Rhetoric

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• Tune In Tuesday: Message to the Grassroots by Malcolm X

  
  Electronic Village — Authority: 566
  American Rhetoric published a list of the Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century . Malcolm X delivered Top Speech #91 in Detroit MI on November 10, 1963. Below is audio clip and text of the speech known as Message to the Grassroots . I would like to make a few comments concerning the difference between ...
  9 hours ago

• Tensions grow as Chavez masses troops on border - Americas, World - The Independent

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 548
  "Telling his people, "If you want peace, prepare for war," and accusing the US of secretly plotting to invade and seize Venezuelas oil reserves, Hugo Chavez announced that he intends to send 15,000 troops to his countrys border with Colombia." NOTE: I put this up because I hadnt realized that things had ratcheted up ...
  12 hours ago

• India eager to have better trade ties with China, says Tharoor

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  New Delhi, Nov. 10 (ANI): Despite being at loggerheads with Beijing on the Arunachal Pradesh issue, India is anxious to move on with China on all fronts, particularly trade, Minister of State for External Affairs, Shashi Tharoor, said on Tuesday.“We have made our view very clear that Arunachal Pradesh is a sovereign ...
  14 hours ago

• "Few would have foreseen … that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or that their American ally would be led by a man of African descent."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 737
  President Obama delivers inapt remarks by video.  Bizarrely echo-y video. Hes in a cozy room at the White House. Where is that echo coming from? They needed to tweak it so it would sound right amplified outdoors — would sound like he was there. But he was so not there . And now the video with the inappropriate ...
  15 hours ago

• After The Fall

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 424
  Married guys know it not just a tired but always useful set-up and running joke in television sitcoms – you don’t forget the anniversary. It’s a big deal. There’s hell to pay if you forget that, and even if you remember, you’d better make a big deal of it and plan something damned special, and if not all ...
  23 hours ago

• Should LGBT People Stop Giving Money to the Democratic National Committee?

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 453
  Are you frustrated that ten months into the Obama administration, theres still no repeal of "Dont Ask, Dont Tell," no Employment Non-Discrimination Act, no repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, and no sign that President Obama wants to help defeat statwide ballot measures that seek to repeal gay marriage rights? If ...
  1 day ago

• Inglourious Basterds

  
  The Blogora — Authority: 429
  I confess to being a Quentin Tarantino fan, but, not having any conceptual vocabulary for analyzing movies, Ive never understood why. I think Inglourious Basterds is his masterpiece (although unlike, say, Reservoir Dogs or Kill Bill 2, Im unlikely to want to see it again soon). I found myself speculating, as I often ...
  1 day ago

• After House victory, Obama braces for Senate battle over health reforms

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  By Arun KumarWashington, Nov 9 (IANS) After a hard fought victory in the House of Representatives to push for a major overhaul of the US medical system, President Barack Obama is bracing for an even tougher battle in the Senate over the reform measure.“For years we’ve been told that this couldn’t be done,” ...
  1 day ago

• The jabbing finger

  
  Splintered Sunrise — Authority: 461
  The other day, as I was making my breakfast, I turned on GMTV. Usually I don’t register breakfast telly all that much – at that time in the morning, my brain can just about process Hi-5 or Elmo’s World – but this time I was brought up short. Who should be sitting on the sofa holding forth but this blog’s ...
  2 days ago

• Expanding drug treatment: Is US ready to step up? (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 514
  AP – Based on the rhetoric, America’s war on drugs seems poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favor over imprisonment of low-level offenders. Questions abound, however, about the nation’s readiness to turn the talk into reality Read more from the original source: ...
  2 days ago

• The Fort Hood massacre was rhetorical flourish as Obama urged House Democrats to vote for health care.

  
  Althouse — Authority: 737
  His idea was: Soldiers make sacrifices for the good of the country, so congressional Democrats should put their concerns about the next election aside for the good of the country. “He was absolutely inspiring. In a very moving way, he reminded us what sacrifice really is,” said New Jersey Rep. Rob Andrews, ...
  2 days ago

• Big question mark: Fate of health care in Senate (AP)

  
  Politics - Political News — Authority: 151
  WASHINGTON – The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate. Speaking from the Rose Garden about 14 hours after the late Saturday vote, Obama urged ...
  2 days ago

• Grandiose rhetoric pushes details aside

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 963
  On a day of debate that highlighted the partisan divide in Congress as never before, Democrats and Republicans in the House agreed on one point: The health-care reform vote facing them Saturday was one for the ages.
  3 days ago

• Professional Athletes Versus Hardworking Citizens

  
  pisteuomen : ?????????? - the weblog of t. michael w. halcomb — Authority: 473
  Even Isocrates in the 5th century BCE noticed the backwardness of professional athletes making more money and receiving more fame than persons like firefighters, teachers, etc. Check out the opening lines of his work P anegyricus (which is a piece of oratory focused in large part, on praise & blame): "[1] ...
  3 days ago

• And the Award for the Most Homophobic Sport Goes to….?

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 453
  If there was ever any doubt that homophobia was alive and well in the wide world of sports, just take a look at the past two weeks. In the NFL there was Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson berating a Twitter follower with anti-gay language. In the NBA, Dallas Mavericks center Drew Gooden allegedly blasted ...
  3 days ago

• Robert Gibbs: Can You Imagine if, 5 Years Ago, People Had Protested With Hitler Pictures?

  
  Jeffrey A. Setaro — Authority: 422
  “I will continue to say what I’ve said before. You hear in this debate, you hear analogies, you hear references to, you see pictures about and depictions of individuals that are truly stunning, and you hear it all the time. People — imagine five years ago somebody comparing health care reform to 9/11. Imagine ...
  4 days ago

• From "Is" to "Ought"

  
  The Daily Mull - Ken Watts — Authority: 128
  BUT AUTHORITARIAN SYSTEMS are not the only place we run into trouble with the shift from assumptions to moral law. As a straight man, it is easy for me to suppose that men in general are attracted to women. They are supposed , by me, to be straight. That may lead to some embarrassment when I learn otherwise, but ...
  4 days ago

• "Mens Rights" Groups Have Become Frighteningly Effective They’re changing custody rights and domestic violence laws.

  
  Battered Women, Battered Children, Custody Abuse — Authority: 441
  Note: Cross posted from [wp angelfury] A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice . Permalink "Mens Rights" Groups Have Become Frighteningly Effective They’re changing custody rights and domestic violence laws. ...
  4 days ago

• "Mens Rights" Groups Have Become Frighteningly Effective They’re changing custody rights and domestic violence laws.

  
  Family Court Crisis-Abusers Getting Custody..!! — Authority: 441
  Note: Cross posted from [wp angelfury] A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice . Permalink "Mens Rights" Groups Have Become Frighteningly Effective They’re changing custody rights and domestic violence laws. ...
  4 days ago

• Im not Supposed to Do What Im Supposed to Do

  
  The Daily Mull - Ken Watts — Authority: 128
  IN YESTERDAYS POST I wrote about the odd way that the phrase "is supposed to" moves, both historically and in current usage, from "is" to " ought ". "Our suppositions are not what they are supposed to be." "Everyone supposes the meeting begins at five," a simple statement of fact about peoples assumptions, ...
  5 days ago

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