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The Senate Chases Motes

The Straw Man Fallacy: When a person ignores another person's actual point-of-view and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that point-of-view for the purpose of rebutting a different, usually weaker, argument. The Senate Judiciary Committee has posted the ...
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Supposed Red Collar Worker Gets Me Hot Under Collar

My husband David has coined a new term: "red collar worker." It is to refer to those persons who want to be cared for cradle-to-grave without breaking much of a sweat, figuratively or otherwise, in the workplace. It is perhaps ...
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Is Bush Trying to Eliminate Overtime?

The AFL-CIO says yes here. I say no here ...
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Judicial Pass It On

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Thoughts from hubby David, our VP: Everyone remembers the childhood game "pass it on." A story is whispered in the ear of one child, who then passes it on by whisper to another child and so on. You know what ...
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Captain Renault’s Return: The FCC Should Set a Bright-Line Standard for Radio and Television

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A note from NCPPR executive director David Almasi: Howard Stern is foul-mouthed and his show is intentionally titillating. I think we all understand that. The fact that Clear Channel suddenly found him to be indecent reminds me of Captain Renault ...
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Asbestos Commercials: Stingy With the Truth

Had the local DC NBC affiliate news on tonight and saw a commercial about asbestos. I didn't catch who produced it, although it may be the one referred to near the end of this Washington Post article. If only trial ...
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Judicial Pass it On

Thoughts from hubby David, our VP: Everyone remembers the childhood game "pass it on." A story is whispered in the ear of one child, who then passes it on by whisper to another child and so on. You know what ...
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Greenspan’s Warned Us Before on Social Security

Alan Greenspan's warnings on Social Security aren't new. Here's part of what Greenspan said in 1996: We owe it to those who will retire after the turn of the century to be given sufficient advance notice to make what alterations ...
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Asbestos Commercials: Stingy With the Truth

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Had the local DC NBC affiliate news on tonight and saw a commercial about asbestos. I didn't catch who produced it, although it may be the one referred to near the end of this Washington Post article. If only trial ...
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FauxPolitik Disagrees With Me On Gay Marriage, But Did Earl Warren?

The FauxPolitik blog disagrees with my thoughts on the Constitution and gay marriage. More to the point, Enobarbus says Chief Justice Earl Warren, writing in Loving v. Virginia (the case that nixed bans on interracial marriage), disagrees with me. I ...
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