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Please define/clarify/discuss the following terms: Conservatism, Liberalism, Paleoconservatism, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, Authoritarianism, Libertarianism, and how they are different from one another and any similarities. Also "Classical", aka "Jeffersonian" Liberalism (Paleoliberalism?) any other isms that are worth consideration in this conversation. Please note that one is not asking for a definition or discussion of any fascist ideologies like Communism, etc.

Annan's financial form to be secret By Betsy PisikTHE WASHINGTON TIMESOctober 4, 2006 NEW YORK -- U.N. officials said yesterday that they will not publicly release a financial disclosure form filed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan last month -- 10 months after he ordered all senior U.N. officials to file the forms.     A spokesman said Mr. Annan submitted the questionnaire -- under a policy implemented in response to international outrage over U.N. involvement in the Iraq oil-for-food scandal -- on Sept. 22.     "The secretary-general has filed the forms," Stephane Dujarric confirmed yesterday. But, he said, "We will not be making it...

Rear Adm. James Kelly assumed command of the U.S. Naval Forces in Japan today, replacing Rear Adm. Frederic Ruehe. The change of command ceremony was held aboard the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier at the Japanese port of Yokosuka, just south of Tokyo, where the U.S. 7th Fleet is based. Kelly becomes the second-most senior officer for the U.S. Navy in Japan following the 7th Fleet commander, Vice Adm. Jonathan Greenert. The 7th Fleet is the largest in the Navy, and is the only fleet that has its home port outside of the United States.

Converted to the Past: The appeal of Orthodoxy After 15 years as an Episcopalian priest, Gary Mathewes-Green could no longer tolerate being under the authority of apostate bishops. He and his wife, Frederica, both adult converts to Christianity who had attended seminary together, began looking for a denomination that still honored the traditional creeds and moral principles. The dissident Anglican branches wouldn't do, because Gary "felt he couldn't climb further out from the branch to a twig; if anything, he had to return to the trunk." The couple briefly considered the Roman Catholic Church, which allows married priests in Gary's...