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Laura Harrison McBride has been an avid observer of ethics since a philosophy professor suggested she was Simone de Beauvoir reincarnated. As a journalist, especially in recent times, this penchant has come in handy. She also blogs ethics at reviewofappliedethics.blogspot.com.

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Cheney, Libby, Bush reunion and a "Service Before Self" award. Priceless.

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Appended to a Jason Linkins article on HuffPo about the event at which Dick “Vietnam Draft Dodger” Cheney scolded Mr. Obama for supposedly...
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It's global warming, stupid. EPA and U.S. Chamber of Commerce try for a PC PR coup

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It would have been unethical, of course, for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce not to deny the hoax press release saying it had switched its position on...
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Kid set on fire. The “c” word. Swastikas. Octomom. Two endless wars. No health care…

Every age and every society seems to have had its share of problems and often those problems seemed to be the worst, the terminal ones that would...
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BET rewards Michael Vick with bully pulpit

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Michael Vick, convicted abuser and killer of dogs for profit who spent 18 months in jail and has already begun playing for a Northeastern football...
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Free press essential to free society, and that includes war photography

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At what point, exactly, should the media pander to individual wishes and pre-censor the news? My colleague Rabbi Ben Kamin wrote a thoughtful...
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Quote of the week: Open White House visitor logs

As noted previously in this column, the Obama administration has eight years’ worth of Bush’s bumbling and Cheney’s canoodling to...
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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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Barney Frank rebukes wingnut who defaced Obama's photo and has the logic of a flea

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Funny, the young woman who asked Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), in a town hall meeting in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, why...
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Palin and Gingrich gang up over fictional euthanasia. Help, somebody....