Articles tagged Presidential

"Silent Cal" Speaks

Calvin Coolidge’s father, a notary, administered the oath of office to our thirtieth president in their home when President Harding suddenly died. They had neither electricity nor telephone, so that night when the news arrived at the telegraph station, the operator had...

Fallacy Detective: Three Assumptions Made by “Lesser of Two Evils” Voters

So if you have not noticed, there is a presidential election again this year, and it is therefore a good time to hear more logical fallacies than usual in the media and in political conversations.
It seems there are a whole lot of Party P voters out there who do not...

The Question of Origins and the 2012 Presidential Election

In the last few months, in the run-up to the Republican primary, the press (and others) have made quite a bit of noise about the beliefs of the candidates on the issue of evolution. The goal of this post is to elucidate why the question of origins is important within...