""If you throw a frog into boiling water it will immediately jump out but if you put him in cool water and gradually turn up the heat, he will stay in until he dies." This analogy can be applied to the good ole US of A as well.

"For the most part we still have this inalienable right [First Amendment]. Except for illegal, supposed, DUI Checkpoints, roving wiretaps, and the fact that now it is illegal in Oklahoma to put bars on your windows because they might be "preventing or delaying entry or access by a law enforcement officer."

Integrity demands consistency from all parts of our lives. If you turn your back on wrong you have no integrity. If you fail to speak up, act, do, don't expect to be free. Integrity is the price of freedom.

On Sunday an off-duty sheriff's deputy shot and killed a man who burst into a Walmart during a gunfight with police in Commerce, Texas (60 miles northeast of Dallas).

What could be better for rabid gun-hating lefties than a shooting anywhere?

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.

"Professor Jones has been accused of ‘scientific fraud’ for allegedly deliberately suppressing information and refusing to share vital data with critics.

"Discussing the interview, the BBC’s environmental analyst Roger Harrabin said he had spoken to colleagues of Professor Jones who had told him that his strengths included integrity and doggedness but not record-keeping and office tidying."

* Data for vital ‘hockey stick graph’ has gone missing
* There has been no global warming since 1995

This is a Public Service Announcement.

A PSA, according to Wikipedia, is "an advertisement broadcast on radio or television for the public interest."

The "public interest" is whatever the government says it is.

This particular PSA is embedded in an article on a webpage for your personal interest.

Your "personal interest" is whatever you say it is.

The type of PSA we're most familiar with is typically created by incestuous public/private bedfellows consisting of a private ad agency that produces the ad pro bono (a Latin phrase that means, in this case, "in exchange for political favors") and is funded by a public government agency using tax dollars taken from citizens under threat of fine or imprisonment.

The "sign war" against small business owners in Dallas is heating up again.

Last fall, the city council outlawed advertising signs in the upper two-thirds of store windows and glass doors, and they cannot cover more than 15 percent of a store's facade.

The city sees the issue as a matter of "security" and cleaning up "sign clutter" while business owners contend it's a matter of free speech and the life or death of their businesses.

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.

"Dallas scores big in TIGER grants; Feds will fund street cars." – Dallas Morning News headline

What Dallas actually gets is a boondoggle much beloved by, according to the Texas Public Policy Foundation, "Pork lovers, auto haters, and nostalgia buffs."

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.

Last week we were reminded that ours is not the only country suffering from severe economic turmoil. The Greek government is the latest to come close to default on their massive public debt. Greece has insufficient funds in their treasury to make even the minimum payments that are now coming due. Their debt level is about 120 percent of their gross domestic product and their public sector absorbs what amounts to 40 percent of GDP. Any talk of cutting costs and spending is met with violent protests from the many Greeks heavily dependent on government payments. Mounting fears of default have sent shockwaves through their creditors and all of the eurozone countries.

Ballot Proposition #4: Public Acknowledgement of God - The use of the word "God", prayers, and the Ten Commandments should be allowed at public gatherings and public educational institutions, as well as be permitted on government buildings and property. YES OR NO – Texas Legislative Update

Even though it only appears on the Texas Republican Party Primary ballot, non-binding Prop 4 is causing a stir all across the state, including the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.

Emails zapping back and forth through the webways amongst Libertarian and Libertarianish Meetup members in the Metroplex have been outdoing each other in pummeling Glenn Beck for dismissing Debra Median, the Ron Paulian Libertarian-tilting Republican candidate for Texas Governor, as a "911 Truther."

Medina appeared on Beck's radio show via local Dallas outlet 570 KLIF Talk Radio. When Beck asked her about the 911 Truth movement Medina replied that she wasn't taking a position on it, to which Beck responded through his chuckles, "People in America might think that might be a Yes."

Strung out along the bottom of Tarrant County, just south of Interstate 20 and the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex is Texas House District 96.

And Lindy Suze of Mansfield wants it.

At least she wants to be the Libertarian Party candidate for the office. But that will be decided at the county convention on March 13 and the district convention on March 20. Once those hurdles are cleared she will become the LP flag-bearer for her local district in November.