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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.

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.

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."

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.

When the world is melting down around you remember what matters. There is power in you that you have never tapped. Find it this Christmas at home, where you least expect to find it.

A little over a year ago I predicted the present melt down. It will get worse. That said, this is still a time of promise. We can change the present course; we can establish for ourselves and our children a future more wonderful that we ever imagined. Go Home to the Real America.

Now there is real hope. Americans have experienced the melt down of illusion and can see that what matters is community. That is where we live. It is home. Now, we can have what matters most, experiencing a security we build together on a foundation of freedom.

Never mistake rhetoric for reality. Live your freedom, a wise man told me that is what you need to do.

Jim Davidson points out the implication of frank treason in Seymour Hersh's detailed evaluation of Bush/Cheney war in Iran activities. Cheney, et al., are giving aid and comfort to identifiable enemies, they should be tried for treason by a court of competent jurisdiction, found guilty, and executed. Supporting MEK terrorists to foment rebellion in Iran is treason.

Boston Tea Party's Jim Davidson reviews a proposal from many years ago to significantly increase the number of libertarian activists. If a libertarian is someone who has been arrested, why not look to county arrest records for new recruits?

The chairman of the Boston Tea Party reflects on some things wrong with the national LP.

According to news reports, immigration advocates are advising illegals that their best bet against deportation is to clam up and say nothing when the cops come calling. This hacks off critics who claim the do-gooders are aiding lawbreakers. Quoting one article, "It shows blatant contempt for the rule of law in this country and blatant contempt for local police working with federal authorities to clean up this mess," said Chris Simcox, president of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. Continuing crackdowns on undocumented border-busters have thousands of immigrants flocking to pro-immigrant forums where techniques on ducking deportation are taught. Mass movements have always engaged in widespread lawbreaking whenever enough people decided the current laws were contemptible.