Intelligence: Smarter then average (...the average bear that is).

Education: B.S. Mathematics (most bears do not make it passed high school).

Religion: Brought up Christian. Turned agnostic as a teenager. Returned to Christ as I got older.

Political Outlook: Started liberal as teenager. Turned Libertarian when first subjected to taxes. Turned conservative when I started understanding history.

Profession: Software engineer.

Special powers: Overtly analytical.

Secret weakness: ********

Outlooks on specific issues (as may differ from typical FR attitudes, safe to assume I am against high taxes and big government etc):

Roe vs Wade: An absurd act of judicial activism that robbed the state governments of the power to outlaw an abomination which wounds the souls of mothers while snuffing out the life of their helpless children.

Freedom of speech: Applies to expressing ideas, not harassing your neighbor, slandering someone, nor peddling porn. Protects a porn peddlers right to opine that they should be allowed to peddle porn. Does not protect the porn itself.

Second Amendment: Protects the individuals right to keep and bear arms from the federal government. Such arms do not include WMD, as nothing remotely like them existed when the Amendment was drafted, and could not have been anticipated. However assault weapons are protected, because they had rifles back then, and presumably anticipated improvements.

Creationism and Evolution:The creation narratives in the book of Genesis are true, though mostly symbolic. Based on overwhelming physical evidence the universe appears far far older then implied by a literal interpretation. And based on less conclusive evidence, the species probably evolved more or less like the Darwinists propose, but I don't think this latter issue matters much. Far more significant is that the physical evidence strongly indicates the universe could not have always existed. This essentially destroys that brief glimmer of hope Darwin gave to the Naturalist world view.

Doctrine of Hell: I am in that minority of Christians that interpret "the wages of sin is death", to mean that "death" rather then "eternal torment" is the consequence of sin. I think this language is far plainer then largely symbolic prophecies that the doctrine of eternal torment are based on. The punishment for the damned seems to be annihilation. It is an eternal punishment in the sense that it is permanent, but not eternal in the sense that they will be alive to experience eternal pain.

Gay people Gay people are fine. There is nothing wrong with being happy. But people should avoid things that bring only a brief happiness before leading to more trouble then they are worth. God has some good advice on these areas in the bible.

Legal Immigration Should favor people with skills we need. Should require the immigrant to give up dual-citizenship style divided loyalties. Should exclude those obligated to overthrow our government by their religion or some other association. Should favor those who want to assimilate into our culture rather then live as separatists. Should be scaled back.

Illegal Immigration Enforce the law! Build the fence! Crack down on the employers! Provide a way that employers can easily identify the immigration status, so they have no excuses to hire illegals!

Ann Coulter If she were ursine, and I were still single, and had not met my wife, I would want to marry her. Theres not much chance she would want to marry me though. My status as a smarter-then-average-bear can be intimidating.

Stem cell research This should not even be a controversy. Embryonic stem cell research treatments = 0, Adult stem cell treatments = 70+. Like being skunked ten times in a row. Anybody see a pattern? Hello?