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“So now, what’s your take on the significant discrepancy between average pay for workers and corporate CEOs?” By Peter Burrows 4/22/24

Mon 04/22/2024

(Another question asked by Cousin Deb, a retired professor at Cornell University. She has a Ph.D. in Education, which she is valiantly trying to overcome. This is my emailed response.) The CEO- average worker pay gap? Oh, that’s something I worry about all the time. I can barely sleep at night thinking about that terrible, […]

“What do you think about taxing wealthy folks?”

Fri 04/19/2024

Peter Burrows 4/19/24 (I was recently asked that question by my cousin Deb, who is a retired professor at Cornell University. She has a Ph.D. in Education, which she is valiantly trying to overcome. This is my emailed response.) “What do you think about taxing wealthy folks?” Oh, my. That’s a “prod the bear question,” […]

The “one issue” voter problem

Tue 04/09/2024

By Peter Burrows elburropete@gmail.com 4/9/24 Churchill once famously said, “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” These days, I don’t think it would take that long. I would bet a Don Juan burrito that the average voter can’t name their two senators or who represents them in the House […]

China’s Muslims: A different perspective

Thu 10/26/2023

China’s Muslims: A different perspective by Peter Burrows – silvercityburro.com (Note to PA Pundits readers: I wrote this a few years ago, and I’m surprised the You Tube link is still up. The Grant County Beat is an online local newspaper here in Silver City, NM, which has been home to my column, Libertarian Leanings, […]

Would the world be better off with no Jews or no Muslims?

Mon 10/16/2023

Would the world be better off with no Jews, or with no Muslims? By Peter Burrows 10/16/23 In the Koran, which is the eternal and infallible word of God, we are told that Jews and Christians are “the worst of creatures.” God then tells us that Muslims are the “best of creatures.” Elsewhere in the Koran, […]

Walmart: Marxist icon

Wed 07/19/2023

by Peter Burrows 7/19/23 When I was in college, over half a century ago, I took a course on Marxism. I wasn’t trying to fire up any anti-capitalistic fervor, I just wanted to learn something about an economic philosophy that ruled so much of the world at the time, or at least was the pretense […]

Why aren’t oceanfront properties plummeting in price? Zillow’s White House crony, that’s why

Sun 07/09/2023

– by Peter Burrows 7/9/23 For forty years we’ve been hearing dire warnings about how Global Warming (always capitalize a religion) is going to wreak havoc with humanity and cause exponential increases in droughts, floods, wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes, crop failures, snowstorms, UFO sightings, and climate refugees — who will number in the tens of millions. […]

China’s climate con: Full steam ahead — COAL-generated steam, that is by Peter Burrows

Fri 06/30/2023

There was an article in The Guardian last April that typifies the reporting, or rather non-reporting, about China’s use of coal: “China-ramps-up-coal-power-despite-carbon-neutral-pledges — local governments approved more coal power in the first three months of 2023 than all of 2021.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/24/china-ramps-up-coal-power-despite-carbon-neutral-pledges The article bends over backwards to avoid criticizing China, noting that in 2020 China’s […]

China’s electricity and China’s Muslims

Thu 06/15/2023

China’s electricity and China’s Muslims by Peter Burrows I wish every elected official in the country would read Anton Lang’s articles about coal-fired electrical generation: Coal Fired Power Dying – Not So Fast. That might, might, change a few minds about the best way to go about the so-called threat of climate change. In short: […]

Please take 20 minutes to understand Islam

Tue 06/13/2023

PLEASE take 20 minutes to understand Islam! By Peter Burrows 6/13/23 Contrary to what Biden and the Liberal media pound at us every day, climate change and white supremacy are NOT existential threats to our society. Islam, however, is. In fact, given that the Islamic Republic of Iran is developing nuclear weapons, Islam is both […]

Reparations, again by Peter Burrows

Fri 06/09/2023

https://silvercityburro.com/2023/06/05/pa-pundits/

Reparations, again

Mon 06/05/2023

Preface I would like to thank PA Pundits International for inviting me to be a commentator. In the last 10+ years I’ve been writing a column, Libertarian Leanings, for an online newspaper, the Grant County Beat, in Silver City, NM. https://www.grantcountybeat.com/columns/opinion/libertarian-leanings All of those articles can be found at https://wordpress.com/home/silvercityburro.com By way of introduction, I’m […]