And just how can an issue have more than two sides? There are two sides to every issue, it’s like a rule or something, isn’t it? You have your pro-lifers and your pro-choicers and each side’s position is quite clear, thankyouverymuch. Why complicate things?

Well, upon closer examination, most issues do have more than two sides, even if the ongoing debates about them seem two-sided. And, yes, indeed, there are pro-lifers and pro-choicers and their positions are quite clear — on the surface, at l… Continue

Ethics are a set of principles of right and wrong conduct, the actual written rules by which we try to work, love, play, fight, and live, according to our circumstances and beliefs, whatever they might be.

Morals arise from conscience, our inherent sense of right and wrong. We use our morals when we judge good and evil according to our perceptions. Morals are not written, but felt.

Making rules, and then sometimes breaking them (ethics), is intrinsic in our human nature, but it is our conscien… Continue

And now, landofthefreehomeofthebrave.org officially endorses Barack Obama for president. We do not do this because we are liberals — well, some of us lean a little further left on certain issues than others — or because we have bought into Mr. Obama’s rhetoric any more than we did John McCain’s. Rather, it was our esteemed candidates’ choices of vice presidential running mates that primarily caused us to come to this conclusion.

Mr. Obama’s selection, Senator Joe Biden, may never set the world… Continue