Word: argument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scout. She threw out the case by arguing that even if Clinton did everything Jones accused him of doing, it still didn't amount to sexual harassment or assault under the law. There was no evidence, Wright found, that Jones had been harmed by the episode: Jones' argument that she didn't get flowers on Secretaries' Day, that her desk had been moved, that she was discouraged from going after a better state job and too emotionally distressed to function sexually wasn't convincing. Not in the light of her merit raises, her own testimony that there had been...
...assertion that homosexuality is on biologically shaky grounds is just that--an assertion. As highlighted as an argument against the activities of the BGLTSA [Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered Supporters Alliance] in Oppenheim's article, it harkens back to the pseudoscience of 19th-and 20th-century race theorists. Perhaps some might agree with Oppenheim that "basic models of ethics and of sexuality are two of those foundations...that preserve a society's stability." But these are same people who object to the presence of women anywhere outside the kitchen. If a society cannot with-stand the integration of queer culture...
...added, "I am not interested in makingan argument to legitimize myself in the eyes ofthe mainstream...
...children into poverty. For another example, liberals want to open political office to all candidates, so they seek to limit the availability of indispensable campaign funds. The list could continue endlessly, but the point is the same: liberal policies are counterintuitive on their face, lacking logical and factual argument...
Adam J. Levitin's dissent from the editorial supporting gay rights (Staff Editorial, Apr. 7) said, "...to state that the majority of Americans, who are conflicted about their personal views on homosexuality and uncomfortable with queer culture, are complicit in active persecution is inappropriate." Levitin's argument implies that it would be just as accurate to say that since the majority of Americans are conflicted about their personal views of Judaism and feel uncomfortable with Jewish culture (with the exception of bagels), they are not complicit in anti-Semitism. If it were not for protections against public and private religious...