“Ethics” on The Daily Caller

Right on Crime responds to Mr. Weeks’s article here. (more)

There were heated and sometimes violent debates in early America about whether “we the people” had sufficient virtue and morality to govern ourselves. Newspapers, preachers, and the market square became centers of moral self-examination. Colonists, sensing a break for freedom, wondered aloud if their society was virtuous enough to handle self-government. (more)

I’m looking forward to seeing Andrew Sullivan at the annual March for Life in a couple weeks. And Rachel Maddow. And Paul Krugman. And Keith Olbermann. (more)

NEW YORK (WABC) – New and eye-opening statistics about the rate of abortions in New York City have been released by the Health Department. (more)

Tuesday night was the premiere of the Lifetime movie “The Craigslist Killer.” According to its website and the previews I’ve seen on every station, “The Craigslist Killer follows the dark, mysterious life Philip Markoff conducted online while preparing for a promising future as a doctor and a life of happiness with his fiancée — beginning with his alleged April 14, 2009, first-degree murder of a masseuse who advertised her services on Craigslist.” (more)

Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix, Arizona has been at the center of a roaring controversy for his decision to remove the Catholic status from St. Joseph Hospital in Phoenix. The hospital may no longer refer to itself as a Catholic institution, Mass may not be celebrated there, and the Diocese of Phoenix will not give it any further support. The decision came as a result of an abortion procedure performed at the hospital, and the repeated violations of Catholic moral teaching that the hospital had perpetrated over the years. (more)

What kind of a person allegedly urinates in a convenience store freezer, ruining $508 worth of cookies, bagels, and other baked goods? (more)

The left and right are reacting entirely differently to the news that authorities have arrested a Columbia University professor on charges of incest with his adult daughter. I have nothing to say about the professor at this point since he is presumed innocent. However, I am interested in the reaction to the charges. The left supports the professor’s alleged actions — and the “freedom” to engage in incest, in general — while the right expresses outrage and wonders if the “moral relevance” argument that legitimized homosexuality will also legitimize incest. The left’s reaction is not unexpected but interesting (more about that in a bit) while the right’s reaction is just plain confusing. After all, why is the right even concerned with this when it has already capitulated to the left on homosexuality? In other words, it seems rather foolish that the right would even attempt to oppose this latest assault on morality since the right will surrender to the legitimizing of incest just as it has surrendered to the legitimizing of homosexuality (see the repeal of the military ban on homosexuality). Soon both homosexuality and incest will be “Just perfectly fine!” with those on the right as they are now with those on the left (as long as it is between “consenting adults,” of course). (Side Note: Homosexuals, fearing that the comparisons of incest to homosexuality might actually cause the public to rethink homosexuality at this point, are on the defensive and are insisting that incest is nothing like homosexuality.) But I digress. Back to the left’s reaction being interesting. (more)