rhetoric

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• America’s Right Wing: Fear Leads to Hate, and Hate Leads to Suffering

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Since the introduction of Sarah Palin into the 2008 election, the right wing has been on the warpath. The rhetoric and volume of their message has been taken to increasingly fanatical extremes in an attempt to derail the movement for change and reform in America. This has already resulted in many deaths, and the ...
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• Quote: Howard French on China-Obama Press

  
  CNReviews — Authority: 484
  “It may have made certain people in this society feel better about themselves, but if the goal is changing behaviors in China…” “…or obtaining political or diplomatic results with China, I think the evidence is the contrary,” criticizes Howard French , associate professor at Columbia University ...
  17 hours ago

• UK Guardian: “To stop a climate catastrophe … Scientists must stop sanitising their message”

  
  Climate Progress — Authority: 702
  I’m updating this post from April since so many in the media and elsewhere still seem to be pushing the myth that climate scientists have been overhyping the threat posed by climate, when the reverse is true. Far from over-playing their hand to swell their research coffers, scientists have been toning down ...
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• Plutarch on Mark Antony

  
  Quiddity — Authority: 469
  …he left Italy and travelled into Greece, where he spent his time in military exercises and in the study of eloquence. He took most to what was called the Asiatic taste in speaking, which was then at its height, and was, in many ways, suitable to his ostentatious, vaunting temper, full of empty flourishes and ...
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• Making the Translator Visible: Russell Valentino

  
  Three Percent - Article — Authority: 516
  Russell Valentino is a superstar in the world of literary translation. Just look at his bio from the University of Iowa: Russell Scott Valentino is professor of Slavic and comparative literature and chair of the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature. He has published a monograph on nineteenth-century ...
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• WaPo layoffs again raise print vs. web talk

  
  Common Sense Journalism — Authority: 123
  These are strange times we live in. Times when, from what I can tell about visiting, working in, and consulting with newsrooms and just shooting the bull with lot of journalists, we make Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde look like pikers when it comes to shifting personalities over the digital vs. the print.* The latest to put ...
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• Here Endeth the Lesson

  
  The Blogora — Authority: 431
  Psalm 109: 8. It just gets worse and worse . Scared yet?
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• America Interferes With China’s Internal Affairs, Yes, True, And…?

  
  CNReviews — Authority: 484
  Many Western observers of China are familiar — perhaps too familiar — with China and the Chinese regularly complaining about foreigners meddling in its internal affairs . It was brought out for 2008’s Lhasa, Tibet riots as well as 2009’s Urumqi, Xinjiang riots , amongst a litany of other matters both large ...
  2 days ago

• The Public-Health Fallacy

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 652
  The discussion at this otherwise-good Instapundit post is typical. The discussion is misframed. The question isn’t whether a specific medical procedure is a good idea. The question is who gets to make the decisions. This is a comment that I left on a recent Neo-Neocon post : It’s the public-health fallacy, ...
  2 days ago

• New Stuff on Cicero

  
  The Blogora — Authority: 431
  The second volume of Robert Harriss Empire series is just out: Lustrum , which covers 63 BCE, Ciceros eventful year as Consul. And I somehow missed Joy Connollys State of Speech , which looks important.
  3 days ago

• Terror Trial, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. Are Not Independent Events

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  Hope and Change or Truth or Consequences What Credibility Does Mr. Obama Think That He Has? He Talks of Consequences In Iran While Allowing Terrorists To Go On Trial In Civilian Court In The United States Talk and rhetoric are cheap as the nation and the world has witnessed since the campaign that ...
  3 days ago

• Yeah, let’s talk about the tone of political discourse

  
  unrepentant old hippie — Authority: 479
  When the annual “Best of/Worst of” lists are compiled at the end of next month, one of the categories will almost certainly be “Worst Deranged Right-wing Political Rhetoric of 2009″.  From Death Panels to FEMA camps to assassinated Ob-Gyns described as “ mass murderers “, there’s a pretty vast field ...
  3 days ago

• 410. Translating the euphemisms

  
  Judging Crimes — Authority: 121
  In my former life as a first amendment lawyer (well, as a low-level associate who glommed onto as much first amendment work as I could sniff out) I would, at least once a week, read these words or an excerpt from them: T hus we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the ...
  3 days ago

• Colombia says will not be provoked by Venezuela

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 167
  BOGOTA - Colombia will not be provoked into armed conflict with Venezuela despite its neighbors aggressive rhetoric and dynamiting of two border bridges, Colombias defense minister said on Friday."We will not be provoked. The insults bounce off us
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• What’s Your Purpose?

  
  A Teacher's Education — Authority: 125
  Kizz put up a post today in which she ruminates on the idea of positing a purpose .  This resonated with me because, in my line of work, the concept of purpose  and the concise and eloquent expression of it are often at the heart of much of what  I do. When I talk to my students about purpose, I give a pretty ...
  4 days ago

• "Dont Poke Scalia!"

  
  The Blogora — Authority: 431
  My Ph.D. student Ryan Malphurs has an excellent co-authored article on Supreme Court oral argument here at The Jury Expert.
  4 days ago

• The implications of excessive praise

  
  Language Log — Authority: 652
  Yesterdays Sally Forth: One of the standard cases of Gricean implicature is the interpretation of irrelevant praise. Thus in "Logic and Conversation", Grices first example of "flouting the first maxim of quantity" is this: A is writing a testimonial about a pupil who is a candidate for a philosophy job, ...
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• The Threat Within

  
  Sherryx's Weblog — Authority: 461
  We should all ask from our state and these right wing politicians  Why?   Ayesha Siddiqa Friday, 13 Nov, 2009. With thanks. Dawn on line A few days ago I came across a letter to the editor in Dawn in which the writer had protested against the use of the word ‘Taliban’ to describe the brutal killers ...
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• Democracy, Capitalism, and the Republican Health Care Bill

  
  The Daily Mull - Ken Watts — Authority: 129
  IVE PROMISED TO RATE the Republican plan on the democracy scale, as well, but before I do that I need to be clear about a fundamental difference between that plan and both of the Democratic plans. The Democrats are writing real legislation. They fully expect it to become law. Because of this, they have had to ...
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• Translation, Comparative Law, and Localism

  
  Law & Humanities Blog — Authority: 127
  P. G. Monateri, University of Turin School of Law has published "Cunning Passages: Traductology, Comparison and Ideology in the Law and Language Story." Here is the abstract. My standpoint in this paper is that in affording the subject of Law and Language we face a mass of “local issues”, and “local ...
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