What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion.

Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization.

The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance.

I lean toward a flat tax. But I want to make it real flat, like ZERO.

As bank customers, we tend to believe that we can have both perfect security for our money, drawing on it whenever we want and never expecting it not to be there, while still earning a regular rate of return. In a true free market, however, there tends to be a tradeoff: you can enjoy a money warehouse or you can hope for a return on your investment. You can't usually have both. The Fed, however, by backing up this fractional-reserve system with a promise of endless bailouts and money creation, attempts to keep the illusion going.

As long as we live beyond our means, we are destined to live beneath our means.