Like the GOP's recent attacks on the record of Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall, this assault on the 14th Amendment is a willful attempt to revise American history and values in the name of political expedience.
"In my view, historians will look on this era as a period of failed mandates, of willful and ignorant attacks on public education and the education profession, and as a time in which entrepreneurs sought to turn education into a marketplace for profit".
It's time to put civility back into the debate; if the merits of your argument aren't sufficient to sway your listeners it demeans you, your argument, and your cause to resort to willful distortion, demeaning attacks, and appeals to racism.
Congress, with willful blindness, voted to attack, invade and occupy a sovereign, oil-rich nation in the Middle East that did not attack us and did not pose a threat to the American people.
Sudan's president has been wanted by the ICC since 2009 for perpetuating the genocide that killed millions in Darfur, in addition to various other crimes against humanity that include the willful pillage, murder, and attack of civilians as part of a counter-insurgency plan in the south of the country.
More worrying for these scholars, as educators, is the willful ignorance behind this attack: 1) the presumption that they are uncritical of American policies and of previous Indian regimes, when even cursory examination of their work immediately reveals the idiocy of such a presumption, 2) the contempt for the humanistic disciplines to which many of them belong.
Is Wills's blindness willful?
The officer, Miodrag Jokic, pleaded guilty to murder, cruel treatment, attacks on civilians, devastation, unlawful attacks on civilian objects and destruction or willful damage to historic monuments and institutions related to religion.
Meanwhile, Kuhn himself was equally shocked by the vehemence of the attacks and (to his mind) the willful distortion of his views (see, e.g., Lakatos and Musgrave 1970).
But neither the U.C.S. nor any other group has attacked any of the scientific research conducted at Exxon; instead, they have attacked what they claim to have been a willful public distortion of that research.
He says the only way to disbelieve that an Assad chemical weapons attack occurred is to ignore the evidence: Only the most willful desire to avoid reality can assert that this did not occur as described.
