| Abortion | All people have the right to life. Life begins at conception. Abortion is an abomination before God and man. Abortion is not a right. |
| Affirmative Action | Affirmative Action is an insult to persons of all colors, creeds, and nationalities. It says to some people: "You can't get a job on your own. You're not good enough." It says to others: "You can't work at this restaurant. You're not an accepted race." It should be abolished. All persons, regardless of color, creed, or nationality, should have equal chances to obtain employment or attend a public university, Affirmative Action hurts everyone, especially those it claims to help. It should be abolished. |
| Borders | I believe the borders of the United States should be more tightly monitored. It should be difficult for foreigners to get into the country. It should be impossible to arrive here from an enemy country. I'm not in favor of violating anyone's constitutional rights. Any non-citizen who is from an enemy state should not be allowed into the country without asylum proceedings. Our borders should be staffed by competent professionals. The training and screening of these individuals should be rigorous and unforgiving. The stakes are simply too high to allow someone without adequate skills, someone who can't be fired if he or she fails to do the job properly, to do these jobs. When lives are at stake, the consequences for failure should be severe, swift, and static, not set afterward. |
| Church-State Relations | Churches of all denominations and faiths need protection against government. This was the purpose of the First Amendment. Government can be improved by the influence of religion's desire for justice and truth, but religion can only be harmed by the intrusion of government. The government should not make any law establishing federally supported churches, nor should it make laws infringing on the rights of the individuals of whom the churches consist. |
| Death Penalty |
Human life is precious. We should be very hesitant to take it from anyone. However, there are crimes for which a person should die. The Bible is very clear that there are certain things punishable by death.
However, because of the current process in the united States leading up to an execution, it is more economical (and better for those wrongfully accused) to hold a person in prison for the rest of his or her natural life. |
| "Death With Dignity"/"right-to-die" |
This issue should never have become a political issue. Doctors have no
business killing their patients. To do so is to commit murder, and doctors
who do so should be tried and convicted for murder. Human life is precious.
There is no "right" to death.
More pressing, however, is the insidiousness of the idea that is behind euthanasia as a political issue. It is a short step from terminally ill to simply old and feeble. And another short step to simply old, or ugly, or a thousand other things. It is a process of Satan. |
| Draft | Serving one's nation by protecting it against all enemies, foreign and domestic, is an honor. Not everyone, however, is suitable for military service. Military service is a right. Military service is not the duty of every citizen. Just as different parts of the human body have different functions, so different people have different talents and abilities. Some citizens defend their country by taking up arms against its enemies. Others defend their country by keeping its economy strong. Still others, like George M. Cohan, defend their country through the power of words or music. Everyone has something to give in service of his or her country, and it takes more than soldiers to keep a country strong against all its enemies. |
| Drugs |
I do not, first of all, believe cocaine, speed, and other drugs
of this kind should be made legal. Driving while under the influence of
alcohol is illegal, and few people oppose DUI laws, because driving
while intoxicated very often causes great amounts of harm to innocent
people. Cocaine and other such drugs should remain illegal for the same
reason.
Our current drug laws are doing little, if anything, to curb the tide of
illegal drugs flowing into this country. We are spending too many
resources on attempts to curtail the supply and not enough on curbing
the demand. We should document very briefly everything we've done in the "War on
Drugs," decide which actions have helped in which areas, improve and
reimpliment those actions, and scrap the parts which are not actually
helping.
See also Hemp |
| Education |
Education should be handled at the State level (or lower). Each state
should fund and oversee its own education system. The federal government
is given no authority in the Constitution to implement a Department of
Education, so this should not exist on the federal level. Federal control of the education system is as dangerous to the rights and liberties of American citizens as a standing British army was. It puts control over the minds of tomorrow's leaders in the hands of a very few people. America's schools should teach the reading and writing of the English language, mathematical skills up to geometry and algebra, hard sciences (based on facts, not on theories), geography, history, and nutrition. Nearly all other subjects should exist only at the secondary level, as elective studies. |
| Environment | God gave mankind stewardship over the world. It is our job to be good stewards. The environmental movement, however, has little to do with protecting the environment. It has more to do with expanding the power of the federal government and destroying the right of personal property. Property, by the way, was the original third item on the list of inalienable rights listed in the Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America (better known as the Declaration of Independence): Life, Liberty, and Property. It was changed to the nebulous "Pursuit of Happiness" to appease those States which relied heavily upon slaves. Private industry run on private property tends to do a reasonable job of being a good steward. Logging companies plant trees where they log. Being a good steward makes good business sense, so businesses do it. Not all companies are good stewards, but we shouldn't punish an entire industry (or multiple industries) for the wrongs of a few companies. I firmly believe that companies which dump hundreds of gallons of toxins into streams or onto the bare ground should be forced to be clean, but this is not the aim of the environmental movement. Today's environmental movement (in its executive structure) is nothing less than communism. We should not clear-cut our forests or dump large amounts of toxic chemicals into the groundwater, but at the same time, we need to fight the encroachment of government on our rights. The environmental movement today needs to change. It needs to become a movement for responsible stewardship of the environment rather than what it is today: a radical agenda to remove rights from humanity and humanity from the face of the earth. |
| Gun control |
I believe a person should be able to hold a firearm steady and hit the
intended target. Otherwise: "...the right of the people to keep and bear
arms shall not be infringed." Gun control laws are unconstitutional. By the way: Beware of Gun Nuts! Note: This link will open in new windows. It is not part of this site, nor is it my work. "Aren't guns dangerous?" [New Window] |
| Hemp | Hemp can be made into thousands of useful products, from strong, lightweight concrete to clothing to plastics to oils to stronger, more recyclable paper. Industrial hemp should be legalized. Any idiot can tell a hemp farm from a pot plantation. "Hemp growers can not hide marijuana plants in their fields. Marijuana is grown widely spaced to maximize leaves. Hemp is grown in tightly-spaced rows to maximize stalk and is usually harvested before it goes to seed." --NAIHC website. |
| Overpopulation | Some people claim that the world is overcrowded. This is clearly in error. As an illustration: The city of Jacksonville, Florida, is over twenty-three billion (23,417,856,000) square feet in area. Every person on this planet—all seven billion—could fit within the city limits of Jacksonville, Florida. Each and every man, woman, and child would get, on average, a little more than 3.9 square feet, and that's just one city. Terra is NOT overcrowded. There is plenty of space on this planet for everyone. The idea of overcrowding is just a ploy to get people to give up their right to have children. |
| Subsidies |
Subsidies have their place, but our government is subsidizing too
freely, too long, and too much. Subsidizing small, existing companies so
that they can expand, as a one-time action in any one company, is
useful. It allows small companies—those whose products are in demand beyond
the capacity of the suppliers—to expand enough that they can afford
further expansion on their own. Subsidies should not be annual grants to large companies which do not need funding for expansion. The government of the United States should not, for example, be paying the advertising costs of such large corporations as McDonald's™ and Pepsi™. These companies don't need subsidies. The government also should not be subsidizing unneccesary products which cannot be produced profitably. Tobacco is not a neccesary product, and if it can't be grown profitably without subsidies, let some of those who grow it find another crop or another business. |
| Welfare | See Davy Crockett on Social Spending (will open in a new window). I am a Bible-believing Christian, and the Bible contains more than 2000 verses commanding us to take care of the poor, but our Constitution gives the government no authority to perform acts of charity. Clearly, we should perform acts of charity, but we should do so individually or through charitable organizations. We should not do so through the halls of Congress. |
