By Walter Williams on LewRockwell.com:

National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Deborah Hersman has called for states to mandate a total ban on cellphone usage while driving. She has also encouraged electronics manufacturers – via recommendations to the CTIA-The Wireless Association and the Consumer Electronics Association – to develop features that "disable the functions of portable electronic devices within reach of the driver when a vehicle is in motion." That means she wants to be able to turn off your cellphone while you're driving.

With very little evidence, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration claims that there were some 3,092 roadway fatalities last year that involved distracted drivers. Americans ought to totally reject Hersman's agenda. It's the camel's nose into the tent. Down the road, we might expect mandates against talking to passengers while driving or putting on lipstick. They may even mandate the shutdown of drive-in restaurants as a contributory factor to driver distraction through eating while driving.

You say, "Come on, Williams, you're paranoid. There are already laws against distracted driving, and it would never come to that!" Let's look at some other camels' noses into tents.

The LP's official list of candidates has changed. Jim Beach, Jim Duensing, Bill Reddick, and Wayne Allen Root have been dropped, and James Ogle and Bill Still have been added.

I have updated the poll accordingly. existing votes for remaining candidates have been preserved.

I am getting very tired of all the nonsense and blathering about how the Democrats & Republicans, or the President & Congress need to reach a "bipartisan" agreement to cut spending or raise the debt ceiling or whatever to prevent a default. Simply, if not tactfully, explained: that is bullshit!

A neighbor, (non-Libertarian), has believed for many years that government overspending will have very serious consequences, and that Americans will not correct the overspending until they have suffered the consequences. I believe many Libertarians share that view.

http://www.coonsthetaxman.com/

Admittedly, I didn't need much convincing to decide to vote for Libertarian Jim Rash for U.S. Senator from Delaware...

But if I had, this creepy endorsement of opponent, Chris Coons, by Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid,

I feel more like mourning than celebrating today. We have lost our Liberty and Independence.

It is not possible to read the Declaration of Independence without being struck by the fact that many of the charges it made against the King of England apply at least as much to our current government.

This is a rather long entry so, please, bear with me. In it, I have addressed the question, “Who is going to run for Joe Biden’s Senate seat?” I’ll also be asking something of you.