Pro Ethics

A week of focus on issues in education at whitehouse.gov

Some of the history, and a few resources, for women's history month.

This news article is about the U.S. Postal Service. The rest of the country is having to cut back and change their way of running things but for the post office to make those same needed changes, Congress has to vote on it.

Securities and Exchange Commision approved a law that rewards cash for people that inform the SEC about a business who has commited illegal activies within the government.

An interesting angle on the ethics of truth telling vs. lying: "Sarah Kaminsky tells the extraordinary story of her father Adolpho and his activity during World War II -- using his ingenuity and talent for forgery to save lives."

Some advertisers have been appealing to Sept. 11 to tell their own stories. Part of the appeal for this sort of thing is what's called in logic an "appeal to emotion" - if you use a symbol people have a powerful emotional connection to, they will be more easily swayed or drawn to you, or in this case to your product.

Ethics and morals can be changed and throughout history the US has done a good job of adapting even if it took years to happen.

This is an article about the Citizen's United decision by the Supreme Court and a list of unfilled promises.

Will this be an attempt at helping universalize business ethics?

What is the real intent on this raid?

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?

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 article is about Solyndra, a leading company in the solar enery market in California , and how they they got refinancing from the Obama administration, for $535 million loan in 2009 and is now bankrupt.

Unions have become a rather controversial topic within American work culture today, but they arose in a very different time and shaped people's work life today in some pretty profound ways, most would say some pretty good ways.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. The common assumption is that commercially driven efforts at space travel are far more likely to have detrimental consequences than those that have been government funded projects. Should space be open to commercial odysseys?

entrepreneurship and government

HBO One Night Stand - Check out Bill Burr's Podcast on iTunes and www.billburr.com

The latest on financial reform efforts

Questioning whether gender has played a role in who has gotten the axe during the "financial downturn" 

A brief reflection on attribution of credit for intellectual property