Ted Cruz: ‘We Need 100 More Like Jesse Helms’ In The Senate (Huffington Post) One of the reasons I haven’t been blogging so much in recent weeks is because I’ve found myself in a double bind when it comes to writing about politics. I get tired of all the vile and irrelevant rhetoric that passes for political discourse in America these days, and when I have the opportunity to create respectful and meaningful dialogue between people with opposing points of view — like in the…

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Mike Lee: Republicans Will Shut Down Government To Block Obamacare (Huffington Post) I usually don’t get too in-depth with the taxonomies of rhetoric with my students — unless you’re going to study rhetoric professionally, it’s really of little use — but I try to make a point of mentioning the problems with what are known as “arguments of definition.” That’s an argument where the parties involved cannot even agree just what is being argued about. I usually mention this in reference to debates about abortion;…

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