"Common Cause's statements are legitimate assertions of opinion based on the public record and entirely consistent with how ALEC had discussed, characterized, and approached the issue of climate change". The organization also said it will not retract its statements, nor will it offer any public corrections, as requested by ALEC.
The letter says it is "gravely unjust" to "legitimate the false assertion that there is nothing distinctive about a man and a woman, a father or a mother" and to "ignore the particular values that real marriage serves".
An orderly transition and the assertion of legitimate, democratic governance is by no means assured.
If he had found it, if he had said "forcible rape" instead of "legitimate rape," then his assertion that "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down" may have been, at worst, Chris Matthews's lead item on the "Sideshow" feature of "Hardball".
Republican Representative Todd Akin failed to quell an onslaught of social media criticism after issuing a vague statement on Facebook related to his assertion that "legitimate rape" rarely causes pregnancy, because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down".
There is no legitimate basis for these assertions.
(a) The editor at the Atlantic who described Todd Akin's assertions about "legitimate rape" as "the contemporary equivalent of the early American belief that only witches float".
WASHINGTON -- For all the furor over Republican Rep. Todd Akin's assertions about "legitimate rape" and his subsequent denunciation by many Republicans, one thing remains true about his bid to topple Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill: He still has a strong chance to win.
But Todd raised a legitimate question and, contrary to Cheney's assertion, waterboarding was an important charge in a number of the lesser-profile cases.
In order to be a legitimate basis for public policy, does the assertion of a belief need to be paired with an empirical argument about the impact of the proposed policy that the belief is being cited to justify?
(John Watkins, a lawyer for the village, confirmed Mr. Brody's assertions but said there were legitimate reasons for the delay).
