Opinion Forum

Six Reasons Why Politicians Believe They Can Lie (and Not Get Caught)

September 24th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor With the presidential and congressional campaigns in the homestretch, the quadrennial contest for deception, misdirection, fact-bending, half-truths, and downright lies, in other words, the challenge to win the hearts and minds of voters, is in full swing. In writing this post, I’m trying to maintain a neutral stance on which party [...]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: campaigns, information, internet, liars, lie, narcissism, politicians, truth
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Truth about the War in Afghanistan

February 8th, 2012

By Tom Carter If you haven’t seen it yet, you should read “Truth, lies and Afghanistan” by Lieutenant Colonel Daniel L. Davis, published by Armed Forces Journal. As LTC Davis puts it, “The American people deserve better than what they’ve gotten from their senior uniformed leaders over the last number of years. Simply telling the [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Afghanistan, Davis, failure, lies, report, success, truth
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Has Honor Become an Anachronism?

January 5th, 2012

By Dan Miller A few quaint vestiges persist and others are salvageable. In May of last year, I wrote an article about the University of Virginia Honor Code and charges that a student then about to be graduated from the School of Law had lied by writing a letter to the editor in which he [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: Constitution, honor code, liar, political lies, politicians, truth
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Obama Is Not Telling The Truth

September 10th, 2010

By Nancy Morgan Obama is increasingly resembling the errant husband, who, when caught in bed with another woman by his wife blandly asserts, “What woman? Who are you going to believe – me or the evidence of your own eyes?” Obama is asking Americans to ignore the evidence of their own eyes and believe him. [...]

Articles written by Nancy Morgan
Tags: Congress, debt, economy, fiscal policy, Obama, recovery, trust, truth
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A Modest Proposal to Promote Domestic Tranquility

May 20th, 2010

By Dan Miller Huff and Puff and down fall the houses of falsehood Here is a truly fascinating article from Huffington Post by Jim Taylor, PhD in psychology and lecturer at the University of San Francisco, a well known bastion of unbiased intellectual thought. Mr.* Taylor complains that the sources of information nowadays are too many, [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: extremists, facts, global warming, health care, information, puppies, truth
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Slammed By The WSJ

April 20th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin I just wanted to share with everyone a couple of great articles in the Wall Street Journal that caught my eye today. The first is titled “Why the Left Needs Racism” by James Taranto. It shows how the Tea Partiers are damned if they do, damned if they don’t when it comes [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: capitalism, Democrat, profit, racism, Republican, Tea Party, truth, WSJ
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Objectivity vs Progressivism

February 17th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin I’ve been meaning to write a piece on objective versus subjective reality for a while now, and I was given such a perfect opening to the subject the other day that I simply could not resist any longer. A newspaper in Atlanta, called Atlanta Progressive News, fired a reporter for… get this: trying to [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: engineers, objectivity, progressive, reporter, scientists, truth
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