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Friday, September 19th, 2008The drama in U.S. financial markets continues, with the Treasury Department, SEC and Federal Reserve banding together to shore up the financial markets. The plan they’ve cobbled together – guaranteeing money market funds, temporarily banning short-selling of certain stocks and, of course, bailing out Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and AIG - is a bold one. I hope [...]
How will the next President interact with Big Oil?
Friday, September 12th, 2008Continuing my series on ethical issues facing the next U.S. President, let’s talk about future relations between the White House and the powerful oil and gas industry. The press has been having great fun this week with a report issued by the Inspector General’s Office of the Department of the Interior that accuses employees in [...]
Will the next President tell the truth about our levees?
Friday, September 5th, 2008With Hurricanes Gustav, Hannah and Ike making headlines – and throwing a monkey wrench into the Republican Convention – this week, it’s an ideal time to ask how the next President will address the condition of the levees that were designed to protect our nation’s cities from flooding. We all remember the disaster that struck New Orleans in [...]
What the next President’s position on affirmative action be?
Saturday, August 30th, 2008Whatever your politics may be, this has been an historic week for the U.S. Presidency. On the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s extraordinary “I have a dream” speech, Democrat Senator Barack Obama became the first African American ever to be nominated for President by a major political party. Just a day later, presumptive [...]
Was it ethical for Simon & Schuster to publish “Obama Nation”?
Monday, August 25th, 2008With the 2008 election nearing, it’s inevitable that voters’ interest in the candidates is increasing and the incentive to attack is growing on both sides. The latest attack on presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama comes in the form of a book by conservative Jerome Corsi titled Obama Nation that portrays Senator Obama in far from flattering [...]
What will the next President’s foreign policy for China be?
Friday, August 15th, 2008With the Olympics going on in Beijing this week, it seems like a good time to consider what the next President’s diplomatic strategy for China will be.
The decision to allow China to host the Olympic games was certainly a controversial one, as the protests that greeted the Olympic torch around much of the world demonstrated. [...]
Will the next President clean up the Justice Department?
Friday, August 8th, 2008In a recent report to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Inspector General Glenn Fine said that one of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ top advisors violated federal civil service laws by regularly considering political affiliations in screening candidates for career positions at the Department of Justice. According to Fine, Gonzalez aide Monica Goodling chose candidates whom [...]
How will the next President handle the $482 billion budget deficit?
Friday, August 1st, 2008The White House raised voters’ eyebrows and heart rates this week when it hiked its estimate of the 2009 budget deficit to $482 billion. Yes, folks, that’s an all-time record, and it gets even more spectacular when you realize that the country had a $128 billion budget surplus during the President’s first year in office. Together, [...]
Will the next President challenge election fearmongering?
Friday, July 25th, 2008This week I heard from a friend (let’s call her Ellen) about a political fundraising gambit that left her hopping mad. An older widow who has difficulty getting around, Ellen returned home one day to find that the Post Office had tried to deliver a certified letter to her. Fearing the worst (certified letters often contain [...]
How will the next President handle reconstruction in Iraq?
Friday, July 18th, 2008On a recent trip abroad, I happened to be watching BBC television when the network rebroadcast an investigative series titled, “The Baghdad Billions” that first ran in November of 2006. BBC reporter Mark Gregory described how the U.S. government apparently mismanaged private contractors who were brought in to rebuild post-war Iraq. The program described alleged improprieties [...]
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