This was obviously specious — in fact, Trump himself basically conceded this point, justifying the tariffs instead as retaliation for Canadian dairy policy (which was also specious).
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This, too, is specious justification for opposing the REINS Act.
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But this is a specious argument, and they know it.
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It is important to understand why those arguments are specious.
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"Selection Day" casts a beady eye on these specious myths.
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But in this twilight world "normal" is a specious concept.
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Otherwise, it appears to offer diversification, albeit of a specious kind.
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Like their Redeemer forbearers, they raised specious concerns about electoral fraud.
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Whatever the revolution's final fate, Pompeo's claims are specious and false.
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They oppose a national scholarship tax credit for seemingly specious reasons.
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There is nothing fawning, specious or wishy-washy about the bodies.
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The argument is not only specious, but hazardous to your health.
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Trump's claim that he will bring back coal jobs is specious.
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That negativity is based on a specious interpretation of the test data.
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And why are people adapting serious technology, like EEG, to specious purposes?
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To most clubs and their fans, such internal conflict might seem specious.
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"This builds in a level of, albeit very specious, deniability," he added.
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And from the left you'll encounter equally disingenuous arguments and specious assertions.
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" Cramer told viewers on Thursday that he found Trump's arguments "pretty specious.
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The Police Department's attitude toward tracking and addressing biased policing is specious.
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" He said Democrats' attacks on Mr. Price's ethics were "specious and distorted.
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Most notably, the claim of porn as a "public health crisis" is specious.
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But to treat these rallies as an aberration is wholly specious, activists say.
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"The allegations of the criminal informants, we thought, were specious," Di Carlo said.
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Brexit's specious slogan, should have been a rallying call for Labour long ago,
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But it's not like the anti-manspreading arguments have risen above specious reasoning.
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Their half-hearted case for this new warhead is fragile, bordering on specious.
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And federal judges have not been fooled by specious arguments about voter fraud.
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The attacks against Rajan come primarily from a few politicians and appear somewhat specious.
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The courts should reject these specious claims and let the prosecutors do their jobs.
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This is not only a specious argument, but it does it even really matter?
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We're already in specious territory, here, which is effectively home turf for Facebook Memes.
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Zeldin's tweet was mocked by many who saw his logic as specious at best.
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Sessions has repeatedly accused immigrants of cheating the system to make specious asylum claims.
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While tempting to dismiss social media memes as specious nonsense, the numbers are sobering.
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I did feel Ms. Harris made a specious and unfair attack on Mr. Biden.
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The country's intelligence agencies continue to produce private assessments that counter Trump's specious assertions.
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Many American experts consider such arguments specious, given Russia's huge nuclear and missile inventory.
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And if the Kansas experiment is any guide, the entire proposition is specious. Gov.
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Perhaps the government fell prey to specious rationale that the risks of Huawei were overstated.
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According to Magic Leap, Keil planned to make claims that were either incorrect or specious.
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Anonymous blogs and specious news sites manufacture articles supporting the Marcoses and their political allies.
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"They are different places, no doubt, but the security claim is often specious," he said.
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The job-creation reasoning is equally specious when applied to the behavior of existing companies.
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Some scientists suggest that engaging with racists would simply lend credibility to obviously specious claims.
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Conversely, Judge Sullivan would not tolerate specious arguments or excuses by attorneys or other parties.
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The world of cinema had given rise to One Perfect Shot, but this is specious.
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I was there, too, and their argument is specious at best, downright dishonest at worst.
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All of a sudden, the question "Why won't you vote for Moore?" seemed a little specious.
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But accepting the projections as sacrosanct and reporting rising spending as "cuts" is specious at best.
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He has been blocking government officials from testifying before Congress, invoking specious claims of constitutional privilege.
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Worse still, it forces all of us to argue for trans rights on those specious grounds.
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Mr. Roe argues for a Faustian bargain, an embrace of specious ends justifying morally repugnant means.
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Witch hunts are specious investigations driven by preconceived notions that wind up not being born out.
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It advocated alternatives to the sale, countered the museum's specious talking points, and made continual noise.
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The idea that marijuana can lead to psychiatric disorders is specious, according to a 2016 longitudinal study.
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This argument, and the many others that the Trump campaign could employ, would almost certainly be specious.
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Yet the politicians who dignify it with specious arguments are making fools of themselves and harming America.
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There were comparisons (albeit specious ones) to what else could have been funded by that massive sum.
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Americans believe a whole lot of specious things, a new INSIDER survey conducted through SurveyMonkey Audience found.
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Look, that's just a hypothetical and ultimately specious mathematical problem — that's not what we're going to do.
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Some Iranian officials called it a specious prosecution — an accusation American officials often direct at Iran's judiciary.
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But as a woman I find the reasoning behind the arguments for celibacy in the priesthood specious.
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On Sunday, Mr. Trump began a new round of confusing tweets and specious claims about undocumented immigrants.
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Will Barr exhibit the same level of professional courage to disapprove the president's specious claims of authority?
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To the Editor: President Trump's argument for repealing the Johnson Amendment, ostensibly constitutionally grounded, is nonetheless specious.
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With their deeply literary brand of shock, these lines orchestrate a specious conflict between two inadequate responses.
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When the next review comes up in October Mr Trump will be furnished with such arguments, however specious.
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He's a specious doctor secretly dating a nurse from his hospital, and letting kids die with some regularity.
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The latest instance of this came Monday, when he posted a specious meme comparing Syrian refugees to Skittles.
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The Chinese argument sounds specious: it did not bother the defence establishment when Mr Hollande was in power.
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Her specious argument is unhelpful to the healthy discussion this country desperately needs to have about its future.
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For more than two decades, Mr. Jones has built a big business on specious claims and fear-mongering.
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The Minor Inconsistency is likewise deployed to "refute" (in Kavanaugh's specious sense of the word) a fundamental truth.
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And C.I.A. investigations that rely on these specious justifications to excuse her decisions should be given no weight.
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President Trump's claim that the cuts would spark a game-changing and sustained acceleration in growth appears specious.
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Ostensibly, Rezaian's crime was espionage, but the "evidence" against him didn't even rise to the level of specious.
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Congressional Democrats never believed they could actually remove Trump from power over anything as specious as the Ukraine kerfuffle.
