Straw Man
Category: Logical FallaciesMisrepresenting an opponent's argument to make it easier to attack.
Articles Using This Technique
141 articles detected- US-Iran analysis becomes narrative illusion | The Jerusalem Post
- Swinney keen to work with fellow nationalist devolved leaders in UK
- Parliament’s smoking gun: Why new evidence demands immediate action on firearm oversight
- Trump-Pope clash rehashes old gripes, casts cloud over Rubio's Vatican visit
- Rubio defends Trump remarks on Pope Leo amid Iran war
- Save George Washington from woke smears in time for America 250
- ‘Clueless’ socialist Mayor Katie Wilson in hot seat after video of 77-year-old beaten in downtown Seattle goes viral
- Trump says the pontiff's words help Iran, make world 'less safe'
- LA City Council sides with criminals over cops in brainless traffic stop ban
- Welfare fraud has blue states rushing — to shield the fraudsters
- Russian ambassador to Germany points to Europe’s growing militarization
- American Jews, Israel, and the shifting Democratic Party consensus | The Jerusalem Post
- US action on Iran shows strength, not escalation | The Jerusalem Post
- Colorado lawmakers race to counter “right to natural gas” ballot measure
- Christian persecution in Middle East, genocide debate | The Jerusalem Post
- EU country ‘punishing’ the elderly with crazy meat restriction of just 2.8 ounces per day — because they ‘screwed up’ the climate
- Why Ketanji Brown Jackson is hell-bent on destroying the Supreme Court
- Why batteries are changing the renewables debate
- RT flags Western censorship at UNESCO event
- Douglas Murray: Taxing the rich could lead NYC into financial turmoil
- Why is Alexander Dugin suddenly attacking ‘Whites’?
- Mamdani’s out to leverage anger at ICE to undermine the NYPD — with Israel next
- Kudos to future lawyer Kim Kardashian
- I’ve been branded for life and no amount of evidence can change it
- Forget the naysayers — earnings surge means a ‘resilient’ Trump economy
- The $ 2.5 m disconnect: Systems transition, national confusion, and future of debt management | Daily FT
- AOC’s data-center freakout is wrong on every level
- Obama’s bogus voting-rights gripe, look who fears ‘politics’ at the Fed and other commentary
- From ‘subhumans’ to ‘orcs’: How Nazi race theory lives on in modern Russophobia
- Republicans have a winning midterm message within their grasp
- America’s debt disaster is a five-alarm fire — and there’s only one fix
- CHRIS KANYANE | SA cannot be sacrificed on the altar of Pan-African fantasy
- ‘Disturbing': Judge apologizes to correspondents' dinner suspect over treatment
- Luxurious Gaza cafes poke quite the hole in the ‘genocide’ narrative
- US attacks on hospitals and schools aim to destroy Iran’s future, analyst tells RT
- Democrats suddenly aren’t so welcome to the ‘jungle’ primary system
- How the IDF maintains ethics under extreme combat stress | The Jerusalem Post
- Beyond the headlines: Not who we are | The Jerusalem Post
- Miranda Devine: Dems seek a blue-collar MAGA man to win back Trump voters — but better look in the mirror
- A lack of cooperation with ICE to deport an illegal immigrant resulted in a family tragedy
- Proof NYC’s education leaders put kids last
- Big Tech earnings show how big, smart spending can be rewarded by the market
- Here’s why Canada needs to ditch age-based immigration points
- Graduates, freedom and the real cost of unemployment in SA
- This isn’t pro-Israel: Cutting US aid to Israel rewards its enemies | The Jerusalem Post
- Malema accuses March and March protesters of fighting the wrong fight
- Epic Fury is highlighting the utter brilliance of ‘Drill, baby, drill’
- James Carville warns Democrats that ‘abolish ICE’ slogan is new ‘defund the police’ — electoral poison
- Democrats’ leftist takeover is complete with Graham Platner’s rise in Maine US Senate race
