Tag: politics
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A. Craig Baird Debate Forum: Going Home for the NDT
As a member of the Department of Law and Society here at HBU, I teach a course on “Argumentation and Advocacy”. I have been putting my students through their paces with weekly assignments and presentations on argumentation strategies this semester. They will also have to debate each other at the end of the class. They […]
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Required Reading for Congress
When Aristotle said that “man is a political animal” he meant that politics is an inherent part of the human experience. He didn’t mean to imply that political men should behave like animals. Sometimes we lose sight of that and politics gets nasty. Politics is the civil discussion about the kind of people we want to be and the kind […]
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I Do Not Like Obamacare. I Do Not Think It’s Very Fair.
The eleventh hour pitch from Democrats out to defend Obamacare is that we should be fair and give it a try before we pass judgment. One Democrat criticized Senator Cruz from Texas for missing the moral of Green Eggs and Ham, the book Cruz read to his children from the Senate floor during his nonfilibuster-filibuster. Apparently, […]
Reflection and Choice 