The Great Debate! On TCU Campus! Guns In Texas !

TCU's Young Americans For Liberty and The Tarrant County Libertarian Party proudly present "The Great Debate - Guns In Texas".


This event will feature the Democratic Party's State Representative Lon Burnam, Texas House District 90 debating 2nd Amendment activist Scott Harmon, National Rifle Association volunteer coordinator.

These two fine men will be debating some of the central issues of our time - Who can carry a gun? What can we carry? Where should we be allowed to carry a weapon? What was the intent of the founders, and what does the 2nd Amendment mean today?

This promises to be the best discussion you'll hear on this important topic. Patrick Dixon, the Texas LP's State Chair, will be the moderator.

Free Admission - Saturday April 27th, 2:00 p.m.

Brown-Lupton Auditorium on the TCU campus, 2901 Stadium Drive, Fort Worth, TX 76129

Liberty Book Discussion Group - Economics In One Lesson with Dr. Doug Butler !!

The economy is creeping along, and there's a good chance of another recession.

Unemployment remains high.

The stimulus package was a flop, even by the standards of its advocates.

The national debt is approaching 17 trillion, and all that spending probably isn't showing up in your pocket, especially if you're under 30 years old.

All of this will be explained when Tarrant County's Liberty Book Discussion Group covers Henry Hazlitt's classic "Economics In One Lesson". We'll be getting together at the Barnes and Noble in University Park Village at 1612 South University Drive. Fort Worth, TX February 28th at 7:00 p.m.

Our discussion will be led by Dr. Doug Butler, of the TCU Department of Economics. Dr. Butler earned his Ph.D. from Auburn University and specializes in Public Finance and International Economics.

We won't claim that you can finish the book in one sitting, but two should cover it. This is one of the few economics page-turners!! Hazlitt was once the literary editor of "The Nation" magazine, back when it was a Classical Liberal (Libertarian) publication. He went on to write economics columns for "The American Mercury" and The New York Times. H.L. Mencken of "American Mercury" once wrote that Hazlitt was "one of the few economists in human history who could really write." Hazlitt was a staunch defender of free market economics, and this little volume is packed with examples of what happens when governments involve themselves in make-work, wages, increasing the money supply, and....economic stimulus.

Even better, you don't have to buy the book!!! Copy this link to download a PDF of the entire volume.

http://library.mises.org/books/Henry%20Hazlitt/Economics%20in%20One%20Lesson.pdf

If you suspect that there was no good reason for the recent "Fiscal Cliff" deal to include a huge giveaway for algae producers, NASCAR, and Hollywood productions filmed in "depressed" areas, but couldn't quite explain why, then this is the book for you. Hope to see you there!!

TCU's Amon Carter Stadium demolition - photography by Brenda R. Jones

They blew up TCU's Amon Carter Stadium yesterday, and Brenda R. Jones was there to capture the action.

 
Go here to see the entire series by Brenda Jones and Ron Ennis.  Cool stuff. 
Here's the video:



Congratulations, Brenda !    On the front page of the Star-Telegram !!!

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and whether dissent is treasonous

From Dennis T. Avery, of Pajamas Media:

Where are the American journalists who should be covering the collapse of the man-made warming scare — the biggest hoax in human history? The public, shoveling snow amid blizzard winds, wants to know. The stock market, laboring under the threat of trillion-dollar energy taxes, urgently needs to know. Even the Columbia Journalism Review, complicit in fostering the global warming scare for 20 years, is prodding America’s mainstream media to finally do their duty.

The press in England, Australia, and even India is already breaking the story:

– “The Professor’s Amazing Climate Change Retreat,” London Daily Mail, Feb. 13. “Professor Phil Jones of East Anglia University confesses on the BBC that the world hasn’t warmed since 1995, and the Medieval Warming was perhaps warmer than today.”

– “World May Not Be Warming, Say Scientists,” Sunday Times of London, Feb. 14.


– “The Hottest Hoax in the World,” Ninad Sheth, India’s Open Magazine, Jan. 30.


– “The Great Global Warming Collapse,” Margaret Wente, Canada’s Global & Mail, Feb. 20.

Also eagerly awaiting the media confessions is that little band of hardy souls who have been telling us for years inconvenient truths about gaps in the greenhouse theory while insisting that “the science isn’t settled” by a long shot. They’ve been accused of treason, likened to Holocaust deniers, and threatened with jail and with death for telling us that the evidence didn’t stack up.

Go here to read the rest of Mr. Avery's piece.  It's worth the trip.  But speaking of accusing skeptics of treason and threatening opponents with jail and death....Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is speaking at TCU tonight.  Here's one of Kennedy's memorable quotes from the Live Earth concerts:

“Get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington D.C., who are nothing more than corporate toadies for companies like Exxon and Southern Company, these villainous companies, that consistently put their private financial interest ahead of American interests, and ahead of the interests of all humanity. This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors,”

If any of you are going to hear RFK Jr. tonight, please wade through this collection of con-artistry first.  The climate scam is unraveling like a knit sweater inside a cotton gin.  As best I can tell, Saint Albert, The Goracle Of Music City, Tennessee, hasn't granted an interview in about a month.  His Co-Nobelist might be going to jail.   Tonight's event at TCU might be your last chance to see a Warmist before the next artificial panic begins. 

Please thank Mr. Kennedy for waiting a couple of months before executing CEO's for treason. 

Whew, that was a close one. If the hackers had waited a few months longer to pry open the East Anglia CRU emails, could we have saved the Exxon CEO from the RFK Jr. lynch mob?
I think not.
RFK Jr. is at TCU tonight.  Bring a bullshit detector with you. 

The picture of the appropriately green-tinted electric chair came from here.  The RFK Jr. pic came from the TCU Daily Skiff.