The great French free-market economist Frederic Bastiat (pictured above) was considered by many to be the master of the reductio ad absurdum approach that he used quite effectively to expose the ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown fired up his rhetoric – and his Latin – to reassure scientists fearful of changes under President-elect Trump. “Reductio ad absurdum – reduce to absurdity,“ the governor ...

The Internal Revenue Service has demonstrated many times its belief that when nine states adopted the community property system, they did so for the sole purpose of frustrating the transfer tax (and ...

Former Republican aid turned lobbyist John Feehery has one of those "pox on both houses" repudiations of ideological extremism that inadvertently reveals the whole fallacy of the thing: Reduced to the ...