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According to Juliet Williams, a political theorist and gender studies professor at UCLA, this is a fairly specious assessment.
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This specious argument needs to be exposed for what it is: solely a matter of cost, not patient need.
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This entire commission is based on the specious and false notion that there was widespread voter fraud last November.
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We assume this is a specious claim from a master conspiracy theorist until we see some sort of proof.
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The Republican front-runner has been dodging releasing his returns on the specious grounds that he was being audited.
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The worry that Egypt would totally jettison the United States in favor of Russia is both misguided and specious.
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Andrew M. Cuomo's specious Women's Equality Party even though DuWayne Gregory is not female, either by birth or choice.
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Neither is true: These views are specious, and those who espouse them are, at best, ignorant, at worst, sophists.
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It's a specious argument, as if being born into a culture were insufficient bona fides to speak of it.
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"Global Britain" is a specious branding effort designed to mask an expensive mistake, opposed by 48 percent of voters.
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But sports banker and deal maker Sal Galatioto of GSP Partners thinks the NCAA's argument is a specious one.
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The Indian government's justification that the C.A.A. offers protection to people facing religious persecution in neighboring countries is specious.
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For Nazi observers, this was evidence that America was evolving in the right direction, despite its specious rhetoric about equality.
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"It's a specious argument to suggest the US military is more vulnerable" if the US makes this call, said Costa.
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The "national" part is definitely specious, as the holiday doesn't seem to be enshrined as such by any given nation.
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Three Turkish nationals working for American consulates in Turkey are also under detention on a cocktail of specious terror charges.
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Virginia: Refused to comply with request based on "specious and false notion" of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election.
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Now Hong Kong's Department of Justice has reopened the case on the specious grounds that their punishment was too lenient.
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So that part of the argument is specious, at least when applied so specifically as Galton, Holmes and Hitler contemplated.
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This specious aspect makes the golem particularly interesting to artists because such contradictory vagueness yields opaque and elusive visual iconography.
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Wood thinks that George Graham's guilt seems "virtually certain" and that the "salacious charges" against Emma and Cora Lee were specious.
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It's really specious to argue that the very reason we should get out of AI's way is that it's so transformative.
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They will also "address Russia's specious allegations of international plans to stage a chemical weapons attack in Syria," the statement said.
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"This entire commission is based on the specious and false notion that there was widespread voter fraud last November," Virginia Gov.
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Which is, of course, specious, since all clothes are, to varying degrees, costume: just the ones we don for everyday life.
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Trump didn't technically espouse each and every one, but he elevated all of them — no matter how specious and/or ridiculous.
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This argument seems specious at best, given that Chrome will be able to use a number of resolvers, not just Google's.
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Whitaker thought some of the campaign finance charges against Cohen were "specious," pointing to the failed effort to prosecute former Sen.
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She was arrested in May 2014 on specious human trafficking charges and imprisoned for 33 months in violation of Egyptian law.
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But as computer code took on more complex tasks, like spotting specious moles and quantifying blood flow, their duties began to accelerate.
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Nevertheless, officials who have sought to curtail voter access to the polls have used specious claims of fraud to support legislative proposal.
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And speaking of specious data, we got a charge out of this map of the most searched-for occupation of each state.
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Trump, however, has a record of lending credence to the most specious and dangerous of these explanation, which centers on childhood vaccines.
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On the surface this argument might be a little specious – after all, cats are pretty cool – but what is Asus really saying?
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"The historian serves no one well by constructing a specious continuity between the present world and that which preceded it," he wrote.
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Some states require doctors to mention a specious link between abortion and an increased risk of breast cancer, suicide, or future infertility.
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Actual lockdowns inhibiting personal rights to come and go are patently unconstitutional given significant infringements of rights for specious public health objectives.
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The Saudis claim that the Canadian statement is "an overt and blatant interference" in its internal affairs, but that argument is specious.
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Word of the Day : someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious _________ The word sophist has appeared in four articles on nytimes.
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The industry culture is designed to buy into that con, that destructive, specious fantasy of elegant men from a more "civilized" age.
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Republican lawmakers made the specious argument that those texts, which criticized Trump and other American political figures, had tainted the entire Russia investigation.
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What harm is there in people hearing obvious falsehoods and specious argumentation if any sane and minimally educated person can see through them?
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They also have long contended that the United States unfairly imprisons Iranians for violating what Iran considers specious American sanctions against the country.
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Therefore, making a connection between being credit invisible or thin file (with only a few tradelines) and being a "public charge" is specious.
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But the Russians have denied they have violated the treaty and responded with their own allegations, which the Americans have dismissed as specious.
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Yovanovitch had been under attack by conservative figures over specious allegations that she'd tried to block prosecutors and had expressed anti-Trump bias.
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Critics said the Trump administration was building a specious legal case that interprets an exception to the law in the broadest possible terms.
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Which may sound like a specious nuance or holier-than-thou posturing, but has become an increasingly important factor in endorsement deal making.
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"The facts of today's case show what a real risk of judicial bias looks like, instead of specious assertions based on race or ethnicity."
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Bottom line: Budget projections are a specious business by their nature, as no one can accurately predict the nation's next decade of economic fortunes.
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They're daring Republicans to vote against this bill by making the specious claim that this is their only shot at passing health care reform.
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Mr. Marche's underlying view — that "Gawker predicted and took up arms against" the "asymmetry of celebrity power" — is a specious passing of the buck.
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In particular, it was notable for the way it used a consistent, specious narrative—ethics in games journalism—to cover for its ugliest actions.
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Many people prefer one or the other, sometimes for reasons that may seem specious, but this is not the occasion to argue a point.
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Like other Venezuelan leaders, Mr. Maduro has used the United States to rally his people, often with specious warnings of American plots to invade.
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Undaunted, Helms moved to have King's F.B.I. files declassified, so that the Senate might explore the specious claim that he was a Communist stooge.
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Make no mistake: While killing net neutrality may be rolled out with specious promises of "free video," there is nothing here for ordinary people.
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Todd Akin, who inflamed opposition even among fellow Republicans after with a very controversial and specious remark about rape victims not often becoming pregnant.
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Because patent litigation can be expensive, the trolls were able to generate settlements for less than the cost of defending their often specious claims.
