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• Look! In the Senate! Its...A "Progressive Pony" Fallacy!

  
  Corrente — Authority: 619
  I have a question for you, O Corrente Community. Have you, perchance, received an email like this recently? MadamaB, As you probably know, the White House and Democratic Senate leaders caved to Joe Lieberman and took both the public health insurance option and Medicare expansion out of the health care bill. That ...
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• Cuban Official: Obama Is an Arrogant Liar

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Cubas foreign minister called President Barack Obama an "imperial and arrogant" liar Monday for his conduct at the U.N. climate conference, a reflection of the communist islands increasingly fiery verbal attacks on the U.S. government. Bruno Rodriguez spent an hour and a half lambasting Obamas behavior in Copenhagen, ...
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• Top Cuban official says Obama lied in Copenhagen

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  HAVANA – Cubas foreign minister called President Barack Obama an "imperial and arrogant" liar Monday for his conduct at the U.N. climate conference, a reflection of the communist islands increasingly fiery verbal attacks on the U.S. government. Bruno Rodriguez spent an hour and a half lambasting Obamas behavior in ...
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• The DH and Broken Windows Fallacy

  
  The Sports Economist — Authority: 493
  F rederic Bastiats broken windows fallacy : if a window maker breaks windows to increase business, he certainly benefits (if he doesnt get busted, of course). But society is made worse off. Resources used to fix broken windows support window repair jobs, but would have been used in alternative ways and would have ...
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• How to Consistently Hit Long Golf Drives

  
  Golf Tips — Authority: 127
  The tee is where each and every golf hole starts. If you’re having trouble driving the ball, then you’re opening every single hole at a disadvantage. You might salvage a bunch of pars with a great chip, but you could well be going for birdies if your drive had been a bit longer. For nearly [...]
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• They’re just nihilists

  
  The NonSequitur — Authority: 117
  
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• In “Defense” of Tiger Woods, AND of his critics

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  From an evolutionary perspective, Tigers sexual meanderings are not a sign of pathology. Instead, they are "natural." By saying this, I realize I am in danger of playing into the stereotypes of the P.C. police, who are inclined to strategically misunderstand the naturalistic fallacy, and use it as a weapon against ...
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• Heartless 123 Lump Sum Strings Along Homeless NYC Woman

  
  Structured Settlements 4Real: What's Real in the Structured Settlements, Settlement Planning, Settlement Consulting and Litigation Recovery Management Space? — Authority: 132
  I just got off the phone with a woman who turned to us after suffering the indignity of a string of unfulfilled promises and poor communication from Structured Asset Funding, a/k/a 123 Lump Sum. The woman, whose name I know but for now will refer to as "The NYC Woman", is the recipient of structured settlement ...
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• METS BECOME BAY CITY ROLLERS

  
  Kranepool Society :: A New York Mets Blog — Authority: 471
  No one kills Mets management as much as I do, in fact I love calling out the clueless Jeffey Skill Sets and that shyster David Howard, but I’m kind of puzzled with the reaction of some Mets fans to the offers the club has made to Jason Bay and Bengi Molina. Most of the criticism goes [...]
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• METS BECOME BAY CITY ROLLERS

  
  Pro Baseball Central | Part of the Sportsday Radio Network — Authority: 130
    No one kills Mets management as much as I do, in fact I love calling out the clueless Jeffey Skill Sets and that shyster David Howard, but I’m kind of puzzled with the reaction of some Mets fans to the offers the club has made to Jason Bay and Bengi Molina.   Most of the criticism goes to the fact the Mets ...
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• NASA Admits Climate Change on Mars Not Man Made

  
  Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secrets — Authority: 127
  Leaders are gathering in Copenhagen to discuss how much money rich nations can give to poor nations in the name of global warming and climate change.  Most of us didn’t need the hacked emails releasing the fact that the data was faulty to tell us that man doesn’t have much to do with climate change.  “Leaked ...
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• President Obama just made the specious claim that "we have made college more affordable"

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 138
  Government subsidies inflate costs, thereby making things less affordable. Think about the things that are subsidized (e.g. healthcare, ethanol) and things that are not. What stuff is more inflationary?
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• Makes no sense, but people think it anyway

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 125
  From the San Jose Mercury News: A Morgan Hill paramedic has been arrested and charged in connection with theft of prescription pain pills from the home of a patient he helped transport to the hospital. Egads! We should ban prescription drugs because some people abuse them! Too bad for the people who genuinely ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Best Television For Your Home Theater System

  
  Your Online Security Authority Blog — Authority: 442
  You have an extensive selection of preferences when it comes to opting the best television for your home theater system but the most critical variables are size and picture resolution. It is usual to opt a television 27 inches or larger as the chief position of your system. A usual fallacy is the larger the screen, ...
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• Pearl Harbor & Copenhagen Conspiracy

  
  Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secrets — Authority: 127
  In 1941 on this day, the Japanese Imperial Navy launched an attack on the U.S. Naval Base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Today also marks the beginning of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. The conspiracy theorists would say that the Roosevelt Administration knew the attack was coming. President Roosevelt (FDR) ...
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• Global warming treaty will be trap

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Recently, hackers exposed the smoking gun on the fallacy of global warming. These hackers (for once they are useful) retrieved the e-mails and files of the East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU), the very entity that spreads cooked data and supports the so-called "global warming." These scientists at the CRU are the ...
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• Jack of Fables #40 – Review

  
  Weekly Comic Book Review — Authority: 433
  by Matthew Sturges & Bill Willingham (writers), Russ Braun (pencils & inks), Jose Marzan Jr. (inks), Andrew Pepoy (inks & balance), Daniel Vozzo (colors), and Todd Klein (letters) The Story: Jack Frost battles the sorcerer while Jack Horner discovers his fate and the true nature of his condition. ...
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• “Why did risk become so concentrated in some of the most regulated institutions in the world?”

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 544
  The premise of this thesis is a logical fallacy called “begging the question”, most often used to defend a specious or circular argument. Greenspan and Bernanke were lobbied to ignore MBS’s because banks “understood the risks” and were “capable of regulating themselves”. The garbage was rated AAA, and ...
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• A visual look at marriage equality arguments

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 125
  I can’t find any details about where this graphic originated except for the note at the bottom crediting Patrick Farley and Facebook, but it’s worth sharing nevertheless. Mad props to whoever deserves them: My favorite things about this graphic: The choice of pink for the anti-marriage equality arguments ...
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• Paul McCartney On Meat, Live and Let Die

  
  Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secrets — Authority: 127
  Hey Sir Paul McCartney, remember Live and Let Die ?   Don’t choke on a cow. When You Were Young And Your Heart Was An Open Book You Used To Say Live And Let Live (You Know You Did, You Know You Did, You Know You Did) But In This Ever Changing World In Which We Live In Makes You Give In And Cry Say Live And Let ...
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