Published: mic (August 12, 2013)
While Sarah Palin rarely provokes anything more than justified contempt among the left, her recent announcement that she is on “Team Rand” is as good a cause as any for liberals to remind themselves of why the ongoing feud between the libertarian-leaning Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
Published: mic (August 1, 2013)
If you follow the news cycle closely, you may have noticed a cute little story yesterday about John McCain. As CNN reported, the Arizona senator and 2008 Republican presidential candidate opened a door that he thought would bring him to one of his appointments … and found that he had accidentally wandered into a Capitol Hill meeting between President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats.
Published: mic (June 17, 2013)
First the good news: Champions of civil liberties should celebrate the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday overturning an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship to vote.
By empowering county registrars to “reject any application for registration that is not accompanied by satisfactory evidence of United States citizenship,” the “proof of citizenship” provision of Proposition 200 resulted in a disproportionately high number of voter registration rejections for Latino, other minority, and poor applicants, thereby discriminating against (to say nothing of discouraging) potential low income and/or non-white voters.
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 21, 2013)
Update: Since this article was written, Senator Coburn announced that he would be insistent that any aid to the Oklahoma tornado victims must be offset by additional spending cuts elsewhere — predictably putting partisan politics ahead of helping his constituents. Read more here.
It’s always immensely satisfying to read an article that makes its point simply by listing facts.