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"Senate Blvd." - Post-Oscar Special

Jim Lichtman | Posted 03.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Blagojevich, Mitch McConnell, Burris, Pat Quinn, Heroes, Roland Burris, Harry Reid, Oscar, Ethics, Senate, Home News
Jim Lichtman

"You're Roland Burris. You used to be in the Senate. You used to be big." "I AM big. It's the Senate that got small." First, he's in: Illinois Gover...

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A Spotless Mind: Would You Take A Memory-Erasing Pill?

dailymail.co.uk | David Derbyshire | Posted 03.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Advances in Medicine, Inventions, Erase Memories, Science, Drugs, Ethical Medicine, A Pill to Erase Memories, Happiness, Human Identity, Ethical Science, Health, New Medicine, Ethics, Memory, New Drugs, Living News

A drug which appears to erase painful memories has been developed by scientists. The astonishing treatment could help sufferers of post-traumatic stre...

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Sam Stein

Daschle's Tax Problems Worry New Dem Senators

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Campaign Promise, Tax Problems, Russ Feingold Daschle, Ethics, Obama Daschle, Ethical Facade, Obama Tax Problems, Tom Udall, Udall Dasche, Politics News

Revelations that Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Tom Daschle had not paid taxes on a private driver is creating much discomfort for Senate...

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The Morality of Eight Babies or, Sometimes, Even One

Valerie Tarico | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Morality, Bioethics, Ethics, Octuplets, Single Mothers, Mothering, Giving Birth, Single Motherhood, California Octuplets, Parenting, Octuplets Born in California, Childbirth, Parenthood, Living News
Valerie Tarico

Abortion opponents have no trouble saying that killing blastocysts is wrong. They don't say blastocysts. They say people. And then they attribute souls and personhood to fertilized eggs.

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Arianna Discusses CEO Ethics at "Davos Debates"

Huff TV | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Video, CEO Pay, Davos, Ceos, Ethics, Pablo Camacho, CEO Compensation, Davos 2009, Wall Street Bonuses, Arianna Huffington, Business Ethics, Business News
Huff TV

2009-01-30-ahhufftvpull.jpg Arianna and Pablo Camacho respond to this year's "Davos Debates" question: should company executives have a code of ethics similar to doctors and lawyers?

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Doing the Right Thing Will Solve the Mid-East Crisis and is Good for Your Mental Health

Leeat Granek, PhD | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: New York Times, Morals, Ethics, Values, Politics News
Leeat Granek, PhD

The back page of the New York Times, Week in Review section had an anthropologist and a psychologist claiming a solution to the mid-east crisis. It's ...

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The Journalist and the "Other" in Times of War

Sandy Tolan | Posted 02.24.2009 | World

Read More: Journalists, Photography, Wmd, Pentagon, War, Iraq, The Other, Independence, State Department, Journalism, El Salvador, Voices, Iran, Photographs, Conflict, Ethics in Journalism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Ethics, Wartime, Iason Athanasiadis, Orwell, International, Guillermoprieto, Shadid, Bonner, World News
Sandy Tolan

What is the ethical responsibility of the journalist in telling the story of the Other? And what larger forces come to bear in shaping that story in the press?

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Hedge Fund Ethics and How They'll Lead to More Regulation

Penny Herscher | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Kenneth Griffin, Wall Street, Hedge Funds, Finance, Citadel Investment Group, Ethics, Henry Blodget, Regulation, Personal Finance, Business Ethics, Business News
Penny Herscher

What is right and what is wrong in world of hedge funds?

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Enough!

Judith Ellis | Posted 02.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage Meltdown, Ethics, Enough!, John C. Bogle, Business News
Judith Ellis

Considering the beginning of the New Year and the new administration, there could not be a greater cry, that of simply, "Enough!" But what exactly have we had enough of?

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Hope + Lessig = Change

Sarah Newman | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Ted Stevens, Jack Abramoff, Citizen Lobbyist, Michele Bachman, Casino Jack, Congress, change.org, Charlie Rangel, Interior Department Staff's Drug Use and Sex Scandal, Barack Obama, Lawrence Lessig, McCain-Feingold Act, Government Accountability, Rod Blagojevich, Takepart, Open Government, Ethics, Change Congress, New York Times, Campaign Finance Reform, Citizen Voices, Don Young, Politics News
Sarah Newman

Lawrence Lessig, through his group, Change Congress, has already done some of the important legwork to get us involved in removing the influence of special interests in Congress.

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A Wall Street Kind of Scandal on Lexington Ky's Main Street

Don McNay | Posted 02.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Waste in Government, Hank Paulson, Cnbc, Bluegrass Airport, Economic Crisis, AIG Bailout, Aig, Main Street, Don McNay, Government Ethics, Sam Cooke, Fox Business Network, Business Ethics, Ethics in Journalism, Wall Street, Airport, Ethics, Bluegrass, Business News, Kentucky, Ben Bernanke, Lexington KY, Citigroup, Fox News, Business News
Don McNay

The Lexington scandal helped me understand why some in the big city media were going easy on the Wall Street mess, while people like me, living in the heartland, are going crazy about their excesses.

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American Values and the Financial Meltdown

William Fisher | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Values, Income Disparity, Economy, American Dream, Financial Crisis, Britney Spears, Poverty, Money, Ethics, Politics News
William Fisher

Most of us live overstressed lives and enjoy relaxing with music, sports, even the mindless mischief of Paris Hilton. But is this really what we mean by The American Dream?

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Anatomy of a Con Artist: How Madoff Played the Trust Equation

Charles H. Green | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Bernard Madoff, Con Man, Trust, Con Artist, Business Ethics, Ethics, Madoff, Madoff Scandal, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Bernie Madoff, Business News
Charles H. Green

The Trust Equation describes the components of trustworthiness. Measuring Bernie Madoff by the trust equation shows just what an effective job he did at mimicking genuine trust.

