Ethics

Lauren Boebert Reimbursed Herself $23k From Campaign Coffers. Ethics Experts Have Some Questions

Lauren Boebert Reimbursed Herself $23k From Campaign Coffers. Ethics Experts Have Some Questions

Since they were both elected to congress in November it seems like Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene have taken…

3 years ago

Whistleblower Triggers A Bribery Bomb Heading Straight For Trump

Whistleblower Gate just blew up right into Trump's soft spot: Bribery. A president cannot bribe or accept bribes. He cannot…

5 years ago

Jeff SessionsTells Top Prosecutors: Hold Off on Doing Justice

Prosecutors have discretion to low-ball charges as justice requires, and are ethically bound to do so. Sessions says to throw…

7 years ago

Trump’s Nominees Are Set For Confirmation Without Proper Vetting

The head of the Office of Government Ethics called "The announced hearing schedule for several [Trump] nominees "of great concern.”

7 years ago

Ethics Lawyers Urge Trump To Be As Ethical As Bill Clinton On Conflicts Of Interest

Why won't Donald Trump do as much as Bill Clinton did to separate himself from his business interests? For all…

7 years ago

Reject the Absolute Moral Corruption of the Republican Cult

The GOP is nothing more than a modern, reactionary cult designed to give religious justification for willful ignorance,bigotry, and bad…

9 years ago

U.N. Human Rights Review Of America Will Be Damning

The so-called Universal Periodic Review (UPR) regularly looks at all of the 193 U.N. member nations, and if a special…

9 years ago

NRA-Republicans Blocked Treaty Banning Arms Sales To Terrorists

One might wonder what kind of malcontent opposes a worldwide treaty that limits the transfer of conventional arms and battlefield…

9 years ago

Dick Cheney and Evangelical Christians Epitomize Dark Age Barbarism  

Instead of shame and humiliation that this government condoned and defended myriad human rights violations, one of the architects of…

9 years ago

Republicans Condemn North Korean Human Rights Violations While Ignoring Their Own

The hypocrisy of this nation co-sponsoring a resolution condemning anyone country for human rights abuses (torture) is beyond the pale.…

9 years ago

Al Franken Sends Uber Running By Questioning Their Privacy Policies

Uber responds to Sen Franken, but "it still remains unclear how Uber defines legitimate business purposes for accessing, retaining, and…

9 years ago

Scalia Is Wrong: The Constitution Prohibits Torture and GOP Civil Rights Violations

Conservatives have proffered every possible scenario to justify torture, including Supreme Court Justice Scalia invoking a fictional television counter-terrorism agent,…

9 years ago

Former Tea Party Congressman Says Americans Should Be Proud We Engage In Torture

Former Republican Congressman and current conservative radio host Joe Walsh appeared on CNN Wednesday morning to discuss his tweets and…

9 years ago

The Koch Brothers Fund Religious Groups That Are Eliminating Women’s Rights

To accomplish their goal of controlling the government, the Koch brothers have had to climb in bed with fundamentalist Christians…

9 years ago

Conservatives Have A Double Standard When It Comes To Use Of Police Force On Blacks

In the past few weeks, there has been an uprising of awareness of police brutality all over the U.S. yet…

9 years ago

MSNBC and Joe Scarborough Aspire To Be As Racist As Fox News

Scarborough's version of the story bared no resemblance to the truth, but that is precisely what one expects from "Fox…

9 years ago

Senate Fights To Release Report Detailing Bush-Cheney’s CIA Torture Program

The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee responsible for the report, Senator Dianne Feinstein, is incensed over the CIA's fight…

9 years ago

Kansas’ Kobach Warns Immigration Action Leads To Ethnic Cleansing and Socialism

According to one angry racist Republican, the start of ethnic cleansing is when an African American President takes executive action…

9 years ago

Sen. Al Franken Stands Up For Privacy By Pressing Uber to Enforce Its Privacy Policy

After an Uber exec revealed his idea to dig up dirt on journalists via the company's data collection, Al Franken…

9 years ago

On Independence Day Republicans Crusade To Eliminate the Rights of Half The Population

Republicans at all levels of government, at the behest of the religious right, have launched a vicious crusade to eliminate…

10 years ago

To Celebrate Veterans Day David Barton Lies About What Bible Says About PTSD

Barton might want to think about the fact that nowhere does Jesus say that liars and hustlers and grifters will…

10 years ago

Republicans Have Grown To Hate America As Much As They Hate President Obama

If you are an American who is not in the richest one percent, Republicans are in a blind rage to…

10 years ago

Can The Conservative Mind Be Changed?

Accumulating research suggests political beliefs are hard-wired into our biology, so can conservatives change their minds?

10 years ago

Big Box Retailers Grab Big Data – What You Need to Know When You Shop

You may think of it as checking out but the retailer thinks of it as the data grab. That visit…

11 years ago

Your Private Information is Less Safe than Ever – And it was Never Safe

Governments have been spying on their citizens since the dawn of time. They're just better at it now than ever…

11 years ago

Injustice For Most: Our Two-Tiered Justice System Is In Desperate Need of Intervention

Inequities in our justice system continue to widen with wealthy, white criminals continuously managing to escape punishments faced by others

11 years ago

John Yoo Uses the Pretense of Diversity to Defend the Torture Program

Under the pretense of defending diversity, Bush torture policy guru John Yoo came out in favor of a diversity of…

11 years ago

Hacking Gone Wrong: The Bush Family Emails

Even the Bush family deserves personal privacy, so what purpose is served by hacking into their private emails only to…

11 years ago

Steubenville Rape Crew Are Outraged That Their Character is Being Questioned

Rape apologists, the rape crew, lawyers for the rape crew and morons (excuse the redundancy) are very upset about their…

11 years ago

This Holiday Season Do Your Own Thing and Damn the Critics

Conservative Christians despise atheism as being a subjective form of morality, ignoring the history of their own subjective belief system

11 years ago

Beware of the ‘Expert’ on Helping Liberals/Conservatives Get Along

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt has been selling the notion that he understands liberals & conservatives, while basically badmouthing liberals

11 years ago

Gene Roddenberry, Where is My Star Trek Future?

Star Trek promised us a Utopian future of peace and tolerance and science; the Republican agenda has thrown all this…

12 years ago