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Rep. Paul Broun: Failing the Duty to Confront and Failing America
Rep. Paul Broun, by trying to curry favor with the worst of our citizenry and failing his duty to confront calls to violence that are antithetical to free political discourse and American values, has...
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Osama’s Assassination: The Ethics Elephant in the Room
It is better, safer and more honest to admit that executing bin Laden violates basic and established principles of fairness, respect for life and justice, but that in his very special case, it was the...
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Comment of the Day: “Osama’s Assassination: The Ethics Elephant in the Room”
Commenter Margo Schulter delivers a powerful, passionate, eloquent absolutist rebuttal to my post asserting an ethical defense of Osama bin Laden's targeted killing/assassination/execution by U.S....
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Comment of the Day: “The Jaundiced Eye of Noam Chomsky”
Reader Trafford Gazsik comes to the defense of Noam Chomsky Continue reading →
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“The Mentalist” Ethics: Patrick Jane Osamas “Red John”
Tonight marked the season finale of “The Mentalist” on CBS, and by happy coincidence, Bruno Heller’s odd-ball murder mystery drama ended with its hero, Patrick Jane (played with brio by the excellent...
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The Ethically Messy, Legally Muddled, Drone Killing of Anwar al-Awlaki
If a C.I.A. drone could have killed Osama Bin Laden before September 11, 2001, the world would be a better and safer place, and it is a better and safer place now that Anwar al-Awlaki---an American...
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Unethical Quote of the Month: The Producers of HBO’s “Game of Thrones”
I detest public lies that the liars know nobody in their right mind will believe and I also detest fake forced apologies, in which an individual has been ordered by some authority to issue a mea culpa...
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If You Liked “Enhanced Interrogation,” You’ll Love The “Disposition Matrix”
A government that uses cover phrases doesn't trust its own citizens. Continue reading →
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Drone Ethics: The Policy and the Memo
The President using drones to kill citizens of other nations without due process of law is more illegal and unethical than using drones to kill citizens of this country without due process, once they...
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Ethics Hero Emeritus: Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin proves that one can be a failure and a hero. Continue reading →
View ArticleTen Observations On The Trump Assassination Attempt
Would I have been sorry if Donald Trump had been assassinated? Continue reading →
View ArticleObservations Regarding Donald Trump’s Most Recent Idiotic Ad Lib
Trump's juvenile and inarticulate habit of expressing half-formed thoughts as they occur to him requires him to figure out what he has said after the fact, as he is now with his latest blather....
View ArticleThe Resistance Thinks This Is Appropriate Political Humor. This Tells Us All...
These are objectively hateful, ugly, irresponsible people, and their depravity becomes deeper and sicker almost daily. Continue reading →
View ArticleBloody Head Update: The Kathy Griffin Press Conference
Maybe she and Rosie O'Donnell will do a concert tour. Continue reading →
View ArticleOn Misandry, Keith Olbermann, “Mansplaining,” And The Bloody Head
The "mansplaining" tactic just means, "Shut up! Your gender means I don't have to take your opinion seriously or accord you the respect that you must accord me, for I am one of the favored ones."...
View ArticleMorning Ethics Warm-Up, 8/30/17: A Vicious Professor, Pazuzu, And Kathy...
Apologies, bad apologies, anti-apologies... Continue reading →
View ArticleProfessor Volokh’s Ethics Dissent On The Vicious, Pazuzu-Blaming Professor’s...
A conflict of interest leads my favorite Constitutional Law scholar badly astray. Continue reading →
View ArticleWhy Ethics Alarms Don’t Ring: The Gloucester PTO’s “Don Trump” Gravestone
Thus are once functioning ethics alarms silenced. Continue reading →
View ArticleTales Of The Slippery Slope: Paroling Sirhan Sirhan
The "over-incarceration" problem does not include Sirhan Sirhan,,
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