Enlightened Ethics? > The Failure of Secularized Morality: For 200 years ethicists have tried to create ethical systems without God. The result has been the dismantling of any objective standard of right and wrong, leaving the individual to act according to his or her own "personal preference." But what happens when someone's "personal preference" happens to be cheating on an exam? Or stealing? Or—for example—collaborating with murderous Nazis?
White House Rules by Fiat Once Again: By executive fiat, the White House is once again circumventing Congress in the name of advancing the President's agenda. It's a story we've heard before. Where President Obama can't legislate, he will use executive branch action to accomplish his agenda. In the past, he has applied that tactic in the auto bailout, EPA regulations, and Obamacare. Now he's using this approach to remake No Child Left Behind (NCLB)—the most significant K-12 education law—by granting states conditional waivers from the onerous provisions of NCLB in exchange for adopting a yet-to-be-specified set of executive branch education policy priorities. [Is it a positive that Obama is at least trying to lead, to de decisive? Not! – JS] The most powerful man on Earth? That is the enduring mystery of Obama’s presidency. He delivered his statement on the economy beneath a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, but that was as close as he came to forceful leadership. He looked grim and swallowed hard and frequently as he mixed fatalism (“markets will rise and fall”) with vague, patriotic exhortations (“this is the United States of America”). “There will always be economic factors that we can’t control,” Obama said. Maybe. But it would be nice if the president gave it a try.
"It is precisely this clinging to victimhood as a means of demonstrating one’s
virtue and advancing one’s well-being that has led us into a society in which
welfare and quotas are “civil rights,” government handouts are “entitlements,”
and payment to girls having babies out of wedlock are “compassionate,” while
hard-working, ambitious people are “greedy,” punishment of crime is
“oppression,” and an independent thinker who stands for courage and
self-reliance is dismissed as an “Uncle Tom.”" -- J. Tucker Alford
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