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Among other problems, Boykin's theo-babble muddies the waters of moral outrage over the latest rantings by the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, whose mouth is like a radio station where the anti-Semitic golden oldies never stop. Jews "rule the world by proxy." They "invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong." (Figure that one out!) The media don't report his criticism of Muslims, he explained, because Jews control the media. And so on. In fact, until the last outburst, Mahathir got great press as a supposedly moderate...
...Bush's moral outrage at both Mahathir and Boykin has been oddly muted. He claims to have told Mahathir that saying Jews succeed at the expense of Muslims is "wrong and divisive." Mahathir claims that Bush only apologized in private for having to criticize him in public, "unless my hearing is very bad." Which, he tartly added, it isn't. About Boykin, Bush said that the general's remarks "didn't reflect my opinion." The Pentagon has begun an official investigation into Boykin's remarks. What there is to investigate is a puzzle...
...websites like warchalking.org debate rages over whether the practice is legal--or moral. The law is kind of fuzzy here, especially since each state has its own definitions of trespass in the virtual world. In California, thanks to a recent state supreme court ruling, it's relatively clear. A former Intel employee who used the company's network without permission to send 35,000 anti-Intel e-mails was cleared of wrongdoing. Since he hadn't injured the network itself, the court ruled, he hadn't broken any trespass...
...most contentious questions is what, if any, labor standards should be included in international trade agreements. Advocates of “fair trade” call upon the U.S. to use its economic power to universalize such standards. Laissez-faire types, with equal moral urgency, argue that this would only shut the developing world out of global markets. There is some truth in both positions, and conservatives and liberals alike need to make some compromises that they will find ideologically unappealing...
When she instituted a refresher day on ethical and moral behavior and formed an employee committee on morality as Texas Treasurer, Richards said, she had a much happier workforce...