For a start it is based on the straw man argument that things have been terrible in Japan.
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This is yet another clumsy attempt to employ the straw man method of trying to falsely discredit obvious cause and effect.
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As video games become the straw man in a battle against gun violence, it is good to see that some researchers are looking at the positive side of gaming.
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If the Boston Red Sox suffered through the Curse of the Bambino--an 86-year championship drought attributed to their sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees--call the Mets' whammy the Curse of the Straw Man.
Progressives have long enjoyed wielding the straw man.
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Thus, we need -- as is being proposed -- to toughen the laws on "straw man" purchases and firearms trafficking and to make it a federal crime to transport a gun into a state where possession of that gun would be illegal.
Another sop to the soft-hearted 21st-century modern man is the option of using straw to pad your socks and hopefully cushion the blows.
In a straw man demonstration of the pitfalls in common statistical analysis, they showed that on the aggregate, women were accepted at a nearly 10% lower rate than men (35% to 44% respectively).
The Bush tax cuts are a straw man.
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It is not one based on an imagined straw poll of the partially informed hypothetical man on the street, but based on how a person of reasonable judgment, aware of all the facts, as well as how courts function, would decide.
Rather than delivering a death blow to skepticism, the media has merely invented and shredded an insignificant straw man.
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Many of the foot-dragging arguments against the common supervisory plan were based on little more than straw man arguments.
At the same time Gore drones on and on with character assassinations, straw man arguments and out-of-context weather anecdotes, more than two dozen global warming experts will join Watts discussing the science Al Gore hopes we will overlook.
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If Krugman wants to create a straw man alternative to Obama Care, he should look at the status quo, not at what Romney may or may not do as President.
Supposedly by attacking Wakefield, the primary author of the first highly publicized paper, who is a well-known proponent of the association of childhood vaccinations and autism, then the reality of cause and effect will supposedly just disappear and collapse like a straw man!
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