Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things to look for in reading this issue are facts taken out of context, opposing arguments misrepresented, and, despite the calm rational tone, a decided lack of systematic logic that doesn't start by assuming what is in question. This issue is nothing to be afraid...
...Because otherwise sane people believe -- against all logic -- that it somehow undermines democracy to project the result of an election before some people have voted. The networks are not to blame. Under pressure from Congress and sundry goody-goodies, they have agreed not to "characterize the outcome" in any state until the polls (the real polls) have closed in that state. This hasn't satisfied some Westerners, who complain about announced results from the East before polls have closed in the West...
Malcolm's style was cooler than King's, more lawyerly than evangelical; its bitter logic cut like a knife at the throat of complacent white America. Even in the time of Malcolm's most toxic demagoguery -- defaming liberals as white devils, civil rights heroes as Uncle Toms and Jews for sapping "the very lifeblood of the so-called Negroes to maintain the state of Israel" -- his steely charisma beguiled the white media. In Harlem he was something more than a diversion: he was the prophet of the black male underclass. "It was manhood time," says Al Freeman Jr., who played...
...scholar argued against the logic of atheism and attempted to prove the reasonableness of Christianity and of Jesus' claims to "the exclusivity of truth...
...interview after the speech, Zacharias warned of the limitations of using logic to explain the existence...