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October 22, 2007

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Right Wing News did another Rightosphere Temperature Check, of which I was a part.

Here's the long version of my answers:

Do you support or oppose:

1) SCHIP expansion that was vetoed by Bush.
Oppose - I'd like my health care system to come with a label that says "Now 99 44/100% Government Free!". Anything that doesn't move us from where we are now to that goal goes straight to the dumpster.

2) Law of the Sea treaty.
Oppose - I can't believe this communist-fantasy piece of crap is still around. The whole "if you want to mine the oceans, you have to share the wealth with third-world shithole nations because they CAN'T mine the oceans."

F*** that.

3) Hate crime laws.
Oppose - Crime is crime. Punishing someone more because of his skin color seems like a violation of Equal Protection to me.

4) Gay marriage.
Oppose - Gay marriage has nothing to do with love & commitment, it has to do with health insurance & Social Security benefits.

If you love a man and want to have financial & legal entaglements with him, have a lawyer write up some reciprocal wills & powers of attorney, then refer to yourselves as "married" in public. Same damn thing.

5) Using the following enhanced interrogation techniques on captured foreign terrorists: stress positons, sleep deprivation, and waterboarding.
Support - whatever it takes to win the war.

6) The war on drugs.
Oppose - Prohibition creates more crime, violence, and human misery than it prevents. Anti-drug peer pressure from churches, family members, and social organizations is the correct tool for minimizing drug use, not the brute sledgehammer of law enforcement.

7) Congressional term limits.
Support - I like it better when my lawmakers haven't been in office long enough to develop the connections necessary to game the system. Constant turnover will make Congress weak, confused, and ineffectual, which is how I prefer the people who try to run my life.

Some form of Balanced Budget Amendment.
Oppose - I prefer my government to spend less than it steals in taxes, but you can't write a law that the lawyers on the Hill can't weasel out of. A BBA is an exercise in futility.

9) School vouchers.
Support - I would prefer my school system completely supported by tuitions instead of taxes, but anything that loosens the stranglehold of government control is a step in the right direction.

10) The Missile Defense Program.
Support - I've never met an incoming enemy missile that I wouldn't prefer to have shot down by an American one.

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