The Founding Fathers, extremists: “Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American…[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but,

I know. Shocking!  Dave Kopel, writing at Volokh: The Toomey-Manchin Amendment which may be offered as soon as Tuesday to Senator Reid’s gun control bill are billed as a “compromise” which contain a variety of provisions for gun control, and other provisions to enhance gun rights. Some of the latter, however, are not what they seem. They are badly miswritten, and are in fact major advancements for gun control. In

Of course it does. It’s filled to the brim with poison pills and vague language that the progressives have already devised as strategy to exploit. Which they were able to do because they wrote the majority of the thing and crafted. the Trojan Horse viruses inside of it. Breibart: These new rules [for transporting firearms and ammunition] are on top of expanding background checks to cover every sale at a

Because while compelling people to buy uniform, government-written health care policies is of course something the founders and framers intended, states using the force of government to make it nearly impossible for people to keep and bear arms to protect themselves — in direct contradiction to the Bill of Rights — is naturally none of the Supreme Court’s goddamn business. Chief Justice Roberts has a legacy to consider, after all,

Look, I don’t know what this tool is carping about.  I mean, it’s not like seventeen-year-old hookers are permitted to carry concealed weapons — and Ann Coulter’s already demonstrated that she has no intention of plugging him.  At least, not with bullets. So he should probably just count his blessings and, you know, shut the fuck up.  Wouldn’t you say? Good. Glad I could help. (h/t Alex)

Silly Mr Thiesssen:  of course he can.  Now, you may argue that such a position is implausible, and that it is based on assertions that are both logically and factually incorrect.  But that just means that your logic and your facts want to see the first ever historic half-black President fail. Because they’re racist. So let me ask you:  Why do you hate half black people, Mr Thiessen?  And does

Shit. And right after I refinanced, too. Jim Pethokoukis: If Mark Zandi becomes the new regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it could potentially be one of the most significant economic events of President Obama’s second term. Unlike Ed DeMarco, the acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Zandi, currently chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, favors the use of principal reduction by Fannie and Freddie to help some of America’s 6-7 million underwater borrowers

Earlier in the week I posted on the New York man who had his firearm confiscated, purportedly for being on anti-depressant drugs (which I noted at the time is a treatment for a fairly common malady; making the confiscation akin to seizing someone’s broken arm for the crime of wearing a cast). As the story broke and started gaining narrative steam, NY state law enforcement (Erie) suggested that the whole

The more I read about what is in this thing the more I suspect that this whole deal was pre-written by some Bloomberg-ian attorneys who charge $2000 an hour or more to write contracts with slippery-slopes tucked away in little sub-clauses that help their client to fool the rubes signing on from the other side. A Hollywood style contractual raping. If what was done in the making of this legislation