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Where Caveat Emptor Still Stalks the Land

Charles H. Green | Posted 01.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Shark, Madoff, Ethics, Caveat Emptor, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Mortage Crisis, Wall St Crisis, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Bernard Madoff, Credit Crisis, Madoff Scandal, Bernie Madoff, Housing Crisis, Business News
Charles H. Green

I've met all too many people educated in our "best" schools who have come to believe that selling toxic waste to customers is a legitimate part of a noble, even moral, endeavor called capitalism.

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Mr. President-Elect: Judge Abner Mikva Is Right About Sen. Clinton as Secretary of State

Al Giordano | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: President-Elect Barack Obama, Judge Abner Mikva, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Conflict of Interest, Ethics, Secretary of State, President Obama, Obama Cabinet, Obama Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Obama's Cabinet, Obama Administration, Politics News
Al Giordano

There are many annoying aspects of the noise machine that is blaring that arrogant and cacophonous yet familiar mantra: "Clinton is inevitable." We heard it for all of 2007, and we're hearing it all over again.

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The Christian Right Killed the Republican Party

Jane Devin | Posted 11.27.2008 | Home

Read More: George Bush, Religion, Michele Bachmann, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Christian Right, Ethics, Barry Goldwater, Jerry Fallwell, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, Bank Nationalization, Home News
Jane Devin

Under the thumb of right-wing religion, the Republican party became a bloated fool, stuffed with hypocrisy, greed, and anti-intellectualism. The price is now being paid through lost elections and a loss of public trust.

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Daschle for Chief of Staff?

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Alston and Bird, Political Advertising, Administration, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Ethics, Campaign Ads, Bob Dole, Transition, John Thune, Barack Obama, Fear and Courage in the Democratic Party, Obama Chief of Staff, Obama Administration Appointments, Obama Administration, Chief of Staff, McCain Lobbyists, Tom Daschle, Obama Lobbyists, Politics News
Glenn Hurowitz

Obama's got to ask himself as he considers Daschle for Chief of Staff -- does he want change and success or hypocrisy, capitulation and defeat?

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Ethics Trickle Down, McCain

Hal Donahue | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Murtha, Charity Organizations, John McCain, Pennsylvania, Military, Sarah Palin, Ethics, William Russell, Fisher House, Politics News
Hal Donahue

The candidate calls himself Lieutenant Colonel Russell. Like him, I'm a retired LtCol, but I seldom go by that title and if I do use it, I always identify myself retired as required by regulations.

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Palin Non Grata: Even Drudge Avoids Wading into the Palin Ethics Swamp

Dan Treul | Posted 11.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Vice President, Palin Ethics Investigation, Barack Obama, Palin Scandal, Presidential Politics, Alaska Ethics Probe, Ethics, Sarah Palin, Matt Drudge, Drudge Report, Vote 08, 2008 Election, Ethics Investigations, John McCain, Walt Monegan, Drudge, Drudgereport, Home News
Dan Treul

One would think that the Republican juggernaut of the blogosphere would at least want to spin the Alaska Committee's report. Is Palin such an embarrassment to mainstream conservative America that not even Drudge will rise to her defense?

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Sackcloth and Ashes on Wall Street

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Henry Paulson, Wall Street, Cokie Roberts, Bible, Ceos, Housing, Bailout Package, Ethics, Investment Banker, Wall Street Banks, Economy, Financial Crisis, Wall Street Crisis, Politics News
Jim Wallis

The proposed bailout of Wall Street gives unprecedented power to one man -- Henry Paulson -- including any action deemed necessary, with no review, and a report to Congress only every six months.

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Walmart's Poor Sportsmanship

David Nassar | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Sports, Ethics, School Fundraising, Walmart, Football, High School Football, Business Ethics, Business News
David Nassar

It may be questionable whether Walmart has the legal right to undercut youth sports and profit off a school's logo without permission. But there's no question about whether it's ethical.

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This Bi-Partisan Inquiry Is Cleary Partisan

Rick Siegel | Posted 10.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Vice President, Palin Troopergate, Inquiry, Sarah Palin, Ethics, Troopergate, Mccain, Lawsuit, 2008 Presidential Election, Home News
Rick Siegel

If Sen. McCain chose a running mate discolored by potential scandal when there was electoral scrutiny, how can we trust him to make a good choice after the voters' voices have been muted?

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Greed in the Economy: It's the Morality, Sinner

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Bear Stearns, Greed, Materialism, Investment Banks, Mortgage Backed Securities, Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae, Business, Adjustable Rate Mortgages, Merrill Lynch, Aig, Freddie Mac, Wall Street, Subprime Lenders, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Bible, Consumer Ethics, Sin, Housing, Ethics, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, James Carville, Capitalism, Economy, Religion, Lea, Business News
Jim Wallis

Our financial collapse is the fiscal consequence of the economic philosophy that markets are always good and government is always bad. But it is also the moral consequence of greed.

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Obama or 527s Must Tell Keating Five Story

Joseph Romm | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Keating Five, Economy, Barack Obama, Ethics, Mccain Keating Five, John McCain Keating 5 Scandal, Politics News
Joseph Romm

The Keating Five scandal is a crucial back story that undercuts McCain's entire image as an ethical reformer who can clean up Washington. It foreshadows everything McCain has become.

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So Many Questions, So Few Answers

Carl Pope | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Interior Department Scandal, Oil and Gas Leasing, Ethics, Politics News
Carl Pope

It's not surprising that Congressman Ed Markey has launched an investigation of oil company involvement in the Bush administration federal oil-and-gas...

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