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The House Judiciary chairman, has called the Justice Department to also look into, why the Energy Department loaned more money to a company on the brink of collapse. This is the 4th investigation into the Solyndra "incident"

This is actually most of the last paragraph of the post on this page but I thought it was a nice summary of the principles behind this group: "In our concluding remarks, we touched on the connection between the biased images seen in the film and cognitive bias. The media continually recreates stereotypes, which generate cognitive biases, which lead to real-world discrimination in our workplaces and schools. How can we break that cycle? Educating ourselves about cognitive bias is a good start."

Justice being brought to torrent site.

This article takes a look at the Justice Departments suit against At&t blocking them from taking over T-mobile. At&t want the Justice Department to look at the situation from markets in various cities of the nation and what percentage of telecommunications they would control

This is a video that talks about the news release of Obama deploying 100 US troops to Central Africa to help find and bring Joseph Kony (a man who has engaged Central Africa in war for 26 years, has killed hundreds of thousands, and kidnaps children and forces them to fight in his army) to justice. This group has come together because three guys saw a moral and ethical problem and wanted to do what they could to change it. 

Syracuse University has fired Bernie Fine as an assistant men's basketball coach, the school announced Sunday night, hours after new reports arose regarding his alleged sexual abuse of boys.

Penn State's coach gets fired because of possible neglect to report abusing that was going on. 

Money=happiness....ummmmmmm ok.

This article talks about Environmental Issues, Going Green, and it being able to coexist with economic prosperity.

Wal-Mart is now under fire for anti-union activities on top of their already mounting sexual discrimination lawsuits.

Will Wal-Mart ever be brought to justice?

Older article; Declaration of Michael Jackson's death as homicide.

Three individuals imprisoning disabled people and stealing their Social Security numbers.

This is a good article for ethics, the death penalty is one of the most debating topics in America and in American Politics. I know this is from the Opinion section but does bring forth legitimate points.

A friend had shared a picture on Facebook that I saw today. It was copies from two articles about two different crimes. One was of a wealthy white man and one was of a homeless black man. The pictures note the sentences and crimes committed and imply that there was disparity in the sentencing. Here is a post I found on the two cases. What are your thoughts on the different cases?

I did some extra research on these two cases as well (including Snopes). I posted the linke that I did (and only that) for a couple of reasons. 1) Because of the potential inequality of the two cases and 2) because I don't think that most people look past the information give to them. I was glad to see that someone (granted you are the professor, but still) looked into the stories a bit more. I think that also says something about ethics. I recently sent a friend of mine (who was making claims about products other than those she was selling). The claims were that there was bat guano in many brands of mascara. She told me she had heard this from an optometrist but she had never done any research on her own. When I did (because I did not want to make claims that I did not know to be true), I forwarded some of the sources I found to her. In our society, we tend to take things at face value.

Aha, very clever test :) Glad you're doing some of the critical thinking that, as you indicate, we need to be doing much more of. Keep up the good research!

In a revised audit of the Department of Justice Conference Planning and Food and Beverage Costs, the Inspector General has apologized for accusing the department of spending $16 per muffin. This is questionable ethics in my opinion in a time of economic downturn, and when the government has a huge spending deficit.