Politics Moment: Chris Eyre on the Rapid Change of Prime Ministers in the UK
Chris Eyre answers a few questions on British politics asked from an American perspective.
Chris Eyre answers a few questions on British politics asked from an American perspective.
The question. My good friend cannot deal well with the facts or advance good recommendations, it seems, without attempting to cast blame away from his preferred party. I have dealt with the “in violation of the law” and the “blame the Democrats” spill in my reply, so to save time, I will refer only to…
Following our great Energion political debate last year, two participants were interested in a longer, slower, debate with more time for responses and serious discussion. Thus began our year-long political debate. In this debate, two Energion authors, Elgin Hushbeck, Jr. (Preserving Democracy, Evidence for the Bible, and Christianity and Secularism) and Joel Watts (From Fear…
We will be continuing this week with The Great Energion Political Debate Roundtable. Participants in the roundtable are: Bob CornwallElgin Hushbeck, Jr.Allan R. BevereArthur SidoJoel Watts I had some trouble creating our next question. It’s on taxes, but I wanted to ask something about taxation that would get our participants’ more general take on the…
The question. I must have hit a cord with my answer, as Watts initial reaction was to launch into an ad hominem attack claiming I was “unable to see the better times for the dour.” He claimed “all right numbers are in place. Layoffs are decreasing, job numbers are increasing, and even Wall Street is…
In his reply to my answer, Watts claimed that my “point is a black-and-white dichotomy, and it is a severely falsely dichotomy.” I must admit, however, that I am not completely clear exactly what point he was referring to, as his description does not match any of my views. I am certainly not against all…
Kevin Brown suggests we, as Americans, don’t know history. He also believes this has an impact on how we live in society as Christians: Many Christians have been duped into believing that we must somehow compartmentalize our faith. Therefore, we have a compartmentalized view that allows us to express faith and values in church but…
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For a more humorous (but rather fuller) account of how it happened, see https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/may-day?utm_term=.heaaEQP8#.jrQQNpyq