Family Feud on the Libertarian Right

From Eric Dondero:

In a heartbreaker for Libertarian Republicans who admire both Sarah Palin and Joe Wurzelbacher, the Ohio Plumber now says he is no longer backing the Alaska Fox.

From State House Sound Bites, PA:

Wurzelbacher touched on several different points during his speech, and many of them were surprising. He said he doesn’t support Sarah Palin anymore. Why? Because she’s backing John McCain’s re-election effort. “John McCain is no public servant,” he told the room, calling the 2008 Republican nominee a career politician.

Wuzelbacher was in Berks County for a rally in support of Republican State Rep. candidate Sam Rohrer, who he says is Pro-Gun and Pro-Tea Party.

From Eric Dondero:

Quite an eye-opener. 1980s/90s SuperModel Kathy Ireland expressed her support for Israel, and a strong Defense in an interview with the Jerusalem Post.

From JePo Feb. 2:

"I think so often Israel is not fairly portrayed in the media. Meeting with the military, the air force, [I saw] the efforts that go into the strategy of not hurting civilians and the heroic efforts of these soldiers who put themselves in harm’s way to rescue the wounded, even when the wounded might be their enemy.

In America, we’ve been so spoiled not to have really known, our generation, what it is to be at war... it’s very apparent that if Israel is not safe, then the rest of the world is not safe."

Ireland is now an international capitalist mogul, owner of clothing manufacturer and seller Kathy Ireland Worldwide. She's described as a "high-powered, fast-moving CEO." The company sells products in over 29 nations.

In the past she'd been rumored to be a potential GOP voter, though she's never made any definitive statements on her partisan affiliations. (Her name does appear on a Free Republic list of "Republican celebrities.")

Ireland is a professeed Christian, pro-life, and appeared early last year on Fox News' Mike Huckabee show.

Are European liberals guilty of Racism?

by Tim Daniels, California

Now get this, I found these pictures of the Obama float from France's "King of the Blue Planet" carnival parade over at the hard left-liberal site Democratic Underground Hardly flattering right? Well, the folks at the highly popular and respected DU didn't even blink an eye.

A giant figure of U.S. President Barack Obama is seen during preparations for a carnival parade in Nice, southeastern France, February 3, 2010. The 126th Nice Carnival starts on February 12 until February 28 and will celebrate the theme "King of the Blue Planet".

Similar to 19th Century depictions of African Americans?

Upon further inspection, I must surmise that the King of the Blue Planet, aka Barack Obama is a liberal adventure in Euro-racism. I mean, after all, look at the toothy grin, the ears.

Remember the popular character of Sambo from the early 19th Century portrayed in minstrels, early films and cartoons?

Political Correctness applies only to Some and not to Others

Note - In February of last year, in Orange County, California, a Republican city councilman was forced to resign because he sent out an email to some friends in city government that included a comparably mild cartoon of watermelons on the White House lawn. And immediately after the 2008 Presdential election a bakery shop owner was castigated by CNN and other liberal media outlets for baking Obama cookies, that portrayed the President-elect as having bigger than normal lips. The baker vehemently denied he was trying to make fun of him.

And to this day, the most popular restaurant (Denny's like) chain in all of Mexico, that caters to a largely American Latino clientele at Mexican border towns like Tijijuana and Mexicali, is named "Sambo's."

Though, no cries of "racism" from La Raza.

Editor's Note - Tim's blog is the popular "conservative-libertarian"Left Coast Rebel always linked at our blog roll on the sidebar.

Pro-Liberty legislation on Guns & Property Rights proposed by GOP legislators

by Michael W. Dean, Wyoming

Some interesting things going on here in the Rocky Mountain West...

There are three gun-rights bills going before the Wyoming legislature this month (as extra bills in a budget-only session), don't know that they will pass, one will probably get tabled and considered later. two are 10th Amendment bills that would allow guns made and used only in the state to not come under federal purview (circumventing the Interstate Commerce Clause), but unlike the Montana bill, one of these actually allows the state to prosecute federal agents who violate it.

The other bill would allow Wyoming non-felons to carry a gun concealed without a permit, like Alaska and Vermont.

From the Casper Tribune:

CHEYENNE -- A proposal that would allow people in Wyoming to carry concealed weapons without permits passed an initial legislative hurdle on Thursday.

If the bill passes, Wyoming would become only the third state in the nation, after Vermont and Alaska, to allow conceal-carry without a permit.

Under House Bill 113, the only people not allowed to carry concealed weapons in the state would be people under the age of 21, convicted felons, those convicted of drug-related charges, alcoholics, those with physical disabilities that impair their ability to handle firearms, and people who have lived in the state less than six months.

Currently, Wyoming residents must apply every five years for concealed weapons permits.

Rep. Lorraine Quarberg, the Thermopolis Republican sponsoring the bill, said the legislation is meant simply to spell out rights that are already guaranteed under the Wyoming Constitution and the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

"I just believe people have the right to protect themselves and defend themselves," Quarberg said. "And I want to make sure that we put it in statute and people know they can do it."

And then there's this from Utah...

Salt Lake City Tribune:

SALT LAKE CITY -- Conservative Utah lawmakers (photo of state capitol in SLC) want to spark a U.S. Supreme Court case that could ultimately allow states to develop resource-rich parcels of land that are now off limits where the federal government is the landlord.

The lawmakers said they will attempt to trigger an avalanche of legislation in the West through the use of eminent domain, which governments use to take private property for public use.

More than 60 percent of Utah is owned by the federal government, and policy makers here have long complained that federal ownership hinders their ability to generate tax revenue and adequately fund public schools.

Legislation was introduced in the Utah House on Thursday allowing the use of eminent domain on federal land. The effort has the full support of Republican Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, who would have to defend the law.

Editor's Note - Michael W. Dean is the Libertarian Punk. His blog is listed on LR's Blog Roll.