Last week, Karl Rove ignored a subpoena and refused to testify before Congress, choosing instead to take a trip abroad. This morning, David Iglesias, one of the U.S....
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Iglesias: Rove Won’t Testify ‘To Keep Himself From Being Indicted’
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Lawmakers' Rent Payments Raise Ethics Questions
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While Congress is struggling to address plummeting home values and mortgage meltdowns, some members of Congress are facing another kind of housing crisis: Questions have...
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Paddick's a Qwitter
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I blogged back during the London Mayoral elections about Lib Dem candidate Brian Paddick using Twitter as a tool for a virtual Q&A session with the electorate. ...
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Perino: Bush ‘believes that he would have met’ Payne before.
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In yesterday’s press conference, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino continued to downplay the long relationship between President Bush and his longtime...
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Finding 'natural communicators' - the real role for PR consultants in a social media world?
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May has been a crazy month and hopefully normal blogging service will resume shortly. But in the meantime I was thinking about some work we have been doing with one of...
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Leader Denies Muslim Women the Right to Choose
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In Egypt and elsewhere in the Muslim world, women suffering under oppressive leaders are starting to cry out for the right to choose. A quote from an AP article...
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The Khmer Chronicles / Issue Nr 9: About ethics and corruption rankings
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There was a time when Cambodia was not even listed on Transparency International's Corruption Perception index. But Cambodia is more and more part of the world... In...
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APA promotes open-access (yay!) ... and charges authors $2500 each (boo!)
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From the Chronicle -- an interesting power play for control over intellectual property: In what appears to be a new policy, the American Psychological Association will...
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Ethics of Climate Change
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I found this article in Scientific American to be very engaging. It clearly shows the relationship between ethics and economics, and shows that how we approach climate...
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Is full transparency always the smartest move?
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Is full transparency always the smartest move? Crisis communications 101 teaches us that full disclosure of an 'issue' early and often is the best course for mitigating...
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Got $200 Burning A Hole In Your Pocket? Need MCLE?
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Tomorrow at 10 PDT I'll be speaking on (at?) an ALI-ABA teleseminar called Blogging as Client Development: Effective and Ethical. Moderating will be Bentley Tolk and...
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Yesterday's entry: A comment and a correction
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The Comment I've received a lot of feedback on yesterday's blog entry. The two most common questions are: Eric, why did you think that working on your Scrabble ...
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The Dark Side Of Divine Command Theory?: A Response To Erik Wielenberg - Part Two
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In response to Wielenberg's first argument, it seems perfectly reasonable for the Theist to assert two propositions. The first being that it is...
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The Dark Side Of Divine Command Theory?: A Response To Erik Wielenberg
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In Chapter Two of Value And Virtue In A Godless Universe, Erik Wielenberg introduces two theses that he believes implicitly support Divine Command...
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Friday Special: Ethics of Gravestone Advertising
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AdLab has explored the question of tombstone advertising to a great extent, but never from the ethics angle. Apparently, the question has been resolved. Love the "report...
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Andhra By-Poll Results- TRS gets a Drubbing
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The AP by-polls were held to fill the vacancies created by the mass resignation of TRS members from their 4 LS and 16 Assembly seats, as also 2 assembly seats which fell...
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making capitalism work for the poor
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Good interview on cnn with Bill Gates about how he says we need to "tweak" capitalism to work better for the poorest 2bn people in the world. another vid of...
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Post of the day - 10 Totally Stupid Online Business Ideas That Made Someone RichThe human mind is a wonderful thing, capable of the most wonderful thought processes and...
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A Crime to Blog Opaquely...
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Opaqueness was always going to be a problem in the blogosphere. Seems the UK is moving to make it a crime: The rules make it an offense to blog, use brand...
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Fool me Thrice, See you in Prison
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For the 2nd time this year we've been a victim of a thief. This time a professional conman who appears to go from business to business running a somewhat elaborate scam....