So Reuters writes up a story on the recent Heller decision, a story almost anybody could write without screwing up.
But this is Reuters:
Although an individual now has a constitutional right to own guns, that new right is not unlimited...Congratulations America, the Second Amendment V 2.0 was just ratified.
Just read Scalia's majority opinion. Overall, I like it. It was narrowly tailored, with extensive substance on just what the Second Amendment means, which makes me very, very hopeful.
I think you'll agree with me after reading what Breyer had to say in dissent:
Far more important are the unfortunate consequences that today’s decision is likely to spawn. Not least of these, as I have said, is the fact that the decision threatens to throw into doubt the constitutionality of gun laws throughout the United States.God willing.
I'll be pretty busy for the next few weeks and my access to the internet will be scarce. I should've expected it; it seems when my traffic spikes, I haven't the time to blog.
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Jobs Americans Won't Do? Are American kids being screwed out of summer jobs by greedy and unethical employers? We investigate.
100% Preventable! Americans continue to pay the bloody price for open borders. When will the madness end?
Why We Do What We Do.
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Hillary Clinton concedes to the Chosen One:
I've worked 6-day and 7-day workweeks, and this would be me if I was still doing them:
And who doesn't love the 4-10s?
Talk about a control freak, er, I mean Robert Mugabe, quite possibly in the lead for 'world's biggest dumbass' with Kim Jong Il and half of hollywood neck and neck for second.
With only three weeks to go before Zimbabwe’s presidential runoff, the police briefly detained the opposition’s standard-bearer, Morgan Tsvangirai, on Friday for the second time this week and directed his party to cancel political rallies, effectively preventing him from addressing voters.The only logical explanation must be that once Zimbabwe hits bottom, there's no way but up baby. One might suggest that Mugabe is in fact, evil, and an idiot, but third-world leaders are never evil, and only when they buddy up with the United States are they idiots.
Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition presidential candidate, campaigning Friday. The police, citing concerns about safety for his party’s leaders, ordered the cancellation of rallies he had planned.
At the same time, the Zimbabwean government’s requirement that all nongovernmental organizations suspend their aid operations, which grew out of the authorities’ allegations that some were supporting the opposition, was condemned Friday by officials in the United States and Europe, as well as the United Nations.
Relief agencies said the order, issued this week, would deprive millions of desperately poor Zimbabweans of food aid and other basic assistance. Unicef, for example, depends on 25 nongovernmental organizations to provide education, health care and food to 185,000 orphans in Zimbabwe.
Perfunction has the story with awesome video of the successful, yet "unproven" missile defense test.
Which inspired me to make this video:
I can imagine how this might relieve you, given that you live so close to Pearl, and all - and considering that you live on a piece of real estate that's within range of a North Korean missile.
Moe Lane
PS: What was the other thing? Oh, right...
Light blogging today, so I'll just start out with a bunch of links for your reading pleasure:
The AP calls the Democratic nomination for Obama, and amid rumors of her campaign coming to an end, Hillary says she is willing to be Obama's VP.
"I have asked Father Michael Pfleger, Pastor of St. Sabina’s Parish, to step back from his obligations there and take leave for a couple of weeks from his pastoral duties, effective today."
Happy couple is surprised to find out they've been divorced for ten years.
PETA wants to lease a jail in order to show how Lobsters are like people, or something.
Is this more of the nanny-state, fighting back the tide of destructive culture, or is it for the children?
Chicks dig your Camaro Prius. Then again, they're probably lying.
"There is a line as public defenders we cannot walk across. The judicial system is crumbling.''
Trollbait: Is shooting up heroin a right? Don't worry it's Canada.
And this is just weird.
One more thing: Krauthammer, the Global Warming agnostic.
A Utah woman calls 911 because she can't unlock her car doors... from the inside.
A woman called Orem police Friday afternoon needing help because her battery died and she was locked inside her car...Which begs the question, if she can't figure out how to manually unlock a door, should she even be driving?
Once officers were able to talk to the woman on the phone, they were able to tell her how to manually operate the slide lock mechanism on the inside door panel to open the door and free herself.
Wyoming. Nah, you probably guessed right; Britain.
Brad Jayakody, 30, was shocked when he was told to change his top if he wanted to catch his flight from Heathrow’s Terminal 5.I'm not making this up. Here's the link. Here's the Offensive Evil Shirt:
IT consultant Brad — on a British Airways trip with four colleagues to Dusseldorf, Germany — asked to see the security chief.
