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Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

  • To the editor:

    It seems obvious that the reason President Trump thinks his phones were tapped during the campaign is that he can’t understand how else it could be known that some in his operation had contact with Russia. Perhaps he cannot figure out that it was simply a matter of the Russians being under surveillance. (“Republicans: Don't enable Trump's absurd Obama wiretapping accusation,” editorial, March 7)

    Now he thinks his only move is to obfuscate and to otherwise cover up the already known information before it becomes more widely known and accepted.

    Yet with each and every effort he makes to do so, he simply becomes more and more reminiscent of Richard Nixon—and more certain to suffer the same appropriately disgraceful fate.

    Rick Goldfarb, Sherman Oaks

    From Today’s Los Angeles Times

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    Mar 10
  • Weekly Address – 11:00 A.M. at the @WhiteHouse! #MAGA🇺🇸
    ➡️https://t.co/YSaPJnSX2i pic.twitter.com/Gb8iTGzb6j

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 10, 2017

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    Presidential Tweet

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    Mar 10
  • Peter Frederick Strawson (1919-2006)Arguing, proving, inferring, concluding, solving a mathematical problem, might all be said to be kinds of reasoning. Their aims and purposes are different. The aim of argument is conviction; one tries to get someone to agree that some statement is true or false. You may get a man to agree that a statement is true by showing him that it follows from other statements which he already accepts. You may get him to agree that a statement is false because from it there follows another which he rejects.

    (P. F. Strawson, Introduction to Logical Theory [London: Methuen, 1952], 12)

    Note from KBJ: Argumentation is necessarily ad hominem, i.e., directed to a particular person (or set of like-minded people).

    P. F. Strawson (1919-2006) on Reasoning

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    Mar 9
  • Rubber Soul (1965). Pure pop perfection.

    The Beatles, “Drive My Car” (1965)

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    Mar 9
  • Gov. Jay Inslee is turning Washington into a laughing stock similar to the ultra left-leaning state of California, which is suffering a financial meltdown.

    He joins all the knee-jerk Trump-haters in our country and refuses to cooperate with federal law-enforcement agencies. By doing so he is endangering Washington citizens by allowing criminal illegal aliens to wander freely in his sanctuary cities.

    Gov. Inslee is an embarrassment to his office, and Republicans on the west side need to get their act together and join Eastern Washington to give us a state government that will uphold the values and laws of our nation.

    Bill Nelson, Prosser

    From Today’s Seattle Times

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    Mar 9
  • Here.

    Ten Years Ago Today in This Blog

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    Mar 9
  • Here.

    Dilbert

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    Mar 9
  • If Judge Richard Posner's head is hurting today, this is why. I have always thought that Judge Posner was on the border between genius and retard.

    Law

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    Mar 9
  • Here are highlights from Stage 5 of Paris-Nice.

    Cycling

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    Mar 9
  • Great news. We are only just beginning. Together, we are going to #MAGA! https://t.co/BSp685Q9Qf pic.twitter.com/K7yeBZsf6r

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 8, 2017

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    Presidential Tweet

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    Mar 9
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