Reply to Nasikabatrachus
1) paleo-Objectivist: A Randist, more affiliated with the ARI. Cares about intra-Objectivist politics. There's a wiki article on neo-Objectivism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Objectivism
2) My first name is Charles, my middle name is Xavier. Portmaneu them and you get: Chx
3) Anarcho-capitalism: almost right, but competition & the laws of supply and demand quit working when force is used. Plus: I haven't heard how practical setting up DRO's are, or if they would be recognized. Still, if force were not used, it'd be optimal. Tell me about the transition.
4) John Stossel introduced me to the word "libertarianism." I was a conservative then, but libertarianism seemed interesting. I was a huge religionist, too. Gradually, I began realizing more stuff. It helped that I was an individualist conservative rather than a traditionalist-conservative. One huge revelation was that morality shouldn't be legislated. Later, I learned Objectivism. For about a year I was still a Theist. Gradually, I heard satisfying (as in logically consistent, not emotionally comforting. Emotionally comforting they were anything but) refutations of the Ontological argument, argument from design, Pascal's wager, etc. But there was still the cosmological argument. I was a Deist for a year, because only the cosmological argument worked and Deism seemed to be the most logical way to satisfy the need for a Prime Mover. I figured that God was immune to infinite recursion since he was infinitely old. Then on June 16, 2007, in the shower (also the place where I thought of an elegant proof for the Koinsberg Bridge problem) I realized that for God to create the Universe, he had to be in it. That was silly. So I became an Atheist. Away went any social conservatism (though I am pro-Life because I believe fetuses to have some degree of sapience, and to be similar to infanticide. Government regulations on abortion, therefore, would be like government illegalizing murder). I am now a strong Libertarian & proud of realizing the truth. Fun ancedote: influential to me is my friend, an Atheist liberal. Now I'm Atheist, and he's Capitalist; we took the best parts from each other's philosophy.
Chx.