Month: July 2025

Ethics Quote of the Week: The New York Times

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I actually like this quote a great deal, and think the Times, for once, is spot on…

“Party officials described the draft document as focusing on the 2024 election as a whole, but not on the presidential campaign — which is something like eating at a steakhouse and then reviewing the salad.”

—-The New York Times in a piece called “Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Is Described as Avoiding the Likeliest Cause of Death.”

The Democratic Party, in addition to being exposed as a the real foe of democracy domestically, advocates for open borders, puppet Presidencies, using the justice system as a political weapon, cheating in women’s sports, racial discrimination in hiring and, lately, communism, also has revealed itself as a party of abject cowards. Its latest favorite tactic is walking out of Congress when they don’t like what the majority is likely to do, but what the Times describes is astoundingly craven. The party’s analysis of why it lost the White House in 2024 is going to avoid what everyone knows are the reasons it lost

That, my friend, is a cover-up, but it is even worse than that. It is signature significance for an organizational culture that is so infected with “It isn’t what it is” reactions to unpleasant reality that it is even incapable of honestly addressing its own problems. How can anyone trust a party so self-hobbled to manage anything, lead anywhere, accomplish any goal or mission? Why would anyone trust such a party? How can you justify belonging to a party—believing in a party—that even lies to itself?

From the article:

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The Gabbard Files

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The big news in last ten days—I mean other than the allegation that Donald Trump wrote a raunchy birthday card (maybe) to Jeffrey Epstein once—was a newly declassified report released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that fingers former DNI James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey among others in the Obama Administration, and later in the Trump Administration, as having deliberately “manipulated and withheld” key intelligence from the public in order to advance the hoax that there was Russian interference in the 2016 election with the collusion of Donald Trump.

Gabbard said she would provide all related documents to the Justice Department “to deliver the accountability that President [Donald] Trump, his family, and the American people deserve…No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, to ensure nothing like this ever happens again.” She said she was releasing information that showed a “treasonous conspiracy in 2016” by top Obama administration officials, including Obama.

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One More Reason To Despise The Unethical American Bar Association…

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The Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative pubic interest law firm, commissioned research that demonstrated how the American Bar Association pressures law schools to adopt race- and sex-based hiring and admissions preferences using the threat of withholding its accreditation. The ABA oversees U.S. law school accreditation—this should stop—and abuses its power and woke biases to dictate law school discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity and gender in violation of Title VI and the U.S. Constitution. The report is titled,“Unconstitutional Accreditation Pressures Force Law Schools to Discriminate against Faculty and Students.”

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Epstein Ethics Train Wreck Update: Dershowitz Blows Up the Narrative, Ethically and Unethically

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A threshold question: Harvard law professor emeritus and former Jeffrey Epstein attorney Alan Dershowitz issued the definitive debunking of the stupid Jeffrey Epstein “client list” myth that the Axis of Unethical Conduct has been clinging to lately four days ago. Why wasn’t this major news, especially since the same paper it was published in, the Wall Street Journal, was getting Axis-wide babble over their far less substantive story about how Donald Trump penned a risque birthday card long ago in a galaxy far away?

Well, we know why, don’t we? The Dershowitz column undermines the “Get Trump!” effort, so it isn’t news that’s fit to print. Despicable.

In “The Inside Scoop on Jeffrey Epstein: I was his lawyer. I know things that court orders won’t allow me to disclose,” the Dersch reveals…

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Addendum to “On the Damning Birthday Doodle….”

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I was going to add this to the previous post, but decided that it deserved a special highlight. Red-pilled former Axis pundit Matt Taibbi is exercised over the apparent documentation showing the the whole Obama administration, including Barack, deliberately promoted the Russian collusion hoax as a way to cripple the incoming Trump Administration. That is part of an angry tweet sent his way.

Note the attempted equivalencies: on one hand we have a high level government conspiracy by Democrats to violate the Constitution while framing a President of the United States, and on the other, at worst, a raunchy gag birthday greeting from two decades ago.

This is how unhinged from reality, proportionality, sanity and common sense the American Left has become. That poor fool who tweeted Taibbi is not an isolated instance: I bet most of my Facebook friends would agree with that tweet. It really is beyond unethical to pathological.

On the Damning Birthday Doodle….

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I just woke up and feel like I’m going to barf. Almost certainly this is because I knew when I finally hit the sack last night that I was going to have to write about this new low in Axis “Get Trump!” shenanigans—oh, I’m sure there will be even lower ones to come—this morning.

