So as liberty seekers, let's apply the Law of Attraction to our own ends... recognizing that 90% of success, of reaching the fairway of our imagination, is a) grasping the nature of what stands in the way and b) joyously struggling together with other creative souls to remove those impediments.    

Over the past four years, I feel I've come to understand the essence of what has stood in the way of liberty's success.  The obstacle is at once far more specific than commonly understood while also being cleverly concealed from general awareness of its victims...   

I've made my own move [to the Free State] and can tell you from experience that if you really want to be part of the resurrection of freedom in this country and on this planet, some kind of connection with this (mostly) young vanguard in New Hampshire is highly practical.  

But, as we read in David McCullough's book or see in Tom Hanks' series, American freedom would have been stillborn had not men of conviction—John Adams appears to have been the leader in this regard—stood their ground, worked together, and told King George and his corporate lackeys to stick it where the sun don't shine.  

Most of the arguments around the dinner table will proceed as if the choice between Democrat and Republican exhausts the available options. Of course, readers of this column—as politically noncomatose Americans everywhere —know the Libertarian Party (LP) has been around and running presidential candidates every year since 1972... and this year will be no different.  

Race—or more precisely, racial conflict—is mainly what I want to talk about today, especially the black/white American issue, which has become a much warmer button with the emergence of Barack Obama as a potential presidential nominee.  

Keep in mind, with Clinton or McCain, we have absolutely no hope of economic liberty... or civil liberty or peace; each is hopelessly in bed with the real enemy of us all, the Cartel Pathocracy (CP). With Bama we at least stick it to the enemy on two out of three salients (civil liberties and peace), and give the enemy potential trouble on the other salient (economic freedom).  

A conversation with fellow engineers with whom I've worked.  Recently, I joined Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth and I conveyed to these fellows some of my reasons for coming to believe that the official conspiracy theory of the 9/11 attacks represents a blatant lie and coverup.  

Rational Review refers to its five-step program generically as a Bill of Rights compliance program through recognition of the BoR as the fundamental law of the land, holding all government officials to The Law, and refusing as citizens to obey any statutes that violate The Law.

Everyone on this side of the grass who's given it a second thought knows we're at a crossroads in the epic conflict between the Grand Imperial Collective (GRIC?) and the rights of the individual.

So here are the seven fundamental arguments why I believe we have the bad guys on the run for good starting this epochal season of 2008.

And the general sense of the golf community comes courtesy the Palm Beach Post golf writer and blogger Craig Dolch: "If Woods doesn't have a problem with it, why should anyone else?" 

The Coffee Coaster began in the latter months of 2006 with a general notion to comment on public affairs from a homey "rational, spiritual, libertarian, transhumanist" perspective.  

Socially maturing, finally, through my 40s I found that I looked forward to personally writing Christmas cards every year... to the point I'd plan to spend several hours normally through the week of Thanksgiving sending up these heartfelt messages.

Just as the Holocaust and the allies bringing (some of) the Nazi leadership to justice impelled (we hope) the broad mass of Germans to purge themselves of brutal dictators, exclaiming 'Never Again!', so, too, bringing our pathological power elites to justice will set up a whole new humanitarian system of free minds and free markets.  

Now that Dr. Paul occupies center stage on the world's emerging pathway to political and economic liberation, why won't he at least speak up for widely known and respected immediate victims of wanton government aggression?  I mean in particular the federal raid and confiscation operation on the Liberty Dollar (LD) organization conducted November 14, 2007.  

Seeds of CI were planted back in the days of the Cryonics Society of Michigan in the 1960s, based on the 1962 radical life-extension masterpiece The Prospect of Immortality by Robert Ettinger.  In 1976, CI was founded for the express purpose of providing "cryostasis services: careful preparation, cooling, and long term patient care in liquid nitrogen."

On the morning of Wednesday, November 14, 2007, a dozen agents of the FBI and Secret Service raided the offices of the Liberty Dollar company (LDC) in Evansville, Indiana.  The Liberty LDC is a private precious-metals and value-based currency business that seeks to provide competition to central bank government debt-based paper notes (Federal Reserve notes (FRNs)

Michigan's budget for prisons is approximately $2 billion per year.  As with other state jurisdictions in the so-called Union, roughly half the people languishing in Michigan prisons have committed no acts of aggression on others.  If you cut the prison population in half by freeing the nonaggressors—to be fair you must also expunge the convictions of all victimless "criminals"—you easily save more than a billion dollars.

Keep in mind the average level of play for the typical company league is anywhere between bogey and "why bother?".  But because the scramble format—you take the best of four shots—tends to lift all games to par or better, if you can get over some of your own abysmal strokes, you can actually feel the elation that would come if you were ever to reach par or birdie all by yourself for an entire 18 holes....

Oddly and tragically, this government is also guilty of a serious crime of omission: not a single Congressman has issued articles of impeachment against a warmonger president. Moreover, in light of these deepest transgressions, what's amazing is no massive civil disobedience seems to be in the works 

This is the time of year boys from teen age to middle age huddle around dining room tables drafting mythical football teams consisting of the best players in the National Football League (NFL).  It's become big business, or rather big unbusiness... 

The Danes were also hugely pro-American from the earliest days, about 1 in 10 Danes coming to the States during the 19th century... escaping unemployment or for political freedom—since 1912 Denmark has celebrated America's Independence Day. 

Elaborating on Part 1. If someone were to come up with a pro-Randian group with a name like "Reasonable Objectivists of the Libertarian Left" (ROLL), or even simply Reasonable Objectivists for Humanity, I'd certainly consider enlisting.

Hence, a peculiar and relatively dangerous affliction—dangerous because the views one refuses to change are manifestly antireason and thus antilife—is what I have come to call the Right-Wing Randian Blankout Syndrome (R2BS). (The blankouts mainly take the form of denials):...

The feds and probably some higher level pols at the state level have already tried to make hay out of I35-W, proposing increased funding of this or that.  Both honest left and honest right seem focused on making sure the real infrastructure, i.e. bricks and mortar, will get more attention...

And this what is so special about Rabbi Wine.  Yes, he had a scintillating personality that stirred the brain cells if not the blood.  Yet he essentially transformed a small part of an existing faith-based religion, Judaism, into a reason-focused one. 

When a computer behind the scenes behaves as a random-number generator, too many people accept the numbers without critical thinking.  The results are sometimes comical, but such lapses of mental independence can lead to the more dangerous affliction of "blind obedience to authority."

Rarely in history do freedom people get the opportunity to leverage three simple pieces of national legislation into a massive victory over the Forces of Darkness: the Hinchey Amendment, the Industrial Hemp Farming Bill of 2007 (HR 1009), and the Kucinich resolution to impeach Dick Cheney (H. Res. 333).

We haven't discussed much about the etiquette, sociology, or even some of the performance characteristics of social golf in the provinces, mainly because it's such a big subject and it's been covered in books by professionals.  Still, let me give you a few parochial insights:

I guess you could say it just clicked. By 1994 we became a Regular Foursome. I use the initial capital letters to suggest that a Regular Foursome is one of the bigger deals in the universe... like the mating of wild yaks:

This weekend, watching the 2007 US Open golf championship, one of the more brutal contests in the game (where par is an achievement), it occurs to me these men are playing a game "with which I am not familiar."

The wait is over.  They have money, they have numbers, and they're motivated.  The idea of Ron Paul and the ideas of Ron Paul may galvanize millions of people looking for radical liberty, seeking a way out of our mess, eagerly anticipating a zero-BS restoration of a potentially great country.

Little John is a former bartender for the E.G. Nicks' establishments.  John was my primary mixologist toward the end of my alcohol-laden primetime...  We've stayed in touch occasionally via email over the years as I sobered up and he launched into SE Michigan entrepreneurship....

These are the days of neverending self-righteous political hand-wringing and pandering about "illegal immigrants."  Today in the paper a poll says that most Americans want to throw out these hordes of alien invaders—especially those south-of-the-border minions that "take our jobs and ..."

And it appears genuine humans are going to have some sayso in this campaign.  Ron Paul on the two TV debates thus far has led phone-in opinion polls; Kucinich has done similar in the Dem forums.  Both Dr. Paul and Mr. Kucinich have appeared effectively on Bill Maher's HBO program Real Time.

I wanted to work the insights into my rewrite of New Pilgrim Chronicles where I describe what's happening in the Free State on the leading edge of the freedom movement.  Catalyzed by Forrest's character, particularly his naturalism and love of children and animals, I reached an epiphany of sorts.

... As they made the uneventful crossing into the new Mexican paradise of liberty and abundance, Kevin and Kate unfurled two Bill of Rights flags, then set them securely, one on the north side in English, one on the south side in Spanish...

If we give up the bogus War on Terror and the insane War on Drugs, the government would have a cool trillion to play with, like right now. That could buy a lot of 'pushing people around to make sure they have their papers.'

Retired police detective Howard Wooldridge rides high in the saddle to end the drug war.  Not high as in buzzed, but in taking the high road.  He's the Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) education specialist for Congress and in town at Michigan State for a lecture on how to end the War on Drugs.

Let me add my three cents on the Don Imus affair.  Does anyone remember the adage Sticks and Stones?  What's the best policy for constructive human relations?  How about some 'Getoverital' and focus on serious matters.

Reminds me of Velda back in 2002 when New York implemented a handheld-cellphone-use ban. She heartily agreed, saying 'Here, here! I'm tired of being cut off by some bimbo-princess in an SUV bubble-gumming her girlfriend!' 

Aaron Russo starts off with an inquiry as to whether or not the income tax is legally valid, then proceeds to make some scary discoveries. We heal our world by living free, by unleashing our individual creative spirits...

Next time you take that slow aromatic, sumptuous draw on your favorite independently crafted India Pale Ale (IPA), pause for a moment to salute the moral achievement it represents, a simple manifestation of the best within us. 

The real people of the world are the ones screwed the worst by the 'synthetics' (big oil, big pharma, big government), and they'll rise up and free the American 300 million.

Sometimes you don't have to be on the right side of the social causes, just fix the downstairs toilet.

Take a breather and learn how to chill with a cosmic hookup to the universal life force. Columnist Brian Wright shares a simple meditation technique for helping you to 'maintain an even strain.'

The Freedom Rider recommends moving to the Free State as the best means of achieving a free society in our time.

From Cheney-Bush to Hillary? Do the horrors of King George mask the hazards of Queen State? In part two, discuss whether Hillary a good choice, what are some better alternatives.

From Cheney-Bush to Hillary? Do the horrors of King George mask the hazards of Queen State? A review of the Bush years and the several crimes against humanity, against the environment, and against the Constitution. Is Hillary a good choice?

Just a humorous bit of copy making its way around the Internet, probably some older terms like prairie dogging, but several that I haven't seen.

In the Free State a bill has been introduced that will legalize the possession of small quantities of marijuana for personal use. This is a small step for reacquiring our constitutionally guaranteed rights to self-ownership persons.

The issue of excessive compensation for corporate executives has been around for a long time. We can solve the problem by removing special government privileges. Minimum wage legislation is NOT a solution.

Ann Coulter is wrong about the 'war' for several reasons. And she is not alone. The Coffee Coaster shows some real solutions for the occupation in Iraq that don't require blaming people who didn't want to go to war in the first place.

A Michigan woman is unjustly headed to jail for sexual activity with a 15-year-old boy. What can we do to prevent such cruel and unusual punishments for natural sex... even if it shows poor judgment?

Dr. Bette Erwin dies from gall bladder infection. She was a leading figure in the Libertarian Party of Michigan in the 1970s and the 1980s, as well as a leading PHD psychologist-therapist in Southeast Michigan. Her spirit lives on in all who love reason and liberty.

Lauren Canario, the woman twice arrested and incarcerated for protesting eminent domain in Connecticut, is a perfect inspiration for growing the Sacred Nonaggression Principle in society. Let's all get behind the Public Official Nonaggression Pledge (PONaP) program.

The next step is education.  People are still fairly unaware of what aggression is and what it is not; this phase provides the training.  Finally we hold public officials to the SNaP by pledge.

The Sacred Nonaggression Principle provides the solution to all major problems faced by humankind. Here's a summary and prognosis.  First step is making the SNaP "sacred."

We all have fat friends, and we all worry about their happiness and health. Oprah's way of eating, the Bob Greene "best life diet," offers hope to everyone with eating disorders. The numbers of people affected are staggering.

The laws on handicapped individuals make matters worse for everyone. Whenever a "need" makes a right, the ones with take back seat on bus of normal human compassion.

Why not form a new political party for normal people who don't want to live as corporate-state drones and do want to live in a healthy community of individuals who live for their own sakes without sacrifice of anyone to anyone. Could we possibly agree on a Society without Coercion? That would be a libertarian dream to be shared with everyone.

Is Wal-Mart scorching the earth with its special treatment by the state and lack of concern for the communities it inhabits or the people it employs? A nice complement to the movie, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices.

Ann Coulter, the Queen of Demean, despite her predilection for eating children is not always wrongheaded in her political opinions. Here she gets it close to being right, arguing sensible airline policy to profile Islamic clerics... especially when they are chanting anti-American slogans and holding one-way tickets.

Bernard von Nothaus and the Liberty Dollar organization endure federal threats to bring Americans honest money. Round One: freedom fighters.

The challenge is to find the connection between what relatively few people are now doing in the Free State and what community activists are doing all across the country.

The basic argument of New Pilgrim Chronicles and the Free State Project, itself, is citizen empowerment through application of the Sacred Nonaggression Principle.

Can't resist a reflective take-off on Johnnie River's ditty: Corporation Man, sung to the tune of Secret Agent Man. The swan song for the corporate wretched excess.

Michael Moore writes a letter to the former Republican majority and to disheartened conservatives about the recent mid-term elections. Michael, you need to have the ideas of liberty explained to you; here's my letter to you and the others, both Republicans and Democrats.

Two very good exemplary men die in the same week: Bo Schembechler and Milton Friedman We have a lot to be thankful for in their lives and a lot to emulate.

The Mid-Term 2006 elections are significant in forestalling full-blown fascism in this country. Unfortunately, the winners were Democrats and they miss the point the voters were trying to make: we want peace AND liberty.

Commentary about the breakfast menu at McDonald's, it's cheap and filling, gets you going in the morning, cutting the corporate giant some slack.