About Brian Wright

Hello, I'm Brian Wright, the proprietor and chief content provider to this Web opinion and review site. The Coffee Coaster (thecoffeecoaster.com) has been around since late 2006, and in early 2012 I finally decided to give the site a major makeover with this Wordpress implementation. My views are 'wholistic libertarian,' meaning focused on the spiritual--I like to use the word: essentual--evolution we will need, individually, in order to reach the New Paradigm of peace, freedom, and abundance. Let's help one another in the process.

Brian’s Column: Foreword to Leaving the Sandbox

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Brian Wright

New Strategy for the Libertarian Party

The following is the foreword from my imminent book, Leaving the Sandbox, to be published on a subject that should be of great concern for all lower-case, generic libertarians: How do we Libertarian Party supporters integrate our efforts with the rest of the freedom movement (especially those parts showing success) to cast off the Old Paradigm of war and tyranny in service to ‘hive’ and move adroitly to the New Paradigm of a free society of individuals standing proudly at the altar of the ‘authentic swing?’ One thing is certain: doing the same old thing is a prescription for insanity… nor is there much time remaining for that. Continue reading →

Book Review: There Must Be Some Mistake (2008)

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Brian Wright

Just another casual casualty of the drug war
by Brian Wright

2008, Lulu, 57 pages
Reviewed by Logan Brandt

Brian Wright’s first book, New Pilgrim Chronicles, is the story of one man’s coming to the Free State of New Hampshire to help create more liberty everywhere. In contrast, Wright’s second political monograph recounts his experience with the “Drug Prohibition System (DPS);” it’s a true drug war story where an ordinary middle-class guy’s liberty is suspended for two grueling weeks by the harsh, senseless prosecutocratic world of prison-planet lite. Brian decided to use this dire personal experience—considerably more benign than what the poor or minorities are typically subjected to—to speak out, for those who have no voice, against the cruel, unusual system. Continue reading →

Movie Review: Sex and the City 2 (2010)

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Brian Wright

100% better than #1, but doesn’t soar __ 6.5/10

Has it already been two years since the first Sex and the City movie?! Actually two and a half years. That’s amazing! In the summer of 2008 we were subjected to the first—I must say deeply flawed effort—by Michael Patrick King… where one of the culminating events is “Charlotte [having] an embarrassing incident with her bowels [bringing on] the guffaws [and taking] Carrie out of her funk.” Thinking back on #1, I remember distinctly hoping every scene after the first five minutes would be the last. Still I gave it a 4 (out of 10) for old time’s sake. Continue reading →

Guest Column: What about the Molten Metal

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Brian Wright

… of 9/11 at the World Trade Center site
Jon Rappoport, February 8, 2014

Nomorefakenews.com. I began by reading reports of melting dripping metal at the World Trade Center after the attack on September 11th.

Some of these reports come from weeks after the attack.

This seemed quite strange.

Following links, I arrived at Dr. Steven Jones and his famous paper, “Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Completely Collapse?” Continue reading →

Brian’s Column: Rethinking Libertarian Party Strategy:2

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Brian Wright

From Part 1, I hope that I effectively made several points that warrant an effective grand strategy for Libertarians and libertarians. Before I summarize these points, let me first stipulate the larger community that the strategy is intended to serve:

World Citizenship Alliance

The community of service is composed of you or I or any of a vast number of what I’ll call free men.[1] I mean free in the Jeffersonian or Lockeian sense of persons living—achieving their material, real existence—in a natural condition of purely voluntary relationships with others, free to choose what to do with their lives without the initiation of force (aggression) by any of the others, and asserting this condition as fundamentally right. In other words asserting what historically is called the Rights of Man. Continue reading →

Book Review: Change We Can (Had Better) Believe In (2008)

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Brian Wright

Barack Obama’s plan to renew America’s promise (via Stalinism)
by Barack Obama’s campaign people
Reviewed by Brian Wright

Originally posted on Coffee Coaster 12/22/2008. Someone inclined to favor Democrats over Republicans in general recommended this book to me before the election, saying it provides a “really detailed, incredibly well-thought-out plan of what Barack Obama will do if he wins the presidency—of course with the consent of Congress, consistent with the Constitution, and only if the money exists. That last proviso—if the money exists—is the thin red-ink line I’m hanging my personal hopes on for this administration. Because, omigosh, if the Obamanon[1] executes even half of the objectives outlined in Change We Can Believe In, everyone in the country will need to volunteer their life savings. Continue reading →

Guest Column: (Ayn)RAND2016

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Brian Wright

Rand Paul: Shoots Campaign in Foot, Twice!

Before even getting started, the campaign of Rand Paul has brought his chauvinistic (anti-choice) positions on immigration and reproductive freedom to center stage. Thus demolishing, in two quick swaths of self-destruction, the fragile alliance of liberty Republicans that had formed to make an iconic libertarian leader of his father, Ron Paul—an alliance that is making great strides in rolling back federal power via Nullification and the growing Truth Movement (re: 9/11, smart meters, Obamacare, mass surveillance, Common Core, climate engineering, GMOs, etc.). Here’s hoping Rand will reconsider and put the foot-shooting genie back in the bottle. Continue reading →