You see, it seems that a long time ago, eventually-to-be-President Donald Trump wrote a bawdy birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein as part of Ghislaine Maxwell’s project to create a leather notebook filled with such cards from his friends. It seems that Trump cooperated with the project, which means that he had criminal sex with under-age girls. Or it means that he would have liked to have sex with under-aged girls. Or that he’s evil and needs to be destroyed by any means necessary, of which this smoking doodle evidence is one….but the Trump Deranged lunatics who are fulminating over this “scandal” already know that, or think they do, so again we find ourselves asking, “What’s going on here?“

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Ethics Quote of the Week: Citizen Free Press

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“Bwaaahaha, perhaps you should have cut out the bias, bitches.”

—Citizen Free Press, on all the whining and breast-beating from public television and radio talent and execss over NPR and PBS finally losing taxpayer support.

Citizen Free Press is the successor to the Drudge Report as the go-to conservative news aggregator. It’s a bit too unprofessional for me most of the time, with links headlined “Nancy Pelosi should have shut her pie hole!” and such, but this time, its colloquialism hit the mark.

The arrogance of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been offensive for decades. It has been a hard left propaganda machine, the automatic foe of Republican Presidents and the reliable enabler of Democrats since anyone can remember. NPR’s Supreme Court commentator Nina Totenberg was a buddy of the late progressive SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a clear conflict of interest, but she didn’t care and neither did NPR: after all, the idea was to bash the conservative decisions anyway. Ken Burns disgracefully turned his documentary on the Jews and the Holocaust into a Trump-bashing screed, and PBS just nodded its metaphorical head in agreement. There are too many examples of both networks spinning reality to support Woke goals and narratives to tote up.

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Friday Open Forum, But First I Have To Get THIS Out…

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Nobody else has to write about this asshole here—it is an open forum, after all—but I want to get my ethics call on the announcement that CBS is canceling “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” out of the way lest it fester and turn into a fatal brain tumor.

That ethics call is “GOOD! It’s about damn time!” Never mind that I don’t find Colbert funny and never have; my opinion of his smug style of humor is irrelevant. But he has been for more than a decade a divisive force in American culture, exacerbating political divisions and intolerance, misleading people foolish enough to take his partisan talking points as fact, and one of many Axis of Unethical Conduct allies who have been deliberately ripping at the connective tissue that holds the nation together. He’s an ethics villain.

Naturally, the Axis is upset and, as usual, lying. “CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump — a deal that looks like bribery,” Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote on social media from her tee-pee. “America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.” It was cancelled because CBS decided that a an expensive late night TV show with pretty miserable ratings that was dedicated to insulting and denigrating half of the country was probably not a smart investment, and was never an ethical one. Warren, a lawyer, former professor and U.S. Senator apparently doesn’t even know what “bribe” means. No, come to think of it, she’s just calculating that enough citizens don’t know what the word means to mislead them.

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Another Bonkers Question To “Social Q’s”

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Who are these people?

A mere summary won’t do the full craziness of this question to the NYT’s manners advice column full justice, so here’s the whole, ugly thing:

My husband’s brother, mid-60s, has always been single. Before his parents died, he lived with them. While attending a violent political rally that my husband and I opposed early in the pandemic, he contracted Covid, then infected his mother and behaved irresponsibly in managing her care. She died soon after. We have had no real relationship with him in years. Still, he emails suggestions of gifts he would like for birthdays and Christmas. We send them, and he responds with thank-you notes. When he asks what we would like, we respond that we don’t want any gifts. He sends them anyway, and we donate them to charity. We do not acknowledge them, which we normally would do. Recently, he expressed a desire for acknowledgment of his gifts. How should we handle this?

I’m not going to read columnist Phillip Galanes’s answer to this one because I declared him an irredeemable woke bigot quite a while ago. I’m insulted that he thinks any reader worthy of human association would be interested in such a family’s pathology. Shunning a family member is an extreme move that had better be justifiable; shunning him without letting him know he’s being shunned is not just cruel, it’s weird.

Considerations:

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Unethical Quote of the Month: NPR’s CEO Katherine Maher

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“As far as the accusations that we’re biased, I’d stand up and say, ‘Please show me a story that concerns you.’”

The infuriatingly dishonest, smug and biased Katherine Maher, head of NPR, on CNN yesterday.

Social media and others, like Senator John Kennedy and Instapundit, are going wild picking obvious examples. Hell, I have a lot of them; here’s one you may have forgotten (I had).

If Congress doesn’t finally strip public funding from NPR and PBS, there is no reason to trust those people to do anything. The Democrats love them because they are permanent propaganda mouthpieces for their party, but what’s the Republicans’ excuse?