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San Jose Bush Criminal Rat Pack

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There may have been a time when arms were more important to obtaining and using power than information, but it would have been before the first...
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House ethics committee rules wrong is right, clears Rangel, Murtha and more

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You thought waterboarding was awful; how about force feeding?

I had two subjects on my radar this morning: the unconscionable ethics or lack thereof of workers in the mortgage foreclosure industry failing to...
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The swine in charge of the swine flu scare

Writers of mystery novels customarily use a tried-and-true plotting device commonly called “Follow the money.” In short, if you want to...
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Cheney, Libby, Bush reunion and a "Service Before Self" award. Priceless.

Appended to a Jason Linkins article on HuffPo about the event at which Dick “Vietnam Draft Dodger” Cheney scolded Mr. Obama for...
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Obama keeps Bush's airport laptop searches, he just sanitizes them

George W. Bush, last in a long line of skullduggery operatives from the GOP who have moved into and out of the White House, allowed his pet...
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Former Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge really quit for ethics reasons...NOW he tells us

A reader of a story about Tom Ridge, former Secretary of Homeland Security, admitting to raising the terror alert to help reselect Dubya asked, ...
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Pathological liars from Atwater to Novak to Rove

Robert Novak is dead. The rabidly conservative political know-it-all died Aug. 18, of brain cancer, the same ailment that claimed Lee Atwater, sire...
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Palin and Gingrich gang up over fictional euthanasia. Help, somebody....

I’ve finally got it: Sarah Palin and her partner-in-idiocy, Newt Gingrich, are flapping their gums about a “death panel”...
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Patriotism for the disillusioned: Resurrection of American spirit in a song

I spend most days looking for ethical issues in the United States, most particularly ? since I am the DC Ethical Issues examiner ? having to do...
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