User:JZambrano

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I enjoyed my time editing at Conservapedia and have no hard feelings for the situation when I was a moderator, it was my decision. I disagreed with Karajou a bit at the time but have come to see his side of things moreso over time. I may contribute a bit at some point and find the conservative discussion here informative and thought-provoking.

I was User:Jzyehoshua at Creationwiki but it seems to be down due to server problems now unfortunately.

If my views seem odd, it's only because truth is stranger than fiction. I just follow the facts.

Bio

My name is Joshua David Zambrano, and I'm a resident of Illinois. I received my A.A.S. in Business Management from Waubonsee Community College, and previously transferred to Northern Illinois University from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. I was majoring in Political Science.

Jzyehoshua is simply my initials, Jz, followed by the Hebrew name origin for Joshua ("Yehoshua"), i.e. "Joshua Z". I am a Christian who believes the Bible is literally true. While I do believe typos exist in some of the preserved manuscripts, I do not believe this substantially alters the preserved message of the Bible, and that the vast wealth of manuscript evidence is God's way of preserving His Word for future generations.

Editing Guide

I'll have a guide with some useful and practical advice for editing and researching at User:Jzyehoshua/Guide_To_Editing.

Contributions

I will be keeping a workspace of articles I've created or am working on for easy finding at User:Jzyehoshua/Contributions.

Politics

I do not support any political party or politician at this time. I lean Republican (which are the candidates I typically back) but pick and choose which Republicans to support. I have at times also supported the conservative 3rd party, the Constitution Party (which in Illinois tends to support more conservative candidates then the state Republican Party), as well as from 2009-10 the conservative pro-life Democrats who voted against Obamacare and the Stimulus bills while substantially risking their own reelection chances in doing so (although I will never support the Demonrat party as a whole, I find essentially their entire platform abhorrent). (Concerning my brief one-year support of DFLA, that is explained why in my free eBook 'The Zambrano Report' on pages 87-103).

Other Research

Some other interesting projects of mine:

Editing Style

My favorite editing topics include Political Issues (including Evolution/Creationism and abortion), the Bible, Religion, History, Macroeconomics, Philosophy, and Sports. While I would like to discuss the issues, I would not want to join a listserv as my multiple email accounts are already packed, and it would make it much more difficult to find vital emails. I like forums, I do not like listservs.

As an editor I take pride in my sourcing, and go out of my way to use sourcing that even the most liberal of critics will have difficulty faulting; sourcing with peer-reviewed scientific journals (e.g. Science, Nature), major news sources (e.g. New York Times, National Geographic), or well-renowned fact-checking sites (e.g. FactChect.org, PolitiFact). It's not that I distrust Creationist sources like Answers in Genesis but I recognize such sources will not likely persuade anyone but those who are already Creationists! As such I make an effort to complement any Creationist sources used with mainstream ones; depending on the subject - if scientific then scientific journals, if news-related, then major news sources, if political, then non-partisan fact-checking sites or better yet, senate transcripts/source material.

Other Wiki Involvement

I'm Jzyehoshua from CreationWiki. I've also gone by Jzyehoshua at Wikipedia (for a full explanation of why I left see User:Jzyehoshua/WhyILeftWikipedia) and SourceWatch[]. I went by my full name, Joshua Zambrano, at Citizendium, because it's required. I am an ex-Wikipedia editor who did not like the liberal bias occurring there. I now edit in hopes of helping other wikis replace Wikipedia and its blatant, hypocritical biases. For example, just look at the Obama page there and how many controversies (such as the Born Alive controversy caused by Obama's repeated opposition to medical care for newborn children) go unmentioned, whereas the controversies for conservative politicians are mentioned. I've used Jzyehoshua as my ID across the web since at least 2004 (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, forums, etc.), and to my knowledge no one else uses it, yet a Google search of it receives 35,000 search results. (Outdated, was the case previously)

I strongly believe in editorial fairness. Regardless of whether I agree with a viewpoint or not, I try to be fair to those I disagree with and engage in dialogue. For me, being a Christian means treating others as I'd want to be treated. I am a strong advocate for fair editing at wikis. I left Wikipedia because I did not like liberal bias - it is my opinion that unchecked bias will only result in tyranny and the downfall of a wiki. I argue so strongly for my beliefs because I believe I'm doing what's right. I need to believe in the direction of the organization, and that it will be fair. For me, helping a wiki means not only contributing material, but helping to make it the best it can be in regards to editorial policy.

