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A Reinhold Niebuhr award for Joe Scarborough
Amidst all the scandals erupting from New York (about which, more later–stay tuned), finally a big helping of ethics cheer: Joe Scarborough earns a (mythical) Reinhold Niebuhr award* for bringing good...
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Did Obama betray Israel? Or is the Republican outrage manufactured hypocrisy?
Has the President “thrown Israel under the bus,” as Mitt Romney said yesterday? Has he “once again betrayed our friend and ally, Israel,” as Michele Bachmann raged? Made a “mistaken and very dangerous...
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Hooray for Romney and Paul for eschewing the politics of discrimination and...
It feels awkward to praise in an ethics column somebody for showing simple decency, but considering today’s Republican candidates, simple decency is nothing to sneeze at. So hooray for Mitt Romney for...
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Three cheers for Bret Baier, Chris Wallace, and Byron York of Fox News, and...
Who would have thought that Fox News and MSNBC could raise us out of our funk over the hyper-partisan media and their destructive influence on political discourse in America? First, Fox: As hosts of...
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George W. Bush’s finest hours: his embrace of Islam and of American Muslims....
Six days after the 9/11 attack on the United States, President George W. Bush went to the Islamic Center of Washington to publicly embrace Islam and, especially, American Muslims. He led Americans away...
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Take “Occupy Wall Street” complaints seriously, don’t use force to disperse them
Americans pay attention when a lot of people turn out. And so there’s lots of attention for “Occupy Wall Street,” or OWS for short. Thousands of people, mostly of the Millennial generation (born since...
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Mitt Romney: Liar, liar, pants on fire. Said he didn’t care about poor...
Mitt Romney said he’s not concerned about the very poor because they have a safety net. And if the safety net needs repair he’ll fix it. This proves he doesn’t care. If he thinks the safety net is OK...
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Marco Rubio courageously and compassionately supports DREAM Act II
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) is a darling of the Republican right, so much so that many pundits have tagged him as a front runner for the #2 spot on the Republican ticket with Mitt Romney. If Romney were...
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Obama’s an ethical hero for creating a virtual Dream Act to give a million...
Joanne ____ is one of America’s twelve million illegal immigrants. She was brought to the United States from Mexico as a baby by her parents. She has a younger sister and brother who are American...
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