[brad]

well in response to hdpm, read ron paul's 'neoconned' its on web, a one hour speech he gave on house floor recently. (basically he says 'neocons' are trojan horse who liberals have highjacked conservative movement, 'liberals' are counterculturals, and the true 'liberals', classical conservatives, are gone, except for remnants like ron paul.)

on government, well , we have beaurocrats(sp) in d.c. who tax local money and then send x% back to locals , while setting policy for things like local school programs. seems like common sense that local government could take care of that better, more efficiently, and more under control of people, as opposed to authoritarian central government that is out of the political control of people.