Individual Sovereignty

The reason he can't play? Residency requirements.

The UIL decided that the Garmans moved to Southlake from Oklahoma City just so Daxx could play football, which is against UIL rules. While the Garmans have a home in Southlake and their Oklahoma house is listed for sale they still maintain a business in Oklahoma and Daxx's father travels back and forth.

Cue the customary fear-mongering:

Massive layoffs of correctional officers "would jeopardize public safety" warned a department spokesperson.

Cutting parole staff "could have a withering impact on their public mission," we are admonished.

In a followup to an earlier Dallas Libertarian Examiner article on the subject, the Dallas City Council on Thursday approved a ban on pot-like "fake weed" K2 and the paraphernalia used to inhale it.

But not without principled opposition.

Several speakers, unnamed by the Dallas Morning News, criticized the ban as an overreaction.

One speaker in particular, identified by the DMN only as "one speaker," sounded so libertarian in his challenge to the absurdity of banning the possession of plant life that the entire quote is worth repeating here:

Justin Oliver, a committed libertarian activist who frequently appears on the front lines of the freedom movement in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, announced a new Meetup for Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty - Tarrant County earlier this week, a cause tailor-made for the armchair activist:

Letter Writing to Julian Heicklen.

Texas, like every other state in the union, has a budget deficit.

A survey, according to a report on WFAA Channel 8, "shows 57 percent of people in favor of making casino gambling legal in Texas to help reduce the state's budget deficit."

Currently, most Dallas/Ft. Worth gamblers travel to Oklahoma or Louisiana to satisfy their casino gambling urges.

Tanning salons in the Metroplex, reports the Dallas Morning News, will face even tougher times in the already tough recession once the new ten percent tanning tax goes into effect this summer.

The political Robber Barons, who never fail to salivate at the prospect of a new tax levied on something, anything, apparently aren't honest enough to just come right out and say, "We want your money." So they fall back on a tried and true justification for their thievery.

"Last summer," reports the article, "the World Health Organization listed tanning beds as confirmed cancer causers."

There it is, the old "public health" gimmick.

Some Latino-activist groups, according to the Dallas Morning News, are calling for a boycott of Plano-based Frito-Lay products because they sponsor the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona.

That's one response to the recently enacted Arizona immigration law that many claim encourages police intimidation, amounts to racial profiling and is just "mean-spirited."

A Dallas Morning News article was all agog about a USA Today article all agog about the city of Dallas building a deck over Woodall Rodgers freeway and turning it into a five-acre park.

So how did all this become a done deal (the park opens in 2012)? Follow the green: the money kind and the environmental kind.

First think of every politically correct sustainable environmental urbanism cliché you can and you have one answer.

Now think of every "public-private partnership" boondoggle you've ever heard of. This one gets $20 million from state and federal taxpayers and $16.7 million in Obama "stimulus" taxbucks.

"Amid mounting frustration over taxation and banking problems, small but growing numbers of overseas Americans are taking the weighty step of renouncing their citizenship.

"American expats have long complained that the United States is the only industrialized country to tax citizens on income earned abroad, even when they are taxed in their country of residence, though they are allowed to exclude their first $91,400 in foreign-earned income.

My personal mistake was to assume The United States of America was based on a Constitution barring the government from involvement in the lives of her Citizens. The 10th Amendment handed civilian laws to the States. Not believing in any supernatural ghost I believed the Separation of Church and State was covered by the First Amendment but has since been removed due to the influx of Christians living/voting in the nation. Now it seems that our Constitutional Republic is now a Democracy under Christian tenets i.e. a Theocracy.

In a libertarian world private property would be sacrosanct because without property rights no other rights are possible.

In North Texas today land grabbers simply take what they want, whenever they want it.

In the past the criminals hired gunslingers to do their dirty work. Today the rich, politically connected corporatists use eminent domain, a practice still ultimately backed by badge-wearing gunslingers.

Saturday was Mayday in Dallas as it was in many cities across the country since it played host to both a marijuana march and an even bigger immigration march.

Six activists, according to Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty - Tarrant County Meetup group, participated in both events.

Although the immigration marches and counter-marches dominated Saturday's news in Dallas and nationwide, several local Libertarians eagerly participated in that "other" long-planned street demonstration, the 2010 Worldwide Marijuana March.

A Rowlett man had been terrorizing his ex wife for a year, and Channel 5, the local Dallas/Ft. Worth NBC outlet, ran the end of the story on Monday.

"I always feared one day that he was going to turn his anger and aggression on me," Says Veronica Galvaniz in the video, "and he did."

Local jury rights advocates encountered what they called "a total apologist for government aggression and discrimination" during their most recent outreach event on Monday.

In the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, members of Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty - Tarrant County Meetup Group frequently take up position outside the Tarrant County Justice Center to hand out Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA) brochures to prospective jurors.

They were about to leave after a successful day of passing out "close to 400 trifolds" when the encounter with the self-described Christian and licensed attorney began.