of a city to outsiders and to other levels of government. It is a "value-creating, value-carrying and consensus forming" position
BEL MOONEY: How can such a clever woman be so stupidly naive about this sleBel Mooney of the British Daily Mail newspaper is attacking the medical researcher Dr Brooke Magnenta for being the Belle duJour prostitute blogger and author.
Ultra Liberal Education And, somehow, it is sickly appropriate that its about masturbation: It's one of those things you wouldn't think anyone needs to learn, but apparently, masturbation is an art in Spain.
In common usage, people speak of what they "need" to do. It is used as a superlative to "want" and is often said as if that declaration alone will be sufficient to end the discussion, as if the statement alone makes it axiomatic and a universal constant.
Young children's moral understanding more sophisticated than previously thoughtWhen her Daily Mail column about Stephen Gately's death provoked an avalanche of complaints, the disgraced Jan Moir issued a press statement in which she said "it was never [her] intention" to upset people. Defensively speaking, Moir's choice of words was astute.
Organ TransplantationMany physicians have serious and well-considered concerns about the morality of vital human organ transplantation, and about the fact that the general public has not been properly informed about what really happens when such organs are retrieved.
Readers may have noticed a story on Tuesday, November 3 about two Pennsylvania women ordered to stand outside a local courthouse holding signs advertising their theft of a Wal-Mart gift card from a nine year old girl. One hears about this sort of thing occasionally.
Pilger awarded Sydney Peace PrizeThe winner of this year's Sydney Peace Prize, John Pilger, has labelled the Federal Government's asylum-seeker policy "illegal and immoral".
Flesh of Your Flesh - Should you eat meat ? The New Yorker"Americans also love to eat animals. This year, they will cook roughly twenty-seven billion pounds of beef, sliced from some thirty-five million cows.
Erap-Binay team: Restrain Erap-Binay team: Restrain[Manila, Philippines] To this piece, that is the foremost political question about Erap Estrada and Jojo Binay.
"Death Panels" Return: House Bill Has Potential Physician-Assisted Suicide LoopholeThe provisions on advanced-planning directives labeled "death panels" by concerned observers have re-emerged in the final version of the US House of Representatives health-care reform bill.
Insurance companies are full of actuaries, accountants, and statisticians. They have rooms full of mainframe computers and large and talented staffs who run them.
Can you be good without God?"New York is quite unique in America," Rafferty told the UK's Daily Express. "Will we get individual people who will complain? Yes. Will we get people scribbling on posters? Probably. But organized groups? I don't think so."
Health Care Reform Is Moral Battle for the Soul of a NationIn 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.
Health care reform is moral battle for the soul of a nationIn 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.
At Opednews: Virtue And Evil; Empathy And Selfishness A sharp look at what is wrong with our path the last decade and how to fix it.
Why the Federal Government Should Refrain From BailoutsI just came across this today. Yes, it is over one year old; nevertheless it remains pertinent as the economy may very well resume its collapse, and with that would come more "too big to fail" situations.
Bishops' Conference Officials Voice Disappointment In Senate Finance Committee Health Care VoteThe stated purpose of pursuing health care reform was to provide those without health care coverage access to quality and affordable health care. There is real doubt that this bill will achieve that goal.
David Letterman and blackmailMost theorists agree that blackmail should be illegal; they just can't agree on why. A few days after Letterman's confession, Saul Smilansky, the author of "Ten Moral Paradoxes," said that, in his opinion, what Halderman did wasn't heinous.
In August 2008, John Edwards admitted to having an extramarital affair with a campaign staff member. Today, more than a year later, the implications of the affair and its effect on Edward's marriage are still front page news.
Bobby Jindal Fires State Worker After She Criticizes Him PubliclyJindal maintains that he fired her due to her handling of a food stamps program started after Katrina, others say that's bunk.
U.S. Bishops Will "Vigorously" Oppose Health Care if Abortion Concerns Not AddressedThree U.S. bishops have written to Congress expressing their "disappointment" that the healthcare bills currently being considered in Congress have not addressed the issue of federal funding of abortion, and warning that unless their concerns are addressed, the U.S.
Moore False TeachingNear the end of his "love story" Moore lines up a series of Catholic clergy to agree with his general premise that Capitalism is evil. Moore's hypocrisy aside (is he charging people to see his movie?) this premise is not at all Catholic.
Would Jesus Drink a Beer on the Beach?I came across this question while re-reading Ray Blackston's excellent novel Flabbergasted, and it's a question that would get very different answers depending on who you ask: would Jesus drink a beer on the beach? Your answer probably depends a lot on what your view of Jesus …
Caritas in Veritate and the US economic futureBecause false personal and economic choices led to the global financial crisis, Benedict XVI's recent encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, addresses the fundamental principles regarding the authentic development of people.
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