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• America Interferes With China’s Internal Affairs, Yes, True, And…?

  
  CNReviews — Authority: 483
  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 ...
  5 hours ago

• The Public-Health Fallacy

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 644
  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, ...
  13 hours 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.
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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: 422
  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 ...
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• "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.
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• The implications of excessive praise

  
  Language Log — Authority: 650
  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: 130
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Fire the lot of ‘em!

  
  Felix Salmon — Authority: 718
  John Hudson has an interesting round-up of responses to the signs of humanity from Goldman Sachs on Tuesday: I’m definitely the outlier in a sea of commentators saying that they’re tiny, meaningless, and an attempt to deflect attention from the bigger issues surrounding the bank. Leave it to Charlie Gasparino ...
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• Democracy and Activism Explored in Indian Filmmaker’s Work

  
  The Bi-College News Online — Authority: 142
  By Liz Cohen-Scheer On Monday, November 9, Haverford College welcomed distinguished Indian filmmaker Sanjay Kak to a screening and discussion of his documentary film, “Words on Water.” The film, released in 2002, chronicles the struggle of Indians from the Narmada Valley, whose lands are destroyed by a large ...
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• "With remarkable economy of prose, Palin cast health care reform as an assault on the country, put a..."

  
  Heuresis — Authority: 131
  “With remarkable economy of prose, Palin cast health care reform as an assault on the country, put a face on its supposed victims (her baby Trig), coined the expression “death panel” (linking it directly to Obama), raised the specter of euthanasia in the service of a state-run economy, and rallied the troops ...
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• Rhetoric vs. Reality

  
  LyfLines — Authority: 138
  Victor David Hanson : The growing problem for the Obama administration is that the public has finally caught on that the presidents tough rhetoric and soaring oratory dont match reality. "Considering all options" and "wanting more information" essentially mean dithering and voting present on Afghanistan, even after ...
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• Reckless rhetoric

  
  unrepentant old hippie — Authority: 479
  Rachel Maddow and her guest Frank Schaeffer comment on the continuing reckless rhetoric, including imprecatory prayer, of the unhinged right: Seriously!  T-shirts , Hats , Ties , Coffee Mugs , Mouse Pads , even Pet Clothing , all calling for the death of the “unjust tyrant”.  These people are whacked!
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• Obama takes on the anti-scientific delayers, while Australia’s Rudd slams the “deniers” and the “gaggle” of “conspiracy theorists” opposing climate action

  
  Climate Progress — Authority: 704
  What is the best way to talk about those who are devoting their efforts to spread disinformation on climate science and/or climate legislation?  Recent speeches by President Obama and Australian Prime Minister Rudd, who represent the two biggest industrialized countries that have so far refused to take action, offer ...
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• The Omri Ceren Show - Martin Sherman Wrap Up, Changes To The Show (POLL!)

  
  Mere Rhetoric — Authority: 564
  First, some odds and ends from last week. I should have posted a formal message after the Martin Sherman show, which was arguably the best TOCS yet and is available for download. I didnt get to it so lets take care of the formalities here. Prof. Shermans a former Shamir adviser, a military intelligence specialist, a ...
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