Most people who claim to be political experts have no core values. By that I mean that they don’t have statements of purpose that they live by, sentences of honor that could be written on the back of a business card and yawped from the rooftops of the world. Here is my core value:

Every human being is born with the inherent right to pursue their own happiness provided that their pursuit does not infringe upon the safety or property of another citizen.

This the maxim by which I weigh every political and spiritual conundrum that I come across in life and is the impetus and inspiration behind every word I write.

And by extension, here are my feelings about the burning issues of our time:

• Race: There will be no social equality until we move past the issue of race. Unfortunately the sacrifice to be made in order for this to happen lies on the shoulders of those who have been historically wronged. Those in power in America know full well the weight of the crimes of their ancestors and have done everything possible short of committing cultural suicide to make it right; that won't happen. So those who feel they are owed something need to put that victim shit aside and get on to being productive citizens willing to call bullshit if the old ways rear their ugly heads again. If they do, I'm in your corner. Until then, shut your mouth, get to work, and raise your kids to be fiscally, morally, and socially responsible to those around them. No one gets a handout in life; I don't care who your grandparents were--I care about what kind of grandparent you're going to be to your offspring.
  

• Abortion: Until there is an amendment brought forth, voted on, and passed in Congress then signed by the President, this is a state's rights issue and Roe vs. Wade was a travesty of judicial activism that has sadly been distorted into a woman's rights issue. The bottom line is that our law was never meant to be based upon judicial precedence but rather by congressional acts and the Ninth Amendment specifically delegates all rights not mentioned in the Constitution to the states or the people respectively. This is unequivocable and Roe vs. Wade should be overturned immediately and delegated to the states to legislate. Personally, I would never agree with a woman having an abortion of a child that was partly mine. Beyond that, every woman I've ever talked to who was once Pro-Choice and went on to have a child, said that they could absolutely feel that there was a life growing inside them from the beginning and that they would never get an abortion themselves or recommend it to anyone else. Additionally, the psychological damage that having an abortion has on young mothers has been well documented. I believe that the abortion issue is primarily one of economics and if you're too poor to raise them, then stay home and masturbate--do yourself and the world a favor.
  

• Gay Marriage: See the abortion answer. If you're gay and you want the state tax breaks, move to a state that votes same sex marriage legal. If you want a federal tax break, tell your elected representatives to vote YES on H.R. 25 and S.25 (The FairTax Bill). Other than that, count yourself lucky you live in a country where people just make fun of you behind your back and on TV instead of dragging you out to the public square and chopping your extremities off.
  

• The Second Amendment: Every citizen should have the civic duty of owning a firearm and knowing how to handle it, secure it, and shoot it. Militias formed of free men are the primary defense against a tyrannical government and the first act of any despotic government with a lick of sense is to seize privately-owned firearms and prevent their further distribution. Guns should be used in defense of life and private property as well as for hunting in order to keep the game populations in check and for food. And finally, Conceal to Carry laws should be passed in every state and city. It's time that gun control laws ceased to expose law abiding citizens to criminal acts by those who don't obey laws by nature of their morality and the individual choices they make.
  

• Taxes/Social Security: The principle organizing power of government is not the power to wage war (as Oliver Stone preaches) but rather its ability to tax its citizens through threat of force. The Sixteenth Amendment was "passed" as a measure of class warfare (although it started off as a political ploy and just happened to pass by a fluke) and has been exploited by ruthless politicians and various industry lobbyist groups for almost a hundred years now. The time has come to slam the door on these parasitic pricks and the only answer is to pass The Fair Tax Bill (H.R.25 and S.25). Taxes should be used to fund civic projects, civil defense, and to pay a REASONABLE SALARY to our elected public servants. The exact limits and definitions of these three responsibilities should be determined by dispassionate elected officials (see Term Limits bullet below)
  

