Welcome to the class that you skipped. Today's lesson: Hasty generalization (the assumption that all conservatives or liberals are a certain way) and ad hominem attacks (attacking someone’s character instead of addressing the validity of their argument). I saw these things over the last few days, in your absence, as proponents and opponents of the... Continue Reading →
Yesterday there was yet another shooting in another school. Today there is yet another debate on gun control. The left wants more regulation and the right wants more freedom; whatever that means. If I thought for one second that public school violence could be solved with one debate over one issue, I may not be... Continue Reading →
Terrorism is not a new phenomenon and it seems to boil down to one concept: superiority, especially superiority by means of power for the purpose of causing fear. Sometimes it is meant specifically to bring down a nation or cripple a nation severely. In Turkey, there have now been six major terrorist attacks this... Continue Reading →
For a few days now, I have been thinking quite heavily about the atrocious violent acts that were committed on December 14, 2012. It seems that everyone wants to push some sort of political agenda regarding the event. Anti-gunners would love to say that "the guns were purchased legally" (CNN) and that this tragedy could... Continue Reading →
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