- May 12, 2016
David Burress
The unprecedentedly horrendous foreign terrorist attack on 9/11 left us traumatized and hysterical. One hysteria led us into the dumbest war in American history. Another hysteria led to the largest rollback in civil liberties in American history (Patriot Act, torture with impunity, Guantanamo, NSA’s universal electronic snooping, the crackdown on whistleblowers, secret federal spy fusion ...
- May 12, 2016
David Burress
Conservatives complain that Universities tend with a certain frequency to discriminate overtly against Republicans and fundamentalists in faculty hiring decisions. I’m willing to agree that’s probably true in liberal arts departments, not so much in business schools and engineering, and certainly not true in conservative private colleges. I also agree it is wrong, though there ...
- May 10, 2016
David Burress
The so-called War on Cancer has been seriously mismanaged. It has focused almost entirely on diagnosis and treatment, an approach that has not proven very successful. It has almost entirely ignored prevention, especially the role of environmental poisons. Yet there are good reasons to suspect that cleaning up the environment might be far more cost ...
- May 10, 2016
David Burress
Centrists are destructive. When the radicals move 1 step right, Centrists move 1/2 step right, ratifying and amplifying the radicalization. They say “The truth is always somewhere in between. ” No, it isn’t. Sometimes one side is 100% right and the other side is 100% wrong. It is never 50% true that the sun will ...
