He does not dispose of the argument that when consumers consult each other about products, rather than the companies which make them, brands matter less than they did.
This disposes of the argument, once and for all, that a presidential candidate couldn't carry Florida or win the White House unless he bowed to the hard-liners and supported the harshest possible approach to U.S.-Cuba relations.
Safely dispose the needles.
Thomas first disposed of the standing argument by the state, noting that Aguilar was not challenging the statute as applied, but was arguing that the statute was facially unconstitutional since it did not provide for any person to legally bear arms.
In his opinion for the Supreme Court yesterday, Justice Antonin Scalia briskly disposed of this argument by asserting that the delegation of authority had been no greater than delegations to other administrative agencies that the court had upheld over the years.
For example, after disposing of an argument introduced "on the authority of Plato" for the role of separate substances in the generation of living things, he concludes, "and so in this way Plato's opinion is destroyed if he in fact had an opinion of the sort we have ascribed to him" (QM VII.9: 47ra).
However, if we understand "necessary being" in this sense, we can dispose of the cosmological argument as irrelevant; what is needed rather is an argument to establish that God's existence is possible, for if it is possible that it is necessary that God exists, then God exists (by Axiom S5).
"We think merely to state it is to demonstrate its absolute unsoundness," the Supreme Court said in disposing of this argument in a single sentence.
Let me begin by disposing of one argument as plainly as I can: we are not going to release anyone if it would endanger our national security, nor will we release detainees within the United States who endanger the American people.
