"There's no coherent policy argument against expanding background checks, " argues Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent.
There may be things to criticize about Walsh's policy argument.
His voting record is one of the most liberal in the Senate, but in his books, he tends to present two sides of each policy argument without reaching many firm conclusions.
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It seems the Ministry of Finance has ceded foreign exchange rate policy back to the Central Bank where it belongs. the bank has, for now, won the policy argument that further weakening of the real will be inflationary and lead to a stronger real exchange rate, says Tony Volpon, managing director at Nomura Securities in New York.
You hear what he says, you hear the argument he makes on behalf of middle-class Americans and where we need to take this country and, as a substantive policy argument, why we cannot embrace policy proposals that, in the kindest possible light -- according to the Tax Policy Center -- would, if implemented, result in massive tax breaks -- tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires paid for by middle-class families.
Arabs and Muslims have become a foreign-policy issue, an argument on the domestic agenda, a law-enforcement priority, and a point of well-meaning concern.
Tory Glyn Davies suggested there would be no need for a referendum on the devolution of income tax if the four main parties included the idea in their election manifestos (although conversely, you could argue that the absence of policy choice was an argument for a referendum).
What matters most is not the closely drawn intellectual argument about rival policy platforms, but the body language and the pithy one-liner that sums up an opponent's faults.
It coincides with an increasingly noisy argument about economic policy.
But, as the present argument over road policy here in Britain shows, we are not prepared to make radical lifestyle changes that would make big differences to the environment.
While the "slippery slope" argument can, and ought to, be a legitimate cautionary policy tool, the invocation of the slippery slope argument can be its own form of slippery slope and must be applied with a large measure of caution.
Mr Justice Ouseley ruled "untenable" the argument that the inspection policy had been changed to evade the effective inspection of animals in transit.
We are aware of no serious economic argument to support such a policy direction.
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So what would happen in terms of the debate there, which would be the argument that was the argument which was dominating our policy within the Conservative Party?
Instead, the report does nothing to fill the policy vacuum that is being filled by an argument over what to do about the decade-old Bush tax cuts.
She found out from the IRS. Her argument was that she had cancelled the policy 20 years ago and had not heard from Northwestern since.
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In this election, Kerry also helped prep Obama for his debates with Mitt Romney and offered a strong argument of the administration's foreign policy during his address at the convention in September.
Yesterday I had a long Twitter argument with my friend Adam Thierer about broadband policy.
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Companies too are bending to the pressure, modest as it might seem, and are conceding to the anti-capitalists not just specific changes in corporate policy but also large parts of the dissenters' specious argument.
In either case, the scientist is utterly unconvincing on policy matters and the politician fails to make a logical scientific argument.
Yet this argument would need to be connected to a clear policy narrative about what a Republican president would do to take on the power of the big banks.
Labour health spokesperson Jackie Baillie said there was no argument about the principle of the government's policy but it would be tested on how it was delivered on the ground.
When Palin stumbled over foreign policy questions, she undercut the foundation of McCain's experience argument.
He mocked Ed Balls for talking of a big argument with ministers whilst, in fact, having a policy which is barely different.
He makes an interesting argument, pointing out how the connection between loose monetary policy and stock markets has changed in the last decade or so.
The most basic models of labor supply and demand would suggest that a bigger labor pool depresses wages, and indeed this is the argument taken up by many opponents of more open immigration policy.
They achieved influence over policy and shaped public debate through their ability to make a compelling argument, something that Bush was unable to do before the initial vote on the financial bailout and again before the auto bailout vote.
And so when Scott Sumner told me that the Fed was to blame, I was happy to accept his argument rather than having to totally rethink my views on economic policy.
This is problematic because not only does sound policy demand accurate theory, but he will never win over nay sayers if his argument is fundamentally the same as theirs.
In making this argument, Haass ignores the fact that this has been the Bush administration's policy for the past five years.
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