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Original Technorati articles tagged “rhetoric”

• in Politics
  Political Discourse Hasn't Changed in 200 Years
  American politics has always been divisive and always involved violent imagery. Always.
  by robeiae / on Jan 11, 2012
• in Technorati Women
  The Morning After Pill: Whose Right Is It Anyway?
  This article discusses the latest uproar on the emergency morning after pill and the rationale for both arguments.
  by wellnesssultana / on Dec 9, 2011
• in Lifestyle
  Church - The Agent of Change
  Religious rhetoric will never produce change.
  by dd816 / on Feb 12, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “rhetoric”

 

• Reemerging twinges of lust for our old boyfriend, Bill Clinton.

  
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  Thats the post title Ive written for this quotation of the first 2 sentences and the last 2 sentences of Maureen Dowds new column . Read with me, and then lets talk about it: Not  only is President Obama leading from behind, now he’s leading from behind Bill Clinton. After dithering for two years over what to do ...
  3 days ago

• Syrian Civil War - Red-Line links of interest!

  
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  The world now has an idea about what the crossing of Obamas red-line by the Syrian government may mean! After making the public claim of a US red-line in Syria and then doing his best to let rhetoric instead of action do the talking, Barack Obama has finally come to the conclusion that Syria has indeed used chemical ...
  3 days ago

• "This is a great CD . . . for me to poop on!"

  
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  What is the formal name of this type of humor in Greek rhetoric? Its one of my favorite forms of humor: when you begin a sentence in such a way as to imply a certain ending, only to have the actual ending upend the anticipated meaning.Surely theres a fancy Greek term for this.A couple of other examples:"John! My ...
  4 days ago

• "Getting Rid of the IRS"--Detroits Nolan Finleys wrong solution to the wrong problem

  
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  I suppose it shouldnt be surprising that the mostly-to-the-right Detroit newspapers would have a center-page opinion piece calling for the elimination of the IRS, that ages-old mantra of the radical right and of those corporate-backed propaganda tanks and radical-liberatarian idea pushers like Cato and Heritage ...
  4 days ago

• "He said Im way over the top in referring to the Obama administration as the regime. Its over the top."

  
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  "And to say that were in the midst of a coup detat, thats going too far. Its just going too far, that its unpatriotic, and its not conservative. Im not conservative and Im certainly not patriotic because Im portraying myself and all conservatives as anti-government." So begins a Rush Limbaugh monologue , from ...
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• "57% Fear Government Will Use NSA Data to Harass Political Opponents."

  
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  According to a new Rasmussen Poll . Only 30% say thats unlikely (while 14% are unsure). Republicans and unaffiliated voters strongly voice this fear. Democrats are more evenly divided with a modest plurality considering such abuse unlikely. Does it feel "unlikely" when what you really believe is that if its going ...
  5 days ago

• Words in Politics: From Global Warming to Climate Change

  
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  Words matter in political parlance because different words can imply different policy prescriptions. Language is not immune to ideological pressure. For example, “pro-choice” privileges choice, and therefore a woman’s right to decide whether to have an abortion. “Pro-life” highlights the life of the fetus, ...
  6 days ago

• Through the PRISM of Media Distortions (of BLARNEY)

  
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  All over the headlines today, left, right, and center, general and technology press: “ NSA: ‘Dozens of attacks’ prevented by snooping ” ( The Register ); “ NSA chief: Surveillance has stopped dozens of potential attacks ” ( Chicago Tribune ); “ NSA head: Surveillance program prevented dozens of terrorist ...
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• "As Marriage Changes, Should Joint Filing Go The Way Of Ozzie And Harriet?"

  
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  Asks Howard Gleckman at Forbes , citing an article by Yale lawprof Anne Alstott: As Alstott notes, nearly half of American adults are now unmarried, 40 percent of children are born to unmarried parents, and labor force participation among married women is now very close to that of married men... So why even bother ...
  6 days ago

• My episode of the Skeptic Canary Show

  
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  I had a fantastic time on the Skeptic Canary Show today. The hosts, Tom Williamson ( blog / Twitter ), David James ( blog / Twitter ), and Paul Hopwood ( blog / Twitter ), are lovely and intelligent gents who do a great deal of much-needed and important work for the skeptic community, both in the U.K. and online. ...
  1 week ago

• The Church Undivided

  
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  Benedict’s Quest to Bring Christians Back Together By Victor Gaetan May/June 2013 Pope Benedict XVI made reaching out to other faiths and promoting Christian unity hallmarks of his tenure. Pope Francis will continue this work, not only because he has a history of facilitating religious dialogue, but also ...
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• The Twitterati and the Limits of Christian Charity

  
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  What would I be capable of if I weren’t bound by the ethics of Christian charity? Let’s see. I might write something like this. Earlier this week, from seemingly nowhere, I was attacked on Twitter by a complete stranger. I woke up, checked my email, and saw that some (I suppose we should call him a) person had ...
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• "[I]t’s time to move beyond the political style of the baby boom generation."

  
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  "This is a style... that is highly moralistic and personal, dividing people between who is good and who is bad." Thats David Brooks on October 19, 2006 , paraphrasing Obama and encouraging him to run for President. Its a paraphrase of what Obama wrote in the then-just-out "Audacity of Hope" and something hed said to ...
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• Lego faces are getting angrier, study finds

  
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  Bartneck added that both “good” and “bad” characters now carried a larger range of facial expressions – giving rise to speculation that the figures may just be more in touch with a greater range of emotions. “The facial expressions are not directly matched to good and evil. Even the good characters suffer ...
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• BREAKING NOW: Whistleblower Edward Snowden talks to South China Morning Post!

  
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  Ex-CIA contractor speaks to reporter from secret location in Hong Kong, revealing fresh details of US surveillance, pressure on Hong Kong, snooping and cyber attacks on China. Surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden has spoken for the first time since blowing his own cover in an exclusive interview with the South ...
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• Positive Feedback on a Blogging Assignment

  
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  A former student who is now excelling in grad school took a moment to share her thoughts about my blogging portfolio assignment, which is usually 25-40% of a student’s grade. In April, a different former whom I invited to speak to my class, who blogged for me in several classes, surprised me by saying: ...
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• "Boredom will be his trump card to all controversy. He will deliver his answers to all questions with..."

  
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  “Boredom will be his trump card to all controversy. He will deliver his answers to all questions with the enthusiasm of a cost accountant reading the annual report to the stockholders. All the people he employs will speak the same way.” - I’m not so concerned with the story here — Tim Tebow, NE Patriots, ...
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• The Essayification of Everything

  
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  The word Michel de Montaigne chose to describe his prose ruminations published in 1580 was “Essais,” which, at the time, meant merely “Attempts,” as no such genre had yet been codified. This etymology is significant, as it points toward the experimental nature of essayistic writing: it involves the nuanced ...
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• Ave atque vale

  
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  What is a liberal education and what it is for? From Cicero’s artes liberales, to the attempts at common curricula in more recent times, to the chaotic cafeteria that passes for a curriculum in most American universities today, the concept has suffered from vagueness, confusion, and contradiction. From the ...
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• writing and acceleration

  
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  Today I will take an early summer detour through the analogy of athletic training. This is familiar territory for rhetoric and composition, perhaps most famously in David Russell’s “Activity Theory and Its Implications for Writing Instruction:” To try to teach students to improve their writing by taking a ...
  1 week ago

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