The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
Breda takes Hillary to task for her excuses about her debate performance. I’ve honestly never been able to understand Hillary’s appeal to women. I’ve heard more than a few women say they’ll vote for her because she’s a woman and a feminist.
She’s a woman who’s made her political career riding on her much more politically talented husband’s coattails, while other women were busy riding other parts of Bill. Someone explain to me what’s feminist about that?
I’ve documented many instances of the Philadephia media being vile, but this is a whole new low. There’s very little that’s worse these days than the local television news programs, especially in this town.
UPDATE: The officer involved in that shooting didn’t make it.
UPDATE: Wyatt is asking folks to link this:
Members of the Philadelphia Police Department’s 35th District have established a trust fund for the family of Police Officer Chuck Cassidy, who was killed in the line of duty on Thursday, November 1, 2007 .
Anyone wishing to make a donation can do so in the following ways:
By mailing a check payable to:
The Charles Cassidy Family Memorial Trust Fund
901 Arch Street
Philadelphia PA, 19107
Donations can be made in person as well. Click on the link for details.
I’m actually rather surprised by this latest from Paul Helmke, attacking the fact that the US citizenship test accepts the right to bear arms as an answer to the question “What are two rights of everyone living in the United States?”:
Next, the USCIS neglects eight out of the ten Amendments in the Bill of Rights, including: the right to be secure in our “persons, houses, papers and effects†(Fourth); the right against self-incrimination (Fifth); the right to a speedy and public trial (Sixth); and the right to a trial by jury (Seventh). With so many rights to choose from, it’s as if the USCIS got tired of reading the whole Constitution.
Finally, the “right to bear arms†is, in fact, not available to “everyone living in the United States.†While the U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to revisit this matter in the DC vs. Heller case, the vast majority of the courts have previously ruled that the right of the people to keep and bear arms must be related to service in a well-regulated militia. In addition, well-established and unchallenged Federal law prohibits “many living in the United States,†including juveniles, felons and the dangerously mentally ill (among other categories) from legally possessing guns.
Of all the arguments to make, why pick on the citizenship test? Regardless of what Paul thinks the second amendment does, or doesn’t mean, a 2003 Gallup/NCC poll found that 68% of Americans believed that the second amendment protects a right to keep and bear arms. Only 28% believed the Brady interpretation. Most constitutional scholars these days have rejected that interpretation as well.
I’ll agree with Paul that there should probably be more correct answers on that list, but why penalize new immigrants to this country because they hold similar views as the rest of their countrymen, and because they can read the plain language of the constitution which guarantees that right to the people.
It seems to me the Brady’s could find better uses of their blog other than nitpicking the citizenship test to penalize new immigrants for offering a reasonable answer they happen not to like. And here I thought the right were the ones who were anti-immigration.
Chris talks about the issues involved. Read the whole thing. It’ll be worth your while.
SayUncle details that Fred Thompson was actually right about the UN
Target Rich Environment points to an AP article that suggest McCain might make a comeback:
 “Lots of people pronounced him dead on the table. It’s fair to say he went into a vegetative state. Now, he’s clearly showing signs of life,†said Tony Fabrizio, a Republican pollster unaligned in the race who once declared McCain politically dead. “It’s still a long shot, but less of a long shot than it was four months ago.â€
Despite my problems with Rudy and Mitt, and my disappointment that Fred can’t seem to get his act together, there’s no way in holy hell I’m voting for John McCain unless he repents for his role in McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, and starts working to repeal it.
Looks like another attempt by the House Democrats to shift my taxes around in ways I don’t like:
The committee approved House Bill 1600, by Rep. David Levdansky, D-Forward. He proposes raising about $2.5 billion by doing three things. He would raise the state sales tax by 0.5 percent (making it 6.5 percent in most counties but 7.5 percent in Allegheny and Philadelphia counties.)
He would also raise the personal income tax rate by .22 percent, to a total of 3.29 percent. Those two moves would take effect July 1. Together they would generate an additional $1.5 billion, to which he would add the expected $1 billion from slots revenue once all 14 casinos are up and running. The resulting $2.5 billion would be used to lower property taxes.
Mr. Levdansky expects such tax shifting will slice several hundred dollars from the average homeowner’s property tax bills. The full House is expected to debate the bill in November.
Several hundred dollars? That’s it? The tax increase will cost me a more than that.  Is the concept of cutting spending and using that to cut my property taxes so hard to do? Maybe if we didn’t have a governor wasting money on things like building soccer stadiums in Chester, we might be able to pull it off.
Quite a bold statement buying the Distinguished Life Membership. Even I’m not a life member. The one thing I’d remind everyone is that if you’re an NRA member, you should also be aware of the Political Victory Fund, or as I like to call it, the “Defeat Hillary Fund”. Thanks to our lovely campaign finance laws, PVF can only be supported through member donations.  Thanks John McCain!