Heated political rhetoric is everywhere. It sets us apart from one another and erodes what's left of civil discourse. It grinds the worthy concept of "logic" into dust. Not any more. Not when we fight ...

Technically, lame forms of argument are called informal rhetorical fallacies and often have fancy Latin names (e.g. post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy). That’s too bad, because they sure don’t belong ...