Logical Fallacies (compiled by Brian McGroarty) Ad Hominem: This is the best logical fallacy, and if you disagree with me, well, you suck. Appeal to False Authority: Your logical fallacies aren’t logical fallacies at all because Einstein said so. Einstein also said that this one is better. Appeal to Emotion: See, my mom, she had […]

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… is from page 10 of Robert Higgs’s excellent May 2005 study “Fear: The Foundation of Every Government’s Power” as this study is expanded, revised, and printed in Higgs’s 2007 book, Neither Liberty Nor Safety (link added):

Karl Marx famously declared that religion is the opiate of the people. Not so famously but equally correctly, Raymond Aron (1957) called collectivism, especially in its Marxist variant, “the opium of the intellectuals.”

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U.S. — In a deep loss for the nation, the mass layoffs at The Washington Post have left no one to monitor how racist birds are becoming.

Posting social media content for the President of the United States comes with tremendous responsibility, so it's critical to give posts a once-over before sending them out to the masses. Here are eight things you should always double-check before posting a video on the President's account: