Saturday’s debate harkened back to the earlier Republican contests, with moderators spending an inordinate amount of time in the beginning trying to get candidates to attack each other. They weren’t disappointed in their efforts to provoke a cockfight. The tamestream media should be more transparent with their agenda and take ownership of the questions they want to [...]
When we look critically at Thursday’s GOP debate, it becomes clear that Trump’s absence made for a more informed, more mature more reasoned debate. I’ll propose my nominations for the top winners and losers. GOP Debate Winners Perhaps the biggest winners were the audience members, both in person and at home, who weren’t subjected to [...]
Remember that one of Aristotle’s “available means of persuasion was logic, or what I refer to as “argument” in blog postings. To better understand how to judge the strength of an argument, it helps to have some tools at hand, so in this post I look at the structure and constituent parts. To effectively analyze [...]