Uncommon Sense

Dear Loyal Readers:

Posting my ideas for you to read over the past five months has been a challenge and my pleasure. I wish more of you had commented on my thinking so that I might benefit from your instruction and improve. No matter. I suppose I’m grateful that you’ve taken the time even to read my blog.

This week I am announcing phase two of my project. It’s called Uncommon Sense: My positions on issues A to Z. Now that I have explained my perspective, my philosophy—i.e. my metaphysics, epistemology, and the resulting code of ethics, political, and economic systems—I think it’s time I explain how I use my philosophy to develop rational, consistent, objective positions on the issues we read about every day in the newspapers.

To date, writing my blog each week has been relatively easy. Nearly everything I’ve written has come straight out of my head, no research, no reference books of any kind. I’ve been sharing with you what I know. Uncommon Sense is going to be much more challenging. I’m going to have to do some actual research on many issues. I will try to keep up my weekly, Sunday post, but I’m going to promise nothing.

Abortion
Affirmative Action
Capital Punishment
Censorship
Diversity
Draft
Drugs
Education
Election 2008
Energy
Environment
Faith-based Initiative
Free Trade
Foreign Policy
Gay Marriage
Hate Crimes
Health Care
Income Taxes
Iraq
Iran
Jihad
Life
Liberty
Military Spending
Pledge of Allegiance
Privacy
Russia
Smoking
Space
Venezuela
Veterans
War

List tentative.