Tag Archives: ethics

My Ordinary Opinion on Extraordinary Rendition

Dis­trac­ted by health care legis­la­tion, Afgha­nis­tan, unem­ploy­ment and local and state elec­tions, the recent deci­sion on ren­di­tion has not recei­ved the atten­tion it deser­ves.
Extraor­di­nary Ren­di­tion, not the well writ­ten story, or great piece of blog­ging, but the prac­tice of trans­por­ting sus­pec­ted foreign terro­rists, or others sus­pec­ted of cri­mes, to other coun­tries for inte­rro­ga­tion and

Dancing (collaborating?) With the Devil

A post by Nancy Watz­man, keeps us aware of the Health Care Lobb­yists Part­ying and Fun­drai­sing with Con­gress this Week
For those who haven’t been to the site, the Sun­light Foun­da­tion has a Foriegn Policy Infleuence Trac­ker and a Visua­li­za­tion of the Health­care Lobb­yist Com­plex
Michael Moore (on Leno last night), on his film,

For The Greater Good, Desperately Seeking Appeasement

Over the last week I’ve read various essays and blog posts on Ted Ken­nedy. I watched HBO’S, Teddy: In His Own Words. I’ve tal­ked to friends, and family, many having grown up in New England during the time of “the inci­dent only men­tio­ned in pas­sing”, and most (though not all by any means), extre­mely