Word: argumentativeness
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...argument against an Obama candidacy is obvious: he is as green as Kermit the Frog. He is a mere 44 years old and has been a member of the U.S. Senate for less than two years. He sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but he has zero military and national-security experience. He's a very smart guy, a quick learner, but no one is that quick. If he runs and makes a fool of himself, a very promising political career could be suffocated in the crib. But somehow you get the feeling that Obama would not make...
...plagiarism on the grounds that I am a “hard-left” academic (“Plagiarism Accusations Unfairly Characterized,” letter, May 5). I understand neither what this means nor its relevance: the basis of rational inquiry is the merit of an argument, not its provenance. NORMAN G. FINKELSTEIN Chicago, Ill. May 8, 2006 The writer is a professor of political science at DePaul University...
...Iraq (and which still remain there), Japan has become a target for terrorists. Thus a law which screens entering aliens and puts their personal information in a database may be crucial to safeguarding Tokyo from the fate of Istanbul, Riyadh, or Bali. There is some merit to this argument, though Japan’s exclusively logistic and non-combat role in the War on Terror makes it far less (if at all) a terrorist’s target than the U.S. The fingerprinting law, however, also raises many serious concerns, though slightly different from those surrounding U.S. homeland security laws...
...issue jeers or to criticize the University for their invitation. Having dated a Republican, I can attest: you learn more (about being a liberal, about politics in general) from listening and engaging in productive debate than you do from heckling. Understanding the counterargument can only help your argument...
...even more conveniently, "they" that. A savvy move, considering the race is still against a Candidate to Be Named Later. Viewed through the optimistic lens of the post-premiere chatterers, An Inconvenient Truth is intended to be a political biography whose power comes from the film's terrifying argument about global climate change: Elect me or we will...