I've always felt that to understand someone's perspective you have to understand their views on a number of issues. Only through looking at their views in aggregate can you begin to understand where they are coming from and why. In doing this, you're able to contrast their views with your own and broaden your perspective.

This page contains articles I find interesting as well as a series of numbered posts which I have written. Taken together, these form a synthesis of my views on a number of current issues (and yes, the numbered posts are ordered in such a way as to reflect their relative importance to me). Although I am not registered with either party, I tend to have a distinctively left slant. After reading my posts, consider the issues again in terms of the tradeoff between individual freedoms and economic freedom. (Check out the multi-axis spectrum linked in the left sidebar.)

Submit your comments to these posts - I look forward to hearing your views and responses. Whether we agree or disagree is irrelevant. The dialog is what matters. Our form of government relies on having an interested electorate and the very fact that we are discussing our views on these important issues perpetuates its success.

(14) Affirmative Action

Affirmative action is no longer about non-discrimination. It is overt racial preferencing that amounts to nothing more than government sanctioned reverse discrimination.

This not only discriminates against the majority but also has a negative impact on the minorities its supposed help because their acceptance (be it for college admissions or even a job)now carries with it the stigma that it was achieved by a preference. Affirmative action is an idea whose time has come and went. It is completely unneccessary today and for proof of this, I point to our new President of the United States. And yes, I absolutely voted for him because he earned it.
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