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

Has anyone besides me noticed the different pronunciations of "inherent" and "coherent" (or "inhere" and "cohere")?

Here is Kurt Schlichter's latest column.

To the editor:

President Donald Trump’s reckless irresponsibility regarding North Korea is not making this country safer. And his behavior has been entirely abetted by the Republican Congress. Citizens have to demand that Congress fulfill its constitutional duty and provide a check and balance to a man who has squandered our international good will and is ceding the role of sober statesman to one of the world’s worst dictators.

— Timothy Curtin, Hinsdale

Jake Tapper of Fake News CNN just got destroyed in his interview with Stephen Miller of the Trump Administration. Watch the hatred and unfairness of this CNN flunky!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2018

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Propositional form X is the superaltern of propositional form Y iff (1) it is impossible for X to be true while Y is false and (2) it is possible for Y to be true while X is false. In other words, (1) X logically implies Y and (2) Y does not logically imply X.

Example from everyday life: 'x is always late' is the superaltern of 'x is never early'

Example from categorical logic: 'All S are P' is the superaltern of 'Some S are P' (iff at least one S exists)

Example from propositional logic: 'q' is the superaltern of 'p ∨ ~p'

Example from predicate logic: '(x)~Øx' is the superaltern of '(Ǝx)~Øx' (iff at least one object exists)

In Color (1977). One of my favorite Cheap Trick songs.

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As I read the article about the president’s tweet conflating cold weather with climate (Dec. 29, “Trump says East Could Use Some ‘Global Warming’ This Weekend”), I was angered and saddened—saddened by the gleeful misunderstanding of science.

Weather is a short-term blip while climate is a long-term trend. A trend which 97 percent of climate scientists agree is changing due to human greenhouse gas emissions. I was angered by the actions taken this year by the president—leaving the Paris Accord, dismantling the Clean Power Plan, installing fossil fuel insiders instead of scientists at the EPA.

This year, I resolve not to despair, but to hope and to act. The bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus gives me hope. The Climate Solutions Caucus has 30 Republican and 30 Democratic members who will work on legislation, such as carbon fee and dividend, which will help us reduce our emissions. Fossil fuels would be taxed at the mine or port, and the proceeds would be rebated back to you and me to help with our utility bills. Let’s work together this new year to put the world’s climate back on a stable path.

DANA SILER

Squirrel Hill

Brian Ross, the reporter who made a fraudulent live newscast about me that drove the Stock Market down 350 points (billions of dollars), was suspended for a month but is now back at ABC NEWS in a lower capacity. He is no longer allowed to report on Trump. Should have been fired!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018

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