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Abuse of Power and Press Intimidation At The White House
ncreasingly, it seems to me, a favored tactic of stalwarts, in the media and out of it, of the Obama administration is to try to silence critics rather than rebut them. This takes many forms:...
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Girl Talk and Bigotry Ethics: Celebrating One-Way Gender Bias on ABC
Women undoubtedly enjoy being pronounced superior in some respects without having to accept or tolerate the burden of being inferior in others. Nevertheless, this blatant double standard is neither...
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Comment of the Day on “Girl Talk and Bigotry Ethics…”
Commenter Linda's kind of thinking, and acting, makes our communities, our nation and our lives infinitely less productive and pleasant. And that's why this is a very instructive Comment of the Day....
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Group Bigotry: Is This The Way It’s Going To Be? AGAIN?
I already covered this topic when Christiane Amanpour held an unrestrained “males are inferior managers because all the blood rushes to their penises” session on ABC’s “This Week” a few Sundays ago,...
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Do Nicer People Earn Less Money? Of Course They Do. And That’s the Way it...
On balance, disagreeable employees will get promoted more frequently than agreeable employees, unless they are so disagreeable that nobody can work with them. It has always been thus. Professors...
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The Tragedy of Monica Lewinsky
Monica Lewinsky's life has never recovered from Bill Clinton. And he is accountable. Continue reading →
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Paterno, Hoover, and Jones’s First Law
Jones’ First Law, one of many useful corollaries to Murphy’s Law (“Anything that can go wrong, will.”) is usually stated: “Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavor, and...
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Rush’s Apology, His Power, and His Responsibility
I sympathize---a little---but it's strict liability for Rush Limbaugh. His ethics alarms were rusty. Continue reading →
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Incompetent Elected Officials Of the Month: Oh, Brother!
Here's some disturbing information about the seriousness with which our representatives take their jobs, and the law of the land. Continue reading →
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“Argo” and the Horrible Thought
Realizing how far my faith in the character of the President has fallen.... Continue reading →
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Slate’s Unethical “Redskins” Blackout
If the Redskins name comes to stand for the fact that there are still sufficient Americans who will fight for basic freedoms and have the courage to resist political correctness bullies like Slate,...
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The Unethical Destruction of Justine Sacco
Thousands of strangers, many of whom are almost certainly, on balance, less admirable people than Justine Sacco in many ways, have chosen to use her 140 ill-chosen characters as provocation to throw a...
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Ethics Dunce: Steve Martin (Coward, Too)
Without champions who will fight for free thought and expression, we will lose them. Continue reading →
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Ethics Quiz: If There Is Going To Be A Racial Double Standard For Bigoted...
What the hell is going on here? Continue reading →
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Michelle Obama’s Hashtag Mini-Train Wreck
Caring may be an ethical value, but in the context of leadership, caring without courage, competence and action is useless. Continue reading →
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“Camp Kill Jews” Ethics
I think I would vote to change the name of the town; as I said, this is an extreme example of the dilemma. I'd change Redskins, too, unless a bunch of position-abusing U.S. Senators demanded that I do...
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Five Ethics Observations On The Redskins Trademark Decision
If the fact that the government is trying to use its power to do that doesn't alarm, anger and frighten you---if you don't find that a great deal more offensive than the name of a city's pro football...
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Political Correctness Delusions #2: The U.S. Military Naming Its Helicopters...
The Patent Office's politically motivated (and doomed) attack on the Washington Redskins was an example of political correctness at its worst, and sure enough, here comes another deluded censor with a...
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Comment of the Day: “Ethics Dunce: ESPN”
"I wonder if Smith would have been suspended if he quoted information from some of the scholarly articles written about violence instead of offering his own lay opinion...." Continue reading →
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Ethics Dunce: Monica Lewinsky
It truly pains me to have to write anything negative about Monica Lewinsky. Her re-emergence in the new guise of a "cyber-bullying" victim is intolerable. Continue reading →
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