Archive for March 9th, 2007

Friday, March 9th, 2007

Appeals Court affirms 2nd Amendment, and, in effect, the Constitution in DC

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down Washington DC's ridiculous handgun law, citing of all things the Second Amendment.

In all seriousness what is intriguing is "why' they did, and even more curious is what the Dissenting Justice and the City Cited as their justification to keep the law.

D.C.'s Ban On Handguns In Homes Is Thrown Out

A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that the District's longtime ban on keeping handguns in homes is unconstitutional.

The 2 to 1 decision by an appellate panel outraged D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and other city leaders, who said that they will appeal and that gun-related crimes could rise if the ruling takes effect. The outcome elated opponents of strict gun controls because it knocked down one of the toughest laws in the country and vindicated their interpretation of the U.S. Constitution's language on the right to bear arms.

Friday, March 9th, 2007

The 2nd Amendment Appears To Mean… What It Says.

Who would have thunk it?  Originally from Hot Air:


BREAKING NEWS — Divided three-judge D.C. Circuit panel holds that the District of Columbia's gun control laws violate individuals' Second Amendment rights: You can access today's lengthy D.C. Circuit ruling at this link.

According to the majority opinion, "[T]he phrase 'the right of the people,' when read intratextually and in light of Supreme Court precedent, leads us to conclude that the right in question is individual." The majority opinion sums up its holding on this point as follows:

Friday, March 9th, 2007

ACLU - Aways There For You

There they go again.  The ACLU is filing suit against the Newark, N.J. school system because West Side High School held its graduation ceremonies inside (gasp!) a Baptist church!  As a result, Bilal Shareef, a Muslim, could not attend.  This violated the poor boy's religious freedom, according to the suit.  Golly.  Jews and Catholics didn't seem to have a problem, but the poor little Muslim boy did.  Well certainly, we should all bend over backward to accommodate the poor little Muslim. 

How about this, instead:  Tell the poor little Muslim boy to go pee up a rope, and hand the ACLU a hefty fine for bringing frivolous lawsuits.

Friday, March 9th, 2007

Moral Decline Media-Generated

Most Americans believe that Lamestream media - both entertainment and "news" - are contributing to a cultural decline.  While only 17% of Americans subscribe to the "progressive" perspectives of "situational ethics" and their abhorrence of "being judgemental", that is precisely what is being exported to the rest of the world through our media.  Although less than one-fifth of Americans buy into the "progressive" line of garbage, many of that one-fifth are in the media business.  That's what they choose to project to the world, and so it's small wonder that so many in the world have come to despise Americans.

It's not that they disagree with our Constitution nor even so much with democracy.  What they hate is the image that the seventeen percent has projected across the globe.  That image is one of decadent, self-centered individuals who demand immediate gratification in all things, and who appear to believe that there is no "good" and that there is no "evil".  As is the case in America, so it is around the globe: most people understand that there is, in fact, a significant difference between good and evil, and that passing judgement is a necessary part of life.