Robert Scheer's Forum piece, "Lieberman twists knife for insurance companies," severely misrepresents U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's view on health care reform and the rationale behind his position. Instead of engaging in a debate about ideas, Scheer waged an ad hominem attack against Lieberman that was as unproductive as it was unsubstantiated. Scheer suggests that Lieberman holds his position on health care reform because Connecticut "is home to insurance companies." The record shows that when Lieberman was the attorney general, he never hesitated to take on insurance companies, and sued them when necessary. Furthermore, Lieberman was a strong supporter of the Patients' Bill of Rights and supports taking away insurance companies' antitrust exemption. With a little bit of reporting, S...
The article where BYU professors comment on Glenn Beck and Cleon Skousen (Dec. 5) was typical of those who have nothing to offer. When you have nothing better, do . It is a sad commentary that in a state claiming to revere the U.S. Constitution, too many don't know the difference between encouraging order and control of the public. When we know what we believe, we'll be true to what is right. These professors, and most Utahns, know little about the Constitution and how it was envisioned.
ad hominem -adj, -adv: directed against a person rather than his arguments
Finkelstein's forthright positions on the issue thwarted his attempts at professorship and led to unusually scurrilous ad hominem attacks even beyond the usual "self-hating Jew" tropes. Since his parents were Holocaust survivors, this took more than usual chutzpah from his attackers, but Alan Dershowitz rose to the occasion. [...] their reports document in much more detail than Finkelstein's book what the IDF did in Gaza in its operations there.
WASHINGTON, August 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Responding to an ad hominem attack from a left-wing front group, members of the black leadership network Project 21 defend the assertion that the beliefs of civil rights legend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. are more in line with the record of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge John Roberts than they are with the agenda of left-wing special interest groups currently laying claim to Dr. King's legacy. In an August 24 press release, Project 21 member Mychal Massie said: "John Roberts is the type of jurist who represents the beliefs of great Americans such as James Madison and Martin Luther King, Jr. Roberts is someone who can be relied upon to administer our Constitution as it is written and not how he or his political benefactors think it should be.
We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, got the economy moving again. . . . But over the last six months, weve had a run of bad luck. President Obama, Decorah, Iowa, Aug. 15 WASHINGTON A troubled nation wonders: How did we get mired in 9.1 percent unemployment, 0.9 percent growth and an economic outlook so bad that the Federal Reserve pledges to keep interest rates at zero through mid-2013 an admission that it sees little hope on the horizon? Bad luck, explains our president. Out of nowhere came Japan and its supply-chain disruptions, Europe and its debt problems, the Arab Spring and those oil spikes. Kicked off, presumably, by various acts of God (should He not be held accountable too?): earthquake and tsunami. (Tomorrow: pestilence and famine. Maybe frogs.) Well yes, b...
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