Tuesday, June 29, 2010

GRE Round Up for June 29

Been super busy and have not had time to do one of these for a few days. Here's the latest from my Gun Rights Examiner colleagues:

Howard Nemerov/Austin:
Statement of Glenn Hegar on Supreme Court's McDonald ruling
Austin, Texas--Today is a great day in American history! The United States Supreme Court affirmed today what a vast...
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From citizen to ‘smart ass’
Vice President Joe Biden is in Wisconsin to help raise money for Senator Feingold’s reelection bid. Real Politics posted a video of Biden in a...
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Paul Valone/Charlotte:
Gun rights legal battle shifts to North Carolina
Grass Roots North Carolina joins suit challenging constitutionality of gun restrictions in North Carolina “state of emergency” law....
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McDonald v. Chicago: Supreme Court 'incorporates' Second Amendment
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) today returned its Second Amendment decision in McDonald v. Chicago...
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Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
California town can actually mandate Crime Free Zones
As innovative as I thought I was with the invention of the Crime Free Zone, I was not the first. Incredible as it may seem, I have found a municipal...
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Sean McClanahan/Des Moines:
US Supreme Court finds for McDonald and upholds the Second Amendment
As most are probably aware by now, the U.S. Supreme Court today released the long-awaited decision in the McDonald vs. Chicago case. As expected, the...
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Waiting for the McDonald vs. Chicago decision to arrive
It is reported that the decision that gun rights activists have been waiting for all year will be released on Monday. At that time, the United States...
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John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: Safer streets finally underway again.
Once in a while, a Los Angeles Times Editorial surprises me on liberty and second amendment issues. Today's editorial finds the Times agreeing with...
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Safer Streets 2010: The Supremes Affirm The Second Amendment.
In a 5 to 4 decision handed down this morning, the United States Supreme Court repealed the gun ban in McDonald v....
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Safer Streets 2010: Leftists do not dispute second amendment facts.
Fox News' John Stossel has been a friend of the second amendment from the beginning. John is a great example of...
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John Pierce/Minneapolis:
Contempt of court George Wallace style
"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by...
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‘Substantive’ victory for gun owners
“I would follow what I believe was the original purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment-to extend to all the people of the nation the complete...
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Dave Workman/Seattle:
Kagan should be held to the Palin standard

As questioning continues today on the nomination of Elena Kagan to replace retired Justice John Paul Stevens on the...
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Anti-gun hysteria follows landmark ruling in Chicago gun ban case
One group says Monday’s Supreme Court ruling in McDonald v. Chicago will result in more homicides and another...
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Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:
Dissenting justices in McDonald decision illustrate extremism of anti-gun mindset
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court's McDonald v. Chicago decision, the Wall Street Journal made an interesting observation: The majority...
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Supreme Court's McDonald v. Chicago decision leaves much to be worked out
It is now a settled point of Constitutional law that the right to own firearms is one that must be honored by not only the federal government, but by...
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Chris Woodard/Tucson:
McDonald v Chicago. A different point of view
Within the gun community there is great jubilation because of the decision on McDonald. My colleagues David...
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We're the Only Ones "Just the Facts" Enough

Facts
8. On or about Thursday, January 7, 2010, Plaintiff was in his motor vehicle, located near a boat launch ramp at Lake Guntersville, Alabama Highway 227 near .Morrow Street in Guntersville, Marshall County, Alabama.

9. Defendants Kirkwood and Nugent spotted Plaintiffs vehicle and went to check on the vehicle.

10. Plaintiff was occupying his vehicle, seated in the driver's seat The defendant police officers approached his vehicle. Thereafter, Plaintiff was shot multiple times by the individual Defendants. The shots were fired through the driver's door and window, striking the Plaintiff as he was seated in the vehicle.

11. Plaintiff suffered from multiple gunshot wounds and a T9 fracture resulting in paraplegia, along with hemorrhagic shock secondary to multiple gunshot wounds, significant chest trauma, and a left open humerous fracture, among other injuries. [More]
That'll teach him.

[Via Carl S]
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The Next Target

Snow jobs. [Read]
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It Works!

Catch one nonviolent and evidently not very bright guy and proclaim success! [More]

We can get rid of our guns now--we don't need them anymore now that this will be taking care of all the bad guys!

Gotta love those "Authorized Journalists"...
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We're the Only Ones Remaining Free Enough

Federal prosecutors had sought to put Burge on electronic monitoring and to confine him to his Florida home while he's awaiting his Nov. 5 sentencing. [More]
Let's see: "CONVICTED of of lying about the torture of suspects" and that's too harsh.

Meanwhile, these folks haven't been convicted of anything and that's too lenient.

It's good to be an "Only One."

[Via Ed M]
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Bucking the System

How is it not awesome that a man risked his entire legal career to shut down political motivated prosecutions designed not just to advance the political career of a Democrat hack, but also designed to undermine the legal permitting and purchasing of firearms?

This should qualify Ken Buck for automatic hero status, not pariah status. [More]
And he's the one the oath-breakers made take ethics classes?

[Via James Simpson]
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Learned Helplessness

Don't whimper. Bite. [More]
How do you propose we do that, Teddy-boy, with you egging on the police state to bundle anyone capable of biting off to Bagram?
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Everything He Didn't Want

Elyria Store Owner Opens Fire on Robber...

The owner says she decided to get a permit to carry the gun after the June 2008 murder of a clerk at a gas station in Elyria. In that case, the clerk was killed, even though she complied with all of the robber's demands. [More]
Unhappy now, you "Only One" idiot?
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Anything They Wanted

He would have given them anything they wanted. [More]
He did.

Happy now, you "Only One" you idiot?
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Is NRA squelching dissent on Kagan?

But all this leads to the singular question of why NRA will not oppose Kagan's nomination, instead offering words to give themselves cover, but no action to give those words meaning. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at more of that Vulcan chess-mastery we're told is for our own good.

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This Day in History: June 29

June 29, 1778 "Molly Pitcher" commissioned sergeant by Washington for bravery at Monmouth. [More]
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