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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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Twelve needless deaths an hour among uninsured: An ethical mandate

On Thursday, Sept. 17, a study by Harvard Medical School was released. Taking into account many more factors than previous studies that claimed one...
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The national shame of our response to 9/11: Two wars, economic meltdown, Palin, etc.

George W. Bush accomplished one thing in his presidency better than he accomplished anything else: He made us into a nation of frightened,...
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Is it ethical to keep swine flu vaccination warnings under wraps?

Could a flu shot send you here? (Wiki Commons) Sometimes, one has to scan British newspapers to know what’s happening here. And what’s...
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Barney Frank rebukes wingnut who defaced Obama's photo and has the logic of a flea

Funny, the young woman who asked Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), in a town hall meeting in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, why he was agreeing with President...
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Palin + Civility equals Lies + Speechwriter

Sarah Palin must have felt the backlash yesterday, not only here, but on other pages than mine. Either that, or the kennel manager decided to...
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Tampa: "Medicare Mafia" hijacks town meetings to feed their own greed

Archie Bunker lives, and he’ll by god shoot you for suggesting his “entitlements” are socialism in action.This week, the reports...
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Grassley lies about national healthcare, ethics and truth be damned

Here’s my advice for two groups of people: those who are without health insurance, and those who have it who are humane enough to believe...
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The ethical need to remember Bush accurately, lest we become Ahmadinejad's Iran

Author and journalist Naomi Wolf is a hero. So is Jerry Barrett, who, as Politex, operates the Bushwatch (and now also JoeBamawatch) website....
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