Monthly Archives: May 2010
Rep. Kirk’s False Award
How much dishonesty should the public tolerate in candidates for the U.S. Senate? Continue reading
AshleyMadison Finds Its Perfect Symbol
If you run an unethical website, I suppose the most ethical thing you can do, other than shutting it down, is to be transparent about what you are selling, and how wrong it is. Continue reading
Basketball Ethics: A Writer Advocates Violence on the Court
The Boston Herald should consider, in this age of gangs and school violence, whether it is responsible to allow a sportswriter to advocate violence as the best way to deal with adversity. Continue reading
Filed under Sports, U.S. Society
Ethics Dunces: ABC’s “This Week” Sunday Roundtable
There are many, many practices in Washington that are traditional, common and wrong. Lobbyists bribe Senators and members of Congress, for example. Elected and appointed government officials don’t report other officials who they know are committing crimes, even though not reporting is itself a crime. The ethically-deficient response of the entire “This Week” panel tells why these practices persist. It also tells us why we should stop listening to these people. They are thoroughly infected with traditional corruption. Continue reading
Ethics Hero: Chris Matthews
Matthews demonstrated his integrity and his priorities again yesterday with an impassioned outburst in which he accurately and deftly explained what a President’s leadership imperatives are in a crisis on the scale of the Gulf oil spill, and condemned President Obama’s failure to meet them. Continue reading
Filed under Citizenship, Ethics Heroes, Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Leadership
The Ethically Obtuse Bauer Memo
The White House memo on Clinton’s offer to Sestak is ethically absurd, and legally unpersuasive. Continue reading
Unethical Quote of the Week: Charles Blow
Attempts to discredit and inhibit the President’s critics by using race-baiting codes like “janitor” and attributing anything but full-throated support of Obama to racism is pure cultural poison, and the only way to combat it is to condemn those, like Blow, who keep trying to foul political discourse with it. Continue reading
Filed under Ethics Quotes, Government & Politics, History, Journalism & Media, Leadership, Race, U.S. Society
What’s Wrong About the Sestak Caper
Now we know, if we didn’t already, that the Obama Administration isn’t any different from its predecessors, and that all those inspiring promises about “ending business as usual in Washington, D.C.” from candidate Obama were not solemn pledges, but good ol’ campaign, “tell the public what it wants to hear” puffery. Continue reading
Filed under Citizenship, Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement, Leadership
