Captain Disingenuous Strikes Again

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  March 12th at 12:21 PM  | 

As the latest demonstration of his lack of economic depth, President Obama put forth a series of falsehoods in the form of a press conference on Friday. Both Jazz Shaw at Hot Air and he indispensible Jeff Dunetz pointed out the tsunami of falsehoods, so Go Read Those. But the president also used his typically bad logic to push his green agenda.

In Defense of Marriage and Logic

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  December 28th at 12:28 PM  | 

I despise illogical argument, and I love my wife.  But just as much, I love my culture, that sum of received practice, belief, and wisdom I have come to share, or to believe I share, with those around me. So my hair stands on end when libertarian Doug Mataconis of Outside the Beltway (and dozens of others, apparently) retweet self-described liberal statistician Peter Flom: If | Read More »

Reductio Ad Absurdum – When To Know You Are Wrong

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  October 23rd at 04:41 AM  | 

Sometimes you only know you’re on the wrong road when it leads someplace the right one wouldn’t go. Logicians call that process reductio ad absurdum — the reduction to absurdity. For instance, this thing with eating your dog. In the Marines I was stationed for a time in Korea. On liberty some buddies and I went to a restaurant and ordered the chicken … I | Read More »