But this time he picked the most contentious reply, thinking to win.
Most of Mr. Ashcroft's answers to the questions yielded little fresh insight into his thinking about contentious social issues that were fiercely debated in his confirmation hearings, like race, abortion and gun control.
The Bush team is reworking several contentious proposals, such as the reform of Medicare.Even after Mr Greenspan's intervention, the White House is still thinking big.
We hold meetings on "skills development", instead of just learning, and write reports on how to foster "critical thinking", instead of just thinking well.Meanwhile, the high-minded discourse and furrowed brows allow us to put off the more contentious and difficult questions of how these things should actually be done.
And thinking, thinking, thinking".
Mr Karsh also ought to heed the advice of an old historian, Itamar Rabinovich, in his "The Road Not Taken" (Oxford University Press, 1991): you do not have to accept the whole of the "new" history in order to recognise the need to correct and refine the orthodox version.Nonetheless, Mr Karsh seems to have scored a palpable hit on the contentious issue of the strategic thinking of Ben-Gurion.
Applying Kymlicka's general line of thinking might prove contentious in many cases.
For Higher-Order Thinking WHY do you think affirmative action remains such a contentious issue in 2013?
Cronin thus shows how, although the decision to invade Iraq was contentious, it arose out of conventional thinking.
NPR has been accused of unimaginative thinking over the most contentious issues such as Israel/Palestine, and is prone to massive pressure from lobby groups.
