Word: speciousness
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...mostly argues his cases lucidly, particularly by radio standards. Nor, in this post- Reagan age, can he be called an extremist.He harps on liberal straw men in a way that seems more properly circa-1973 ("long-haired, maggot-infested, dope-smoking peace pansies"), and his logic can be unforgivably specious (against the pro-choice argument for abortion:"Can a woman choose to steal, using her own body?"). But in fact his views on abortion are relatively nuanced. Nor is it kooky or even wrong to assert, as Limbaugh has, that the risk of heterosexual AIDS and estimates of the homeless...
...children. Equally shocked will be the countless heterosexuals who have no plans to "breed." Unfortunately, Mansfield has confused the charge to reproduce the species (a charge, by the way, which an over populated planet might well wish to apply with caution) with his own obvious talent for reproducing the specious. This homosexual is more than happy (she is even "gay") to leave the latter "reproduction" to the likes of Harvey Mansfield. Ann Pellegrini...
This quandary speaks to the oversimplification of political discourse. The problem is that it is just too easy to thrash an opponent with specious voting record arguments. "Senator X voted for the second largest tax increase in American history," is a devastating, if unsubtle, sound bite for a 30-second commercial...
...words of Holly D. Ladd, director of the Boston AIDS Consortium, Congress was "led by fear over rationality" in its recent vote. Health professionals and researchers agree that arguments for the ban, including claims of increased health care costs for HIV-infected immigrants, are particularly specious in a country which already contains within its borders the highest number of HIV-positive individuals in the world...
Fragile ancient works travel in support of a specious theory...