Word: argument
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...argument, Tribe claimed that the Fifth Amendment protects citizens from facing retaliation from the government for excluding the government from private property...
This is the question that the pro-life movement must ask pro-choice advocates, and upon considering the answer, perhaps the two camps can reach a consensus. One pro-choice argument maintains that outlawing abortion would only increase illegal procedures. This begs the question: Why do we consider abortion so necessary that women would automatically retreat to the back-alleys? Most agree that a society in which abortion is rare is ideal. The notion of the necessity of abortion concedes that we are failing to address underlying factors...
...That's what has angered gay rights advocates, and overshadowed Mohler's concession that homosexuals may be born that way. "What is wrong with Mohler's argument is that it implies that there is something wrong with being gay," said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign. "I would welcome the fact that they are beginning to concede that homosexuality is not a chosen lifestyle. But it is hard for me to believe that anyone that would then conclude that our next step ought to be to get about the business of changing everybody is really offering any sort...
...thesis, but unfortunately, the book lacks potency and persuasive appeal.In contrast to the stringent maxims of Mao’s “Little Red Book,” much of Gao’s rhetoric is lofty and abstract. Despite the clarity of his prose, his argument, detached from all concrete reasoning, reads like a parade of non sequiturs.In the first of the essays, “Preface to ‘Without Isms,’” Gao attempts to argue for writing “without isms,” by which he ostensibly means...
...declare Democratic hopeful John Edwards a "faggot." The condemnation that followed, in which at least seven newspapers banished her column from their opinion pages, became a ragged coda for the state of a movement that had once been justly proud of its ability to win an argument...