CNN’s Ocatavia Nasr: Another Victim of Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive dissonance can alter our opinions and attitudes without our realizing it, which is why it is an essential tool of leadership, advertising, marketing, politics, propaganda, brain-washing and...
View ArticleAndy’s Unethical Health Care Propaganda
Andy Griffith's ad touting the health care bill isn't only misleading, it's unethical in principle. But Andy's not to blame. Continue reading →
View ArticleIt’s Ethics Dunce vs Ethics Dunce, as the DNC Condemns Fox For Not Giving...
Apparently the definition of "objective" adopted by the Democratic Party is that if a media company gives money to the Republicans, then it is an unreliable, propaganda-spewing fraud. If it gives to...
View ArticleChina’s Secret White House Insult
The song Lang Lang played at the White House dinner describes how beautiful China is, and concludes with, “When friends are here, there is fine wine /But if the jackal comes /What greets it is the...
View ArticleUnethical Quote of the Week: The White House
I don't advocate starting a war over this, or even making it into a diplomatic rift. Still, what Lang Lang played at the White House was an insult, a calculated one, and for the White House to pretend...
View Article“An Army of Fake Personas”? I DO Trust the Military, I DO Trust the Military…
Are there ethical uses for the Air Force's planned army of fake virtual personas? Should we worry about the unethical ones? Continue reading →
View ArticleEthics Dunce: Rep. Dennis Kucinich
I find Rep.Kucinich's statement especially indefensible, because the degree of his presumably misstatement of the truth was completely unnecessary if his motives were good. Continue reading →
View ArticleThe Message or the Messenger: The Mysterious Foundation For A Better Life
What is the Foundation for a Better Life, and should we trust its message? Continue reading →
View ArticleSandy Hook Ethics Train Wreck Update: Integrity Check For Liberal Media Bias...
This is a dire threat to open discourse, an informed public, balanced reporting and the press's proper role as a check on power, rather than a tool of it. Continue reading →
View ArticleUnethical Quote Of The Week: Strobridge Elementary Principal Charles Hill
it is far more vital to this nation's safety and survival that we rid ourselves of school administrators like aspiring propaganda minister Charles Hill than the cool guns he fears. Continue reading →
View ArticleHow Dangerous Lies Become Accepted Truth: D.C. Theater Embraces The False...
This is how lies become accepted truth. We all have a duty to prevent it. Continue reading →
View ArticleMaking Sure Obamacare Wrecks The Holidays, Too
The holidays are really about Barack Obama and his struggling health care law. Right? Continue reading →
View ArticleEthics Hero: USA Today
Unvarnished truth is not friendly to the President these days, nor has it been for a long time; fortunately for him (and unfortunately for the nation), the varnish was being copiously supplied by the...
View ArticleLaw vs. Ethics, The Cynical “War on Women,” And Stacking The Deck for Hillary
Reading the 2004 post again, and watching the (I think) overtly cynical and political effort by Democrats and the Obama Administration to increase the weight of the already heavy hand of the law in...
View ArticlePete Seeger Was No Hero, But That’s OK
Artists don't have to be perfect. They just have to make good art. Pete Seeger made great art, and I'll miss him for that. Continue reading →
View ArticleEthics Quote Of The Week: Charles Krauthammer
Dr. Kaku disgraced his profession, "Reliable Sources" betrayed its audience and its mission, and again I ask, why is there no liberal journalist with the integrity to be honest on this topic? Continue...
View ArticleTo Hell With Godwin’s Law: As The Cynical “GOP War On Women” Strategy...
Do journalists, Democrats and journalists accept that kind of deception and manipulation as responsible leadership and fair governing tactics in a democracy? If not, why do they tolerate it? Continue...
View ArticleMore On The Dangers Of Godwin’s Law
The excessive and inappropriate use of Godwin's Law to suppress comparisons with Hitler and the Nazis is dangerous. Sometimes such comparisons are necessary and valid. This is one of those times....
View ArticleNo, NPR, The Ice Cream Truck Isn’t “Racist,” But I Know Why You Want Us To...
NPR wants you to believe that the Good Humor truck is secret racist propaganda. Really. Continue reading →
View ArticleSmoking Gun Headline Of The Month: The Washington Post
Apparently White House and Democratic talking points will now be published in headline typeface by D.C.'s iconic newspaper. Continue reading →
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