Saturday, April 19, 2014
CONSERVATIVE LEADER calls for a new movement to stop the loss of self-government. The Tea Party is alive and well.
FORMER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE John Paul Stevens has suggested the following modification to the Second Amendment to ensure its 'proper interpretation' as a collective, not individual, right:
HOT AIR has more on Justice Stevens 'helpful' comments.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the Militia shall not be infringed.”Many take issue with that interpretation, and I would just add the following thought. The 'militia' in colonial America consisted of "a subset of 'the people'—those who were male, able-bodied, and within a certain age range", defined then (and codified in the Militia Act of 1903) as 17 to 45 years of age. Since the average age at death of males was 45-50 years well into the early 20th century, that would seem to indicate that the entire male population of the U.S. is -- or should be -- a member of the militia. Thus Justice Stevens 5 words add nothing.
HOT AIR has more on Justice Stevens 'helpful' comments.
THE DOWN SIDE OF BEING LIBERAL, and other amusing puffery: "[having to pretend that] the Democrats’ politically-inspired claims make sense, even though they are contrary to his own (and everyone else’s) experience."
GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS: Why are the Democrats waging a war on their own women?
Because their own women are dumb?
Because their own women are dumb?
STOP RUNNING? How can runners be saved from cardiac arrest?
Notice that the solution is always more government intervention, never less.
Notice that the solution is always more government intervention, never less.
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