Aside from the fact that the Republicans are terrified of what would be said of them were they to go after an “historic” President (pro tip:  bring articles of impeachment only against his white half!), and aside from the fact that Senate Democrats are lockstep with the President in favor of his violations — or at the very least, find it in their best interests to lend him cover. By

You can read the memo here (pdf), which outlines in no uncertain terms the fecklessness of what are being treated on the surface as largely symbolic measures.  We need to “do something” about “gun violence,” the argument goes, even if that “something” won’t have much of an affect. And yet beneath that is something more incremental and sinister — and no amount of faux-sophistication, couched in ironic sneers or flip

We hear in Colorado have heard the rumors. But it’s important that this story go national. With a bullet.  Ahem: Republican lawmakers in Colorado say they want the White House to stay out of their state battle over gun control, accusing Vice President Biden of personally leaning on Democratic legislators for their votes in a tight campaign that could change the national conversation on gun rights. Republican state Rep. Carole

Last evening over beers I spoke with our town’s Mayor and tried to impress upon him the utter impotence of any kind of universal registration law that wasn’t attached to a gun registry. My concern is that a State Trooper, eg., can pull me over on my way to or from the gun range — for, say, a busted tail light — and, seeing a rifle bag or weapons bag

Funny, but I can remember when the left was very anti-establishment and very anti-po-po — and the police, in turn, were quite suspicious of the left. Those were the days before the Constitution died, though, and before cronyism began spreading across the political spectrum with every interest group staking its claim.   For the political arm of our local police forces, taking away a citizen’s ability to be his own first

… calls those who think what McDonnell has done is both irresponsible and an affront to those responsible for his being elected “purists”. — Meaning, you know: fringe extremists who fetishize the Constitution and who aren’t open to common-sense reforms to hidebound old texts written by misogynistic racists who were banging their slaves. Or who resist an exciting, hip new rebranding to a moribund anti-government image, one that simply doesn’t

Gee, I hope she has tenure. Of course, the progressives — knowing themselves to be on the side of good and right — would never associate themselves with the atrocities of other leftists across the 20th century whose long-term aim was disarmament of the citizenry. Right up until such time as they can smell the Utopian finish line. At which point, Bill Ayers can perhaps step in and explain, rationally,

Redundant, yes.  But what’s left to “argue,” really?  We’re at the point of competing assertions, and the truth matters little — and facts even less so. But we soldier on.  For the children. And for once I don’t write that ironically. Charles Cooke, NRO: As things stand, the Firearm Owners Protection Act mandates the federal government to destroy within 24 hours any information that it gathers during background checks; all

Andrew Malcolm, IBD, “Obama, creator of the sequester crisis, decries crises created for political gain”: To hear President Obama talk about the so-called budget cuts known as sequestration, his two-year-old idea of those required slashes in federal spending didn’t turn out to be such a good idea after all. As usual with President Obama, however, the failure of his own plan is not his fault. The president, his Cabinet secretaries