ledgerdemain

Those who would kick against the goad of the end of history would like to shackle our displacement of the military threshhhold by ambulance-chaser ledgerdemain.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Targeted Killing in US Counterterrorism Strategy and Law: 2009

I have a feeling that you know little about Islam and have adopted the conventional, centre-left view that it's basically just another form of Christianity and Judaism and that objections to some of its practices are, by some semantic ledgerdemain, "racist".

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

Objections to the massive invasion by an alien culture are condemned, by ledgerdemain, as "racist".

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

They count them against the huge federal deficit so it won't look as bad as it really is, and it looks really bad even with that ledgerdemain.

Why Kucinich And Not Ron Paul 2007

Still farther: If Congress be allowed to imply this power (as to a legal tender), it gains, by the political ledgerdemain of construction, the power not merely to "impair," but to violate and extinguish the obligation of contracts!

"Cato" on constitutional "money" and legal tender. In twelve numbers from the Charleston Mercury. 1862