- IN PICS | Inside the luxury lifestyle of Calvin Mathibeli and his celebrity wife
- Would-be assassin lived in town represented by anti-Trump ‘Mad Max’
- A.E. Goonesinha: Father of the Labour Movement and a democrat at heart - Opinion | Daily Mirror
- ASANDA GCOYI | Why harm reduction in smoking matters in policymaking
- Hegseth blasts ‘feckless and defeatist’ Iran war critics — as multi-billion-dollar price tag revealed
- Equal playing field is ‘discrimination’ to Dem exploiters after SCOTUS strikes down Louisiana congressional map
- Mamdani’s rude ‘welcome’ to King Charles shows exactly how illiberal he really is
- How Congress must and can unchain US energy — and power America’s future
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: A sovereign pluralistic state, misrepresented by fear | The Jerusalem Post
- Former Attorney General Bondi to testify about Epstein on May 29 before House panel
- Straight thinking about Lebanon: Will Hezbollah be disarmed? | The Jerusalem Post
- Wannabe gov Katie Porter adds to questions about her temperament
- California celebs, politicians should tone down the Trump hate
- White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting: Letters to the Editor — April 28, 2026
- Why Trump’s sanctions strategy on Iran is different | The Jerusalem Post
- How the delusional Democrats are creating an alternate left-wing universe
- Kathy Hochul and Bruce Blakeman must BOTH stand up to the union thugs threatening an LIRR strike
- Dems must heed Trump’s call for unity in the wake of frightening WHCD shooting: ‘Resolve our differences’
- Charlottesville smear’s twist, the wonders of crime-fighting and other commentary
- Exclusive | Read White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman Cole Allen’s full anti-Trump manifesto
- A US-Israeli win the critics hate to admit | The Jerusalem Post
- China builds world’s first ‘coal battery’ with zero emission
- Michael Goodwin: Trump and Netanyahu have a shared goal for Iran — but the media pits them against each other
- The moral eclipse of politics in the modern age
- Settlement in Ukraine based on coalition’s proposals nothing more than fantasy — MFA
- West declares 'open war' against Russia, using Ukraine as 'arrowhead' — Lavrov
- Mein AI – Palantir’s Alex Karp wants us to know he has big plans
- Israel must teach IDF soldiers harmony as fundamental value | The Jerusalem Post
- Pentagon email floats suspending Spain from NATO, other steps over Iran rift, source says
- Dems’ favorite podcaster, Hasan Piker, says stealing and murder are OK
- Mamdani & Chi Ossé’s performances this week prove they’re in the wrong field
- Safeguarding Jaffna College and Uduvil Girls’ College | Daily FT
- The week in whoppers: Sen. Murphy cheers for Iran, NY Times goes to bat for . . . SHOPLIFTING, and more
- Mamdani’s $30M, NYC-run grocery store would compete with nearby supermarkets that are ALREADY affordable
- Aliyah must reflect an inclusive Zionist vision, not narrow ideology | The Jerusalem Post
- EU threatens Venice Biennale funding over Russia’s return in 2026
- Woke in Brussels, pragmatic in Beijing: Spain is making its move in China
- SPLC paid to fuel Ku Klux Klan’s hate, then raised money to put it out
- Democrats embrace extremism, Iran will be Trump’s legacy and other commentary
- Confirm Kevin Warsh to head the Fed ASAP
- ‘Something sinister’: What we know about the FBI probe into dead and missing scientists linked to space and military industries | Flipboard
- How a Supreme Court hit job reinforces a dangerous leftist trend
- Littwin: Supreme Court just can’t stay away from Colorado when it comes to LGBTQ rights
- Michael Goodwin: Sen. Chris Murphy is cheering for America’s enemies as Dems spew lies about Trump, Israel
- Luka Doncic carried the Lakers, led the league in scoring and still wasn’t named an MVP finalist… why?
