They caved after the Madrid bombings, so I guess this was the next step.

The Supreme Court has struck down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on handguns, ruling 5-4 that Americans have an individual right to own guns for self-defense and hunting — the Cort’s first major pronouncement on gun rights in US history. Lyle Denniston adds at SCOTUS Blog: Justice Scalia’s opinion stressed that the Court was not casting doubt on long-standing bans on carrying a concealed gun or on gun possession by felons or the mentally retarded,

This week, Barack Obama’s campaign has picked a fight with the largest supplier of oil and gas to the US — Canada. Jason Grumet, Obama’s senior energy adviser, told reporters it’s an “open question” whether oil produced from northern Alberta’s oil sands fits with the Democratic candidate’s energy plans, suggesting that there continues to be “unacceptably high carbon emissions” associated with production of the fuel. Obama and Grumet — both in the

Illegal immigration, ethnic violence, humanitarian crises, national security issues, cats and dogs living together –the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and CNN provide just a sampling of the disaster of biblical proportions projected by US intelligence agencies. The “National Intelligence Assessment on the National Security Implications of Global Climate Change to 2030” was the subject of a joint hearing held by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House

Move America Forward is conducting a live, online telethon tomorrow today (Thurdsay, June 26th) from 4pm to midnight Eastern in an effort to raise funds for the largest shipment of care packages to US troops in history. The show will be hosted by Melanie Morgan and Michelle Malkin, and feature all-star guests including Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, and many more. Bloggers and others with websites can support the

Emitting dangerous quantities of nishitrons. Weep for the pandas. Haven’t they suffered enough? One panda was killed and another is still missing, and nobody knows how many wild pandas have died.

At RealClearMarkets, Steven Malanga observes the third anniversary of the US Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London — which allows governments to use eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another to further economic development — by returning to the scene of the crime: [T]he very redevelopment project that sparked the Kelo lawsuit, an effort by the town of New London, Ct., to turn

Apparently, the surface responds to the electric charge on the skin of one’s fingers, and therefore won’t operate from the touch of one’s fingernails. And who requires them to have long nails? Teh Patriarcy, I presume. I’ve got news for you, ladies. One of the primary functions of the iPhone is to allow people to babble at one another, for hours and hours and hours at a distance. So shut

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe of Knighthood Phew! Close one! Queen Elizabeth II stripped Robert Mugabe of his ceremonial knighthood on Wednesday, revoking the honor amid new attempts to rebuke the president of Zimbabwe and express revulsion over human rights abuses in his country. The highly unusual move was the most eye-catching of several steps, which included decisions to press for new European Union sanctions against Mugabe’s regime, to ban Zimbabwe’s cricket team

Bastards! From Say Anything (who get a little too excited about it, in my view): With Democrat senator Barack Obama busy in the run-up to the US presidential polls, a group of well-wishers in the capital have decided to send him a symbol of his lucky charm, Lord Hanuman, to help him emerge victorious. Obama’s representative Carolyn Sauvage-Mar on Tuesday received a gold-plated two-feet-high idol which she will pass it