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Indiegogo has a long and unhappy history of being the internet's home for misbegotten and specious health gadgets, and its latest addition is no exception.
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The Google searches flooded his developing brain with endless bias-confirming "proof" to back up whichever specious alt-right standard was being hoisted that week.
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Not only is Facebook not providing little red warnings along with links to potentially specious news—it's now blocking links to the plugin that did.
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Byrne says that at least half of the ICOs he's seen are specious, often just a one-page white paper hoping to attract unsophisticated investors.
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The rest of the complaints, however specious they may be, all stem in some way from this extreme bond that's been forged over 23 years.
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The carriers argue that the marketplace should decide minimum seat size, not the government, an argument that takes off from specious and lands at ludicrous.
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" Mr. Muzin did not respond to a request for comment through his firm, Stonington Strategies, but has previously called Mr. Broidy's allegations "specious" and "hollow.
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Making a specious legal argument and obstructing congressional oversight of a complaint implicating the president in a crime are both shocking acts on their own.
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Or: All the evidence is hearsay, except for what is not hearsay and that is no less specious — the disloyal betrayals of insidious Never-Trumpers.
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Senator Susan Collins of Maine criticized the Trump administration's often specious descriptions of what the bill would actually do, bolstering other more quiet critics' resolve.
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That logic also begins to look specious in light of the company's reported approach to restricting and monitoring content in other nations with more authoritarian governments.
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On the opposite side of each banner is an image of an Indian Peace Medal — objects that are, like the treaties, specious for their ultimate emptiness.
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Will the White House or Justice Department try to block Mueller's testimony by raising specious legal objections (including executive privilege or absolute immunity, as discussed above)?
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Most engine team members reportedly felt comfortable with the decision, since they believed regulators would not be able to detect their fraud — specious reasoning at best.
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Headphone testing is often analogized to wine tasting, in that it's all subjective, but that shouldn't lead to the specious conclusion that all opinions are equal.
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The comparison is specious because Trump has been trading barbs with O'Donnell for nearly five years on Twitter, though he hasn't tweeted about her since May.
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Eventually, though, she felt like she was taking a crash course in the specious arguments used to support white nationalism—and how science could dismantle them.
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I read them anyway, drawn to their specious certainty about a possible world in which children always do as told and teeth-brushing takes 2½ minutes.
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At the same time, Leibovich is a fan like the rest of us, given to generic, often specious, and occasionally paranoid defenses of his cherished Patriots.
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We regard that argument as specious, because life-saving connected-vehicle safety messages should not have to compete for spectrum primacy with speedy feature film downloads.
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Russian steelmaker Severstal filed a New York lawsuit last Thursday, arguing that the tariffs were unlawful and that the exemptions revealed the "specious" national security claim.
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"Yet some people in the West insist otherwise, even though it is only through specious speculation that they claim to know better," the English-language paper said.
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During his campaign, which included many specious claims about his opponents, much was written and said about how he might "pivot" to show he could be presidential.
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And perhaps more importantly, there's an entire sympathetic audience that wants nothing more than to believe the teens have ill intent, no matter how specious the evidence.
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He told BuzzFeed News that the complaint against him was specious, and resulted from an online conflict with an individual who had been trolling him on Twitter.
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A story with a specious headline that Megyn Kelly had been ousted from Fox News as a secret supporter of Hillary Clinton began trending on the site.
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As we've already seen, the claim that new transport innovations such as driverless cars and hyperloop will destroy more jobs than they'll create is specious at best.
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Poppe's one-time defense—that he was carrying on compassionate euthanasia—seems specious, given that Belgium probably has the most permissive assisted dying law in the world.
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These legal assaults on equal protection for transgender Americans are based on bigotry and the specious claim that they pose a threat to the safety of others.
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Barr may not be able to find a smoking gun that definitively proves Obama loyalists plotted to use specious allegations to wound a Republican candidate for president.
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As chairman, he followed Devin Nunes of California, whose handling of the committee's Russia investigation was specious and included cloak-and-dagger visits to the White House.
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Gulf Labor and GULF say that they operate autonomously, yet the distinction can seem specious: GULF 's six core members are also members of the original group.
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He was sentenced in October to 18 years' imprisonment on charges that included aiding a hostile power and threatening national security, which rights activists have called specious.
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While landlord-tenant disputes are hardly new, tenants in Kushner complexes have complained that the company used legal action to hound them on thin or specious grounds.
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The renewable sector is one of the most heavily-subsidized industries in the United States, making claims of an unlevel playing field specious to say the least.
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The latest twist in this practice is the specious claim that climate researchers do their work not out of scientific interest, but in order to get rich.
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Despite that specious reasoning, according to Bloomberg, Marchionne — a self-proclaimed "Apple freak" — is keen to partner with Apple and help the tech giant build its first car.
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They decried the blatantly misleading use of celebrities who had "invested" in the company previously, the fraudulent claims in the prospectus, and the specious valuation performed by BDO.
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It's a completely specious argument, and the fact they are willing to resort now to physical defiance is something I hope they really think long and hard about.
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A study of the so-called "Going Dark" problem completed by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University last year found the FBI's arguments mostly specious.
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The play is about language as a specious but necessary form of communication, and how it can push the soul into crisis when words are buried, history twisted.
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Texas and Arizona are among the states where Republican-led legislatures have passed voter identification laws and otherwise tightened voting rules under the specious guise of preventing fraud.
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Many of the installations, like Antwan Horfee's overturned, painted bouncy castle, for me, were dumb fun but too slushy and specious for many residual aesthetic benefits to surface.
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This is a specious use of law: It inverts the laws governing child immigration and uses them to exacerbate the very evil the law was designed to address.
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We demonstrated the immensity of the problem, yet opponents to voting rights responded with the specious claim that increased turnout was somehow proof that no suppression had occurred.
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Otherwise, the members of this committee will be lending their own names to another specious Albany back-room deal, with taxpayers footing the bill for years to come.
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"The same cannot be said for the prosecution which has operated in bad faith from the inception of the &aposinvestigation&apos and continues relentlessly through this specious prosecution."
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Additionally, a whole cottage industry has cropped up around DNA test results, offering specious services like pairing people with the best diet or best wine for their genes.