- UK to permanently ban future generations from buying cigarettes: ‘It will save lives’
- Dems’ dangerous anti-war stance: Letters to the Editor — April 21, 2026
- Paid big bucks for Padres? You might get Dodgers wins — or Mets losses
- Mamdani’s right on at least this one — Democrats lack a vision
- Exclusive | Potty-mouthed progressive Dem makes vile slur — and it’s caught on camera
- The Debate - What exit strategy? Trump, Iranians send mixed signals as truce deadline looms
- Navigating turbulence — outgoing SAA chief John Lamola defends his legacy
- Rethinking the West Bank after the October 7 massacre | The Jerusalem Post
- Mamdani still plans to unravel the NYPD — and with it, public safety
- Hey, NYC Comptroller Mark Levine: Pension funds belong to taxpayers — not YOU
- OLIVER METH | The ANC keeps walking into the DA’s narrative trap
- I’m a lowly Santa Barbara County judge — but I’m more powerful than the president
- The RBA’s policy deliberately creates unemployment. So why do we treat the jobless so badly?
- Archaeologists have discovered 12,000‑year‑old dice. Here's what they reveal about the history of play
- Exclusive | Bruce Blakeman’s 100-day plan to ‘fix’ New York if elected governor: Lower taxes and a return to law and order
- The mistake of calling Diaspora Jews traitors | The Jerusalem Post
- ANC must not seek candidates for president from outside: Mpumalanga chair Mandla Ndlovu
- US policy on Bosnia raises warnings of Turkish, Islamist influence | The Jerusalem Post
- Will Mamdani only offer four years of ‘Potemkin socialism’ like his grocery fiasco?
- If anti-Trump judges don’t get the message soon, the country’s in big trouble
- Why Dems are opposing Operation Epic Fury against Iran — despite its successes
- ITSHOKENG KEKANA | Exodus from townships to suburbs unintentionally weakens local economies
- Karen Bass wants to save the planet. Saving LA? Never mind
- Retail-theft drop again shows we KNOW how to drive down crime
- Mamdani’s folly: capitalists have already solved the grocery problem
- The three clocks of the Iran war
- The week in whoppers: NY Times covers its ears on Iran, Sen. Mark Kelly wants race-based astronauts and more
- Why Iran’s appointment to UN human rights body is a dangerous precedent | The Jerusalem Post
- Trump administration calls on other nations to sign ‘trade over aid’ declaration to ‘promote America First values’: report
- Hochul dragged for flip-flopping on taxes pledge as Mamdani, DSA cronies take credit for pied-à-terre hike on rich NYC homeowners
- NHI is not the distraction — piecemeal solutions cannot resolve urgent health system issues
- Critics roast Zohran Mamdani’s cringey ‘100 days’ bash, complete with mayor’s phony Taco Bell trash
- I-RAN: Targeting Tehran's bullies | The Jerusalem Post
- Junkie who stole ex-police chief’s sex toys tried to visit Gilgo Beach serial killer for bizarre sitdown: sheriff
- NYC Council push to crush package-delivery contractors is another progressive bid to turn back the clock
- Dems’ Medicare denialism, red states rising and other commentary
- US Army veteran charged with disclosing classified data to journalist
- A nation at the crossroads: Why the Hungarian election is so dramatic
- Web series Chiraiya puts spotlight on marital rape in India
- Appeals court rules Trump's White House ballroom construction can temporarily move forward
- French far-right leader romantically linked to Italian princess | Flipboard
- Big Tech censors are back, ensuring that workers want unions, and other commentary
- Trump claims Starmer is weak as he mocks PM and UK aircraft carriers
- Black mayor faces abuse as France confronts racism in public life
- ICE announces death of another Mexican detainee in US immigration custody
- ‘No kings, just vaccines!’: demonstrators gather at NIH headquarters to protest against cuts to medical research
- Iranian military mocks Trump's claim of U.S.-Iran negotiations