politics

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.

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:

While it's true that libertarians come in all forms and flavors– pro Libertarian Party vs. no party, small government vs. no government, right-leaning conservative libertarians vice left radical anarcho-libertarians, libertarian voters and anti-voting libertarians – much the same can be said of Tea Parties.

Some are nonpartisan and apolitical. Some are conservative traditionalist. Some are wedged deep into the hip pocket of the Republican Party. Some are anti-Obama administration but pro-rightwing GOP.

If Jim Prindle of Allen, the LP nominee for Texas Congressional District 4, didn't know this before he knows it now: some "nonpartisan" Tea Parties are staunchly anti-Libertarian Tea Parties.

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.

"I've gotten my first threat!" Jeff Daiell, candidate for the 2010 Libertarian Party nomination for Governor of Texas, wrote on his Houston Chronicle blog page.

A supporter of incumbent Governor Rick Perry threatened to bring "a big bucket of rotten cabbages and tomatoes" to Wharton County Junior College in Sugar Land on the evening of April 27 where Daiell is scheduled to address two Government classes.

Libertarian Party and Ron Paul groups all over the country are heading out to their nearest Federal Reserve Banks this weekend to take part in the 4th nationwide End the Fed protest.

Which proves you don't have to be an Einstein to disprove Einstein's definition of insanity; all you have to be is Texas Rep Ron Paul.

A day after the April 15 tax day Lone Star Tea Party rally at QuickTrip Park in Grand Prairie there's little indication of how libertarians, or their ideas, may have benefited from the event.

The Libertarian Party in North Texas has not been sitting idly by during the 2010 tax protest week.

LP candidate for Congress John Jay Myers, the perpetual motion machine of North Texas Libertarians, seems to be everywhere simultaneously.

Wednesday he was the lone Libertarian voice in a sea of conservative speakers at the Castle Hills Conservative Club's tea party in The Colony.

WFAA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Dallas/Ft. Worth, featured Myers' call for cutting taxes.

"We are trying to motivate Libertarians and anti-war Republicans who participate in the Tea Parties to show up with a message of less war and more freedom. We will never be a free country while we are tied to this debt." – John Jay Myers

Fed Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke used a Dallas Regional Chamber luncheon on Wednesday to tell the American people what flibbertigibbetty fools we are.

The government, to make up for destroying the economy with two self-destructive wars, throwing around trillions of taxbucks like confetti to rescue their big banking buddies, imposing a vast health-careless boondoggle on a majority of people who repeatedly said they didn't want it, and nationalizing car companies in a naked power grab and then handing the keys to their union cronies, will now commence to punish us for allowing them to get away with their Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) behavior by heaping more taxes on us.

Christopher Bridges, better known as rapper Ludacris, came to Dallas as part of a tax-funded $300 million "Luda on the Block Tour" to "change the perception of African Americans" about the 2010 Census.

Libertarian reaction to Sunday's passage of Obamacare was still reverberating days later in North Texas.

One of the first responses came from Tim Lebsack, Precinct 3211 Chair, LP Dallas County, who titled his Dallas Libertarians Meetup Group message "End Socialist Health Care."

The Ft. Worth Star-Telegram carried the Associated Press report of a convenience store clerk in Kansas City who did exactly what a robber ordered him to do.

He also did what his boss, formerly the Dallas-based Southland Corporation and now Seven-Eleven Japan Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of Seven & I Holdings Co., Ltd., trained him to do.

He also did what the police have repeatedly advised everybody to do.

Four public facilities in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex will be the recipients of money coerced from Americans nationwide by their own national government and then redistributed through a process called "stimulus grants."

According to fellow Examiner Caroline Calais, the local Dallas Environmental Policy Examiner, the beneficiaries of the coerced largess are the Carroll Independent School District in Grapevine, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, the University of Texas at Arlington, and the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District.

The great Texas book battle is over for now.

The point of the battle, a periodic Texas Board of Education brawl fought along political lines, is to make Texas textbooks less liberally biased by making them more conservatively biased.

Libertarians will agree with some changes (Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek were added as champions of free-market economic theory) and reject some ("Other changes seem aimed at tamping down criticism of the right.")

(All quotes are from the New York Times article, Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change.)