Wendi Stearman

Because abortion requires ending a human life, the same moral considerations apply as in other life-versus-life quandaries: defense of self, defense of others, and so on. In any situation all attempts must be made to preserve the lives of both the mother and her baby. As the very phrase "elective abortion" does not suggest concern for the moral imperative to preserve the baby's life, the moral answer to the question of "elective abortion" must be: none.

Strongly Disagree

Because abortion necessarily ends a human life, the same moral consideration applies whether that life is taken chemically or surgically. A drug intended to end life is not safe and should not be available.

Strongly Agree

Aside from the moral objection to using tax money to fund that which the tax payer may find abhorrent, there simply exists no Constitutional power under Article I, Section 8 for the federal government to "fund" abortion. The moral objection, meanwhile, continues to state and local governments.

Strongly Disagree

Strongly Agree

Preserving private property rights is one of the few legitimate and essential purposes for which government exists at any level. Free enterprise, likewise, involves the disposition of one's own private property and of the works of one's own hands. Government has no place in directing the disposition of private property nor the works of men's hands. If government directs the works of men's hands, then men are slaves, not freemen.

Minimum wage fundamentally harms those whom it pretends to protect: those at the low end of the wage scale. The practical effect of an arbitrary minimum wage is to price labor above its value (else no intervention would be made.) No minimum wage!

No

Environmental and social issues, to the extent they are valid at all, necessarily are private opinions and preferences, and not any legitimate function of government. "Investing" public monies, meanwhile, also is not a legitimate function of government. As all government monies are first taken from its citizens, it is unjust for government to "invest" that which is stolen.

Zero. None. No circumstances. See Amendment #1. Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion. As Congress may make no law, then the Executive may execute no law, and agencies of the Executive may not regulate. Where the subject is the free exercise of religion, government must remain entirely silent.

Strongly Disagree

No individual and no business may be required by government to provide anything. Such properly is a private transaction between free persons and simply is not a proper function of government.

D). This properly is a Constitutional question, not a medical question. No power exists in Article I, Section 8 for the federal government to provide or guarantee medical services or insurance.

None. Zero. No circumstances. The most fundamental freedom of a free man is power over his own person. A man who has not peremptory power over his own person is not a freeman, but is owned by another; a slave.

Strongly Agree

As do all communist nations.

Uniquely important. Israel is our only reliable ally in the region.

Strongly Agree

Without borders a nation-state ceases to exist. The primary function of the military is to secure our own borders. The very first duty of Congress in Article I, Section 8 (and the first stated purpose for laying and collecting taxes) is to provide for the common defense of the United States. If Congress abandons its very first duty, then it abandons any justification for its own existence.

Agree

Agree, but with qualification. The state has no business "allowing" dollars in education or any other private pursuits of free persons. The problem with education is the "public" in public education, particularly public money. Government involvement in any market necessarily reduces the agility and efficiency of that market, disrupting and hampering rational decisions. The education of our own children is far too important to be left to government!

Strongly Agree

Of course!

Strongly Agree

The fundamental question, as phrased by the late, lamented Walter E. Williams is: who owns your children? The state must never be permitted ownership of your children, else neither you nor your children are free!

Strongly Disagree

Aside from the obvious moral objection to forcing taxpayers to pay for that which they may find abhorrent, there simply exists no power in Article I, Section 8 for the federal government to have any involvement in medical care. The moral objection, meanwhile, extends likewise to state and local governments.

Strongly Agree

Marriage is a word. A word has meaning, else it is pointless. Any other arrangement between people, that does not mean the sacred and legal union between one man and one woman, simply is something else, something independent of marriage. It does alter the nature of marriage.

I am a Christian, a believer in Christ. In the context of the United States I most cherish the unique emphasis in the United States on liberty. As liberty cannot exist outside of Christ, the unique understanding in the United States between the people as sovereign and the government as subservient, preserves an earthly form of the liberty we have in Christ.

Strongly Disagree

Even a single fraudulent vote defrauds one legitimate voter of his vote.

Strongly Disagree

The electoral college is a brilliant idea that is hugely important to the preservation of our republic. It serves to give a significant vote to all the states, not just the most populous. It further renders fraud more difficult, as it is difficult to anticipate where the fraud should be applied. Without the electoral college the president would be elected by a few large cities and no one else.

No, not personal racism. Government and institutional racism, on the other hand, is an existential threat to the republic. Racism is no less racist for being applied in reverse.

Strongly Disagree

CRT has it exactly backward. Favoring one race over another, no matter what the claimed reason, is still racist! The only correct answer where government is concerned is not to consider race at all.

Strongly Agree

Either have women's institutions or do not have them; but to pretend that men can be women (and vice versa) is absurd.

A and C. The climate on earth is always changing and always has done. It will continue to change no matter what man tries to do to stop it. Environmental laws, meanwhile, are merely communism by other means. "The environment" is merely an excuse for the actual goal of more government power exercised on a global scale.

Coal, natural gas, nuclear. "Renewable" energy is a fantasy that is incapable of supplying sufficient energy. Reliance on "renewable" energy will necessarily result in shortages and increased prices and reduced availability of energy.

No.

No.

As declared by our founders to England: "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

Very Conservative

In particular I insist on strict adherence to Constitutional limits on government. Limited government is the essential ingredient to liberty, and liberty is the highest public good.

Strongly Disagree

Further, I support decreasing taxes and decreasing spending rather than any "redirection" of spending the funds taken by force from taxpayers.

Zero. None. No restrictions. See Amendment #2. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. In contrast to the First Amendment, the Second is focused squarely on "the people," not merely on Congress. The people's right may not be infringed. At all. Further, gun ownership itself is essential to protect public safety!

Yes

Of course! Same as any other citizen. Being a teacher does not abrogate one's inherent right to self defense.