Tag: "Language"

Climate Instability? Well, Gosh! That Sounds Kind of Crisis-y, Doesn’t It?

| December 22, 2009 | Comments (0)

If at first second third, you don’t succeed in getting your latest progressive panic phrase to stick, try, try again with a more, shall way say flexible, term. This new terminology is more clever, for it neatly avoids the shortcomings of its clumsy forebears. It requires neither warming, nor change. Just television. When blizzards descend on [...]

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Your Words Mean What You Say They Mean, So Far…

| March 25, 2009 | Comments (0)

The problem with living in a perpetual state of crisis is that in it takes more and more effort to get people outraged. Witness the attempt by the left (and the occasional member of the MSM) to convince America that outspoken conservative member of Congress Michelle Bachmann is calling for insurrection because she used the [...]

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Rush’s Critics Need to Read What He Actually Said.

| March 8, 2009 | Comments (27)

I’ve not written much about the Rush Limbaugh controversy that the White House has cooked up but, given the direction the argument has been moving among conservatives, it’s probably time I did. My post is prompted by this from Jeff Goldstein, this semi-retort my Patterico, and this overall analysis Gabriel Malor. I recommend you read [...]

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