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Cambridge Analytica claimed to have a magic formula that could sort out users based on their psychology, and sold its specious assumptions to political campaigns around the world.
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Like a G6 Nathan Heller, in his article on the past and the future of automobiles, makes a specious comparison between airplanes and self-driving cars (Books, July 29th).
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That&aposs a specious argument, I have a hard time with that, I&aposve talked to other agents today and the former agents, they all laughed at it too.
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After it failed, Republicans fell in line with the specious claim they could finance tax cuts by tripling the federal deficit and grow our way out of the hole.
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While Congress has delegated trade authority to the president before, often for legitimate reasons, we are now seeing an administration stretching the limits of that power on specious grounds.
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While condemnation of the White House has come at home and abroad, there are those who have spread "specious" views on the internet, it said in a lengthy commentary.
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To accede to a presidential demand — especially one based on specious evidence — would politicize and compromise the independence and integrity of the department, some senior DOJ officials strongly believed.
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AVRAM ALPERT, PRINCETON, N.J. To the Editor: In his article informing us that we liberals aren't as smart as we think, Gerard Alexander makes a couple of specious claims.
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Goop was fined $145,000 for making specious claims about jade eggs meant to be inserted in the vagina, though the company continued selling them until as recently as 2018.
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Despite this, enough damning evidence came to light that the president's apologists have largely avoided defending his behavior on the merits, instead taking refuge in specious complaints about process.
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His persistent, often specious and very aggressive tweeting has been an important medium through which the candidate and soon the leader of the U.S. has been communicating with his constituency.
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Tsacheva has denied any wrongdoing and asked the Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate the terms on which she had acquired a specious apartment in an upmarket Sofia neighborhood last year.
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But he's also lacking the necessary context, because attributing that slide to any one factor — as opposed to the massive ratings declines facing all television programming — is specious at best.
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The results have been more consistently positive over a six-month period, but such a long duration makes tying it to a technical market event at least a little specious.
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Many of the resorts have lounges near the seaplane terminal where passengers can wait until their flight — ours was specious and fairly empty, with just one other couple in transit.
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Now the media is awash with the idea that the S&P is in danger of imminent collapse, but this recent talk is just as specious as the Hindenburg omen.
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Extrapolating anything else from Elon's Twitter or from the companies' choice to not participate in an unscientific opt-in diversity survey would be pretty specious and misleading to your readers.
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He leaves out a later, more specious suit he brought in 2005, just as he is very careful to give only a fleeting, cautiously worded mention of his political affiliations.
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The Iranians say at least 14 Iranians have been unfairly imprisoned or prosecuted by the United States or its allies, mostly on what they call specious accusations of sanctions violations.
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As textbooks show — through omissions, downright errors, and specious interpretations, particularly regarding racial issues — not everyone enjoys the perks of civic belonging or gets a fair shake in historical accounts.
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That's the joy and freedom this book seems to be after, and it comes through much more clearly in Garfein's understated anecdote than in Winder's hot air and specious detail.
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As a practical matter, this means that just about any well-organized professional group can pad its bottom line by lobbying legislators to suppress market competition on totally specious grounds.
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The speech went on to make a specious comparison between regulating internet providers and regulating websites, like Facebook, saying it was unfair to impose rules on one but not the other.
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Days after she made her complaint to Fager, he and two of his deputies called Nosheen into a meeting to go over criticisms of her work performance which she found specious.
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I was unexpectedly reminded of Crimp's use of Buren's specious argument when I went to see the exhibition Douglas Florian: Spells and Apparitions at BravinLee Programs (March 1 – April 7, 2018).
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Not only is the government's order based on a specious interpretation of the All Writs Act of 1789, argues Apple, but it's also a violation of the company's First Amendment rights.
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If this specious line of thought seems at all plausible to you, it is because of the influence of "On Liberty," published in 1859 by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill.
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It is specious, though, to suggest that this is not a question worthy of exploration, or that its answer hinges on whether collusion with Russia amounts to a criminal-law violation.
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Last year, Trump used Global Magnitsky to temporarily sanction two senior Turkish officials after the country failed to release an American Christian pastor, Andrew Brunson, who'd been imprisoned on specious charges.
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She avoided the death penalty only narrowly, and even in season seven, evidence that might overturn her murder conviction fails to make an impact with her lawyer, because of its specious nature.
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When she saw Track off to Iraq in 2008, she echoed W.'s specious argument, calling the war a "righteous cause" to avenge "the enemies who planned and carried out" 9/11.
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Suicide doors (which likely won't make it past to the real world) give the cabin an airy, specious feel and, most importantly, make it easy for photographers to see the entire interior.
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Specious apoliticism, on the other hand, and a laissez-faire trust that the benefits of technology will trickle down, seem a good way to a future like the one in Mankind Divided.
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The arguments in favor of MMT in so-called academic literature are both specious and entirely untried, except in Weimar, Germany, among other nations that tried to devalue their way to prosperity.
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"We will rally the international community to condemn the IRGC's gross violations of human rights and its unjust detention of American citizens and other foreigners on specious charges," the White House said.
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At the time he sought a stay, labor groups argued that Mr. Robb's logic was specious because the board's case against McDonald's did not hinge on which definition of joint employment applied.
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Iran, which considers Israel an illegitimate country, has called Israel's accusations specious and has blamed Israeli operatives for attacks inside Iran, notably the assassinations of five nuclear scientists, mostly by car bombs.
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Once he has said something vile like Mexican immigrants are rapists or something specious like millions of Californians voting illegally, he won't be dissuaded from bringing it back up in the future.
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His specious claim that he was wiretapped by President Obama and his public embrace of various strongmen, from Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte, have all been self-inflicted wounds.
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They have made the specious argument that Trump was using "wiretapping" as a stand-in for general surveillance, which means that they will use any shred of information that suggests Trump was right.
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If it's disingenuous, it's because protest speech isn't being truly countenanced, based on the specious notion that left-wing student disapproval can only come from fragility or petulance rather than knowledgeable, rational opposition.
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When Trump extended the specious olive branch during his State of the Union address – "let us work together to build a culture that cherishes innocent life" — it was nothing but a hollow statement.
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They want all of us to cede unprecedented authority to government in every aspect of our lives, based on the specious idea that they know better than we how we all should live.
