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.

Floods, fires, melting ice, heat waves and rainstorms are all touted in one article as proof of runaway global warming rather than eons-old common occurrences.

Another story tells us how British Columbia adopted California's "landmark greenhouse gas reduction law" and created "more than 20,000 new [taxpayer-funded, bureaucrat-run, politically-connected] clean-tech jobs."

And two others mentioned how the Senate scrapped a bill to curb carbon emissions "responsible for global warming" because of "opposition from Republicans and coal-state Democrats," proving that global warming is all about politics, not science.

Libertarian activism doesn't have to be over the top. You don't have to run for president, harangue a crowd, or splatter the internet with an endless stream of blogs and tweets and Facebook messages.

Libertarian activism can be simple and local and still effectively make its point.

That point is, and should always be, that people working together voluntarily will always outperform the coercion of governments.

It has been months now since the new healthcare reform bill was passed into law. As is so typical, this massive piece of legislation was passed with a sense of urgency so acute that leadership declared America could not afford to wait until legislators, their staff and the general public had time to thoroughly read the bill.

The truth comes out eventually, however. Much like the recently discovered exemption from Freedom of Information Act requirements for the SEC that was slipped into the equally massive and “urgent” financial reform bill, we are finally seeing what other insidiousness has been hiding in the fine print of the healthcare reform bill. It seems that all provisions in this poorly written and poorly conceived monstrosity need to be repealed as soon as possible.

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:

Last week the National Bureau of Economic Research published a report on the effect of civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq that confirmed what critics of our foreign policy have been saying for years: the killing of civilians, although unintentional, angers other civilians and prompts them to seek revenge. This should be self-evident.

The Central Intelligence Agency has long acknowledged and analyzed the concept of blowback in our foreign policy. It still amazes me that so many think that attacks against our soldiers occupying hostile foreign lands are motivated by hatred toward our system of government at home or by the religion of the attackers. In fact, most of the anger towards us is rooted in reactions towards seeing their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and other loved ones being killed by a foreign army. No matter our intentions, the violence of our militarism in foreign lands causes those residents to seek revenge if innocents are killed. One does not have to be Muslim to react this way, just human.

Our foreign policy was in the spotlight last week, which is exactly where it should be. Almost two years ago many voters elected someone they thought would lead us to a more peaceful, rational co-existence with other countries. However, while attention has been focused on the administration’s disastrous economic policies, its equally disastrous foreign policies have exacerbated our problems overseas. Especially in times of economic crisis, we cannot afford to ignore costly foreign policy mistakes. That’s why it is important that U.S. foreign policy receive some much needed attention in the media, as it did last week with the leaked documents scandal.

When somebody else's Accordion Festival gets $25,000 in federal stimulus funds it's called a wasteful pork barrel boondoggle, but when it's $454,200 worth of government gravy for new lighting for a softball field in your own backyard that's entirely legitimate "need."

Some North Texans were upset when a John McCain/Tom Coburn report called it "wasting taxpayer dollars" to spend that kind of money to install new lights at Softball World, "The Crown Jewel of Adult Softball," in a city park in Euless.

August 10 – Denton County Libertarians are throwing a "Beer, Banter and Pizza" bash at Frankie's Sports Bar & Grill in Lewisville. They won't be hard to find because "We'll have the Vote Libertarian sign proudly displayed!" This is a social only, no business, and the pizza is free. (Hey, libertarians, a "Free Lunch!")

RSVP Denton County Libertarians

Dallas-Ft. Worth's WFAA-TV ran a report bemoaning the fact that the Fort Worth Employee's Retirement Fund is running dry.

And well it should. It's a sweetheart deal, created by Ft. Worth employees for themselves, in which they can retire at 60 and get "benefits that are close to their salaries that last as long as they live."

What this crisis means is, "each year the city will have to use more and more taxpayer money to write millions in promised benefit checks."

Libertarians have another option:

I have often spoken about the excessive size of government, and most recently how waste and inefficiency needs to be eliminated from our military budget. Our foreign policy is not only bankrupting us, but actively creating and antagonizing enemies of the United States, and compromising our national security. Spending more and adding more programs and initiatives does not improve things for us; it makes them much much worse. This applies to more than just the military budget.

Recently the Washington Post ran an extensive report by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin on the bloated intelligence community. They found that an estimated 854,000 people hold top-secret security clearances. Just what are all these people up to? By my calculation this is about 11,000 intelligence workers per al Qaeda member in Afghanistan. This also begs the question - if close to 1 million people are authorized to know top secrets, how closely guarded are these secrets?

From time to time Justin Oliver leads his hardy band of jury rights advocates into downtown Ft. Worth to distribute jury nullification literature to prospective jury members arriving at the Tarrant County Justice Center.

An excellent feature article on the crucial importance, philosophy and background of jury nullification appears in the current issue of the weekly alternative newspaper, River Cities Reader, written by its editor Jeff Ignatius. (Full disclosure: your Dallas Libertarian Examiner wrote a weekly syndicated column on libertarian issues for The Reader before becoming the Dallas Libertarian Examiner.)

Sunday Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban bragged on his blog maverick "I just invested in a company that takes video of an area and can tell you exactly how many people are in the capture area at any given time."

Fine. But then he elaborates: "The next extension is to install it in places where we can add facial recognition software."

Install it in which places? Every place in America, like the Brits have installed their spycams everywhere in the formerly "Great" Britain?

"Even more interesting," The Mavs maven points out, "is the fact that Facebook provides a database of 500mm people and their names from around world."

Facebook, in other words, "could be the first to provide a database of names and faces to the commercial world of facial recognition."