Among the cynical, backdoor gun ban provisions?  An “Assault Weapons responsibility act” that would make licensed dealers and firearms manufacturers liable for any crime committed with a firearm they sold or made — which is no more than an effort to dissuade people from dealing in firearms.  Couple that with a tax for “enhanced background checks” and the dissolution of doctor / patient confidentiality regarding mental health matters, and it’s

Via Darth Levin, Mario Loyola, The American Interest, on the role of the federal judiciary in creating the conditions for usurpation of state powers by the Leviathan I noted earlier today as the primary bridge from Constitutional government to our present post-constitutional predicament. The article is detailed where I was cursory.  Please do take the time to read it.  Here’s a bit to get you started — essentially, Mr Loyola’s

So notes our resident pikachu.  And yet, her spirit remains everywhere — even having stolen into the grubby souls of those who in other contexts would so vulgarly dismiss her. Not sure if that’s ironic or not. Tell you what: I’ll put in a call to Alanis Morissette, then go with the opposite of whatever she thinks. (h/t Darleen)

Has the mainstream press covered this story ? — and if so, have they tackled it with the same eye toward politics as they would had the rogue former cop been a member of the TEA Party? Or even had a name similar to someone who once attended a TEA Party rally? Seriously, this is the first I’m hearing of it; and such an embargo of widespread mainstream media dissemination 

So writes Terry Jeffrey, under what may be the most straightforwardly obvious headline in the history of all headlines, anywhere, ever. Really.  What’s there to add?  I mean, if I start a group called “The Shiitake Mushrooms for Jesus,” that doesn’t make me either a Shiitake muhsroom or a Christian — with the self-styled designation made all the more absurd when I’m witnessed in public spraying ground clear on Shiitake

Washington Free Beacon: The Senate Armed Services Committee will not hold a vote Thursday on the confirmation of secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel. The office of Sen. Jim Inhofe (R., Okla.) confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon that the vote has been delayed and that no new date has been set. “Hagel vote won’t be tomorrow in Armed Services,” Politico’s Manu Raju tweeted Wednesday afternoon. “Levin: “The committee’s review of the

You’ve read me make this argument several times now, but let me repeat it yet again:  the way to reestablish first principles is, quite simply, by reestablishing fidelity to the Constitution; and the way to reestablish fidelity to the Constitution is both to follow it as it was written and to acknowledge its clear intentions, both on the macro and micro levels:  the Constitution provides the framework for levels of