This principle, simply stated, says that you should pick the simplest or most obvious explanation to explain why or how an event took place.
Barack Obama won because the electorate likes him better. While I'm not happy with this outcome, this seems to be the simplest and most obvious explanation.
All those offering any other explanation for his victories should leave the room. There is nothing wrong with Hillary; people like Obama better.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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