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Tu quoque is not a eurozone crisis solution

Confidence-building with Wolfgang Schaeuble (via Reuters): One should differentiate here. We’ve got debt problems some individual countries, not only in the euro zone. The United States have higher de... read more

A Questionable Game of 'Shut Up' on Iraq

chorus, not to mention Obama, were all opposed to the "surge," arguing that it couldn't work. It did, saving America from a humiliating defeat. My point here isn't simply to offer a tu quoque argument ... read more

Kavanaugh disqualified himSELF — the hearing only catalyzed it

This man should not serve another day as any kind of judge… On Thursday ... Of course, looking through the funhouse mirror of current political sophistry, with a soupçon of tu quoque and some convenie... read more

The Logical Fallacies of Zero Tolerance Immigration Supporters

Personal incredulity Because you found something difficult to understand, or are unaware of how it works, it’s probably not true. “How can we possibly solve the immigration crisis ... you’ll feel a lo... read more

The European Central Bank (ECB): what does it do?

Unlike the Bank of England, the minutes of the meetings preceding the interest rate decisions are not published ... and that increasing the ECB's firepower is the only solution to the spreading eurozo... read more

Italy, Spain Yields Near Danger Levels On Fed Taper Talk

Fears of less Federal Reserve stimulus are pushing eurozone bond yields back up and threatening to reignite the debt crisis. And central banks may not be willing or able to ... don't have their act to... read more

The New York Times

“[T]he grandest pageant ever witnessed in the South,” reported the New York Times. Now a provisional congress held session in its chamber, doing the far less glamorous work required to bring the Confe... read more

The Legitimacy of Boycotting as a Tactic

It is expected that there will be differences of opinion on the causes of injustices and solutions to the injustice ... Chomsky uses tu quoque argumentation. 7 Because you do not resist all oppression... read more

Is the holocaust denial/climate change denial comparison apt?

While not saying it's as bad a holocaust denial ... moral equivalency between the Allies and the Nazis for the allied bombing of Dresden is a classic tu quoque. Climate change denialism shares all of ... read more

Was a Jewish summer camp PC in raising a Palestinian flag — or in lowering it?

But the Israelis’ willingness to display the flag suggests they view it not as an anti-Israel or terrorist symbol ... what does it say about the Jewish community’s willingness to be part of a solution ... read more

A questionable game of 'shut up' on Iraq

chorus, not to mention Obama, were all opposed to the "surge," arguing that it couldn't work. It did, saving America from a humiliating defeat. My point here isn't simply to offer a tu quoque argument ... read more

Kurt Schlichter and the Media

Kurt Schlichter, a name you wouldn’t otherwise know if you were not on political Twitter, as is his attention-seeking wont, used the Oroville Dam crisis to make a partisan ... And other cliched aphori... read more