{"id":11012,"date":"2011-01-10T16:06:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T16:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/01\/10\/the-arizona-shooting\/"},"modified":"2011-01-10T16:06:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T16:06:05","slug":"the-arizona-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/01\/10\/the-arizona-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arizona Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/256697\/political-vultures-victor-davis-hanson?page=2\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a> is excellent commentary from Victor Davis Hanson to offset the leftist scumbaggery emanating from Paul Krugman and his ilk with his irresponsible and vile talk of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/10\/opinion\/10krugman.html?_r=1&amp;hp\" target=\"_self\">Climate of Hate<\/a>.&#0160; How preternaturally moronic our leftist pals who cannot distinguish conservative dissent from hate!&#0160; You see, leftists think they own dissent, a bizarre conceit I thoroughly demolish in <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/08\/does-the-left-own-dissent.html\" target=\"_self\">Does the Left Own Dissent?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Yes, we conservatives have targeted you leftists.&#0160; That&#39;s a metaphorical way of talking.&#0160; It is evidence of your appeal to the double standard that you have no beef with Obama&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2008\/06\/14\/obama-if-they-bring-a-knife-to-the-fight-we-bring-a-gun\/\" target=\"_self\">&quot;If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.&quot;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2280653\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> are some observations by Jared Lee Loughner&#39;s philosophy teacher.&#0160; Apparently, logic didn&#39;t do him any good.&#0160; Loughner, I mean.&#0160; The <em>Slate<\/em> writer, by the way, &#0160;is clueless when it comes to logic.&#0160; He writes, &quot;A syllogism is a form of argument in which a conclusion is inferred from a set of premises.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Exercise for the reader: explain why that is worthless as a definition of &#39;syllogism.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is excellent commentary from Victor Davis Hanson to offset the leftist scumbaggery emanating from Paul Krugman and his ilk with his irresponsible and vile talk of a Climate of Hate.&#0160; How preternaturally moronic our leftist pals who cannot distinguish conservative dissent from hate!&#0160; You see, leftists think they own dissent, a bizarre conceit I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/01\/10\/the-arizona-shooting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Arizona Shooting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}