Guns: Not just for criminals anymore.

While many lefties will react to yesterday’s judicial victory for the Second Amendment with scorn for the Supreme Court and wailing about how scary guns are, John Avlon has decided to take a different approach.  Today on the Daily Beast, he takes the decision as a sure sign that gun owners have nothing to fear [...]

Not surprisingly, as I predicted yesterday, the gun prohibitionists are attacking the Supreme Court’s correct decision yesterday interpreting  the Second Amendment according to its original intent -  as a fundamental individual constitutional right to keep and bear arms. The New York Times in its lead editorial today called the Court’s reasoning “infuriating abstract.” I call the Court’s opinion refreshingly judicious.
Progressives [...]

The Supreme Court rejects the Left’s claim that aid to terror groups should be permitted if it’s intended for “peaceful” purposes.

Conservative Washington Post columnist George F. Will has listed some important questions conservative  members of the U.S. Senate have to ask Elena Kagan, Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court. It’s a good list. Here are some of the best questions on it:

Regarding campaign finance “reforms”: If allowing the political class to write laws regulating the [...]

The Supreme Court, by a 5-4 majority, has once again vindicated the rights of individuals to keep and bear arms as constitutionally guaranteed by the Second Amendment.  The Court today extended to the states and local governments its 2008 ruling that individuals have a federally protected individual right to keep and bear arms, questioning the constitutionality of  Chicago’s [...]

They didn’t explain why they’re reducing Elyea’s fines, but it may be a tacit admission that they realize they’re on very shaky First Amendment ground. An update on this story. “Fines reduced for man posting anit-Islam [sic] drawings,” by Dave Aeikens in the St. Cloud Times, June 25: The Waite…

Dhimmi pseudo-journalist Dave Aeikins (that is how his name is spelled at the St. Cloud Times site, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a typo) doesn’t mention in this story that the attorneys in Benton and Stearns counties declined to file criminal charges against Elyea because they recognized…

Did the Constitution framers really want citizenship for the children of illegal aliens?

In a stunning refusal to accept the obvious moral superiority of the leftist gay agenda, the State of California had the audacity to show up in court recently, in defense of Proposition 8.
Closing arguments in the case of Perry v. Rampant Bigoted Homophobes Schwarzenegger were heard this week in the United States District Court for [...]