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"I'll let Mr. Mnuchin defend himself from the specious lines of attack, which, given the lack of credibility in the accusations, shouldn't be too difficult for a man of his talents," said Hatch.
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A recent flurry of specious lawsuits filed against journalists — and a troubling court decision in May that lifted monetary caps on libel damages — are having a chilling effect on investigative reporting and criticism.
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"This study shows that the hotel industry gets what it pays for, which in this case is a specious study intended to mislead and manipulate," the company said in a statement provided Mashable.
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The Virtue of Nationalism is, in short, less a serious work of political philosophy than a series of specious empirical assertions about the benefits of nationalism justified by conceptual trickery and Bible references.
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But as Anne Harrington reminds us, it wasn't all that long ago when psychiatrists were pilloried as a bunch of woolly Freudians in thrall to specious ideas about absent fathers and smothering mothers.
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"It takes a village to raise a child" is a proverb with specious roots that has been used by everyone from former Secretaries of State to random strangers doling out unsolicited parenting advice.
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It's a specious line of thinking that many people within the Venn Diagram of vegans and cocaine users subscribe to, even though it's been challenged time and time again along ethical and environmental lines.
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As Facebook doubles-down on thwarting the spread of disinformation on its website, recent tweets from the company's official Twitter account belie its promise to be better at moderating specious content shared by Pages.
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Trump's specious solutions to the economic and security challenges facing the United States may resonate with people who can't explain or comprehend why they are suffering and why no help has come along yet.
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Now they know that whatever documents the U.S. may sign supposedly guaranteeing access to its market, the president will still feel free to block their exports, on specious grounds, whenever he feels like it.
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In 2003, Bolton rode in the vanguard of the war party, pushing to topple Saddam Hussein on the specious grounds that Iraq was pursuing nuclear and chemical weapons and in cahoots with al Qaeda.
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"I think a lot of media outlets were literally worried he might buy them some day," said de Blasio, echoing a specious contention from Bernie Sanders speechwriter David Sirota when Bloomberg entered the race.
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As negotiations continue to falter, the narrative that the conservatives who want the repeal they were promised and voted for over the last eight years are the ones to blame is specious and insulting.
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"Creativity" would not have its own publishing niche or have become a ubiquitous buzzword — the "fat-free" of the self-help world — and business pundits would not deploy it as a specious organizing principle.
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Utility patent trolling is already a huge problem for startups, and giving trolls an even more lucrative and powerful tool to target small businesses will spur a cavalcade of specious lawsuits and extortive threats.
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Hers was a specious argument from the beginning, given that top universities, like the University of Texas, have struggled since their founding to construct their own student bodies in relation to our nation's increasing diversity.
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"Christians have no rights here any longer," says Reverend Kuwa Shamal of the Sudanese Church of Christ, one of several church leaders who have been arrested on specious charges of spying and undermining the constitution.
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What that Google search and some news outlets are including are superdelegates, the group of elected Democrats and party officials that are cast as shadowy characters every four years because of specious tallies like these.
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The group is using a specious cherry-picked "report" as the backbone of its opposition to Kavanaugh, who currently serves as a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
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But more than that, Albright is a creature of this moment, emerging at a time when the tech industry's reflexive instinct to accentuate the positive has been exposed as not only specious but dangerously so.
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But John C. Calhoun is the only one whose fame came from his guiding role in a racial regime that enslaved people, inspired secession and formed the specious legal foundation for a century of discrimination.
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With 40 percent of active civilian labor force out of the market, and 13.6 million people -- double the officially reported number – without a job, or stable employment, tightening labor market claims are specious and insensitive.
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"If Mr. Velasquez is removed for specious reasons or Cicig is shut down, it would set back the cause of justice and seriously jeopardize U.S. assistance to the government of Guatemala," he said on Sunday.
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"By wrongly excluding Mr. Thiel, the most able and logical purchaser, from the sale process on specious grounds ... the Plan Administrator will only depress the value to be achieved in any sale," the billionaire's lawyers argue.
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Katharine Trendacosta, manager of policy and activism at EFF, suggested that the CASE Act would be similar to the DMCA's takedown provision, creating a wave of specious copyright claims that are hard to resist or appeal.
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It's also that prosperity gospel megachurches feed into income inequality with their specious claims that affluence is a reflection of God's approval (and on the flip side, that poverty must come from some absence of faith).
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Faced with legal challenges from some of the recruits, who said they had been expelled unfairly on specious security grounds, the Army suspended the discharges over the summer and said it would re-examine its policy.
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Instead, the president reverted to his prior habit and practice of ignoring subpoenas, asserting specious privileges, intimidating witnesses, hiding evidence, suborning perjury, questioning the loyalty of dedicated career professionals, and pursuing frivolous litigation in the courts.
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The FCC had relied on specious arguments throughout, but one of the least convincing was that it had the authority to overrule states that had established their own, stronger net neutrality rules, as California is doing.
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" Biden also rejected the notion that defying a subpoena would put him above the law, noting that "the grounds for them to call me would be overwhelmingly specious, but so, I don't anticipate that happening anyway.
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This, by the way, is why it's so specious of restaurant industry CEOs to claim that if they're made to pay restaurant workers a few more bucks an hour it will force them to adopt automation.
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The sooner the United States and its allies address the problem and begin shooting down specious news sources, the greater the chances that trust in government institutions may be rebound (although lots of other work is required).
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It was a desperate move by Mr. McCrory, who appears likely to lose his re-election bid in November, in large part for championing a measure based on the specious notion that transgender people are sexual predators.
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Your slow walking of this issue and your specious arguments about political calculations are pushing you dangerously close to a tragic, historic dereliction of duty, one that could do irreparable damage to the country and the Congress.
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As Giuliani was pushing specious claims about Ukrainian wrongdoing, a group of businesspeople and Republican donors connected to him and Trump were working to install new management at the top of Ukraine's massive state gas company, Naftogaz.
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Democrats are also weighing whether to reengage their investigation of Trump's effort to press Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and other Democrats on specious charges, which is what led to the House's impeachment inquiry.
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Both are fun, specious ideas, though an actually plausible explanation might be that car companies are just being wily and trying to appeal to the biggest growth market in the world today, China, where red symbolizes good fortune.
