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- noun Alternative spelling of
straw men .
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Examples
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January 27th, 2010 at 7: 39 pm tombaker says: hunt believes his army of strawmen is unstoppable.
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I suspect that the reason that you are resorting to psychically derived strawmen is that you have a lot of anger but not a lot of evidence or logic to back up your position.
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I think what I find annoying about Matt’s constant harping about this issue and about how he’s not attacking strawmen is this: sure, maybe there are people who actually say these incorrect things.
Matthew Yglesias » The Hypocrisy of Stimulus Hypocrites 2010
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Bill and his strawmen is the next entry in this blog.
Elliott Sober: What is wrong with Intelligent Design? - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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"back up" and detail my comments on Glenn's well written rebuttal to my "strawmen" from my first document.
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"back up" and detail my comments on Glenn's well written rebuttal to my "strawmen" from my first document.
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"back up" and detail my comments on Glenn's well written rebuttal to my "strawmen" from my first document.
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Putting aside the obvious strawmen (no one was arguing that there would “be no more Hamas,” or not a single rocket), what history has shown is that 3,000 rockets, missiles, and mortars landed in Israel in 2008 before the Gaza incursion, and that includes a lengthy cease-fire period.
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Frum and Rauch burn so many strawmen that global warming is now real.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement 2010
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You have no success whatsoever, so you constantly move the goal posts and/or build strawmen.
Think Progress » DOJ official reportedly clears torture architects John Yoo and Jay Bybee. 2010
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