He thought the boss would "see sense" — but he backed up the decision and threatened him with ARREST. Aussie-born Brad said: "My mate set off the alarms and was searched.
"But then the guy told me to stop and said ‘you cannot get on the plane because there is a gun on your T-shirt’."
Oh my, that IS a big gun. And the money quote:"It’s a cartoon robot with a gun as an arm. What was I going to do, use the shirt to pretend I have a gun?"I'm reminded of a song by Brad Paisley. In one of the verses, he refers to the now popular movement in which men line up to get neutered, manicured, waxed, & botox'd... Much like Britain apparently has.
It just needs to be signed by the Governor.
The changes will make it easier for motorists to carry weapons in their cars and in school zones and will prohibit landlords from forbidding tenants from having guns in their rented residences...Good.
"A lot of people believe that's the current law, that you have the ability to protect you and your family in your house," Mr. Buehrer said. "They are shocked to find out that's not the case. The general law in Ohio is if you're attacked, you have a duty to retreat. The courts have recognized that if you're in your home, you don't have a duty to retreat, but we're only one prosecutor or one judge away from losing that right in case law in Ohio."
In this weeks edition...
Fisking Media Matters!
100% Preventable! Americans continue to pay the bloody price for open borders, when will the madness end?
And you've been deputized!
Not like your typical celebrity who often says one thing and does another, Angelina Jolie is just plain badass:
ANGELINA Jolie says she will shoot anyone harming her kids – with her own Tomb Raider-style guns.And for, uh, referencing purposes, the HK pictured below...
She has bought real versions of the weapons she used in the hit movie.
And the 32-year-old babe – famous for playing action girl Lara Croft – insisted: “I’ve no problem shooting anybody coming into my home who tries to hurt my kids.”
Angelina, who has four children and is currently pregnant with twins, carried a 9mm Heckler and Koch handgun in Tomb Raider.
Now she and partner Brad Pitt, 44, have their own.
She explained: “I bought original, real guns of the type we used in Tomb Raider for security. Brad and I are not against having a gun in the house and we do have one. And yes, I’d be able to use it if I had to.”
(Yes, you can click the image to embiggen)
Megan McArdle asks what many people in D.C. will (likely) be asking themselves in the near future:
So if Heller, as libertarians devoutly hope, legalizes gun ownership in DC, the question immediately arises for those of us who live here: buy one, or not? On the one hand, they are expensive, and shooting ranges far away. On the other hand, I live alone in an apartment that is something less than amply fortified.Here's my answer for what it's worth. Yes.
I guess it's good news, per Uncle's thinking. It's probably one of her only options left in Montana -- outflank Obama on the one issue he has little to no wiggle room.
When it comes to gun rights, the senator says she did not support gun licensing in New York, and does not support the registration of handguns nationally. But she adds that she does support Second Amendment rights.Funny, she forgot to mention her AWB renewal idea. Then again, "assault rifles" are probably only owned by such people.
"I don't think there's any contradiction between defending Second Amendment rights and the rights of lawful gun owners and trying to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and gang members and people who unfortunately have mental challenges."
Counting all the votes from Florida and Michigan (which are now only getting half their votes counted), she's correct, but not by much.
It's ballsy, I will say that. The ad will run in Montana, but I think it's targeting superdelegates more so than Montana Democrats.
They're united alright.
If you've been paying attention to the exit polls of the Democratic primaries for the last month or so, you'll notice that Hillary's supporters seemingly hate Obama more than they hate McCain, and vice-versa.
How a convention will suddenly unite them is beyond me.
This article is pure gold.
For them, it's all "27 Dresses" and "Made of Honor" and novels from "Pride and Prejudice" on that sling the same fantasy: There are two handsome, successful men chasing me. Whichever one will I choose? Then they walk into the bar at Pastis and discover: 150 single women, 50 gay men, 50 straight married men and 25 single straight men, but it's so loud that it's impossible to talk to anyone anyway.Via Hot Air
And of those 25 single straight men, how many of them would meet the standards of the "Sex" geek? The show is a six-year moanathon about male flaws. They have shoe fetishes (ewwww!). They're too close to their mothers (Ick!). They have body hair (OMFG no way!) Women are the flawless norm against whose behavior all men are to be measured.