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The delay argument is specious, Justice Kagan added, as "there is no reason Mr Ray should have known, prior to January 23rd, that his imam would be granted less access than the Christian chaplain to the execution chamber".
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Earlier this year, representatives from the American College of Gynecologists and Obstetricians and the Guttmacher Institute harshly criticized a previous version of the "Woman's Right to Know" booklet, focusing on the specious mentions of breast cancer and infertility.
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Such arguments will have to be honest, which means not making the specious case (of the sort popular on the right) that Trump is "really a liberal Democrat" because of his views on trade or social welfare programs.
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QUARLES: SO, I DON'T WANT TO PROPOSE A KIND OF A SPECIOUS PRECISION IN WHERE I THINK THE NEUTRAL RATE OF INTEREST IS. BUT I DO THINK THERE ARE REASONS TO THINK THAT THE NEUTRAL RATE IS RISING.
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So Season 7 hinges on a specious will-they-won't-they for Nick and Jess to get engaged, just as Season 2 danced around a will-they-won't-they for Nick and Jess in general (yep, they would).
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They also have made the somewhat specious argument that the new law will have the unintended consequence of lowering the pay for men as opposed to increasing the pay for women — thus lowering New York City's tax revenue.
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"By wrongly excluding Mr. Thiel, the most able and logical purchaser, from the sale process on specious grounds... the Plan Administrator will only depress the value to be achieved in any sale," the lawyers claimed in the filing.
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I find that cutting the growth forecast for this year by two basis points is too specious an argument to justify a fairly strong resumption of monetary expansion, and an abrupt departure from an orderly and gradual policy adjustment.
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The garage has no connection with the events of Emmett Till's murder but restoration was justified on the specious grounds that people may have sat on the porch discussing it (which is unlikely: locals ignored the story for decades).
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"By wrongly excluding Mr. Thiel, the most able and logical purchaser, from the sale process on specious grounds ... the Plan Administrator will only depress the value to be achieved in any sale," his lawyers claimed in a November filing.
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Pushing back on the specious claim that the coronavirus is just like the flu — a notion also promoted by Mr. Trump — Dr. Fauci said, "It's 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu," to a temporarily speechless Mr. Hannity.
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He had nothing of substance to offer beyond the usual specious claims that only his wall can end the border flood of drugs, crime and migrant women who have been duct-taped and stuffed into vans by human traffickers.
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The efforts made little impression on Trump, who used Twitter on Wednesday to confirm his decision on the withdrawal, justifying it with the specious claim that the troops had achieved their goal of defeating the Islamic State terrorist group.
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It's been a push and pull, with the Supreme Court invalidating tons of specious patent classes, Congress passing the Leahy-Smith America Invents patent reform act, and all of our favorite tech companies suing each other endlessly around the world.
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The suit also argued that the administration's stated reason for gathering citizenship information — to better enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act — was specious, noting that Trump re-election campaign materials stated that the president "officially mandated" the inclusion of the question.
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Granted, some courts have made specious arguments to justify a lower standard of review ("intermediate scrutiny"), which enables them to uphold laws like Deerfield's, but it's unlikely the Supreme Court will buy into this sort of Frankenstein approach to jurisprudence.
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The central finding in that book — that rates of gun ownership and the existence of "right to carry" laws reduce violent crime — have been the subject of numerous subsequent studies, the most sophisticated of which conclude Lott's results are specious.
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Lawyers for Mr. Paddock's victims reacted with outrage to the MGM lawsuits, which were filed in Nevada and California last Friday, calling the move an unprecedented and specious attempt to protect the company no matter what the facts eventually show.
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Despite all the protestations of State Department officials and Ukrainian journalists who painstakingly show that the accusations that Joe Biden helped fire a Ukrainian prosecutor to protect his son are specious, Mr. Trump and his allies have responded by repeating them.
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The justices also laughed out of court (or as close to it as the law allows) the Trump administration's specious argument that sticking a citizenship question on the census had nothing to do with intentionally undercounting individuals in immigrant communities.
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Missouri has some of the strictest abortion laws in the country—including a mandatory 72-hour waiting period during which patients are required to review misleading material that insists, among other specious claims, that abortion is tantamount to ending a separate life.
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He was unlucky in the fifth, as the Angels loaded the bases on a soft single, infield single and a specious hit-by-pitch call facing Mike Trout to set up Albert Pujols, who hit a two-run single to tie the game.
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By then, American troops had largely left Iraq, but the war they'd begun fighting in 2003, the invasion launched by President George W. Bush for specious reasons, had killed more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians and caused over 2 million to flee their country.
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In a recent report for VICE, Libby Watson explored the sus vibes that radiate from Uqora, and how its status as a supplement allows the brand to make specious claims with little to no basis in science, specifically, that it will prevent UTIs.
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Yet after a campaign in which his party had forced public buildings to hang crosses on their walls, railed against Islam and pushed Mrs Merkel's government to the brink of collapse over specious immigration disagreements, the Bavarian premier's centrist rhetoric seemed woefully insincere.
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This reality could present an ethical issue that might turn vegans off further from eating scallops, but it also opens up a whole other series of (maybe specious) arguments about how farming certain plant crops can also wreak havoc on locals ecosystems.
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In the past, Deutsch has made specious arguments about supposed similarities between Nazi Germany in the 1930s and America today under Donald Trump — before carefully adding (after a lot of blowback) that he doesn't believe the president would actually slaughter 85033 million Jews.
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" In the meeting, Democratic and Republican aides said, Mr. Whitaker cited the failed prosecution in a campaign finance case brought against John Edwards, the former Democratic senator, and said that he told staff members he believed certain claims in the case were "specious.
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The leading narratives about fare evasion aren't tied to logic or reason, but rather to specious claims about the reasons why New York's lavishly funded transit system is failing and politically driven arguments for law-and-order policies that affect real people.
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Then there's Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and current personal lawyer to the president who has spearheaded a controversial media campaign to expose specious claims about the Biden family's Ukraine ties that has helped create the impeachment storm engulfing the president.
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It was specious, libelous and reckless, regardless of the weak revelations of "incidental collection" that the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and Trump transition team member Devin Nunes outrageously made public, briefing the president without first briefing his fellow committee members.
