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The Supreme Court’s decision to give corporations the right to spend money from their treasuries on political campaigns is the end of civilization as we know it.
Once the primary season begins this spring, the airwaves will be swamped with political advertising underwritten by corporations looking to promote their favorite pol. As if that weren’t bad [...]

Filed under: Blog, News by Tim Smith
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Video footage of the luge practice run in which Georgian athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed led many news reports as the Vancouver Olympics were about to get under way.
The footage of Kumaritashvili’s forceful accident is blurry but the speed and impact of the crash are apparent and it’s easy to conjure the horror. Because viewers [...]

Filed under: Blog, Ethics by Jan Leach
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Craig Wright, the former Ohio Supreme Court justice who died last week, was a piece of work.
He could recall the details of an opinion he had written years ago but lose a set of legal briefs while walking 50 feet from the Supreme Court bench to the justices’ conference room.
A rock-ribbed Republican who never met [...]

Filed under: Blog by Tim Smith
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The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog discusses recent criticism of the Associated Press’s release of photos of a Marine moments after he was killed in Afghanistan.
A furious Defense Secretary Robert Gates has upbraided The Associated Press for its decision to go against the wishes of a young Marine’s family and publish a photograph of [...]

Filed under: Blog, Ethics by Stacy Puzo
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