Abortion:
Laws should directly grant a woman’s right to abort, and protect people who help by providing it as a service. Roe is an acceptable compromise.
If pro-life people want a compromise more acceptable to them, approach it as part of the larger picture of reproductive control. Back us on sex ed and birth control research and so forth and once abortion is less necessary for reproductive control, pro-choice folks may be more open to listening to your concerns.
But the pro-life leadership sure makes it look like their real goal is to make sure wanton slutty women are at risk of unintended pregnancies that they can’t do anything about, so they’ll be sure to be caught out and identified as fallen women.
Guns:
Shall-issue laws. State needs an overt reason tied to an actual conviction to deny issuing. (not psychiatric, not arrest, etc: conviction only). Can require gun-safety courses though. Background checks OK.
Gay Marriage:
I don’t think the state should recognize any marriages, period. But if it’s going to, there should not be discrimination against gay couples.
Drug War:
There should be no laws preventing you from inserting any medicine you want into your own body. There can be laws regulating or prohibiting sale or distribution, though, just as there can be taxes.
War on Terror:
Oh please. Followed by the War on Worry and the War on Angst, I suppose. We are not currently beset by wave after wave of terrorist activity in the US. There was one major incident 4 years ago. BFD. And the tactics of the so-called “War on Terror” are as effective as Fucking for Virginity. We’re breeding terrorists at an astonishing rate.
Bush:
Done more damage to this country in less time than any other Prez. Nixon and Johnson now look good in comparison.
Religion:
Organized religion is to spirituality what taxidermy is to wildlife.
Economy:
I’m against it 
OK, pragmatically speaking, I favor a balanced budget. Every single solitary spending bill should be required to incorporate a budget explaining where the money is to come from. No unfunded mandates. No tax cuts without demonstrating that programs will not be shortchanged on funding as a consequence. And I favor a flat tax on the combo of income + some % of personal net worth exceeding $100,000.
War in Iraq:
Biggest foreign policy fuckup I’ve ever seen. The worst of it in the long run is how poorly the US handled the decision to invade. We’ve now got to do the 20th century all over again, re-convincing the world that nations should not invade other nations except in international accord. China can now invade Taiwan and say they’re following our example, etc etc.
War in general:
Wars are caused by nations and nationalism. War is bad for humans and other living things.
Torture as a means of interrogation during war time:
Is a war crime. The end does not justify the means.
Homeland Security:
So far it looks like a total boondoggle. Pork city. Useless. And as I said, we are not currently beset by terrorists to any major extent.
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Involuntary Outpatient Commitment (e.g., “Kendra’s Law NY”):
People who have neither been convicted of a crime nor found fundamentally incapable of making any of their own decisions in a competency hearing should retain the right to make their own medical decisions. If a schizophrenic or a person with bipolar disorder chooses to forego the miracles of modern psychiatric treatment, it’s their decision to make, just as their subsequent actions are their responsibility.
Tort Reform:
Civil penalties should NOT be capped; however, punitive damages should not go to the plaintiff and therefore not to the plaintiff’s attorneys, and there should be more room for courts to hit plaintiffs with “frivolous lawsuit” penalties. In all cases not involving the failure of specialized expert services, liability should be limited to wanton negligence or acts of intent, i.e., you should not be held liable for your guests’ sunburns if you run a beach hotel, etc.
Capital Punishment:
Less cruel in a lot of ways than prolonged incarceration. I find the lack of rehab and long mandatory prison terms far more offensive. We should either rehabilitate or kill people and if we’re going to kill them do it gently. A heroin overdose or something. I don’t like the signs of unequal application (race and socio-economic status mostly) but the same populations get the worst end of long-term warehousing in grossly unpleasant settings. I’m more disturbed by the soaringly high rate of black males in prison than the disproportionately high rate of black males subjected to capital punishment.
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