YOU ACTUALLY CAN MAKE BRICKBATS WITHOUT STRAW (via Kevin Whited):

Bush Using Straw-Man Arguments in Speeches (JENNIFER LOVEN, , 3/18/06, Associated Press)

"Some look at the challenges in Iraq and conclude that the war is lost and not worth another dime or another day," President Bush said recently.

Another time he said, "Some say that if you're Muslim you can't be free."

"There are some really decent people," the president said earlier this year, "who believe that the federal government ought to be the decider of health care ... for all people."

Of course, hardly anyone in mainstream political debate has made such assertions.

Not another dollar, not another soldier (Don's Blog of California Politics, 5/31/05)
James Carville said something on Crossfire today that I'll remember for a while. Hard to take as true political journalism I usually watch Crossfire for the comedy. At the end of the show Carville shouted in his normal way "Not another dollar, not another soldier".
Islam is incompatible with democracy, 403 to 267 (A debate by Intelligence Squared, the London Forum for live debate, 5/24/04)

Speakers for the motion:

* Amir Taheri, born in Iran and educated in Tehran, London and Paris; author of "Holy
Terror"

* Raphael Israeli, a Professor of Islamic, Middle Eastern and Chinese history at Hebrew
University in Jerusalem.

* David Pryce-Jones , the Senior Editor of the National Review and author of “The
Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs” [as well as the author of the Foreword to Robert Spencer's Islam Unveiled]

Moral Imperative (The Editors, 03.10.06, The New Republic)

Government isn't the best way to provide all Americans with health security. It's the only way. And it's time for liberalism to say so openly.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 19, 2006 4:51 PM