Category: Truthfulness
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The Dems, True to Form, are Lying
About so much. About gutting the 'safety net' for example. WSJ rebukes the mendacious shites. (Ought we be polite to such brazen liars?) As for multi-'colored' Kamala, she is like unto Traitor Joe not just in her moral obtuseness, but also in respect of her intellectual vacuity, as explained here. Here and here for two…
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Homo Faber, Homo Mendax
Man the maker is a damned liar. He is a fabricator in both senses of the term. A little god and a little devil. Neither the Father of all nor the Father of lies, he is a chip off the old blocks. This observation has a Manichean flavor. But if there are not two co-eternal…
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Rod Dreher on J. D. Vance of “Live Not by Lies”
Here Perhaps the most despicable feature of our political enemies is their penchant for mendacity in all of its many modes. There are so many examples. Here is one: Pelosi's Orwellian Mendacity: A STFU Moment
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Brazen Lies and Big Lies
1) Brazen lies. Here is an AI-generated definition: "A brazen lie is a bold and shameless falsehood, often told without any attempt to hide or conceal it." The AI-generated definition is on the right track, but it is not quite right: it blurs the line between a falsehood (a false statement) and a lie. A lie…
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Biden Broke his Promise, but Did He Lie? Promising, Lying, Predicting
I have no respect for Joe Biden, but a very high degree of respect for Jonathan Turley, who writes: President Biden's decision to use his presidential powers on Sunday to pardon his own son will be a decision that lives in infamy in presidential politics. It is not just that the president used his constitutional powers…
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Kamala the Joyful is a Serial, Brazen Liar
She's got 'em all beat now: Bill, Hillary, Barack, and Joey. I now hand off to VDH who provides plenty of evidence of her deep-seated mendacity. His article opens: In the last two weeks, Vice President Kamala Harris has been trying to revive her stagnant campaign by smearing Trump as being Hitlerian and a fascist.…
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Kamala the Plagiarist
She follows in the footsteps of Joe and Jill Biden, Claudine Gay, and so many others. Christopher Rufo exposes her. At the beginning of Harris’s political career, in the run-up to her campaign to serve as California’s attorney general, she and co-author Joan O’C Hamilton published a small volume, entitled Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s…
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Red World, Blue World, and the Orange Man
David Brooks, Confessions of a Republican Exile: In Red World, people tend to take a biblical view of the human person: We are gloriously endowed and made in the image of God—and we are deeply broken, sinful, and egotistical. [. . .] You belong to God; to your family; and to the town, nation, and…
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Sub-distinguishing the lie?
What does "sub-distinguishing the lie" mean in the following passage from A. J. A. Symons, The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography (NYRB, 2001, p. 73): He [Frederick Rolfe, a.k.a. 'Baron Corvo'] was wont to condemn the alleged laxity of the Roman Communion in the matter of truthfulness, and its sub-distinguishing the lie. He…
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Live Not By Lies
Alexander Solzhenitsyn Related: Trump is Going to Win. I must add: only if we don't become complacent and we each do our bit.
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An Overlooked Argument for the Resurrection
Michael J. Kruger In my jargon, the argument is rationally acceptable, but not rationally compelling (rationally coercive, philosophically dispositive). There is no getting around the fact that, in the end, you must decide what you will believe and how you will live. In the end: after due doxastic diligence has been exercised and all the…
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‘Post-Truth’
'Post-truth' is a silly buzz word, and therefore beloved by journalists who typically talk and write uncritically in trendy ways. There is no way to get beyond truth or to live after truth. All of our intellectual operations are conducted under the aegis of truth. Read the rest at Substack.
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Politics, Lies, and Counterfactuals
Suppose I say 1) Had Jeb Bush won the 2016 Republican nomination for president, Hillary Clinton would have won the presidential election. We know, of course, that Donald J. Trump won the 2016 election. Suppose an Anti-Trumper calls me a liar for asserting (1). Have I lied? That depends on what a lie is. What…
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How to Tell the Truth without being Truthful
Multiple are the modes of mendacity. Obama, Biden, Hillary and their ilk are masters of these modes. May a pox, but no pax, be upon them. Over at Substack, a quick look at one of the modes.
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Notes on Kierkegaard and Truth
From a December, 1985 journal entry. …………………… Why does Søren Kierkegaard maintain that truth is subjectivity, and in the Danish equivalents of those very words? What could he mean by such a strange assertion? To rehearse the obvious: S. K. does not mean that truth is subjective or relative, varying with persons, places, times, perspectives,…