By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: Once more, over the cliff! Our lawmakers have had to make, or not make, some risky decisions lately. The “sequester,” a poison pill of across-the-board cuts designed to force a spending compromise, has just done what no one believed it would do when it was created in 2011: It’s gone […]
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By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: If you’ve seen the Pixar animations feature Monsters, Inc., you might remember the slogan of the company in the title: “We scare, because we care.” Plaintiffs’ attorneys, particularly those who are followers of the Reptile approach to persuasion, may well have the same slogan. Since the perspective focuses on the idea that
By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: Over the past week, the phrase “beyond words” has been a common way of describing the nation’s reaction to the murder of 20 young children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. In a way, it is literally beyond words, because what dominates our thoughts is the
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