This is how every state should be acting.  Unfortunately, we have in Colorado a Mayor who has glommed onto Mayor Bloomberg’s line of thinking — and an “educated” urban elite that has migrated here like locusts from liberal states they’ve already destroyed — so I don’t hold out much hope for passage: In an effort to stave off firearms restrictions being handed down from Washington, state Republicans have presented a

On the IRS building in New Carrollton, MD, etched into one of the pillars, is this quote from Civil Rights leader Barbara Jordan: The Bill of Rights was not ordained by Nature or God. It’s very human, very fragile. This is of course a straightforward perversion of the claims made for our founding — and is at heart a sad reminder that the tyranny of men is held off only

I mean, honestly. It’s like they’re not even trying any more.  Klein, “Government is hurting the economy — by spending too little”. Now, ordinarily, this is the place where you’d find an extended quote from the linked piece , followed by my rebuttal of whatever “progressive” argument it strains to make.  But I’ve come to conclude that my time is just too precious to waste on these kinds of rhetorical

That’s the contemporary leftist intelligentsia summed up in a single word. Sure, they’ll protest, become sneeringly indignant and makes a show of histrionic outrage when you point out that their current attempts to label gun-rights activists “crazy” is quite clearly just that, Stalinesque — and creates the very Catch-22 that they’ve long desired, namely, that to disagree with the State (when it’s run by progressives, that is; when the State

“On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at Cornell Law School, Alan Gura, a partner in Gura & Possessky P.L.L.C., and Michael Dorf, the Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law debated the 2nd Amendment and state gun control laws. Professor Dorf is a constitutional law expert who formerly served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Mr. Gura, a Cornell University undergraduate alumnus, successfully argued the landmark 2nd Amendment

Jacob Sullum, Reason: Although arbitrary distinctions are a defining characteristic of “assault weapon” bans, recent polls indicate that most Americans support them. New survey data suggest one possible explanation: Most Americans don’t know what “assault weapons” are. Feinstein’s bill would ban “157 dangerous military-style assault weapons” by name, along with other guns that meet certain criteria. A rifle is considered an “assault weapon,” for example, if it has a detachable

At least, that’s my takeaway. On the plus side, though, 52% of people get a moron pass.  Which, all things considered, is a minor improvement, given that in November, 51% of the electorate who bothered to vote came away, one can hope, with “moron” permanently glued to the bumpers of their cars.  In red, white, and blue code, of course.

Meanwhile, David Brooks identifies a dislike of Big Government as the problem with Republicans and conservatives, while the “conservative” National Review summit brings in John Podheretz and MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough to discuss how best to fix conservatism so that it can compromise with contemporary pragmatic (big) governance.  Which, from what I gather, involves re-labeling RINOs and moderates “conservative” and lopping off the “fringe-right” Hobbity Visigoth extremists altogether. Like leftists, these

Then parody is dead.  Officially. Like, put pennies on its eyes, seal it in a box, and shovel dirt over the rigored thing-dead. From Weasel Zippers, this editorial from the Carteret County News-Times: TO THE EDITOR: Republicans and “so-called” conservatives are at it again. They are claiming that the Constitution gives people the right to have guns without the permission of the government. If that were true, then how could