Yesterday the New York Times published this article, which is a classic example of the feckless and blustering BS that is routinely passed on as valid arguments for gun control. The story opens with this paragraph: About 10,000 Americans died by handgun violence, according to federal statistics, in the four months that the Supreme...
A recent conversation on Twitter has again reaffirmed a long-standing theory of mine that the partisan rancor we have here in the U.S. is partly attributed to the very common misconception that the U.S. is a democracy, ruled by the majority. The founding fathers did not establish a democracy ruled by the majority, but...
That’s the front page headline of today’s Redeye, a free rag distributed by the Chicago Tribune. The two-page spread begins on page six with the following paragraphs (full story here: At the age of 15, Monica Sanders answered her phone to learn that her friend had been fatally shot in the stomach by another...
Let’s hope The Supremes keep this in mind tomorrow as they begin hearing McDonald v. Chicago: The District of Columbia’s murder rate plummeted by an astounding 25 percent last year, much faster than for the US as a whole or for similarly sized cities. If you had asked Chicago’s Mayor Daley, that wasn’t supposed...
I must say, I agree 110%. The Constitution is crystal clear — there can be no mistaking that Congress alone determines if we go to war, how long we go to war, and how much we spend on said war. The President’s role in war is limited to Commander In Chief. In other words,...
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...
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...
Two weeks ago it was reported by CNN “that the White House is quietly talking about drafting formal health care legislation after allowing Congress to work on its own for months.” Multiple sources close to the process told CNN on Friday that while the plan is uncertain, the administration is preparing for the possibility...
Okay folks, it’s time for a government lesson. It’ll be short but sweet. According to the U.S. Constitution, the President of the United States can not declare war. Only the US Congress can. In addition, Congress must approve all funding for said war, which must be justified every two years, as stated in Article...
just got stronger: http://www.packing.org/news/articleview/178/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller