[Mind-numbed Robot]

Thanks for the link to another good article.

It seems to me that the center of many political and philosophical disputes is the evolving fuzziness of the role of government in the moral arena. The desire of people to have the government enforce their moral vision is where we get into trouble.

The liberals want the government to be a parent and the people to be children. The libertarians want to be rebellious teenagers with no parental interference, not even an allowance nor room or board. We conservatives seem to be in no man's land sharing a little of each but with a strong adherence to the Constitution as originally written.

Does the Constitution give government the right to enforce moral values? According to the Tenth Amendment it does as long as the process does not infringe any of the enumerated and God-given rights. Should it? No.

It is the describing of the positions taken in this continuum that lead to terms like neoconservative.

[inquest]

It is the describing of the positions taken in this continuum that lead to terms like neoconservative.

Except that the continuum you described has to do with domestic policy. Neoconservative is a term that has mostly to do with foreign policy.