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Every time I go to Washington, D.C., I leave town a little more libertarian. Unfortunately, our nations capital seems to have the opposite impact on its longtime residents.

Dont get me wrong: D.C. is really nice. Its a gorgeous city. But every time I go there, I cant help thinking that its really nice because you, I and your cousin Rick are paying for it. That new hotel with the shower replicating Balinese rainfall is harder to love, really, when you realize its probably just your trickled-down tax dollars. That swanky bar with the Prohibition theme may be fun and ironic! but it also might leave you with the sneaking suspicion that in some way, shape or form, through the long, twisting curve of the economic chain, you just bought everyone in the room a very expensive drink made of top-shelf alcohol, artisanal pomegranate seeds and edible gold glitter. Cheers!

Heres where it gets even creepier: Odds are, pretty much everyone at that same fancy bar is connected, usually financially, to the growing government borg. I once spent a half hour at the bar of the Park Hyatt Washington. Waiting for a friend, I ended up chatting with a young woman who worked for the Department of the Undersecretary of Interagency Special Projects of Something or Other. After about 24 minutes, I felt like the downsizing consultants in the movie Office Space. I honestly could not figure out what she did.

As Forbes recently reported, six of the 10 wealthiest counties in the nation are in the D.C. area, and it doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out why: Again, its you, me and your cousin Rick.

Tuesdays State of the Union address exemplified the glossy, impervious D.C. bubble, with President Barack Obama spouting giveaways like a carnival barker and repeatedly misusing the most popular word in our nations capital, which is free. Community college! Child care! Television ratings for the State of the Union have been dropping in recent years 33.3 million people watched in 2014, which is 4 million fewer than the previous year and less than a third of the number who watched the Super Bowl. This is bad, because many Americans are clearly missing a glorious chance to see how insane our government really is.

Before anyone asks me whos going to build the roads in my experience, when you express even the slightest libertarian inklings, someone will undoubtedly ask you, usually in all caps, WHO IS GOING TO BUILD THE ROADS? I shall not dodge the question. The government, which, as we all know, is funded by you, me and you-know-who, should build the roads. It should also manage the military. The government, in fact, has many necessary and worthy functions, many of which are helpfully laid out in the Constitution. (I know, I know. Nobody cares.)

That said, the government does not need to micromanage student lunches, mandate gender-neutral bathrooms in preschools, or leak our personal health information to private data firms when we sign in to Healthcare.gov. The bad news, as The Associated Press reported, is that the government might actually be sniffing around that last idea. The good news, I suppose, is that the Healthcare.gov website appears to have been constructed out of fishing twine, used tin foil, and a floppy disk filled with pirated software from the pioneering 1980s video game Oregon Trail, making it unlikely that any real data could actually get through.

On that note, I have a brilliant idea for a new government program. It may seem counterintuitive at first, but bear with me. If our goal is reasonably limited government in America, perhaps we should start a federally funded fellowship program that would bus average Americans to D.C., where they could then sit at the bar of the Park Hyatt Washington for an hour. There would be no need to stock the bar with employees of, say, the Bureau of Sustainable Orchards and Southern Nativity Scene Management they, or someone similar, will surely be hanging out, ready to talk all about themselves and the mysterious and important things they do.

The bus trips may seem costly at first, but think of it as an investment. And, unlike a Barack Obama-style government investment, this one would actually pay off: Odds are, participants would go home so disgusted that theyd never vote for a spending increase again.

Heather Wilhelm lives in Austin and writes a regular column for real clearpolitics.com. Reach her at wilhelmheather@yahoo.com or follow her on Twitter at @heatherwilhelm.

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A recent Gallup poll revealed that self-described independents are the nations largest political demographic. Indeed a record-breaking 43 percent of Americans now say they are independents, compared to 30 percent who are Democrats and 26 percent who are Republican. Now comes some promising news for the tenacious Libertarian Party, which plans multiple state conventions in the coming months and offered its own response to President Obamas State of the Union address last week. The party enjoyed its best cycle ever in races for the nations upper legislative chamber, reports Eric Ostermeier, a University of Minnesota political professor and founder of Smart Politics, a research group on the campus.

Their analysis found that the Libertarian Party set records for the best showings in U.S. Senate races in 10 of the 20 states in which it fielded a candidate in 2014. These 20 candidates averaged 2.5 percent of the vote, with a high water mark of 4.3 percent by Randall Batson in Kansas in the high profile race between Republican incumbent Pat Roberts and independent Greg Orman, Mr. Ostermeier says.

His study also found that libertarians made history in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas. Libertarian candidates won from 1.3 percent to almost 4 percent of the vote, with particularly impressive performances in North Carolina, Colorado and Alaska.

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Although these states hosted three of the four most competitive U.S. Senate races in the country decided by 1.6, 1.9, and 2.1 percentage points respectively Libertarian nominees were still able to draw support from the electorate in record numbers, says Mr. Ostermeier. The Libertarian Party has good reason to be optimistic about its trajectory on the national political landscape.

Gary Johnson, who ran as the Libertarian candidate for president in 2012, is also mighty vocal these days, labeling the aforementioned address as wrong in too many ways too list, and serving as chairman of Our American Initiative, a national push to include third-party candidates in the 2016 presidential debates.

FURY IN ALASKA

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Interior Secretary Sally Jewells intent to designate 12.2 million acres of Alaskas public land as pristine wilderness sounds nice, but the vast parcel also happens to contain the states richest oil and natural gas prospects on the Arctic coastal plain.

Environmentalists are celebrating. Ms. Jewell calls the gorgeous land one of the nations crown jewels, and notes this will also be the largest protective designation in five decades. The states Republican lawmakers and governor, meanwhile, are not disguising their disgust about the decision, which they say will have long lasting impact on Alaskas economy and energy security.

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Published: Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 10:50 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 10:50 p.m.

LIBERTARIAN PARTY ANNUAL MEETING

The Libertarian Party of Polk County Florida will hold its annual meeting with election of officers for 2015 at 7 p.m. today at Cleveland Heights Golf Course, 2900 Buckingham Ave., Lakeland.

Social hour with dinner is from 6 to 7 p.m. with the meeting following. For information, call Russ Wood at 863-221-6339.

WINTER HAVEN DEMOCRATIC CLUB

The Greater Winter Haven Democratic Club will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Room 1 of the Chain of Lakes Complex, 210 Cypress Gardens Blvd.

The meeting will include a report from the nominating committee on a proposed slate of officers and directors for the upcoming elections. All Democrats are welcome to attend.

For information, call the chairman at 863-965-8241.

LAKE ASHTON REPUBLICAN CLUB

The Lake Ashton Republican Club will meet at 4 p. m. Wednesday in the Lake Ashton Health and Fitness Center, 6052 Pebble Beach Blvd., Winter Haven. New officers will be sworn in by Polk County Republican Executive Committee chairman Jim Guth.

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