david_herdson

Christ's teaching is above all about peace, tolerance and love for strangers, particularly outsiders. If he were alive today, there can be no doubt about where he would stand on homosexuality, and it… (View Post)

He can try to do it because he's Trump. It might work because the US is big. but while it's big, it's not overbearingly hegemonic. It's the largest economic and military power on earth but it still c… (View Post)

Trump is old. At inauguration, he is not only older than any previously inaugurated US president but also older than all but four leaders of any G7 country since 1945 were when they *left* office. (View Post)

Politicians over the last 30 years have had a habit of passing gestural, sweeping laws embedding broad principles into legislation. Do not blame the judiciary if judges then take these laws at face v… (View Post)

Across five years (and sometimes much less), what makes economic sense and what makes political sense have a tendency to converge. They certainly can't be kept apart indefinitely. (View Post)