How To Use Strawman In A Sentence
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The “right to privacy” meme, of course, is a strawman – by attaching some invented notion of “privacy” to the surgical process of electively vacuuming out a developing human life in pieces from the womb, the left thinks they make abortion a “right” – wholly and completely ridiculous.
Think Progress » Samuel Alito’s America
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The strawman scarecrow is always the what OPUS penDEIjo brings to the party.
Think Progress » Senate Goes Into Secret Closed Session
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That is the strawman Darwin erected - Creationism = fixity of species, and as with Haeckel's embryos has managed to stick around regardless of the facts.
Blast From the Past
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Among the coolies will be a strawman sot with a Schmidthole in his desk drawer.
City Council Stands Up To ACLU on Behalf of LAPD and The City
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Btw, it may pass notice without an overt mention, but the earlier reference to the "unholy" trinity - of facile contempt, philistine incomprehension and an incurious and willful blindness - is "unholy" vis-a-vis the very best and most rigorous of post-Enlightenment (i.e. rational and transparent) standards, not the pseudo-standards of some strawman, stereotypical, backwards looking fideism.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Strawman , strawman wrapped in a checkered coat, Driving out sparrows like a cop, Just helping the rice to grow up.
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Then our righties go for the classic strawman, claiming the issue of who sent Wlison & why (again debunked) and finally, trying to change the threads issue and lastly lashing out by claiming future electoral bashing.
Think Progress » White House Responds To Criticism of Bush’s Leak With More Leaks
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The focus on “large amounts of specified information” my emphasis also reduces his entire book to a strawman argument, since the TOE neither predicts nor expects saltation.
Stephen Meyer's Bogus Information Theory - The Panda's Thumb
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This sets up a bit of a strawman ( "disengaging") but are we seriously to assume that it is in effect hard to believe ( "even if" = "not that we should take it seriously") the election strongly sent a message in part that the current policy re Iraq is seriously problematic?
Balkinization
