I have come to appreciate our lack of consensus as honest and allowing for more dialogue and, yes, argument than are seen in communities that hold a clear official viewpoint.
Meanwhile, the FT's editorial claimed "the case for Union is overwhelming", citing trepidation in the financial markets and "inconsistencies" in the "Yes" argument.
Should it have said yes?The argument is finely balanced.
But the arbitrators apparently accepted YES's argument, which was based on how other regional sports networks are carried and how they are priced, and ruled that Cablevision must carry YES on expanded basic and to guarantee payments to the Yankees' cable network based on 90percentt of its subscribers.
But it's too bad to set up such a simplistic yes-no argument here, when something so much more profound and resonant is at stake.
"Can central banks protect us from the excesses of the profit system and lead the economy?" Chapter 21 says yes. ("Argument 1: "Without a central bank, there would be no way to control the dangerous excesses of the banking system and otherwise keep the economy on a steady course").
For a while I thought: 'Well, yes, the arguments are right, capitalism is the best system, but only bad people would think so.' Then, at some point, my mind and heart were in unison".
Today we heard the skeleton of the yes side's argument, how the prime minister will lead a yes vote.
We need a vigorous – and yes political - argument about nuclear power; carbon capture and storage; climate diplomacy; windfarms, air travel and much more.
The standard answer is yes, and the argument goes like this: First, oil prices are still lower, after adjusting for inflation, than they were in the 1970's.
And yes, as the argument goes, more people might have died in Alexandria if Scalise had not had armed police protection with him, but they were trained professionals, not the amateurs — including members of Congress — who want to run around with concealed carry permits and handguns wherever they choose.