• Healthcare/Medicare: I have spent five years working for one of the nation's two largest health insurers. For two of these years, I served as Business Systems Analyst reporting directly to an Executive Director and I've seen enough to know that the system is completely FUBAR! You have a system where the consumers of the product have no market leverage to affect the quality of what they are purchasing. In fact, health insurance companies don't even see patients as their customers; they see the corporations who employ the patients as their customers. Patients want cheap or outright free healthcare because they have no concept of the cost and value of quality healthcare. Doctors want to be paid far more than the insurance companies are offering. Employers want the cheapest healthcare possible and don't give a hoot about the quality. The answer to this crisis is: HSAs; tort reform to protect doctors and hospitals from douche bag predatory trial lawyers after reporting vital error statistics needed to improve operational processes which will boost the quality of care; the establishment of a universal risk pool to leverage the stop loss costs of healthcare for the poor and indigent (this is about as close to welfare as I will support); and the reformation of ERISA laws to apply to individuals and small businesses and not just large corporations (thereby castrating the corporate leverage as the medium through which patients have primary access to healthcare).
  

• Immigration: I believe that open borders and inpouring cultures have made America the powerhouse it has come to be. And while I realize that without slave-wage migrant labor our economy would undergo dramatic changes, I believe the threat from insurgent terrorist agents living among us is a far greater threat to the safety of our nation. Therefore, I support amnesty for illegal aliens who register for citizenship and learn the English language and what it means to be a free individual living in a civic society. Those who don't register should be shipped the hell out of this country immediately, possibly to Gitmo if they fit the bill as a terrorist intending to do our country harm. I also support the construction of a large razor wire border running across the southern border of Mexico and the northern border of Canada (wherever possible) as well as a swell of border patrol agents authorized to shoot to kill if necessary. I am more supportive of sending troops to secure our own border than I am in sending soldiers overseas to invade foreign countries and secure oil fields (which is totally necessary given our dependence on oil to operate, feed, and finance the rest of the world).
  

• Civil Defense: This is the most important function of government. Before we went to war in Iraq, we should have completely funded our civil infrastructure including local bomb shelters being built all over the country which were able to house and care for every citizen when the invetable nuclear or biological attack finally happens. We should be working to secure the borders rather than spending billions on a ridiculous missile defense shield when any terrorist with an American Express card and a hooptie can drive a small arms nuclear weapon across the border with minimal obstruction.
  

• Global War on Terror (including the War in Iraq): We are at war with an enemy who will never sign any treaties of peace; who will never stop until our entire culture and country is broken in two, the Constitution burned, and the resources of the world under fascist Islamist control. Historical mistakes combined with a defunct United Nations that has harbored gangsters and villains redistributing American funds into terrorist activities have led us into a situation where it is annihilate or be annihilated. There are times when we must take the war to the enemy and the dismantling of the Taliban and securing of Afghanistan was a primary battle in this war. But securing our civil defense should have been the next step taken, followed by the invasion of Iraq and toppling of Saddam's regime. Unfortunately, in retrospect, things didn't work out that way and I fully supported the invasion of Iraq when it began and continue to support it today. But I feel that once the Iraqi Constitution has been finalized and secured by vote, American troops should be withdrawn back to our country immediately to help secure the nation by building the infrastructure for civil defense and securing the US borders. And the only thing that bothers me about the fact that no biological or chemical weapons were found is that we know they were there and that the country used them on its own people--so where the fug are they? That's the question we should be asking, not why did we go to war when they weren't there--they were there--get over it and support our troops in finding out what the hell happened to them.
  

• The Proper Use of Law: The Law is the social extension of an individual's right to protect their life and property from infringement by other human beings. Civilized human beings defer this right of defense to a legislature, executive, and judicial system that is charged with securing these rights universally for all citizens, all the while retaining the inherent right to recall that delegated authority to protect themselves, their family, or their property (refer to the Second Amendment). Once the law goes beyond this barrier of protecting individual lives and property from being infringed upon by others, it has become tyrannical and must be dissolved back into the individually delegated rights from which it springs. The confiscation of private property (taxes robbed from paychecks prior to even being paid out along with eminent domain seizures and every other egregious action by a do-good government) is an abhorrence to the spiritual freedom of the individual and whose absolute prevention should be the primary concern of any half-intelligent citizen who dares to call themselves a patriot.
  

• The Quest for Oil: Our civilization runs on oil and the intelligent action to take is to encourage and promote scientific endeavors to remove our dependency from this static natural resource immediately, like yesterday. We should all be driving electric hyrbids in three years and full electric/hydrogen cars in five to ten years. Fuck the Saudi Arabians and fuck the Bush family for getting into bed with these demonic bastards who used our money to fund the 9/11 terrorists and still suspiciously remain off the Axis of Evil list. Every resource and every intelligent mind should be bent on breaking the dependence on oil as a means to move the global economy; doing so would remove enormous access to capital from the pocketbooks of global terorism, much more so than the ridiculous and hypocritical drug war.
  

