Second Amendment Case Headed to Court
Posted on July 16, 2007 - Filed Under 2nd Amendment, News | 3 Comments
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Local government officials in Washington, D.C., announced Monday they will appeal to the Supreme Court in a major test case on the meaning of the Second Amendment. The key issue in the coming petition will be whether the Amendment protects an individual right to have guns in one’s home — an issue on which [...]
Interesting Thoughts On The Latest Osama Tape
Posted on July 16, 2007 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | Comments Off
Here is the quote to focus on:
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 54:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “By Him in Whose Hands my life is! Were it not for some men amongst the believers who dislike to be left behind me and whom I cannot provide with means of conveyance, I would certainly never remain behind [...]
A Believer in Equality Gets into Trouble
Posted on July 16, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | 1 Comment
As many tribes do, an Indian tribe on Rhode Island enjoys special legal privileges. A lady (Charlestown Town Council President Katharine Waterman) who opposes their plans for a casino in a scenic area thought they had enough privileges already and wrote as follows (excerpt):
“And they have free health care. For life.
And they [...]
Sunday Funnies
Posted on July 15, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | Comments Off
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The NYT has found the immigration boogeyman — and he is a Greenie!
Posted on July 15, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU, News | 1 Comment
The defeat of the U.S. Senate bill that would have given a huge amnesty to illegal immigrants was the result of a broad-based protest but Leftists like to find an evil boogeyman behind everything that thwarts them so the report from the NYT below focusing on just one group is the usual prescription. [...]
Read More..>>Robot Squadron Headed For Iraq
Posted on July 15, 2007 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | 1 Comment
This is very cool! The future of war fighting is now!
The airplane is the size of a jet fighter, powered by a turboprop engine, able to fly at 300 mph and reach 50,000 feet. It’s outfitted with infrared, laser and radar targeting, and with a ton and a half of guided bombs and missiles.
The [...]
Is Scotland now run by racists?
Posted on July 15, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | 2 Comments
In the recent elections for the Scottish parliament, the Scottish National Party (SNP) emerged as Scotland’s governing party. As I pointed out recently here however, “nationalism” is usually a snarl word these days. The National Socialist German Worker’s Party (Hitler’s party) is probably responsible for that. And SNP supporters do call [...]
Read More..>>Congressional Chaplains, Madison and Context
Posted on July 15, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, Activist Judges, Church And State, History, News | Comments Off
Ed Brayton at Dispatches from the Culture Wars has responded to the Hindu prayer in the Senate.
In response to an AFA statement; “…we took prayer and Bible-reading out of school” ,
Brayton stated, “One should also note the distortion of history in his statement. We did not, of course, take either prayer or Bible reading [...]
Bin Laden Appears In New Video
Posted on July 14, 2007 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | 2 Comments
All the buzz lately has been about a possible summer attack and terrorist chatter. Everything from coded messages in the video from #2 to big time rumors in the intelligence community….now we have a 40 minute video from #1 himself.
Laura Mansfield has the vid.
He says that the Prophet Mohammed wanted to be a martyr, [...]
Read More..>>Truth is no Defence in NC
Posted on July 14, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | 3 Comments
We read:
“The NAACP wants Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory to apologize for remarks he made about African American youth after last week’s arrests during Fourth of July festivities in uptown.
Ken White, president of the Charlotte Branch of the NAACP, on Wednesday called the mayor’s comments “insensitive” and said he’s concerned they painted “African American youth with [...]
Must not Laugh at Chinese Accents
Posted on July 13, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | 6 Comments
When I was a kid growing up in a small Australian country town, jokes that had fun with immigrant Chinese pronunciation and Chinese names were common. An example: “Have you heard of a new Chinese book called “Spot on the Wall” by Hoo Flung Dung?” But there was no racial conflict then [...]
Read More..>>The Term “Rape” must not be Used in a Rape Trial!
Posted on July 12, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | 4 Comments
We read:
“An alleged victim in a Lincoln sexual assault case asked the Nebraska Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a judge’s ban on terms like “sexual assault” and “rape” at trial.
Pamir Safi, 31, is accused of sexually assaulting former University of Nebraska-Lincoln student Tory Bowen three years ago. Jury selection in his trial began Monday.
Judge [...]
Feds still enforcing immigration law
Posted on July 11, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | Comments Off
Though they could do a lot more, of course. The stepped-up raids of recent months were suspected of being a sop to help get the amnesty bill through. But they seem to be continuing. We will see. One press report below. Interesting that the Feds now seem to be [...]
Read More..>>Some Amusing Leftist Hysteria over the Recent SCOTUS ban on School Racism
Posted on July 11, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | 1 Comment
SCOTUS recently ruled that race cannot be used as a critierion for school admissions — just as an earler incarnation of SCOTUS had ruled in 1954 when helping to end the Jim Crow era. But a black writer shows deep incomprehension of that. A few excerpts below:
“The ruling [...]
Breaking News: “Lady Bird” Johnson has passed away
Posted on July 11, 2007 - Filed Under News | Comments Off
Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson (December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was the wife of former President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson, and was First Lady of the United States from 1963-1969. From infancy she has been known as Lady Bird.
As First Lady, Johnson started a capital beautification project (Society for a More [...]
