I was discussing the merits of owning a firearm with my better half, when she wondered out loud if the U.S. was #1 in gun crimes. So I looked it up and found something interesting. Now I don’t know the merits of this site, this was just a quick search, so sue me if...
The Supreme Court has finally agreed to look into the constitutionality of Chicago’s ban on handguns. In June, 2008, in District of Columbia, et al. v. Dick Anthony Heller, the supreme court ruled that the Second Amendment applies to individuals and rendered the District’s ban on handguns unconstitutional: In sum, we hold that the...
Obama’s decision to go to Copenhagen and help push for the Chicago bid is a good decision. Many on the right like have taken issue with it for the message it conveys (that he doesn’t care about the myriad other issues facing the U.S.), that it directly benefits him and his cronies in Chicago...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has a petition to establish health care as a right. The petition does no justice in establishing a valid reason to define health care as a right. Instead, it argues that ‘we’ve been trying to reform health care since 1912, we are already paying for universal health care but don’t...
I’m taking a short break from the roller-coaster of politics and reading these: The City Is A Battlesuit For Surviving The Future Excerpt: Adam Greenfield, a design director at Nokia, wrote one of the defining texts on the design and use of ubiquitous computing or ‘ubicomp’ called “Everyware” and is about to release a...
According to Obama’s play book, Rules For Radicals by Saul Alinsky, rule number seven states that “a conflict that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Among the reasons is the simple fact that human beings can sustain an interest in a particular subject only over a limited period of time. The concentration, the...
Links are collecting in my bookmarks so I’ll post these now for some quick reading and I’ll tie them into War on Terror, Torture and the American Identity Crisis later. Public Perceptions of Enhanced Interrogation, Ed Gillespie and Whit Ayres, August 26, 2009 Obama overturns Bush policy on state secrets, AFP, September 23, 2009...
It is often difficult to have a meaningful debate on health care for the simple fact that ideologies get in the way. The debate breaks down when people start talking about health care as a right, universal coverage, etc. Free speech is a right. Peaceful assembly is a right. The pursuit of happiness is...
Today Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) warned republicans “If we can’t work out to do something within the committee structure, then we’ll be forced to do reconciliation” In other words, ‘we’re going to get our way regardless.’ But it isn’t just the republicans who are resisting Obamacare, it’s also his...
As I said here and here, cost is the primary problem with health care in the U.S. today, not access. Lack of access is a cost problem. Yet the bills coming out of Congress continue to miss the mark significantly. Last Sunday, Obama took to the campaign trail yet again, stumping for health care...