• Why I Voted for George W. Bush Twice: Because he wasn't Al Gore or John Kerry. The entire Democratic Party is the pride of the ghosts of the fifties communists. The entire party has pretty much been exposed as socialists and won't regain any sort of respectable power for at least a generation--and thank God for that. Al Gore was a fake motherfugger from the beginning, a quasi-conservative who reinvented himself to go for the liberal win in a white house bid (remember when his wife was head of the PMRC going after Ice-T and 2 Live Crew?). John Kerry was an absolute idiot and I'm convinced that the GOP and Carl Rove engineered the nominational defeat of Howard Dean so that they would be up against a candidate easy to defeat on the basis of his past as a weak-spined, plastic-haired, socialist puke. The Carter and Clinton administrations weakened our ability to defend ourselves and gather vital intelligence outside of our borders and I knew a Republican Bush presidency would be a step in the right direction--a strengthening of the national security infrastructure, a rearming and further modernization of the military, and massive tax breaks for the achievers of society. That being said, it is time for Bush to go after this term. The beautiful thing is that the Democratic Party has been totally marginalized from being taken seriously in American politics for many years. In my mind, the Republican party is next to be marginalized and this will usher in a new age where the two party system is broken completely in favor of voting for individuals on the basis of their core values and how they have historically stuck to them and acted from them. BLOGGERS WITH HEART FOR PRESIDENT 2012!!!
  

• Congressional Term Limits: Four terms for congressman and two for senators. Period. End of story. Political office should be a rewarding burden and not a career. The fact that it has become a viable career option for used car salesmen and viscious trial laywers is a major problem in American life. Citizens of this country instituting Congressional term limits is the same as farmers putting up barb wire to keep foxes out of their chicken coops and pulling out the shotgun and tar and feathers when necessary. Make no mistake, embedded politicians are the enemies of the people and that's why they weren't the ones given the ultimate power by the Consitution.
  

• The War on Drugs: This is the most tyrannical and hypocritical action ever undertaken by a succession of US Presidents and their Congressional counterparts. There are instances where being under the influence of drugs classified as mind-altering or reaction-limiting should be illegal (operating any vehicle in public or inciting violence, etc.) but the government has no right stepping into our homes and dictating what we can or cannot put into our bodies given that this action does not infringe upon the life or property of any other citizen. Marijuana should be legalized, standardized to a proper cultivation, and taxed heavily to support the strengthening of our civil defense structures and operational processes. Political leaders who don't agree with this should be nailed screaming into a pine coffin and pushed out to sea.
  

• The Death Penalty: In my youth, I was much more zealous in meting out terminal punishments for the unforgiveable crimes of murder, rape, child molestations, etc. But as I've gotten older, I realize that it would be much more prudent to use these individuals to better society in some way. That could be hard labor, but I'm also thinking that you could teach them a trade and give them an entire lifetime to master the trade and learn new ways of innovation towards improving the processes and productions of society. Their penalty is losing their liberty (which is similar to losing their life). They should be given the option the entire time of taking their own life if they are too unhappy to live.
  

• Celebrities Speaking Out Against the War: I have no problem with citizens exercising their First Amendment rights to speak their minds and hearts. But the First Amendment only gives us the right to speak; it does not guarantee us an audience to hear us out. I do think that when an actor of musician bares their minds to us on a stage we payed for them to act or play music on that it does cross the line into the inappropriate--but even that I am willing to forgive. I just don't see why anyone would cut their audience in half with divisive statements when they are in the position of marketing their creative work to an audience who supports their passions and lifestyles. There are always reprecussions when they do this--sometimes it's not so bad and sometimes it's a career breaker. Proceed at your own risk. The exception to this, in my mind, is when one of these stars takes the time to publish an article or start a blog--because then, they are engaging us on an intellectual level that has little to do with their artistic platform. I actually admire it when a Sean Penn or someone else takes the time to put their thoughts on the page and takes the heat from it. That's the way it should go down.