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The Darkness of the Right, Pissing Away American Values
Mark Levin and his ethically blind colleagues do incalculable harm to our culture and corrupt our values by defending and even cheering the indefensible. Continue reading
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Ethics Hero: Judge Laurence Silberman
Imagine: an appeals judge who is guided by the law and not ideology. Continue reading
Unethical Quote of the Week: WSJ Blogger James Taranto
A pure slime-job, this…well beneath Taranto’s standards, though he does dip low now and then, and as reprehensible an example of attack by unfair innuendo as you are likely to find, from McCarthy to Olbermann to Beck. Continue reading
Smearing John Kerry
You will seldom see as pure and despicable an example of using guilt by association than the current effort by some on the political Right to smear Sen. John Kerry based on recent revelations about Wade Sanders, like Kerry a Silver Star awardee, who introduced the Massachusetts Senator at the 2004 Democratic Convention. Continue reading
Gov. Mitch Daniels’ Self-Validating Decision
The decision to lead a nation must depend on the nation’s needs, not yours, and not your wife’s. We are grateful for Mitch Daniels’ honesty, however. Now we know. Continue reading
Ethics Heroes: The U.S. Supreme Court
Some Supreme Court decisions come down to ethics as much as law, and this was certainly one of those times. At issue from a legal standpoint was whether federal judges had the power to order the release of state prisoners as a necessary means of curing a constitutional violation. Continue reading
Comment of the Day: “The Darkness of the Right, Pissing Away American Values”
In this entertaining Comment of the Day, Haddit (who, I gather, has “haddit” with all this ethics talk) gives a bravura performance of exactly where ethics-free thinking will get you in this and other war-related issues. Continue reading →
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