Word: argumentive
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...best MacBook feature, however, is the Leopard operating system, which I find so much simpler, more stable and more straightforward than Windows Vista. The only possible argument anyone can make in the latter's favor is that, well, it powers some mighty cheap machines. And so, in summary, just as the political pundits have done lately, I'll paraphrase Oliver Wendell Holmes: taxes are the price we pay for civilized computers...
...development? Some conservatives say it endangers the underpinnings of American democracy, echoing the 2002 Journal editorial: "Workers who pay little or no taxes can hardly be expected to care about tax relief for everybody else. They are also that much more detached from recognizing the costs of government." This argument is historically obtuse, considering that the federal income tax was initially designed to hit only a tiny minority of high earners and exempt the other 99% (it first became a mass tax during World War II). It's also misleading, in that lucky duckies still get hit with payroll taxes...
...another show. Both campaigns have spent enough time here that they should have invested in Quickpay cards for doughnut runs to Tim Hortons. John McCain chose Dayton for the site of Sarah Palin's coming-out party, and Barack Obama turned up in Canton to launch his "closing argument" speech for the last week of the race. In the latest TIME/CNN/Opinion Research poll, Obama held a 51%-to-47% lead over McCain but trailed him 48% to 50% among pivotal suburban voters...
Current Harvard undergraduates were split on whether they agreed with Nesson’s argument...
...intended) and imagine the opposite scenario. More specifically, I want to take this chance to reassure all of America’s artists that a McCain-Palin administration wouldn’t be the end of the world for their work. Please keep reading.The best way of understanding my argument is to imagine some of the Republican ticket’s policies as catalysts for the creation of art. For example, let’s start with one of the more obvious inspirations: the Iraq War.McCain has made it clear to every Joe-the-Plumber that we will...