There is a growing consensus that political rhetoric in the United States has become too overheated, that passions are bubbling over, and that reasonableness is on the wane. If more people understood the function of the burden of proof in rational discourse, we could begin to address that problem.
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Mark Danner has declared with categorical certainty that the Bush Administration authorized the use of torture on at least a dozen high-level terrorists at secret overseas prisons, so-called "black sites." From a global perspective, the doctrine of proportionality is the single greatest weapon in the cause of totalitarian Islam. Before 9/11, America’s national security relied implicitly but substantially on the belief that a major attack on the United States would be answered with retaliation on a biblical scale. That belief proved false. Liberals, in general, see conservatives as brutish God-drunk bigots determined to crush whomever stands in their way in order to preserve the inequities of the status quo; by contrast, liberals see themselves as worldly, open-minded, kind-hearted paragons of social virtue whose guiding principle is their determination to look out for those less fortunate than themselves. The Book of Mormon is an insane document produced by a madman who was a criminal and a rapist, Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda, and Chris Matthews has a strange fascination with Erin Burnett. If you don't watch MSNBC, you really should check it out. The war on terror represents the culmination of events set in motion centuries ago, back when the social evolution of humanity hit a fork in the road. Down one path lay the Enlightenment, the path taken by predominantly Judeo-Christian peoples. Down the other path lay a return to the Middle Ages, the path taken by [...] It is easy to base one's opposition to the war on conspiracy theories, hyper-inflated statistics and a kit bag of clichés from the 1960s about giving peace a chance. By intentionally emphasizing facts which support his own deep convictions and suppressing facts which don’t, the historian can, without exactly lying, steer his reader towards an utterly false impression. |
 
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