This weekend at the beach I took the kids to see Race to Witch Mountain remake, and I was prepared for the usual fairly plotless, inane Disney release. Well, it is pretty inane and in many ways clueless, what with the cut-rate Terminator sub-plot and all.... But the movie also has a surprisingly Libertarian slant. The bad guys--both human and alien--are the government. Both governments are determined to achieve their policy ends even it requires killing children, using massive firepower indiscriminately, and wrecking vast amounts of private property without the slightest hesitation. The one guy from the government who occasionally shows twinges of conscience from time to time never reaches the point of protesting: the idea that he should shut up and soldier to save his job always gets him back into line. But the really interesting scene takes places in a small southwestern restaurant/bar where the sheriff (Ike Eisenmann from the original film in a cameo) briefly stands up to the Fe...