It takes money to run for political office; political campaigns are financed with money; therefore money is good for politics.
Jacqueline be a voter, I saw her at the voting place last election.
Americans are not Asians; Europeans are not Americans; therefore, Europeans are Asians.
Al Qaeda believes in the replacement of the capitalist system; Mirjana believes in the destruction of the capitalist system; therefore, Mirjana must be a member of Al Qaeda.
Norway is a very rich country, Boris is from Norway, Boris must be rich.
Terrorists will destroy private property to achieve their goal; the anti-government protestors destroyed property during their protest; therefore, the they must be a terrorist group.
Men are politicians; women are not men; therefore, women are not politicians.
Public disturbances are punishable by law; barking dogs are a public disturbance; therefore barking dogs are punishable by law.
The night citizen Willy voted he was 50 km away with his mistress. He could not have voted legally.
All elected officials are aware of the law; all elected officials are citizens, therefore all citizens are trained in law.
To win the election you must either campaign for office harder or the voters will have to become sympathetic to your message; the voters will not become more sympathetic; therefore, you must campaign harder.
NATO can either send troops to Syria to protect civilians or NATO can stand by and do nothing. Clearly, NATO must send troops to Syria.
He is not unemployed; therefore he must be a working person.
Igor must be interested in athletics; he is a college student.
Since the United Nations can't accomplish its basic purpose of preventing war, it should be abolished.
Capitalism with the profit motive has brought us greed and more greed; therefore we should adopt socialism.
Since the politicians running for office are all bad, we should start a revolution.
Since women are less violent than men, more women in politics will mean more peace and less war.
If it has rained a lot, fewer voters will show up to vote. Very few voters showed up to vote. Therefore, it has rained a lot.
President Obama is an African American; therefore he will work to solve the problems of African Americans.
If parliament appropriates more money to schools, schools will improve. Parliament will not appropriate more money to schools. Therefore, schools will not improve.
CAUSAL:
Since 1990 crime in country X has been increasing rapidly. During the same period the number of violent movies shown has increased equally rapidly. Therefore, the increase in crime results from violent movies.
Since Angela Merkel was elected, the German economy has improved. Thus, she should be re-elected.
Governments lose in the election when there is bad publicity about personal scandal. We need to stop personal scandals to keep the government in power.
Many people who vote for many years do not get lung disease; they prove that voting prevents lung disease.
Elena was drinking alcohol the day she voted for the communists; we must prevent her from future alcohol consumption.
Christians do not need condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS, because they have their religious beliefs.
Crimes by immigrants have increased since they have been given access to education, so we must stop providing education to immigrants.
There wouldn't be so much crime if our laws carried heavier penalties.
Children would not commit murders if they were punished like adults.
In order to make sure that we have enough and better qualified teachers, we must pass the new minimum wage law calling for much higher salaries for teachers.
Leaving the cleaning up of river pollution to local government units will never work. The local units are not cleaning up the water for themselves, but for communities down the stream; thus they never have the incentive.
I have taken a course in argumentation. It must inevitably follow that I am now a more logical person and will make a better politician.
The communists oppose the capitalist system, so if we all vote for the communists, the problems of the capitalist system will go away.