Tag Archives: “1984″

Newark Mayor Cory Booker Recants

Like Galileo, Newark Mayor Corey Booker is made to recant for the crime of telling the truth., Continue reading

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Scary Ethics Theater: The Strange Case of the Freedom of DISinformation Act!

This Halloween night we ask the scary question, “When is it ethical to be unethical?” For the chilling answer, we must enter the mysterious lair of Eric Holder’s Justice Department!!! Continue reading

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More Than a Fool: Bachmann, John Quincy Adams, and Wikipedia

In one short week since the controversy erupted over Fox News anchor Chris Wallace daring to ask her on the air, “Are you a flake?” and her subsequent botching of both her answer and the question’s fevered aftermath, Rep. Christine Bachmann has stumbled into two flaky episodes. One—her mixing up Western movie star icon John Wayne with serial child killer John Wayne Gacy—was at least funny. The other, far less forgivable—her claim that the Founding Fathers “worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States”—has signature significance. Continue reading

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OH NO! Political Correctness Got Me!

The consequences of absorbing a misguided social norm can be devastating. If we allow cultural values to be set by the loudest, the most zealous, the politically expedient or the most easily offended, rather than by rational evaluation, wisdom and objective analysis, we risk losing a lot more than “Penelope Pitstop.” Continue reading

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CNN and John King, Endorsing “Newspeak” and Disgracing American Journalism

I don’t want to even look at John King until he apologizes for his fatuous, cowardly, anti-democratic apology or until CNN sacks him, and I personally vow to say or write “cross-hairs” every day until he does. Continue reading

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Juan Williams, Martyr to Tolerance

NPR has fired Juan Williams. Why? Continue reading

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Philly’s “Webcamgate”: No Ethics Controversy, Just Unethical

The conduct in Philadelphia’s “Webcamgate” is so obviously unethical it’s insulting to have to talk about it. Continue reading

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