- March 27, 2017
David Burress
Is Ivanka planning to open a display showcase in the White House, or will her office be limited to finance, marketing, and industrial espionage?
Her security clearance will come in handy for the last-mentioned activity.
What’s interesting about Ivanka’s role is the absence of any real pretense that she has a non-commercial role. The planned merger of ...
- March 23, 2017
David Burress
Raised as a main-stream Christian, I’ve always had a hard time understanding how right-wingers can think they are Christians, let alone thinking that main-streamers are not. One important mechanism goes like this:
1. They DEFINE “Christian” as a believer that
a. Jesus is God;
b. the Bible reveals the truth about Jesus; and
c. to be born-again (i.e. receiving ...
- March 22, 2017
David Burress
We need to get the abortion rate as low as we possibly can, using the most effective methods.
No society has ever eliminated all abortion, but some places have have cut one third or one fourth of our abortion rate. They do it by focusing on nonviolent and voluntary abortion reduction (not by attempted elimination though ...
- March 21, 2017
David Burress
Left-progressives, leftists, and pacifists seem to have great difficulty dealing honestly with military power. One the one hand they are united in opposing the extreme excesses of American militarism and national security statism: immense waste, horrible interventions, eternal wars, propping up dictators, antidemocratic control of national policy, domestic repression, military-congressional-industrial power complex, military Keynesianism. However ...