Political Views, Specific

I was at one point a conservative Republican, after formerly being an Independent, but am too conservative right now to affiliate definitively with any party. I suppose would be considered a 'Moderate' even though my views are a perfect mix of strong socially conservative beliefs and strong moderate economic foreign policy beliefs. As such, I can discuss my views on abortion and evolution and be criticized by liberals as a hard-right conservative, but discuss my views on economics and foreign policy, and be criticized by neo-libertarians as a far-left liberal; a fact that never ceases to amuse me. My views essentially align with classical Republican positions by and large, e.g. tracing back to the times when Abraham Lincoln and Republicans in the mid-19th century supported tariffs and protectionism to protect domestic industry as well as public works projects, or when Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft pursued trustbusting to protect the element of competition essential to a free market from private sector monopolization (not just government monopolization, i.e. communism).

Socially Conservative

  • I oppose abortion save in rape and life of the mother, although I have now begun hesitantly supporting a broader right to choose up to 12 weeks of pregnancy consistent with Gallup polling by trimester (since most Americans support abortions within the first 12 weeks, just not late-term 2nd and 3rd trimester abortions). I am fully against the Abolitionist movement which seeks to harm women who've had abortions.
  • I support Creationism. I believe life on earth is young although whether a specific date to it can be set I'm still deciding. I do not believe earth itself is necessarily young given Genesis 1:2. Again, I consider the Bible literally true and do not believe science has evidence to show that it is not on any given point. While I believe microevolution and natural selection are undeniable fact, I consider Big Bang theory and macroevolution (i.e. evolutionary theory) to be unevidenced, interpretive speculation. I support equal teaching of Creationism in public schools and like the government of Turkey even though it is Islamic (and I do not like Islam as a religion in general) because it is the government which most teaches Creationism at an international level.
  • I support religious freedom and frequently invoke the founding fathers and William Penn's early government to show we began a Christian nation. I believe that belief in God is the foundation of religious freedom, and that one can't believe in inalienable rights without believing in a Creator who gives said rights. I believe the 1st amendment was intended to prevent a religious institution like Catholicism or Anglicanism from usurping government power to persecute other denominations, and to protect freedom of religious expression and faith everywhere. I think progressive interpretations are actually leading to the religious discrimination the 1st amendment sought to stop. My paper on America's origins as a Christian nation is here. I support education vouchers and removing liberal accreditation standards that discriminate against Creationist educational institutions.
  • I support gun rights and the 2nd amendment as a protection against our government.
  • I oppose gay marriage. I support homosexuals having the same rights as everyone else, which is why I think every homosexual man should be able to marry a woman. They have the same rights already, they want a new right and themselves declared a new demographic. I see evidence that homosexuality is not genetic such as polling showing younger Americans are three times as likely as older Americans to be LGBT, and xenoestrogens producing homosexuality in nature. I find the increasing attack on religious freedom by the gay rights movement to be disturbing and intolerant, as they sue photographers that don't want to photograph gay weddings, pastors that don't want to marry homosexuals, farm owners that don't want to marry homosexuals in their homes, etc. I do not hate homosexuals, I do not single them out as worse then anyone else, but their attack on the religious freedom of others and to legislate their beliefs in oppression of Christian beliefs necessitates that I oppose their agenda. I want to see Supreme Court justices impeached who voted in the affirmative on Obergefell v. Hodges and U.S. v. Windsor with the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act upheld, reversing the Windsor precedent.

