Tag Archives: President Obama

Racism, the Media, and Reverend Wright Distortions

No, the Rev. Wright issue is not racist, Just pointless. Continue reading

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The Right KInd of No-Tolerance Policy: Will Obama Get A Halo For Prison Rape Reform?

President Obama’s Justice Department finally did something right, and without political motivation. Good. Continue reading

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The Curse of the Honest Vice-President and the Evolving President

Joe Biden told the truth, exposing the fact that Barack Obama is not. Continue reading

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The Matthew Owens Attack: For Obama, Impossible Choices and Deserved Accountability

Unlike the situation in March when he helped place a target on George Zimmerman’s back by allying himself with a family and its supporters who were calling for blood, Obama now needs to say something to the nation about the Owens attack, and the ominous rumblings of racial violence surrounding the Zimmerman trial. I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think he’ll do it. Continue reading

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Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman Ethics Train Wreck Post-Bail Update

George Zimmerman has been released on $150,000 bail, prompting more ethical misconduct from the media and the lynch mob on the Left. Continue reading

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Clarifications, Retractions, Excuses and Lies: The Low Art of Pretending You Didn’t Mean What You Said

There are lots of ways to try to wiggle out of an earlier statement. Only a couple of them are ethical. Continue reading

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Comment of the Day: “Unethical Quote of the Week: Georgetown Professor Michael Eric Dyson”

Rick Jones, whose own blog “Curmudgeon Central” should be on everyone’s list of bookmarks and visited often, delivers one of the finest and most thoughtful comments ever to grace Ethics Alarms, on Professor Dyson, the Martin-Zimmerman train wreck, racism, and oh, lots of things. Continue reading

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Ethics Hero: The American Bar Association

Kudos to the ABA for showing integrity and putting aside its own partisan leanings, which are often all too prominent, in the interest of protecting an independent judiciary. Continue reading

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Unethical Quote of the Week: Georgetown Professor Michael Eric Dyson

How all previous presidents must envy President Obama, whose defenders have a ready and versatile, if disgraceful, defense for any misstep, error, mistake, misstatement or policy that goes awry: it’s just racism. Continue reading

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How Extreme Ideology Makes You An Insufferable, Mean-Spirited Jerk: Case Study…William Ayers

I thought trying to tar Barack Obama with his association with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn at the University of Chicago and their financial support of his political career was a cheap shot by the conservative media in 2008, and I think so now. Nonetheless, I cannot help wonder about the taste and values of anyone who would voluntarily stay in the presence of these miserable human beings for more than a few seconds. Continue reading

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