Individual Sovereignty

Dallas residents have been up in arms over the new "smart meters" installed in their backyards.

Digital smart meters, which can monitor electric, natural gas, and water usage, allow utility companies to remotely read usage levels and control the delivery of services.

It seems that virtually every newspaper in America is a finger puppet of the Census Bureau, blindly playing the public do-gooder role by patting their little readers on their little heads and telling them to be good little sheep and eagerly spill their guts to the temporarily government-badged snoopers.

In the 1950s and early 1960s teenagers played a game of chicken on America's highways. They drove their cars head-on at each other and the first to swerve was branded a "chicken."

World leaders back then played their own game of cars and chicken, and the chicken droppings are still with us.

Will Oath Keepers weaken America's defenses?

That's what fellow Examiner and libertarian Karl Dickey suggests in his recent article, "Oath keepers and libertarians." Dickey expressed concern that, even as libertarians welcomed Oath Keepers as principled individuals, some military personnel "acting on their own accord" could potentially weaken America's military.

Richard W. Rahn, writing in a recent Cato Institute article titled "New Underground Economy" observes "The underground or 'black' economy is rapidly rising, and the fault is mainly due to government policies."

The underground economy refers to what governments call the black market and what libertarians call the free market.

The satirically titled article Calling all Stalinist-Jeffersonian-Bozoian Libertarians published on Wednesday immediately attracted the ire of contemporary socialism's apologists who stormed the "add a Comment" box on the article's page like they were storming the Bastille.

The article posited that in today's politico-philosophical world, anyone who embraced the oxymoron of "libertarian socialism" should have no problem with accepting the absurdity of "Stalinist-Jeffersonian-Bozoian Libertarianism."

At some point the American justice system quit being about justice and morphed into a cynical blood sport for the lawyering classes who only care about ego gratification and winning at all costs.

Now Cory Maye is reentering that befouled gladiatorial arena for a second chance at justice.

In 2001 Maye's home was forcibly invaded. In the ensuing exchange of gunfire the intruder's leader, Officer Ron Jones, a white cop conducting a drug raid on an innocent man's home in the middle of the night in Mississippi, was fatally shot by Maye, a black man.

Maye was sentenced to death in a primarily white county.

Few people seem to be aware that PASS ID is a near-clone of REAL ID just waiting to be sprung on us. Some background:

REAL ID, the federal government's attempt to turn every state's drivers license into a homogenized national ID card, may not quite be dead yet but it seems to be on its back with legs kicking.

The REAL ID Act, a Bush-era "anti-terrorism" initiative, mandated that all states adopt a single national standard for identifying and authenticating people through state-of-the-art driver's licenses that incorporated a photo, embedded electronic data, and "biometric identifiers."

The only thing you will ever learn about history is that nobody ever learns from history! In effect, we, as individuals, who live in our short time span on earth, think we live in an infallible society. Has it ever occurred that you might be living in either one of 3 phases of an empire?

Well fellow people on this board - all signs of an Empire in Free Fall Decay are here ...

In a very tiny article in The Tennessean that could have easily been missed (but not by the folks at Rational Review) since it runs only five sentences long, the attorney general of Tennessee "ruled" that landlords can ban guns from their rental properties.

Even if the renters have concealed carry permits.

When you hear that some libertarians who typically call themselves Anarcho-Capitalists, or AnCaps, want to abolish government entirely do you respond with gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair?

“Without government we’ll have nothing but chaos,” you might gasp in dismay.

But think about how much chaos government creates.

I received an email from a disillusioned Democrat who's attracted to libertarianism. Naturally, she has a multitude of questions, so I'd like to point her toward some online resources that specifically aid recovering Democrats rather than ones designed to wean people from their Republican addictions.

An incident happened in Yazoo County, Mississippi, that makes gun control advocates wet their dark gray suit pants.

A 14-year-old girl got on a school bus and "pulled out a chrome-plated .380-caliber semi-automatic handgun and began shouting and threatening the other students." (Jackson Clarion-Ledger)

But this isn't what loosens the urethral sphincters of firearm phobics. These sorts of episodes happen all the time, everywhere, which is fine because the more it happens the more funds get funneled into the fingers of antigun groups from supporter's dues and donations and taxpayer-subsidized liberal legislative largesse.

What precipitated the precipitation in the pants was what happened next.

Quarterback and defensive end Kaleb Eulls of the Yazoo County High School Panthers, sleeping on the bus, was woken by one of his three sisters. He walked purposefully up the isle of the bus toward the girl while confidently repeating, "drop the gun" several times, then tackled her, rode her to the floorboards and took the gun away.

Maybe it's time to quit stigmatizing Third World countries by calling them Third World countries.

At least when it comes to the drug war.

While the supposedly advanced and enlightened First World countries, such as The United States of America, still love to gussie up their cop corps with military style guns and gear and gangland arrogance and turn them loose like a pack of hounds on people who are doing nothing more than committing an act of harming no one, the nations of South America are dismantling the War On Some Drugs one law at a time.

Google the phrase, with quotes, "Going Galt" and you'll get "about 215,000" results or so.

Are libertarians witnessing the mainstreaming of John Galt?

This article touches on one of the reasons why the idea of Going Galt is becoming so popular. But it needs to begin with this caveat: