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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.

Libertarian Partier John Jay Myers is stumping for the US Congress seat from Texas' District 32 currently occupied by Republican Pete Sessions.

Because of his campaign style, some might expect to see Myers at the Improv in Addison or Arlington. Or maybe one of Hyena's comedy clubs in Dallas, Fort Worth, or Arlington.

Medina is in.

Debra Medina, the favorite Texas Republican Party gubernatorial candidate for many Libertarians and virtually all Ron Paul supporters, has been invited to the big dance in Big D.

Will Texas State Senate District 22 end up sending a Libertarian to Austin?

The Waco Tribune-Herald reported Thursday that incumbent Kip Averitt, R-Waco, was withdrawing his bid for reelection do to "health problems."

That leaves the field wide open for Averitt's primary challenger, Darren Yancy of Burleson.

Libertarian John Jay Myers announces run for US Congress, Texas District 32, against Republican Pete Sessions, all Republocrats, and unconstitutional laws.

If you're a Libertarian Party candidate for political office and you don't want to end up sounding like just another two-faced mealy-mouthed Republican or Democrat, if you don't want to sacrifice libertarian principles in order to gain a few extra votes from an unsuspecting public, watch John Jay Myers' video and take notes.

Whole Foods’ CEO John MacKey is profiled in the current issue of The New Yorker.

Having gotten the political left riled up with his Wall Street Journal anti-Obamacare article he riles up the folks again with an anti-climate change opinion.

There's still time for libertarians to make a new year's resolution: unload the isolationist label.

Once again, this time from the mainstream rightwing hardcore neocon advertising-bloated online publication World Net Daily, a libertarian is accused of being an isolationist.
A "straight news" WND article featuring Republican/Libertarian Ron Paul editorially referred to his "isolationist perspective."

Calling libertarians "isolationist" in their foreign policy views is an attempt by the "mainstream" to call libertarians what they're not in an attempt to marginalize them as naive and unrealistic.

Most modern American individualist laissez-faire free market libertarians are familiar with the Nolan chart, which asks a few simple questions about your political proclivities and then plots your answers on a two-axis grid rather than the traditional left-right linear scale.

The Dallas Morning News reported today that Debra Medina is launching her TV ad campaign for Texas governor in five cities (not including the Dallas/Ft. Worth area) on Sunday.

The News describes Medina, who is gunning for the Republican Party endorsement, as "more libertarian than typical Republican conservatives" and a Ron Paul supporter. Ron Paul, on the other hand, is a Republican who is certainly more libertarian than typical Republican conservatives but is not necessarily a Debra Median supporter.

Global warming, or as a new Pope takes on a saint's name, "Climate Change," has gone from credible scientific enquiry beginning in 1824 to a small cottage industry hoax in the mid twentieth century created by a few members of the wild-eyed intellectual classes (What, nobody believes our "coming ice age" warnings? Let's try global warming instead) to a full-blown international hoax today.

Some members of the Republican National Committee want a conservative-only party and won't fund any candidate who fails their purity litmus test.

Here's the purity test (8 out of 10 is passing) as it appeared recently in the Los Angeles Times, followed by some libertarian observations, many of which will fail the purity litmus test of other libertarians.

At some point the American justice system quit being about justice and morphed into a cynical blood sport for the lawyering classes who only care about ego gratification and winning at all costs.

Now Cory Maye is reentering that befouled gladiatorial arena for a second chance at justice.

In 2001 Maye's home was forcibly invaded. In the ensuing exchange of gunfire the intruder's leader, Officer Ron Jones, a white cop conducting a drug raid on an innocent man's home in the middle of the night in Mississippi, was fatally shot by Maye, a black man.

Maye was sentenced to death in a primarily white county.

President Obama wants to move alleged terrorists out of the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba so he can keep a campaign promise and shut the place down.

Obama home-state politicians want the federal government to buy the Thomson Correctional Center in rural northwest Illinois and move the current Gitmo residents in.

Land of Lincoln Governor Pat Quinn waxed eloquent on Sunday in an AP article proclaiming that selling the prison to the federal government is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create jobs in the struggling area.

But can politicos really turn taxpayer-funded public works projects into incredible job-creating machines?

A recent article, Politics not as usual, cheered on Iowa Libertarian Party candidate for governor Eric Cooper who candidly admitted that his goal wasn't to win but to get enough votes so the major parties would "poach our issues in order to steal our voters.”

His rationale? "The Populists in the 1890s and the Socialists in the 1910s won almost no elections, and yet most of the major planks of their platforms were eventually implemented."