What the President Didn’t Know

With Richard Nixon’s scandals, the question became: “What did he know, and when did he know it?” With Barack Obama’s scandals, the question has now become: “What did he decide he didn’t know, and when did he decide he didn’t know it?” We may be willing to excuse him...

The Fallacy of Equivocation

Equivocation exploits the ambiguity of language by changing the meaning of a word during the course of an argument and using the different meanings to support some conclusion. A word whose meaning is maintained throughout an argument is described as being used...