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The government is invoking specious tax bills or contractual violations to muzzle outlets like The Cambodia Daily, Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and Voice of Democracy, which have a history of reporting on controversial issues like expropriation, deforestation and government corruption.
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You can read a review of the service by Lucas Matney, who spent six months with it, here on TC. The best thing about all of this defense against the backlash chatter coming in is that the backlash itself is really not specious at all.
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If anything, they seem to be making the case that the opposing argument is specious: Serena Joy and pre-Commander Waterford may say they're just exercising their rights to free speech, but they're doing so because they want to take everyone else's rights away.
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These so-called loyalists arrived on a campus and in a town where they weren't welcome, to pursue a cause as specious as their patriotism: defending a statue of a long-dead general who lost a rebellion against the country to which we pledge allegiance.
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It appears that FTA's claim that the projects have not provided sufficient information to warrant release of the funds is specious and false, given that similar submissions from local jurisdictions have received funding in previous years after submitting the equivalent amount of information to FTA.
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He took to Periscope after Mr. Comey's testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, repeated his false claim from before and leveled a new specious charge: that the former F.B.I. director had acknowledged leaking classified information from his government laptop to the news media.
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The rest of it is just as specious, propping up a set of laws that were clearly racist in intent and have continually produced racist outcomes, even as the author insists he favors a modest form of decriminalization and is aware of the racial element to prohibition.
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The argument of some members, that they vehemently oppose Trump firing Mueller but do not believe the legislation is needed because they do not believe he will do it, is one of the most specious and dishonest excuses ever offered by legislators to oppose a bill.
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In a letter on Tuesday to Assistant Assistant Attorney General Steven Engel, Nadler said Whitaker expressed to staff concerns that campaign finance charges against Cohen may have been "specious" and raised "serious questions" about the theory of the case overseen by federal prosecutors in New York.
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He's drawn down 70 years of U.S. credibility, reliability, and consistency on such issues as NATO, relations with Canada and Mexico, and our alliances in Asia, to seek headlines and support from a minority of the electorate — often on the basis of false information and specious claims.
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From the late 80s into the 90s, coalitions of anti-drug advocacy groups, willing advertising firms, and media companies annually pumped out hundreds of millions of dollars worth of PSAs that largely built on the faux-hipness and specious arguments that folks like Bono spewed decades earlier.
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DiGenova's new role signals that Trump wants more help making the specious public argument that he is a victim of the so-called "deep state," which, by his lights, includes many at the Federal Bureau of Investigation — which, in turn, he says is out to get him.
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There was something inherently specious about the treatment of Armstrong in light of his failed test, in that those who were most eager to castigate him for having a smoke would most likely have reacted with a wink and a nod had he been necking a dozen pints instead.
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"When anyone, not least a member of Congress, launches specious and degrading attacks against fellow Americans on the basis of nothing more than fear of who they are and what they stand for, it defames the spirit of our nation, and we all grow poorer for it," he said.
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Clinton still appears on Fox News six times more often than she does on CNN—most notably in October 2017, a full year after the election, when Sean Hannity indulged in fever dreams of a uranium conspiracy so specious that even the network's Shepard Smith had to debunk it.
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While Iran may make the specious claim it has the right to do so in coming years, on practical grounds there should be no reason for Iran to devote resources to this activity if it does not intend, as it so claims, to pursue a nuclear weapons capability.
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The administration has taken this authority through Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, which allows an administration to impose tariffs or adjust import levels for national security purposes, to impose these tariffs on the specious argument that the security of the United States is somehow threatened. Sen.
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Disturbing links to far-right groups Despite R.A.M.'s specious claims that it isn't racist, ProPublica reports it has drawn recruits from overtly hateful groups, including Hammerskin Nation, widely regarded as the largest, most violent and best-organized neo-Nazi skinhead group in the country, according to ProPublica.
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What doesn't bind him: loyalty to president and party, the opinions of his constituents, the need to "stand with the team" or — most specious of all — the idea that, whatever the facts, the Senate is obliged to acquit Trump so that voters can render their own verdict in November.
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"The government did not indict the specious Rafiekian case until more than a year after the Flynn indictment — just a few days before Mr. Flynn was to be sentenced in this Court — when the government was concerned that Mr. Flynn would withdraw his plea," Flynn's defense team wrote.
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" And while Greg Hardy is allowed to spin his specious yarns to Schefter's face about never putting a hand on a woman, and while Schefter can repeat them into any open mic nearby, Schefter can only refer to a brutal physical assault documented by photographic evidence as something "unsavory and unfavorable.
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Nixon's troubles began with illegal efforts to gather information against his Democratic opposition in the 1972 election, but mushroomed when he tried through lies, dangling pardons, bribery, attempting to enlist the CIA and FBI in a cover-up, firing special prosecutor Archibald Cox, suborning perjury, specious claims of executive privilege, etc.
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All the same, despite his relative reserve, Mr Trump managed to hit his main talking points, such as his hope to leave Social Security as it is, paying for it through economic growth and eliminating waste and fraud (a specious promise made by politicians across the Western world for decades).
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Two counsels on the Judiciary minority team who were in the closed-door meeting Wednesday say Whitaker maintained that he had internal discussions within the Justice Department about the Cohen case because he thought some of the claims were "specious" and that he had serious questions about the campaign finance case.
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Even the longest, "Overnight Freeze (Heptasyllabics)," distills its language for maximum sonic effect, both intoxicating and intoxicated with sound: I approacheach glimpsy-glaziered gapgulch afraid my galoshes squelchbreak their skittery sketches or skidheel slide a childprancepuncturing every damn sash I can smash, whatever blanchedand specious glow my outstanced kick can dislodge. . . .
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Democrats' last-ditch efforts to save the Affordable Care Act from Republicans' repeal-and-replace plans have devolved into a single specious claim: The number of Americans who now have access to quality health insurance has risen by upwards of 20 million, thanks to the reforms ushered in by the ACA.
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Old medical textbooks, from the ancient Greeks through the medieval Europeans, are filled with men's specious assertions about feminine hygiene: "I think we can agree that anyone who feels qualified to hold forth on something he has no actual knowledge of can, rather accurately, be called a douche," she quips.
