The Office of Congressional Ethics is apparently investigating whether Members of Congress sharing a residence run by a religious organization have received an improper gift in the form of below-market rent in the building. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who lives in the residence known as the “C Street house,” told Roll Call on Tuesday that [...]
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
(Michael) Frisch eviscerated both the OPR report and the David Margolis memo. The key ethics inquiry, he argued, was under Rule 1.2(d)—whether Yoo, Bybee, and Bradbury were actually counseling a crime. In this case, the evidence that their advice was designed to facilitate torture is clear-cut, torture is a felony, and multiple players putting a [...]
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Also tagged ABA, Crime, David Margolis, DOJ, Felonies, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Law, Michael Frisch, OPR, Torture
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
3. You present the question of the draft as a moral issue for society, and you trace it from the draft riots of the Civil War to the present day. Politicians today appear broadly to support a professional army as a way of avoiding the public controversy presented by the draft. It also means that [...]
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Also tagged Civic Duty, Common Good, Conscription, Conservatives, Consumerism, Corporatism, Democrats, Executive Compensation, Fairness, Justice, Liberals, Libertarians, Military, Morality, Morals, Pay Inequity, Religion, Republicans, The Draft, Wages, War
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Friday, February 12, 2010
In a single hour, two men with blatant, undisclosed conflicts of interest had appeared on MSNBC. The question is, was this an isolated oversight or business as usual? Evidence points to the latter. In 2003 The Nation exposed McCaffrey’s financial ties to military contractors he had promoted on-air on several cable networks; in 2008 David Barstow [...]
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Also tagged AIG, CNBC, CNN, Conflict of Interest, Corporatism, Disclosure, Executive Compensation, Fox Business Network, Fox News, Journalism, Lobbyists, Media, MSNBC, PR, Television
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Before the economic downturn, some internships were available for most college students or recent graduates who wanted one, Franzen said. Now that others are jumping into the internship field though, he believes it’s only a matter of time before the question of legality comes up in court. But can unpaid internships actually be illegal? If [...]
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Also tagged College, DOL, Economy, Employment, Exploitation, Internships, Labor, Law, Students, University
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Three developments last week show the growing gap between the Obama Administration and its NATO allies with respect to the legacy of torture from the Bush era. They also demonstrate that, contrary to Obama’s promises faithfully to uphold the Convention Against Torture and Geneva Conventions, his Justice Department has no intention of doing so when [...]
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Comcast wants clarity from the FCC at any cost, even if “clear rules” on network management enforce network neutrality. It defends its P2P throttling efforts as a “good faith” attempt to solve a particular problem, although the record shows that Comcast’s story changed significantly over the course of the FCC’s investigation. via Comcast wants “clear [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Microsoft has not commented on Google’s decision and don’t expect the company to do so. What’s to say? We value shareholder interests above freedom and democracy? Tyranny keeps our stock high? Some of our best customers are Communist Party censors? Certainly businesses have to balance competing interests, but at some point, compromise without question becomes [...]
Saturday, December 19, 2009
“It is difficult for any major oil company not to be in Iraq,” Total’s global exploration and production chief Yves-Louis Darricarrére told TIME last month. Despite intense negotiations, the French company was outbid by an alliance of Shell and Malaysia’s Petronas for Iraq’s giant Majnoon field. Total CEO Christophe de Margerie told TIME last Sunday [...]
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Imagine The Sopranos, The Wire and Gordon Gekko’s Wall Street all rolled into one. You don’t have to: the FBI has just broken one of the largest-ever insider dealing rings in Wall Street. It wire-tapped its way into a seedy world of secret tips, kickbacks and disposable, pre-paid mobile phones. A network including staff of [...]
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Also tagged FBI, Fraud, Galleon Group, Hedge Funds, IBM, Insider Trading, Intel, Law, Raj Rajaratnam, Stock Market, Wall Street, Wiretapping, Zvi Goffer
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
The Bill proposes forcing foreign banks operating in the US to disclose American customers’ names and annual account balances or face a 30 per cent tax on the bank’s income from US assets. All Americans with more than $50,000 in foreign assets would have to declare their holdings in their tax return. Failure to do [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
The House ethics committee and a new entity created to help it police lawmakers are engaged in the first major showdown in an ongoing turf war. Board members and staff of the quasi-independent Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) laid down the gauntlet this week and challenged the ethics committee to meet a Friday deadline or [...]
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