1. Reuters: Astronomers discover planet made of diamond

2. Hardfire The Lancaster System

3. The New American: Administrative Law: The Second Set of Books

4. Progressives for Ron Paul: Libertarians taking the lead in this strategy . . .

5. Huffington Post: If You Love Peace, Become a “Blue Republican” (Just for a Year) by Robin Koerner

1. Posted to the CNM Chronicle Facebook Wall –

   Anyone here up for starting a chapter of Students for Liberty?

   http://studentsforliberty.org/

2. Posted to the CNM Chronicle Facebook Wall –

   Open to faculty, staff and students

   http://facebook.com/groups/180110658727651/

3. Re: Texas economy in the spotlight –

   Side note about Perry – he’s apparently got the “balls to execute an innocent man”.

4. Re: Heinrich to Hold Town Hall – In Ruidoso –

   Paul, the follow-up questions there are:

   1. How many times has he committed assault and battery against others on the team?

   2. How many drunken bar brawls has he been in?
   3. How has he tried to cover up the evidence of #1 or #2?

5. Re: Heinrich to Hold Town Hall – In Ruidoso –

   The strange thing about this is that to win the State for U.S. Senate, all he really needs to do is win his own Congressional District (Bernalillo, Valencia and Torrance Counties), and then Congressional District 3, which is controlled largely by Democrats.

   I’m guessing that he’s trying to spin himself as a “moderate” who “can appeal to Republicans” or some such effluvia, and thus cut Heather Wilson off at the pass.

   Which is a moot point for me – if the LPNM doesn’t field a candidate, and Heather is the GOP nominee, I’ll cast a blank and make some noise about doing so.

6. Re: CNM Shooting Club

7. Fwd: August 19, 20 LNC Meeting Report

Notes from Life, Etc.

1. CNM –
   1. I registered for CIS 1415 – IT Essentials II last night, and went down to Student Services to pay tuition this morning. Apparently tuition for in-state residents has doubled, from ∅5 to ∅10 per credit hour.

   2. After paying tuition, I went to check out what textbook I’d need. When I got to the bookstore, there was a line twenty-deep just to get in, so I said “Fuck it,” went to the Times Square Deli Mart, had the Special (a 10″ sausage and peppers sub), and went home.
   3. I created the Facebook group NM Collegiate RKBA Advocates. After I posted the link to the CNM Chronicle Facebook wall, they solicited an opinion piece from me about RKBA. Cool!

2. LP / LPNM –
   1. Woodruff is acting up again in CV-2009-12562. This time he says that both the National LP (LNC) and LPTN want him to represent them, which isn’t exactly what I’ve been told by Mark Hinkle and Jay Polk.

   2. I forwarded on Norm Olsen’s report from the recent LNC meeting at the LSLA conference in Ohio last weekend.

Listening / Reading / Watching

1. BBC America: Top Gear (UK version)

2. Science Channel: Curiosity, Through the Wormhole

3. Fox Business: Cavuto, Lou Dobbs Tonight, Varney & Company

4. Adult Swim: Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Squidbillies

5. Restore the Constitution: Why I am no longer a libertarian

1. Re: $2.00 a gallon gas –

   Bachmann says that if she is elected president we will have $2.00 a gallon gasoline.

   Politicians say things all the time.

   And if a genuine libertarian is elected as president, gas prices will probably drop to around ∅0.25 per gallon, after all of the taxes, regulations and subsidies are eliminated.

   She says that we will drill for oil everywhere.

   Again, politicians talk trash all the time. Most likely, no one will be drilling for oil (or natural gas, or anything else) in my backyard or on my front lawn, just like it’s likely that no one will be drilling on your front lawn, or in Bachmann’s backyard.

   That being the case, I have no problem with someone drilling for oil in the ANWR, or off the Gulf Coast.

   The problem is that still will have no effect on the price of oil. First, it takes years to develop a well.

   Gotta start sometime – better late than never.

   Fourth,no president can exert control over the price of a commodity unless he/she is operating under a socialist system. Is Bachmann really a socialist?

   In some ways, she is a socialist (or fascist, if you prefer), in that she signs off on the various and sundry federal regulations upon the economy, most of which are anti-market, if not anti-Constitutional. Has she proposed repealing the ban on selling your kidneys, which was signed into law by Reagan in 1984? Has she sponsored a repeal of the National Firearms Act, so that I can order an MP-5 subgun and have it delivered directly to my door, with the only paperwork being the sales slip?

2. Re: $2.00 a gallon gas –

   justthefax said:

   Mike, repectfully, with respect to the price of oil, you have no idea what you are talking about.I don’t claim to be an expert in economics. But still, some basic rules apply, regardless of the commodity in question.

   1. Price is dependent upon supply and demand.

   2. When supply is high and demand is low, prices drop.
   3. When supply is low and demand is high, prices rise.

   Every single time there has been a major announcement about the possibility of an effect on supply, either positive or negative the price of oil, spot and future going 3 months out has been affected and in some cases as much as 10%. Obama’s accouncement that he was going to drill more in the gulf, unrest in the middle east, more regulations, platform explosion, OPEC increasing or decreasing quotas, etc etc etc the list goes on and on and on. Speculators are not going to pour billions of dollars into futures contracts when the future price is going to be lower.

   1. All of the factors cited here are things that may or may not affect the supply of available oil in the future.

   2. All speculators really do is place bets on whether the price of oil will rise or fall in the future. Just another form of gambling, only one that you don’t need approval from some idiot with the Gaming Control Board to take part in.
   3. Obama isn’t going to do any drilling. At most, he’s going to issue orders and proclamations allowing others (probably Petrobras for his buddy Soros) to drill for oil.

1. Zero State

2. Transhumanpraxis – The Zero State Blog
3. Pro Libertate: Ricky the Rent Boy, Pity the Poor, Persecuted Police
4. KIRO-TV (Seattle, WA): UNCUT: Job Tips Parody
5. failblog.org: Oddly Specific: LOOK AWAY
6. Los Angeles Times: ATF promotes supervisors in controversial gun operation, Traffic Stop
7. Fox News: Controversial Developments in Murder of Border Agent
8. Sipsey Street Irregulars: Praxis: The Militiaman’s Load. What “Wrong” Looks Like. Fight light and live.
9. Field eXpedients: WHAT WRONG LOOKS LIKE
10. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Indecision 2012 – Corn Polled Edition – Ron Paul & the Top Tier
11. NPR: Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books (h/t Michael Flynn)
12. The National Libertarian Party of the United States: A political party build on the principles of freedom and liberty (h/t George Phillies @ Liberty for America)
13. Discovery Channel: Cash Cab, Sons of Guns, One Man Army
14. Fox Business: Freedom Watch
15. Science Channel: Through the Wormhole, Wonders of the Universe
16. Adult Swim: Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Squidbillies