Moderate on Economics

  • I support smaller government because complexity hides corruption, and I favor less overall intrusion into citizens' lives. However, I consider a basic level of regulation necessary to protect consumers from business (e.g. predatory lending), small business from big business (e.g. predatory pricing), and workers from companies. I favor minimal levels of regulation but not removal of all regulation as Ayn Rand-supporting anarchic capitalists, many of whom identify as libertarians, would advocate. (Although I do share some common ground in other ways with Libertarians)
  • I oppose free trade save with countries who use decent minimum wages. If trade is not fair then it should not be free, and communist countries like China, Russia, and North Korea use low minimum wages because (a) they don't care about their people, and (b) it means corporate investment flows to their countries for the cheap labor. I support free trade with countries whose minimum wages are above $4.00 an hour but not those who take advantage of their people in pursuit of power and steal jobs from Americans through free trade. Rather than tariffs however, I favor the use of full embargoes against communist countries like China, North Korea, and Russia that use low or no minimum wages while terrorizing their own people and nations worldwide with fascist tyranny.
  • I oppose socialism in favor of capitalism because government taking over industry ultimately results in less overall employment, as well as inefficiency and bureaucracy. Government employees are not held accountable like their counterparts in the private sector, so it is not uncommon to see poor quality of service in DMVs and other government agencies. A government agency gets funded regardless of the quality of work it performs. I believe it is typically better to encourage job creation in the private sector rather than public sector, unless it is a very simplistic, efficient, and well-tailored public works system. Government in my opinion is a danger to individual freedom, and allowing it to usurp too much power leads to a monopoly and inevitable tyranny.
  • I support caps on executive compensation at publicly traded companies. I also oppose the Invisible Hand and Trickle Down theories. This is about worker's rights and workers should be paid fairly in relation to CEOs unless the CEO owns the company (private company) in which case it's the CEO's money and company to do with as they please (assuming of course they follow laws and ethics regarding fair treatment of workers, consumers, competing business, etc.). This is needed to ensure fair employment and prosperity for all Americans since otherwise CEOs will hike their own pay by reducing wages for everyone else via outsourcing, automation, illegal immigrants, and part-time or temporary workers.
  • I support universal health care and welfare but oppose ObamaCare. I believe it moral for a government to provide services for the good of all and that both are necessary to care for a nation's weakest and poorest. Nevertheless, I abide by the rule the Apostle Paul said, that "if a man won't work he should also not eat" and that welfare systems should require work in exchange for services. I simply want the poor to have a chance to work for basic survival so they don't starve, not to give them a free ride. I believe our Social Security and Medicare systems have gotten out of hand, and rather than providing basic care are usurping private industry to the detriment of overall employment, but still support basic government systems for healthcare and welfare. I nevertheless oppose ObamaCare, because while I want to see a good healthcare system, ObamaCare was just designed to fund Planned Parenthood, and was a horrible bill.
  • I support FDR-type Stimulus programs but oppose Obama's Stimulus programs. FDR's put people back to work inexpensively, paying little per worker hired, and having workers do inexpensive tasks like digging ditches, conservation, cleaning up public buildings, painting murals, etc. Obama's spend hundreds of thousands of dollars paying a single scientist to research ridiculous things, and his stimulus bills were essentially a blank check funding every liberal special interest project for the past 30 years. Thus I would support public works programs like FDR's but strongly criticized Obama's Stimulus even before it passed. I have recently recommended infrastructure investment for improving the U.S. vital agricultural industry, potentially via the use of halophyte farming to increasingly grow more crops through saltwater to reduce freshwater usage at a global level, particularly given that the vast majority of U.S. freshwater is used for agricultural purposes, not residential purposes.

Other Issues

  • I generally oppose warmongering as contrary to Christian ideals. I opposed the Iraq War in 2004, the first year I voted. Not only did I criticize the Iraq War, but I also dislike prior U.S. wars/imperialism as well, like the Mexican-American War and treatment of Hawaiians/Filipinos/Native Americans. I do believe U.S. military intervention can be necessary for opposing the global spread of Communism as occurred with the Chinese Civil War to aid the government of Taiwan when it originally ran China, the Korean War, the Laotian Civil War, etc. I have come to believe a confrontational approach against China and Russia is needed to protect human rights and worker wages/rights at a global level, nor do I agree with doing so timidly through proxy wars but by using full embargoes, U.S. military aid in support of allies like Japan, Ukraine, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in opposing China and Russia, and additionally U.S. special forces to oppose coup attempts orchestrated by Russian mercenaries like the Africa Corps, potentially also CIA operations in Chechnya or Nepal to covertly oppose China and Russia, which in my opinion is entirely justified given how China and Russia have been using hacking, theft of military trade secrets, fentanyl trafficking, spying weather balloons, copyright theft, etc. to subversively interfere with the U.S. economy.
  • I do not support the death penalty. Even though deterrence would be valuable in stopping criminals from perpetrating crimes, I have come to believe that the worst criminals at a global level like Putin and Jinping are not being held accountable, so I see no reason to assume those most responsible for criminal behavior will be held accountable either, and that death penalty attempts may just be show trials to find scapegoats rather than legitimate efforts at justice. I see too great a risk of killing the wrong people, and large amounts of people have been exonerated on death row. A system that puts even one innocent person to death is unjustifiable from a Biblical perspective.
  • I support protecting the environment. I want our rainforests protected and land use optimized. I support regulations on pollution by corporate excesses. I think those who stand naked on icebergs are just posturing and attention-seeking buffoons, but reasonable steps to preserve and protect our Creator-given resources as faithful stewards I wholeheartedly support and endorse. While I recognize Global Warming is occurring, 'ClimateGate' made me more suspicious of the Green Energy movement, Al Gore, and the scientific community backing Global Warming. I personally think the main problem is deforestation, that growing global population is a contributor as well, and that pollution is often singled out for political reasons and Green Industry profits.

Bottom Line

I adjust my positions as necessary to ensure Alexandra Scott and Lourdes are physically and biologically alive, I will make ANY policy adjustments necessary to ensure that will be the case. All of the above positions can be adjusted at any time should I consider it needful to do so for such purposes. Making sure those I care about will be alive is the top priority for me, all political positions are useful for determining moral leadership that will be trustworthy and competent enough to ensure that top priority is achieved, but are otherwise potentially alterable.

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