Shows you where I’ve been the last couple of years – up to my eyeballs in multiple moves and raising kids. Apparently there was a dust-up over liberals and libertarians back in the summer of 2006. The other day I linked to a post from a libertarian leader who looked at ways that liberals and […]

Yesterday, I quickly outlined some of my political beliefs. In total, according to my reading of current political definitions, they make me a liberal. But admittedly some of those beliefs tend toward the traditionally conservative side. So, doesn’t that make me a centrist? No. I absolutely reject that label. First of all, it’s meaningless. Supposedly […]

I got to thinking more yesterday about how Google Adsense has connected the content of my blog to conservative advertisers, here (scroll down to the bottom). Maybe the machine is on to something. So what makes me a liberal? Well, as I’ve explained earlier, some things that I think are classically conservative have ended up […]

Today I found an interesting article written more than a year ago by Brink Lindsey. He’s the vice president for research at the libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute. This is normally not a person, nor a organization, that I would have found myself agreeing with. For a long time now, libertarians have been avid […]

Torture is immoral and more Referencing my earlier post, torture is immoral. Period. But on top of that, it’s ineffective and illegal. Oh, and it’s simple to define, too. Just listen to the head of U.S. intelligence. And on what I see as a related note, the head of the U.S. military wants to close […]