Tag Archives: dishonesty

October 31, 2011

Five Questions and Answers About The Steven J. Braun Law Firm Halloween Party Outrage

New York Times Joe Nocera is stirring up public outrage because some employees of a law firm involved in questionable foreclosure practices attended the firms 2010 Halloween party dressed as homeless people. Continue reading →

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Filed under Etiquette and manners, Humor and Satire, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Professions, U.S. Society, Workplace

Tagged as bad taste, compassion, costumes, dishonesty, foreclosures, Halloween, Joe Nocera, New York Times, political correctness, The Steven J. Braun Law Firm

October 21, 2011

Unethical Quote of the Week: Fired NPR Host Lisa Simeone

National Public Radio didn’t object to Simeone “exercising her rights”…National Public radio objected to her ignoring its Code of Ethics. Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Business & Commercial, Citizenship, Ethics Quotes, Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Professions, The Internet

Tagged as bias, codes of ethics, conflict of interest, dishonesty, Lisa Simeone, loopholes, National Public Radio, Occupy Wall Street, trust, Washington DC

September 27, 2011

Ethics Dunce: Author Karen Hunter

Hunter would prefer that most Americans not know that their President drops his G’s when he talks to black audiences. That’s backwards journalistic ethics. The public has a right to know that Barack Obama, who promised to be a President of all the people, now shows different faces to different constituencies. Continue reading →

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Filed under Ethics Dunces, Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Leadership, Race

Tagged as African Americans, Associated Press, bias, Congressional Black Caucus, dishonesty, grammar, journalistic ethics, Karen Hunter, pandering, President Barack Obama, speaking style

August 21, 2011

The West Memphis Three, Still Abused By Unethical Prosecution

The circumstances of the West Memphis Three’s release from 18 years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit were only slightly less revolting than their conviction, and the method by which it was achieved was thoroughly unethical. It needs to be recognized and condemned. Continue reading →

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Filed under Citizenship, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Religion and Philosophy, U.S. Society

Tagged as Alford plea. guilty plea, Arkansas, Damien Echols, dishonesty, DNA evidence, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley Jr., journalistic ethics, justice system, legal ethics, plea bargains, prosecutorial misconduct, Satanism, West Memphis Three

August 20, 2011

President Obama’s Unethical Illegal Immigration Ploy

The idealistic President who came into office promising so much has officially and unmistakably sunk to buying votes with the integrity of America, personifying the politician who proves himself unworthy of power by the manner in which he seeks to retain it. Continue reading →

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Filed under Citizenship, Government & Politics, Leadership, U.S. Society

Tagged as ., deportation, dishonesty, duty to uphold the laws, ethics, fairness, Homeland Security, illegal immigration, open borders, President Obama, Presidential Oath of Office, The Dream Act

August 1, 2011

Ethics Dunce: The California State Bar

If membership in the California bar requires evidence of good moral character, which includes honesty, trustworthiness and respect for the law, especially in the matter of not using fraudulent or illegal documents, I don’t understand what there is to consider when an illegal immigrant, having graduated from law school thanks to California’s willful ignorance of his illegal status, chooses to pursue the next step of applying for a license as a lawyer when his entire life and residence in the U.S. have in fact been in violation of the law. Continue reading →

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Filed under Around the World, Citizenship, Education, Ethics Dunces, Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement, Professions, U.S. Society

Tagged as California State Bar, character and morals requirement, consideration, dishonesty, ethics, fairness, fitness to practice law, illegal immigration

July 21, 2011

Perplexing Oxymoron of the Month: the Unethical Ethics Fellow

What DO they teach in Harvard ethics classes? Continue reading →

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Filed under Education, Law & Law Enforcement, Science & Technology

Tagged as Aaron Swartz, dishonesty, ethics, file-sharing, hacking, Harvard, hypocrisy, MIT, theft

July 19, 2011

James O’Keefe—Still Faking, Still Recording, Still Unethical

Creating fake situations to entice people into acting badly, filming the most embarrassing encounters and posting them on the web is such a despicable, unfair, mean-spirited act that we must reject it, unless the good it achieves is clear and overwhelming, the architects of the sting are responsible, unbiased and credible, and their motives are selfless and public-spirited. Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Government & Politics, Health and Medicine, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, The Internet, U.S. Society

Tagged as "Candid Camera", dishonesty, fairness, hidden video, James O'Keefe, journalistic ethics, Medicaid fraud, stings, vigilantiism, YouTube