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.

(13) Education - Vouchers / NCLB / Creationism / Intelligent Design

No Child Left Behind Act ... teach to the test ... Repeal It ASAP.
Vouchers - Just say no.
Evolution / Creation / Intelligent Design ... Here's an idea: At least in public schools lets teach hard science facts and leave the theories of supernatural intervention for Sunday School.

With regard to creationism and intelligent design, they are "not science because they cannot be tested by experiment, do not generate any predictions, and propose no new hypotheses of their own." (Nat'l Academy of Sciences)

This does not mean that Intelligent Design and Creationism do not have their place, I think they do, but this should be left to individual families and their churches.

Don't like my opinion? Fine. Let's talk about an objective concept such as "separation of church and state". Public schools are paid for and administered with public tax dollars. To acknowledge the existence of alternative explanations for the origin of life is one thing, but to legally require the teaching of religious theories in a public school is completely improper and in my opinion, fascist.
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