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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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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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Distracted Driving, Pot, and “The Great Debate”

In a “Great Debate” on ABC over the weekend, Barney Frank and George Will faced off over government regulation of private behavior. Both argued against a particular variety of government limitations on personal choice from an ideological perspective, and both, interestingly, failed to apply ethical analysis in the process. 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Comment of the day: “It Has Come To This”

A perceptive comment in response to “It Has Come to This,” the recent post about a school suspending a student for the non-bullying, non-threatening, non-defamatory content she wrote to friends on her personal Facebook page in the privacy of her own home. Continue reading

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It Has Come to This

This is how it starts, with Barack and Michelle announcing their touching concern over bullying. It continues with some boys being disciplined for denigrating high school girls on their website—all in the privacy of their own homes, of course—and then moved on to some students being punished for spreading vicious rumors about teachers. Do we see the slippery slope yet? Now Mrs. Dell’isola’s daughter is being suspended, not for bullying, not for libeling teachers, but for her mean wishes. Continue reading

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