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The theory seems to be something like this: This is a specious bit of reasoning, but one suspects it comes from a kindly impulse, that of not wanting to see one of the best players in baseball waste his prime years as the only thing worth watching on a dead-end ballclub.
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Small bankers, already struggling to compete with big banks and nonbank financial service providers, tell me that the cost of defending specious legal claims and the increased risk of such legal battles could threaten their very existence because they just do not have the same financial and legal resources of larger institutions.
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In relation to comments by Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio, Autostrade per l'Italia on Saturday said any suggestion a 2003 feasibility study on the demolition of the Ponte Morandi in Genova was linked to problems of the bridge or that the decision not to proceed was dictated by economic reasons was "phantasy and specious".
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By the same token, these costs have nothing to do with the modernization of our nuclear deterrent force per se and are instead being invoked by CBO to inflate a specious final assessed cost number so as to reinforce a narrative that our pending nuclear deterrent modernization effort will simply be too costly to accomplish.
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This may sound like a slippery, even specious distinction, but I think it's essential to piecing together the blunt authority of the tape paintings — objects made from unapologetically non-art materials (a practice she has continued with experiments in steel, slate, Rust-Oleum, stone, and cement-block walls, among other supports and mediums) with plainspoken directness.
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With scant moments of applause from people who apparently hate breathable oxygen and a moderate climate, Trump's signature, specious "America first" showmanship combined with shameless climate denial, ludicrous falsehoods about the language of Paris and the American economy, and, most shockingly, a brazen and spiteful attempt to paint all 195 other countries as lazy, loathsome burdens.
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Last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center added the Stedfast Baptist Church to its list of active anti-LGBT hate groups, a distinction that's well deserved for another-headline grabbing sermon that Romero delivered in which he boasted about harassing homosexuals and openly advocated for their deaths using specious reasoning drawn from the King James Bible.
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Moreover, her claims about claustrophobia and fear of flying appear to be specious; and, as Thomas Lipscomb details at RealClear Politics, Ford's story about how and why there came to be a second front door to her home (which she attributed to "PTSD-like symptoms" from being attacked by Kavanaugh) is, to say the least, dubious.
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Over the past several weeks, Pruitt's agency has proposed a reduction in the overall RFS (even after an inter-agency review approved a slight increase in the program), issued a Notice of Data Availability seeking comment on further reductions to the program under the specious justification that potentially lower imports should be reflected by a lower volume obligation.
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These unmentionables are broadly the values that millions of Hong Kongers cherish, making of their enclave a direct challenge to Mr. Xi's ideology and his scripted narrative that China's rise is a phenomenon in which democracy and the rule of law are specious Western concepts with no relevance for China, and dissidents are a tiny minority manipulated by foreigners.
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In the press, in committee hearings, on Capitol Hill — none of these may be "behind-closed-door" affairs, but they don't engage the public openly, which allows for authorities like the FBI to throw around their authority or use specious legal interpretations of laws like the All Writs Act to bully private individuals or enterprises into relinquishing control of their data.
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By holding the state's asserted rationale for its clinic-decimating regulations up to the light and finding it specious and counterproductive, the court has shut down one of abortion opponents' main recent strategies: enacting "targeted regulation of abortion providers" laws that impose on doctors who perform abortions special restrictions not placed on doctors who do procedures of equal or greater risk.
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If you wanna get super specious, when Healy smirks, "I'm just with my friends online and there's things we'd like to change" on Monday's set-opening "Love Me," it sounds almost Bernie-bro quixotic: a major component of their crusade is feeling that if they fail to upset the current hierarchy, it's too corrupt to be saved in the first place.
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But in large part because of Mitch McConnell's machinations — including the blockade of the Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland on patently specious grounds — they'll face a court even more conservative than the one that neutered the Medicaid expansion (one of the most important features of the Affordable Care Act) and gutted the Voting Rights Act during President Barack Obama's eight years in office.
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It needs to ignore the latest specious argument now being promoted by former Obama Energy Secretary Ernest MonizErnest Jeffrey MonizBiden under pressure from environmentalists on climate plan Pelosi, Clinton among attendees at memorial reception for Ellen Tauscher 2020 is the Democrats' to lose — and they very well may MORE, that we need to pour subsidies into nuclear power as a matter of national security.
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Adams has recently claimed that unspecified shadowy attacks are making it difficult for him to share information on the coronavirus on his own site (which has, in fact, run dozens of specious articles on the coronavirus.) On a recent afternoon, in a change of venue, he was calmly predicting the end of humanity on InfoWars' live webcast, where he shared a segment with its founder, Alex Jones.
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Though proponents of homeschooling in this country like to point to high test scores to support their cause, such evidence of success is specious; when you consider the fact that fans of homeschooling will be motivated to report only high scores––and only parents who are already organized enough to test and report their kids' scores will do so––it's easy to see how the so-called statistics are really quite meaningless.
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Meanwhile, the data collection that has been so lauded in the luxury world, which has been focused on the need to connect intelligence across the retail chain to better serve a constantly traveling customer, contains within it an often unacknowledged threat that could prompt a backlash if not carefully monitored: People want to be recognized, but not known — which may sound like a specious distinction, but it needs to be parsed on micro level.
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A half century after the curtain first rose on Joel Grey as the M.C., singing a specious "Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome," the Masteroff portrait of a nation descending into anti-Semitism and war was still being staged in New York and London, in towns across America and Europe, and still drawing crowds with its fair youth singing the strident "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" and the alchemy that turns words and music into shattering emotions.
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If blockbuster exhibitions like the recent Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer at The Met, or last year's special show of Bellini's landscapes at The Getty, aren't making their skin crawl with anxiousness and delight, then it's the magically rediscovered hand of a much beloved master, in a work long not considered to have been executed by that hand, that quickens their pulse — even when certain such revised attributions seem a bit specious.
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It began just after the election, with the debate over who would agree to dress Melania Trump (a somewhat specious issue, since the first lady is free to buy whatever brand she wants); continued at the dawn of the new year when Stefano Gabbana proudly announced, via Instagram, Dolce & Gabbana's authorship of the dress Ms. Trump wore to the Mar-a-Lago New Year's Eve party, generating applause and attacks in equal measure; and is picking up steam in the run-up to the inauguration.
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