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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.

(Editorial aside: isn't it a redundancy to say "corrupt government?")

The letters stand for "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch," meaning that, contrary to government-run collectivist socialist welfarist philosophy, neither people nor societies can get "something for nothing."

But if you can find a Panera nonprofit restaurant in your area you can eat for free, or for as much money as your conscience dictates.

Reports from the 2010 Libertarian Party of Texas Convention in Austin, as they arrived at the old Dell Dimension 2400 desktop computer of the Dallas Libertarian Examiner:

For fifty years generations of what we know as the Freedom Movement have struggled to obtain the blessings of liberty, affirming our inherent rights, and living in peace. How much progress has there been? As someone who has volunteered and donated take our survey.

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."

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.

Are you disgusted with the way the political classes are destroying our country with massive taxes and debt and shredding our freedoms with the nationalization of everything they can get their hands on?

Are you planning on doing a little tax protesting on April 15 this year?

If the answer is yes to both those questions, John Ringer has a deal for you.

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.