You say this is radical:

We oppose U.S. government participation in any world or international government. We support withdrawal of the United States government from, and an end to its financial support for, the United Nations. We oppose any treaty under which individual rights would be violated.

But what’s radical about that? That is a statement against a world government. Now I don’t know your personal politics all that well because I’ve only just discovered your blog, but do you like the UN? And if so, why?

You say that libertarianism “hopelessly lose[s]” you with this:

Individuals should have the right to use drugs, whether for medical or recreational purposes, without fear of legal reprisals, but must be held legally responsible for the consequences of their actions only if they violate others’ rights.

One of the core foundations of libertarianism is personal property rights. Your body is your personal property. The greatest personal property you can lay claim to. It’s as simple as that.

Other than those two…you seem to be pretty much a libertarian. Libertarianism can basically be boiled down to: “You have a right to ownership of property and self and your rights end where another’s begins.”

Where people like me and you seem to differ the most from people who call themselves libertarian are issues of foreign policy. Libertarianism is flawed because it goes on the basic premise that we are all on an economic and sociologic equal footing. (Note: I don’t mean in the classic leftist sense of economic “injustice” here. Read on…) For example: Libertarians are against any form of tariff, economic sanction, or trade restriction between nations. But some of us realize that while tariffs never work and are counter productive in a truely free market, the reality is that the U.S. isn’t dealing with truely free markets. Often such ugly things like tariffs and limitations on immigration make perfect sense and benefit us as a nation.

That was a little too wordy but I hope you get the gist of what I was trying to convey.

Just for the record, I call myself a conservative libertarian.