The thick, bittersweet irony of the Supreme Court’s ruling that struck down Washington D.C.’s ban on "live" guns is that is has the left-wing, anti-gun gang completely up in arms. Robert Stein calls the mind set behind the decision "our national schizophrenia", then proceeds to demonstrate how utterly clueless an obviously intelligent man can be…
Month: June 2008
Another, Better SCOTUS Decision
The Supreme Court, by a narrow 5-4 margin, has decided that the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution means what it says. In a 5-to-4 decision, the majority opinion, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, held for the first time that the Constitution provides an individual right to bear arms, such as for self-defense, rather than a…
5 Blind Mice, See How They Vote
The Supreme Court botched another important case today by disallowing the Louisiana law that allowed the death penalty to be administered to child rapists. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority, said there was “a distinction between intentional first-degree murder on the one hand and non-homicide crimes against individual persons,” even such “devastating” crimes…
Liberals Who Simply Can’t Let Well Enough Alone
Unhappy with the deal reached between the parties about the legal fate of telecom companies who helped the feds in the aftermath of 9/11, two of the looniest of the left are banding together in an attempt to filibuster the bill in the Senate: "If the Senate does proceed to this legislation, our immediate response…
The Internet->Stupidity Connection
Nick Carr says that the Internet is making us a stupid society incapable of – or unwilling to – focusing on the internalization of large bodies of information. He blames the web and its many instantaneous answers to questions we have. “We are not only what we read,” says Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist at…
Barack Obama Leads With the Race Card
He still hasn’t been officially nominated as the Democratic candidate for president yet, but Barack Obama has taken control of the Democratic National Convention, trotted out a cheesy knock-off of the presidential seal, and now, like a Euchre player leading with off-suit ace, he’s played the race card early by stating Republicans will use his…
FISA Immunity
In what must be a blow for folks like Glenn Greenwald, Democrats and Republicans have come to the logical, inevitable conclusion that telecom firms who aided the Bush administration by compromising records of Americans’ telephony activities shall be immune from prosecution if asked to do so by the government. Dan Froomkin hates the "compromise", which…
Second-Guessing Witnesses
The SF Chronicle says: The town of Turlock and much of the rest of the nation was shocked when a 27-year-old man beat and stomped his 2-year-old son to death on a rural road. But what was nearly as stunning for many people was that none of the motorists and their passengers who stopped and…
Liberal Fantasy – Nationalizing Big Oil
It shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s been tracking the far left that nationalizing the oil industry is their latest brainstorm. Take a look at this video – it’s amazing to me that they’re so brazen about their desire to steal the investment made by stockholders of these companies. It’s quite staggering, really, that they can be…
Welfare Test
Tip of the hat to Sheryl for this gem via e-mail: I have a job. I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine test with which I have no problem….