Barack Obama completed one year as President on 20 January 2010. The day on which he completed his one year term should have been an occasion for celebration. But the day stored for him a shock in the form of an unexpected defeat of the Democratic party candidate Martha Clokley in the Senate elect...

On Wednesday, December 30, 2009, In Political Issues, By Malik Green Recently I watched a movie called “The State of the Union” with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn.  It is a story about politics, big business and corruption.  The movie was made in 1948 and to my astonishment; this movie...

Over the years, there have been many books, speeches, and research studies that offer solutions to the problems confronting African Americans and the communities they live in.  Many of these solutions do have potential and may be of great value; however, they are missing the most crucial elemen...

Over the last four decades, there has been a myriad of studies on early childhood brain development.  All of these studies have produced astonishing results in regards to how children learn, how their brains develop from infancy.  These studies also revealed the negative impact on children not r...

There isn’t a person who keeps informed about political issues, or concerns themselves with current events who hasn’t heard of the tax on “Cadillac” health insurance plans proposed by President Obama. Many people have an opinion on the tax, and yet still some don’t fully unde...

The thrust of the report and its recommendations were to try to change institutions so as to emphasize and reinforce ethical behavior, to promote rather than discourage those who would be ethical, to make unethical behavior more difficult to perform and easier to detect. As always, the trick is to...

The justification of a public sector institution can provide the basis for the ethics of its administrators. This can help indicate what individuals should refrain from doing. Thus, if the justification of a public sector institution is that it serves some public value, this rules out actions that...

The ethical problems of the organization are the problems of the staff, whereas many members of staff will, rightly or wrongly, see the root of the ethical problems in senior management. If “top down” codes are resented, they will be ignored when possible and, otherwise, treated like a...

According to the constitution of Pakistan it’s my right to express my views and it’s my duty to indicate towards those aspects which seem fair to me. I don’t know what language I must use to talk about Supreme Court or Chief Justice of Pakistan but I am doing this in good will. I don’t kno...