Tag Archives: rhetoric

What Does The GOP Stand To Gain?

March 28, 2010 – 3:33 pm

In the last few days, there has been a rash of reports commenting on the Republican Party’s apparent embrace of violent terminology. You can read about it lots of places, but in case you somehow missed it, here’s an example. So there appears to be a trend, not necessarily amongst all Republicans (I still like [...]

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Where Orwell Was Right

February 9, 2007 – 10:30 pm

When contemplating similarities between our current western culture and George Orwell’s 1984, most discussions quickly turn toward debating the slow decline of personal privacy, the standards of government intervention, or a discussion of rat phobias. While all of these make for fascinating (if perhaps repetitive) conversation, it was not here that Orwell demonstrated his greatest [...]

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