Word: argumentative
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...argument most frequently presented in defense of the status...
...make no mistake: the arguments against homosexuality, on this campus at least, have been woefully poor. Most have been religious and absolute; it may be almost as impolite to challenge someone's religion on this campus as it is to challenge their sexuality, but gays and their supporters have to engage this position seriously. Either Paul doesn't condemn homosexuality (a hard argument to win), or what Paul says isn't morally binding; you have to pick one if you want to convince the other side and not just shut them...
...year later, the economy has a charley horse, the tax cut they deplored is the centerpiece of the new President's budget, Alan Greenspan has blessed it, and every argument the Democrats make gets drowned out by that Other Story, the presidency that will not end, the scandal that will not die. Internal Republican polls last week showed Bush had little reason to fear that the Clinton pardon debacle would overshadow his big budget road show. Bush's message was getting through, pollsters found; the ones being drowned out were the Democrats. The power sharing they expected after a close...
...their case against President Bush, the polls say their message should be selling. But it isn't. In fact, it's barely being heard, which has many in the party wondering whether the real problem is finding the right messenger--someone who can distill their many lines of shopworn argument into something that feels resonant and new. Which is why the name of John Edwards is coming up more and more in Washington these days...
...each author musters, mothers will be relieved that Crittenden, for the moment, has the last word. Though her thesis--that parenting imposes unfair penalties on women--is as old as motherhood itself, she stitches together recent research with a brief history of wifery and turns out a fresh, persuasive argument. Inflexible workplaces, financial inequities in marriage (and divorce), and the ineligibility of unpaid caregivers for the government's major social-insurance programs make motherhood the "single biggest risk factor for poverty in old age," she writes. Her recipe for "bring[ing] children up without putting women down" calls for expensive...