| ACLU Inspired: History of The Sedition Act of 1798 | 06/19/2004 | These statements are a warning, although not the kind of warning that Ashcroft and Fleischer intended to send. Instead, they remind us how easily our precious First Amendment rights can be lost.
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| Confucian Filial Obligation and Care for Aged Parents | 06/19/2004 | I conclude that due to the naturalistic character of the family, the nature of our familial obligations (such as parental caring for young children and adult children's respectful caring for aged parents) cannot be consensual, contractarian and voluntarist, but instead existential, communal and historical. |
| Credit Repair Tips for Consumers With Bad Credit | 06/19/2004 | If circumstances such as a loss of job, a cut in salary, medical bills, or just poor financial management has led to a credit crisis in your life, the tips below offer some suggestions on how to get your credit back on track. |
| Decency Standards? | 06/19/2004 | Do you have an obligation to your children to bring decency standards into their lives? Do you think the government should be investigating and prosecuting the porn industry, or levy fines on indecency on the radio or TV? What is the obligation of what part of society to create or impose "decency standards?" What are they? |
| Definition of "Obligation" From Catholic Source | 06/19/2004 | A term derived from the Roman civil law, defined in the "Institutes" of Justinian as a "legal bond which by a legal necessity binds us to do something according to the laws of our State" (III, 13). It was a relation by which two persons were bound together (obligati) by a bond which the law recognized and enforced. |
| Does America Have An Obligation To Bring Freedom To The World? | 08/01/2004 | "NFL teams are recruiting a new breed of criminal players, the likes of which should disturb all NFL fans," say the authors. "Gone are the good old days of NFL recruits having rap sheets detailing merely drunken brawls and vandalism. In are the days of lethal violence, rape, armed robbery home invasion, kidnapping, and drug dealing."
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| Does the Koran encourage the Fundamentalists of Islam? | 06/19/2004 | In many places of the world today we find an increase in the religion of Islam. And what is surprising is that the Moslems who try to resist this progress are accused by their co-religion members of betraying the teaching of the Koran. Does the Holy Book of the Mohammedans justify the Islamic religion? |
| Gay Marriages Should Be Allowed? | 06/19/2004 | The word "family" is generally reserved for that "group" which has the obligation of the race to create children, the word "marriage" has been defined even more strictly as that "legal agreement" much like a "partnership agreement" that society recognizes as an agreement which has special importance in assuring the future existence of the race -- or the society. |
| International Citizens’ Body Calls for Action on Bering Sea Bottom Trawling | 06/19/2004 | Here is what purports to be a drastic transgression ON the entire universe of living creatures -- at least those in the sea. Stories such as these are usually 100% false propaganda, but on their face they represent a typical "obligation" toward you (and all others) of the oceans -- to survive for YOUR future.
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| Is It OK For The Government To Force Children To Receive Psychiatric Drugs? | 08/01/2004 | |
| Is it OK to use torture on terrorists? Are there any limits on "what type of torture?" Who should set the rule? What right does the "public" have to know about this? | 06/19/2004 | |
| Negotiate With Terrorists? | 06/19/2004 | You can read the two news articles below and consider the moral question: Where does the rational "obligation" lay? With Jesse Jackson for offering to negotiate with the terrorists, or with President Bush who says we never negotiate with hostage-takers? |
| President Bush Vows To Fulfill The Nation's Obligation | 06/19/2004 | We're not leaving Iraq because of politics. We're standing firm on our word because it's right, and it's in the long-term interests of our countries that we stand firm. The President intends to fulfill the nation's obligations. |
| Psychotherapy that focuses on morality and obligation | 06/19/2004 | In his new book, Soul Searching: Why Psychotherapy Must Promote Moral Responsibility Basic Books, April 1995), Minnesotan family therapist William Doherty argues that therapy should shift from being 'me'-focused to 'we'-focused, and to emphasising what he considers vital moral values as justice, truthfulness and community. |
| Should the Spanish Prime Minister Have "Kept His Word" -- Did He Have An Obligation To the Spanish Electorate -- To Cave In To Terrorists? | 06/19/2004 | Incoming Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Thursday reaffirmed his vow to withdraw his country's troops from Iraq unless they come under UN command by June 30 when their mandate expires.
"I will keep my word on the presence of Spanish troops in Iraq," said Zapatero, in allusion to his electoral promise to withdraw the troops if the UN does not take control of the country by June 30.
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| Social Obligation | 06/19/2004 | It should be our objective to fulfill our obligations to society by being good citizens, by correcting social injustices, and by protecting the sanctity of life. |
| Thanks To Ex-President Clinton/President Bush | 06/19/2004 | Perhaps there is no more divisive moral issue in our nation than how we, as individuals, view our obligations to respect and be proud of either Bill Clinton or George W. Bush. For, in our view of either of these two men do we show our view of some half of all our fellows! |
| The Road to Makkah begins as you board Saudi Arabian Airlines | 06/19/2004 | Saudi Arabian Airlines helps you fulfill your religious obligations and exerts the utmost efforts to ensure your comfort and convenience as you go about your religious duties. |
| The Sedition Act of 1798 | 06/20/2004 | SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That if any persons shall unlawfully combine or conspire together, with intent to oppose any measure or measures of the government of the United States, which are or shall be directed by proper authority, or to impede the operation of any law of the United States . . . . |
| U.S. Army Obligation To Country | 06/19/2004 | Duty also means being able to accomplish tasks as part of a team. You must fulfill your obligations as a part of your unit. Examples include: voluntarily assuming your share of work load, unwillingly serving as a member of a team, or assuming a leadership role when appropriate. |
| Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act | 06/19/2004 | Value is given for a transfer or an obligation if, in exchange for the transfer or obligation, property is transferred or an antecedent debt is secured or satisfied, but value does not include an unperformed promise made otherwise than in the ordinary course of the promisor's business to furnish support to the debtor or another person. |
| WSJ, April 15, 2004: Gorelick's Wall | 06/19/2004 | You see, it is a question of morals and obligations. Here was Ms. Gorelick who wrote a secret memo when she was in a position of power -- as Deputy Attorney General during the Clinton Administration. That memo increased the difficulty of the sharing of information between the CIA and the FBI. One could say that "HERE" was one person who may well have personally, and deliberately, compromised the safety of the United States, and made the entire 9/11 disaster possible! Is this, or not, an issue of morals? Who is taking which side on this issue? |
| WSJ, April 15, 2004: Medicare Math | 06/19/2004 | A program's financial imbalance can be neatly summarized in one number -- the amount of additional money in an interest-bearing account today that would be sufficient to plug all future shortfalls between its projected outlays and receipts. According to the Trustees' report, Medicare Part A -- which reimburses hospital services for retirees -- faces a financial imbalance of just under $22 trillion. |
