Spitzer & America's Perverse Ethics
 
Resent-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:38:45 -0500 (CDT)


The U.S. news media can't get enough of the prostitution scandal
that brought down New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, but the same media
won't give a minute to a serious debate over the impeachable war
crimes of George W. Bush. In this guest essay, Rabbi Michael Lerner
looks at the perverse state of America's ethics.

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