… it is said that even the devil can quote scripture. In more down-to-earth terms, the Governor of Kentucky does in a much more polished form what ardent gun-rights advocates often say with spittle. My own analysis follows the video. Typically, this man does the same thing all defenders of
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Politics and its Discontents: Tory Policy-Making: The Dangers Of Simplistic Thinking
Fallacies of reasoning are easy traps to fall into. Whether it is absolutist thinking, straw man arguments or any number of other errors of thought, we are all prone to them, and I am sure that I am no exception. Our best defense against such faulty thinking is to try
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Margaret Wente Scores Another Win For Superficial Thinking
I suspect that with the exception of her employer, few believe The Globe’s Margaret Wente is a subtle thinker who deserves a forum in the self-proclaimed ‘newspaper of record.’ Her capacity for cartoonish characterization is especially apparent in her latest column where, borrowing liberally from a secondary source, as is
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