- 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 ...
- March 16, 2017
David Burress
Trump says he is going to save jobs by relaxing Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency standards. Sure enough, that’s another lie. How many cars does he think we are going to export in a few years if our cars are less efficient than Asian and European cars? How competitive are American cars going to be domestically ...
