That he feels the need to say this aloud is of itself quite telling, but what galls me most — his special pleading here aside — is that we know for a fact that he doesn’t believe he either can or should be constrained by that “flawed document” that the framers put in place to do just that. — As he’s made clear with respect to the Appointment’s Clause; the

Rick Manning: President Obama in his zeal to purge the nation of gun ownership is expected to travel to Connecticut to make another tearful plea for Congress to both pass a semi-automatic fire arm ban and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s wolf in sheep’s clothes national background check legislation. Obama could not choose worse optics if he is attempting to convince a majority of Senators who are skeptical

Unlike it might to, say, Joe Scarborough, this doesn’t come as any great shock to me.  In fact, I’d have been a little disappointed had the Democrats not tried to write a bill that, by either omission or commission, attempted opened up a path to a national registry, which in turn sets the stage for confiscation. The Foundry: As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) must know, Americans who own

Which many of you may not have heard about, because it doesn’t fit the narrative that questions about ObamaCare’s constitutionality were settled when John Roberts found “this is not a tax” should be interpreted as “of course, this could be construed as a tax, as it acts like a tax, so let’s just call it that and get to work implementing this thing — while the liberal newspapers get to

Why ban when you can just price all but the very rich out of access to abundant energy? NetRightDaily: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called upon the U.S., its largest contributor, to levy a $500 billion a year carbon tax on consumers to offset what it calls “underpriced” oil, coal, and other energy products. This “mispricing” is supposedly leading to “excessive energy consumption,” which is “accelerating the depletion of

Or, “how we here on the thinking side of liberty can take a masturbatory screed filled with near aimless and infinite projection and rebut it in in a few carefully chosen links.” To wit, this is what the 2nd Amendment as a foundational right of the free man in a constitutional republic hasn’t allowed to happen here. For the children. Oh. And I feel compelled to make this clear to

Remember, this is the same Representative who believed magazines were disposal, probably because she saw a movie or tv show where a character simply dropped one to load another in the heat of some (wildly inauthentic) exchange of fire. And yet she gets to introduce anti-gun legislation — and her Democrat colleagues will vote to impose it on people who know about guns, and have every right to protect themselves

“That isn’t true!” they’ll shout. “White liberals are the champions of the oppressed races, especially those mud peoples lacking the basic, native intelligence to act on their own behalf in any effective way.” In fact, I’ll bet many of them are so outraged right now that they could absolutely lynch this uppity, gay-hating Uncle Tom.  Who, it turns out, is being duped by conservatives.  Because for all his medical accomplishments,

Commenting on the article, progressives sneer at the policy idiocy of the hillbillies, noting that such laws are unenforceable and largely symbolic, not to mention decidedly backwoods in its thinking. — proving yet again that those who think themselves sophisticated connoisseurs of irony wouldn’t recognize it if it stripped down to its jock, put on a cowboy hat and chaps, and started humping their legs in exchange for dollar bills.

Meh, so what?  Just mentioning this singles you out as part of the black helicopter crowd. I’m sure Obama — who likes to shoot him so clay pigeons! — isn’t going to be pressing the Senate to try to go along with a surrender of national sovereignty to a far-flung collection of international bureaucrats. After all, he loves his country — and respects its sovereignty — just as much as