Published: mic (June 18, 2013), Live Interview with Huffington Post (June 19, 2013)
Our commander-in-chief had a lot to say during Monday night’s interview with Charlie Rose, but CNN aptly summed it up in four words:
“I’m no Dick Cheney.”
If I may, Mr. President, I’d like to respond to that claim with a question I bet all of your supporters (many of them now erstwhile supporters) are asking:
“Yes, but why the hell aren’t you Barack Obama?”
Published: mic (June 8, 2013)
In light of the recent ricin attacks on Barack Obama, Michael Bloomberg, and Mayors Against Illegal Guns, it is time for us to acknowledge an unavoidable reality:
When the slippery slope fallacy is applied to politics, the consequences can be dangerous.
As defined by the Nizkor Project (an organization dedicated to debunking Holocaust denial), a slippery slope argument is “a fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question.”
Published: mic (May 29, 2013)
When an issue is as superheated as gun control, one can almost instinctively predict the reaction to news stories such as this one:
“New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has received an anonymous threatening letter that preliminary tests indicated contained the presence of the poison ricin, law enforcement officials told NBC News.
Published: mic (May 27, 2013)
After facing a wave of controversy for their decision to release Trayvon Martin’s private cell phone records to the public, George Zimmerman’s attorneys are defending themselves by claiming they merely wish to demonstrate that Martin was “hostile.” In their own words, their sole goal is to “assist the jury in understanding why Trayvon Martin chose to hide then confront George Zimmerman rather than simply going home.”
Published: mic (May 25, 2013)
While Joe Biden is notorious for his gaffes, his recent comments in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month should not be designated as such … despite the outcry from some critics claiming otherwise.
First, let’s take a look at what he said:
“The truth is that Jewish heritage, Jewish culture, Jewish values are such an essential part of who we are that it’s fair to say that Jewish heritage is American heritage.
Published: mic (May 23, 2013)
There are days that call for history lessons, and while most liberals don’t realize it, we should definitely insist on May 22 being one of them. After all, it was 49 years ago yesterday that President Lyndon Baines Johnson intoned these words at a speech delivered to a graduating class at the University of Michigan:
“For a century we labored to settle and to subdue a continent.