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.

(5) Energy Policy

Nuclear energy is the key to our future. Period.

This is an issue where I part company with a number of Democrats. The solution is very simple though. Nuclear energy is clean, it's environmentally friendly, and it's cheap. It's also a proven technology and it's safe. This is especially true for Generation IV technologies such as Liquid Fluoride (Molten Salt) Reactors. We need to invest heavily in nuclear power capacity and infrastructure right now. Currently the US generates only 19% of its electricity from nuclear plants (as compared to 80% in France). This needs to double over the next 5 years and double again within 8. The government needs to intervene in any way necessary to insure this happens and make it the primary goal of our national energy policy.

Meanwhile, we must continue continue to also ramp up our efforts and research into alternatives such as cellulose derived ethanol, solar power, and wind power. Lets require that by 2011 every new vehicle sold in the US be flex-fuel capable and / or electric. Lets also heavily incentivize the installation of residential wind generators and solar panel units.
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