Libertarian Party

Amie Parsons, a Lake Highlands area mom, former high school teacher, and North Texas Regional Director of the Libertarian Party of Texas, is running an active campaign for the State Board of Education (SBOE) from District 12, which includes Dallas and Rockwall Counties.

The key word there is "active." Parsons is no mere "paper candidate," as she proved on May 19 in Austin when a state trooper manhandled her while she and her supporters were protesting the SBOE meeting.

Amie Parsons, a former teacher and current Texas Libertarian Party State Board of Education candidate from Dallas was assaulted by a Texas State Trooper in Austin today.

"He grabbed my arm and shoved me," Parsons said. "We were holding signs near the State Board of Education meeting room because they would not allow me inside." 

The room at the Saltgrass Steakhouse in Grapevine really wasn't big enough for the sixty-plus participants who showed up to celebrate the "2nd Annual Tax Freedom Day Dinner" Saturday night.

The event for Dallas/Ft. Worth libertarians was the fourth in four days that included Houston, Austin, and San Antonio, all sponsored by the Libertarian Party of Texas.

The April 15th tax protest has been an annual tradition all around the country since the earliest days of the Libertarian Party.

In the 1970s, if small fledgling LP groups could do nothing else they at least mustered a few members to stand in front of the local downtown post office with their "Taxation is Theft – Vote Libertarian" signs as last minute tax filers drove by to toss their 1040 forms into the curbside collection boxes, beating the midnight deadline, and maybe honking their horns in temporary solidarity with the anti-tax sentiment.

Videos of area Libertarian Party candidates are posted on YouTube.

The videos of the Texas Libertarian Party debate among its four gubernatorial candidates have been posted on YouTube thanks to John Jay Myers who "edited these together in a frenzy" in an effort to make them available as quickly as possible.

Four Texas Libertarians seeking their party's gubernatorial nomination appeared on stage Tuesday night at Southern Methodist University in Dallas to showcase their debating skills.

The candidates concentrated on traditional libertarian themes of limited government, lower taxes, and individual and state sovereignty.

Given the libertarian tenet that everyone has the right to do as they choose as long as they don't initiate or threaten force or fraud against anyone else, how can a person be both a Libertarian and a judge?

Wouldn't libertarian judges have to recuse themselves from every victimless crime case on the books?

Will Texas State Senate District 22 end up sending a Libertarian to Austin?

The Waco Tribune-Herald reported Thursday that incumbent Kip Averitt, R-Waco, was withdrawing his bid for reelection do to "health problems."

That leaves the field wide open for Averitt's primary challenger, Darren Yancy of Burleson.

It's an argument as old as the Libertarian Party itself; is the primary purpose of running for office to get elected or to educate people?

When LP candidates concentrate on vote-getting rather than pushing principles they all too often end up sounding like Republicans.

Libertarianism is a bundle of schismatics, branches of white water politics, has much potential political force. However it keeps dividing, inventing more versions, both becoming more vulnerable and confusing people. It is a wonder it has not already self-destructed.

"The federal government, in their zeal for campaign finance reform, have given Libertarians a great gift. Quite simply, they have created the framework for a decentralized way of campaigning, a system perfectly suited to our way of doing politics.

"From the Libertarian perspective, it was easy to predict that so-called campaign finance reform would not succeed in banning anything. People would simply find new creative ways to raise the money to do whatever they wanted anyway. And indeed this has come to pass. In the last election, we saw this new form of politics in action. It is the 527.

Never mistake rhetoric for reality. Live your freedom, a wise man told me that is what you need to do.

The chairman of the Boston Tea Party reflects on some things wrong with the national LP.

What, if anything, will be done to rectify the situation suffered by those whose life, liberty and employment have been negatively impacted by the War on Drugs? To those who are still rotting in prison, those unable to secure employment or college scholarships and grants; those whose possessions-land, homes and bank accounts; were confiscated by drug warriors? Do you tell them, "My bad! But now I've seen the light and I want to start with a clean slate!" Who will clean the slate for these people? Who will give them a do-over?

I bring this up because while Barr might've been excused for donating to Larry Craig's campaign prior to his arrest, there can be little justification for his defense of Craig once his proclivities became public knowledge -other than being an ass blanket for the GOP Hypocritical Pervert Brigade. It only makes sense that those people you deem worthy of donations would also be deemed worthy of supporting- I can't think of a single, solitary person who donates their hard-earned money to politicians that have diametrically opposing views.