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While we weren’t looking, “adult” came to mean “pro-business.”
Archive for the ‘Rhetoric and Framing’ Category
February 12th, 2011
Category: Climate change, Rhetoric and Framing
If you google on terms such as “Saving Mother Earth” or “Protecting God’s Creation” you will find countless websites exhorting you to recycle, reduce emissions, oppose rainforest destruction etc., for the sake of the planet. But the planet will be just fine whether you do any of these things or not. If humankind succeeds in [...]
February 4th, 2011
Category: Libertarianism, Rhetoric and Framing
Many libertarian ideas are worthy of respect, or at least attention. That massive policy change can be contrasted with “politics” is not one of them.
February 3rd, 2011
Patton’s appreciation of tough but unglamorous work—and a bleg for a speech from the Left that does as well or better.
January 31st, 2011
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January 26th, 2011
Category: Rhetoric and Framing
Didn’t have time to watch the speeches? My summary, in less than sixty words.
January 11th, 2011
Businesses and wealthy individuals have gotten used to using “uncertainty” to mean “higher taxes on me.” But when taxes are to increase precisely because uncertainty is removed, the label gets risible.
December 27th, 2010
Medicare will now cover advance care directives in its annual wellness visit. A victory for sanity over “death panel” demogoguery.
December 8th, 2010
Category: 2011 Democratic Agenda, Leadership, Liberalism, Rhetoric and Framing, Watching Conservatives
Positions on the tax-cut debate are dividing across three separate dimensions. And on all of them, the differences among Democrats are slight compared to those between us and Republicans.
“Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick”: The Coach and the President Heed an African Proverb
African-American leaders know better than to frighten their followers. Shouldn’t the rest of us know better than to berate them for their self-restraint?
Posted: Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 at 10:39 am
Tags: " African Americans, "Speak Softly And Carry a Big Stick, African Proverb, Angry Black Men, Arizona Shooting, Bears, Black Men, Chicago Bears, Coach, Commentariat, Leadership, Lovie Smith, Mike Ditka, Obama, Politics News, President, racism, Tucson-Shooting-Victims
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