HUGE DAY TODAY FOR 2A: “Does the Constitution’s Second Amendment give individuals the right to bear arms or is that right reserved exclusively for members of a ‘well-regulated militia’? That is the question the US Supreme Court will consider today in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller, a Second Amendment challenge to the District of Columbia’s ban on all functional firearms.” - Robert A. Levy of the Cato Institute
MASSIVE TAX HIKES AROUND THE BEND
“House Democrats recently adopted a budget with massive tax hikes, many of which are directed at those Americans who can least afford them. By allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire in 2010, this budget will raise income taxes not only on those in the highest income brackets, but raises the lowest bracket from 10% to 15% as well.
“Estates would again be taxed at 55%. The child tax credit would drop from $1000 to $500. Senior citizens relying on investment income would be hurt by increases in dividend and capital gains taxes. It’s not just that the Democrats want to raises taxes on the rich. They want to raises taxes on everybody.”
- Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Republican
PORK ADDICTS
“The Senate rejected calls from both parties’ presidential candidates to take an election-year break from pork-barrel spending as a Democratic-run Congress pushed budget plans that would torpedo hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts won by President Bush. John McCain, the GOP nominee-to-be, couldn’t attract even a majority of Senate Republicans to vote with him Thursday night behind the earmark moratorium touted by party conservatives as a way to restore the GOP’s credibility with voters.”
- Associated Press, 3/15/08
A FEW GOOD REPUBLICANS
Here’s the list of 23 Republican senators who voted in favor of the above-referenced proposed one year moratorium on earmarks…
Sessions of Alabama
Kyl and McCain of Arizona
Allard of Colorado
Martinez of Florida
Chambliss and Isakson of Georgia
Grassley of Iowa
McConnell of Kentucky
Ensign of Nevada
Sununu of New Hampshire
Burr and Dole of North Carolina
Coburn and Inhofe of Oklahoma
DeMint and Graham of South Carolina
Thune of South Dakota
Alexander and Corker of Tennessee
Cornyn of Texas
Barrasso and Enzi of Wyoming
BLACK PASTOR RAISES RED FLAGS
“The racist, anti-American rantings of Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s spiritual mentor and pastor of the church Obama attended for 20 years, raise many red flags about Obama’s supposedly best selling point: his unique capability for healing societal divisions.”
- Columnist David Limbaugh
WHAT WAS HE THINKING?
“(N)othing could be more dangerous to Mr. Obama’s political aspirations than the revelation that he, the son of a white woman, sat Sunday after Sunday — for 20 years — in an Afrocentric, black nationalist church in which his own mother, not to mention other whites, could never feel comfortable.
“…The fact is that Barack Obama has fellow-traveled with a hate-filled, anti-American black nationalism all his adult life, failing to stand and challenge an ideology that would have no place for his own mother. And what portent of presidential judgment is it to have exposed his two daughters for their entire lives to what is, at the very least, a subtext of anti-white vitriol? What could he have been thinking?”
- Shelby Steele of the Hoover Institution
Posted on March 18th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Ron Paul’s comment is one of the reasons I will write in his name this Nov. As for the Manchurian Candidiate, this is the first time in my memory, that he voted against a tax increase.
The Supreme’s decision in Heller may decide the election. If they vote for the D.C. position enough citizens may decide to write in Ron Paul. He is the only candidate that understands the simple English James Madison wrote. BTW, Dubya’s justice department agreed with the D.C. position in their brief. The V.P. wrote his own brief that supported the NRA, GOA, etc. position. We asll know where the wicked bitch of the left and BO stand on the subject. McCain has called for banning gun shows and banning semi-autos, so no choice there. He also voted that way.
Howard,
Cheyenne, WY
Howard,
Having listened to oral arguments in the Heller case today, my conclusion is that;
1) That the ammendment is not exclusive to individuals;
2) That whether it comes down that it means individual rights or common rights, the right of local, state, and the federal government to regulate guns will remain inplace subject to the “reasonable” standard.
3) In the end, the case will be a “disagreemnet without a difference”.
4) No right to a machine gun; armor piercing bullets; tanks; howatzers will come from this Court, not even by Scalia and Alito.
The odd issue discussed at length and in briefs was handguns were being used by officers but not enlisted soldiers in 1780 (still true today!), and thus handguns aren’t used by militia and thus subject to regulation; and that only two states back then allowed gun ownership!, all the others allowed only for the “common defense”.
Kennedy kept asking about the right of gun ownership on the frontier (there wasn’t one back then) to shoot bears….”don’t Americans have a right to have a gun to shoot bears and indians?” I don’t know what the hell he was talking about or where he was coming from! He is the swing vote. Since handguns weren’t used to kill bears in 1780, I’ll assume he will uphold the DC position.
Take a listen on CSPAN, at ‘America and the Courts’
Nice that Ensign signed on to an agreement to suspend earmarks for a year…now if he will voluntarily not sponsor or co-sponsor an other half-billion dollars in spending, financed by China.
“Does the Constitution’s Second Amendment give individuals the right ……”
This mis-statement may be at the heart of the controversy.
The 2nd does NOT “Give” us the right to keep and bear arms (Own and carry) it CONFIRMS the pre-existing right!
I personally have no confidence in SCOTUS, they have shown a very fascist streak in several recent major rulings.
The good news is that no matter what they rule the Second Amendment will remain in force, even if it remains suspended in the district of Columbia.
Even if SCOTUS were so stupid or corrupt as to issue a ruling negating our RKBA, the ruling would be irrelevant to anyone except those salivating at any excuse to disarm the American people.
This will indeed be an interesting election, and I for one am glad this case will be decided in time for us to witness how ALL of our candidates react to whatever SCOTUS hands down.