It’s good news, but it’s sad that our courts have so little regard for the Constitution that there was ever a question as to how the Supreme Court would rule:

Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia said that an individual right to bear arms is supported by “the historical narrative” both before and after the Second Amendment was adopted.

The Constitution does not permit “the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home,” Scalia said. The court also struck down Washington’s requirement that firearms be equipped with trigger locks.

(Source: The Evansville, Indiana Courier & Press)

Of course, it’s the stereotypical 5-to-4 ruling… which basically means half of the current judges presiding over the Supreme Court are complete idiots. (Really: if you have a feeling the vote is going this way, isn’t this like telling every potential “freak militiaman” to start gunning for you? It doesn’t make any sense to me… because now you don’t have gun bans to hide behind. I just don’t get it.)

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Yup, that’s my name on the board. Just made my first-ever political contribution. Certainly wouldn’t give my money to any of the other candidates!

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Don’t talk to me about Virginia Tech. Don’t you dare tell me that those 30 college students’ deaths are more to be mourned than the 47+ million killed by abortionists in the USA since the Roe v. Wade ruling. Think about that: 15% of this country’s population has been murdered for no good reason.

And then the Supreme Court upholds a partial-birth abortion ban (just barely: it was a 5–4 decision), and the pro-life community acts as if it’s some sort of major victory… but it’s not:

Hey Planned Parenthood, you can still legally dismember the fetus in the womb. You just can’t deliver 3/4 of the baby backwards leaving the head inside, cut a hole in the baby’s head with scissors, and suck the baby’s brain out any more. (The Harford Republican — Heroes)

Nearly 24 million of those “legally” murdered in the womb would now be as old as—or older than—those killed at Virginia Tech. 24 MILLION. So don’t tell me to put a Hokies ribbon on my sidebar.

We have given up our tithes and offerings, sacrificing our children to Mammon. In return, he has seen fit to bless us with wealth, comfort and prosperity. And we wouldn’t have it any other way. The United States of America is bathing in the blood of its own people, and they just love it.

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This is so annoyingly inane that I just can’t believe it’s true:

“A suit alleging that the Bush administration is engaged in ongoing, widespread violations of our criminal laws must be dismissed because the alleged wrongdoer, the Bush administration, asserts that any adjudication of the issue would be counterproductive. In other words, under the administration’s legal theory, the administration gets to determine unilaterally which of its actions will be subject to judicial review.

“And while it assures us that the program is perfectly legal, the administration claims it cannot even divulge whether the named plaintiffs (Christopher Hitchens, Larry Diamond, etc.) were spied upon without harming national security. As Jack Balkin put it:

“If the issue were not so grave, the government’s arguments would simply be farcical. If the federal judiciary accepts the government’s argument to dismiss the case without requiring the government to make somewhat finer grained distinctions about what it can and cannot disclose, it might as well close up shop….”

From Unclaimed Territory: Orwellian Doublespeak by Glenn Greenwald.

You know what? If the U.S. was just a giant corporation—and all these “laws” just internal policies—then I could totally understand this response. But we’re talking about the Law here! You know, Lex Rex and all that? The President is not the ruler of this nation; the Law is. Bush must submit to the Law; not vice-versa.

Surely… hopefully… there’s someone in his cabinet who knows how stupid this all is?

I say from here on out, corporate CEOs should be barred from running for President. They’re just too power-hungry.

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Apparently that last post was too much of a downer; I got the lowest daily traffic in a long time! (Hmm… or maybe a Narus 6400 just decided my blog was too unpatriotic for the general public to access. Stranger things have happened!) Anyway, I wanted to lighten the mood a bit, so here’s some short videos from iFilm for you!

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