For one thing, it takes for granted the dubious principle that everything has an explanation.
President Vladimir Putin last month replaced Kabardino-Balkaria's veteran ruler with a businessman perhaps on the dubious principle that rich people can resist corruption.The attackers in Nalchik were said to have blown up a monument to Russian-Kabardine friendship.
On the admittedly somewhat dubious principle that virtually anything Fox News and National Review commentators agree upon must be suspect, part of me was tempted to write a column pointing out the great virtues of Perry's plan.
There's a serviceable routine about the dubious principle that "if the balls don't touch, it's not gay", and good gags about, for example, the candles-and-crystals new age shop in Goldsmith's native Leamington Spa.
Malaysians, for their part, have sometimes turned a blind eye to the influx Rohingyas help make up a shortage of cheap, unskilled labour.The crisis has highlighted the woeful inadequacy of regional governance and of its main implementer, the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN a talking-shop with minuscule resources and a shared belief in the dubious principle of "non-interference".
Even so, that hardly proves "good old Smithy" right, any more than Mr Mugabe's tyranny diminishes Mr Smith's.Mr Smith's quest could not be justified on the dubious principle of the end justifying the means: it was impossible.
We need the next generation of democracy-friendly justices to not just overturn Citizens United, but revisit Buckley, which is also the case that gave us the dubious principle that "money is speech".
This dubious principle not only further institutionalizes prejudice, but it also puts the burden squarely on those who have been discriminated against to seek out others who do not discriminate.
Both measures are dubious in principle and unworkable in practice.
It crafts instead a new law that is splendidly unconnected with the text and even the legislative history of the Act.Importing the McDonnell Douglas standard into the PDA is, Justice Scalia charges, "as dubious in principle as it is senseless in practice".
