Courtesy of TRS, who has the audio: So let me suggest this to you with respect to the power of the courts, in particularly the Supreme Court. Where there is not a clear constitutional issue as there clearly was in Loving vs Virginia under the 14th amendment, a clear violation of the 14th amendment, then why should the federal courts intervene? Why should the Supreme Court intervene? The Equal Protection

The Hill: The Obama administration is moving to shore up the federal criminal background check system as part of the president’s effort to curb gun violence — with or without help from Congress. — first, let’s stop right there and parse the way this is phrased by the Hill’s Ben Goad.  Congress is not intended to “help” the President move his agenda, but rather to act as a potential check

Lookit:  no one has been any harder on Mayor Bloomberg and his campaign to use his own enormous bank account — and even more enormous ego — to, with the help of anti-gun non-profits and a post-constitutional White House, attempt a kind of governmental coup, whereby a rich Mayor from a cosmopolitan city presumes to circumvent representative government and state sovereignty by buying out-of-state lawmakers to do the bidding not

Well, on gun ownership they are — a terrible idea, in fact — mostly because they represent an onerous imposition on moving legal private property between friends and family members, and because, pace what their cynical proponents claim to be hoping they do, they are a rather transparent step in a process that the left (and many statists in the GOP) hopes will yield a national gun registry, the forerunner

NYP: A Cuomo administration source is flatly denying the governor’s claim that his new anti-gun SAFE Act was carefully drafted, saying the governor himself wasn’t even aware of some provisions when it was hastily enacted into law. “The governor thought the limit on the size of [gun] magazines would only apply to assault-style rifles, not to handguns,’’ said the source. “That’s why there’s the big problem now with handguns, among

JohninFirestone sent me a then/now photo of Leif Garrett, knowing as he does that Leif and I share a certain kinship. But I’ve never said why. Until now. Leif, circa 1976. Me, circa 1975-77.    

James Rickards and Newsmax financial editor Aaron DeHoog come together to scare the living shit out of you. The powers that be, they argue, are intentionally weakening the dollar to try to stave off a collapse. That’s what QE is really about. And global retaliation for the currency war — the third in history, and potentially the most destructive — is coming. We are its pawns. Stock up on seeds.

This whole thing being somewhat ironic because, to most gun owners, guns are merely tools; whereas to most gun owners, Jim Carrey is both a tool and a dick. Synchronicity! Somebody really ought to find Alanis Morissette. There’s a song in this somewhere — and it almost certainly has to be better than the one Carrey come up with, filled as it is with sad, forced references, truly dated dogma,