Yes, I know looking at Chuck Norris as an intellectual leader of the GOP is like looking at Jean Claude Van Damme as the intellectual leader of Europe. But talk like this of secession over the economy and the policies of Barack Obama needs to be called what it is - stupid, inflammatory rhetoric. And...

"... who were shrewd enough to beat the slow, pompous Clintons in the mano-a-mano primaries but who seem like dazed lost lambs in the brave new world of federal legislation and global statesmanship." Camille Paglia wants heads to roll: Heads should be rolling at the White House for the embarrassing ...

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I am hearing a lot of carping lately about how Obama is going to raise taxes and is driving spending through the roof and tanking the economy. As Bill Maher recently said if “McCain had won the economy would be fine because Sarah Palin would still be shopping.”  Katie bar the door; the...

The following material is somewhat disturbing but will be of interest to anyone doing critical race theory and history of rhetoric. These are pages from my grandfather's grade school primer, Geographical Nature Studies: For Primary Work in Home Geography, by Frank Owen Payne, copyright 1898....

President Obama used his weekly radio address yesterday to review some of the steps he has taken toward reforming health care, contracting procedures and an opaque budget process. The results, he said, will save money for the government and for millions of Americans....

President Obama used his weekly radio address yesterday to review some of the steps he has taken toward reforming health care, contracting procedures and an opaque budget process. The results, he said, will save money for the government and for millions of Americans....

Is it just me, or does it seem to you like the word “chipotle” is everywhere these days? As a friend from Tennessee asked with tongue firmly in cheek on a recent visit to Northern Virginia: “How did we ever live without chipotle?” That wry rhetorical question says it all....

Last night the Rhetorical Studies Reading Group hosted Angela Ray, who is in town for the Lincoln's Rhetorical Worlds speaker series. Our drill for the RSRG is that we ask the visitor to give us two or three things to read, then we gather at the IPRH and have a wide-ranging, informal discussion....

Putting together my presentation for next week. I half-jokingly suggested on twitter an audience exchange where I'd promise to go to your panel if you came to mine. It's a half-joke because I'm in the second-to-last session on Saturday, so I'm a little worried about who will be left around at that p...