[VIDEO] Dershowitz: I have Lost 7 Pounds Because Liberal Friends Stopped Inviting me to Dinner Parties
Posted: December 11, 2017 Filed under: Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Alan Sershowitz, Donald Trump, U.S. Constitution, video, Washington Free Beacon Leave a comment
OH YES THEY DID: House Votes to Allow Concealed Carry Across State Lines
Posted: December 7, 2017 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Law & Justice, Self Defense, U.S. News | Tags: Conceal Carry, Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, Congress, Guns, Second Amendment, U.S. Constitution Leave a comment
Kelly Cohen reports: The House passed legislation Wednesday that would allow concealed carry permit holders from one state to legally carry their guns in other states.
Lawmakers passed the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which also includes language aimed at improving the federal background check system more commonly known as NICS. The combined bill passed 231-198; six Democrats voted for it, and 14 Republicans voted against it.
The legislation is the first gun legislation to be passed by the House in the wake of major mass shootings in both Las Vegas and Texas. While Democrats argued the concealed carry legislation would only add to gun violence, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said the legislation is the best way “not to infringe on the rights of law-abiding citizens, but to enforce the laws against criminals.”
“This bill is about the simple proposition that law-abiding Americans should be able to exercise their right to self defense, even when they cross out of their states’ borders,” he said last week. “That is their constitutional right.”
But Democrats angrily opposed the bill, and said it makes no sense to consider legislation easing rules for gun owners after so many tragic shootings around the country. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-Conn., whose district includes Newtown, where 20 children were shot to death in 2012, called the bill an “outrage.”
“This will should be called the Act to Carry Any Gun, Anywhere, Any Time, by Anyone,” she said. “The Concealed Carry Reciprocity bill is an outrage and an insult to the families in Newtown and to the hundreds of families who have lost loved ones to gun violence who are gathered here today, at the Capitol, for the fifth annual vigil on gun violence.” Read the rest of this entry »
Howard Dean: The Constitution Does Not Protect Hate Speech
Posted: April 24, 2017 Filed under: Censorship, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: hate speech, Howard Dean, U.S. Constitution Leave a comment
We have been discussing how the left has fallen out of love with free speech and how free speech is now being treated not as the defining right of liberty but the very threat to liberty. Indeed, the most existential threats to free speech around the world are now coming from the left, which has embraced speech codes and the criminalization of speech with a passion. There are exceptions like Bernie Sanders who recently declared that Ann Coulter should be allowed to speak at Berkeley — a position that I obviously have shared on this blog. However, that principled position was countered by the most common response of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean who declared that hate speech is not protected by the Constitution. He is obviously wrong but his inclination — even eagerness — to limit free speech is now a mainstream idea among liberals who once were…
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[VIDEO] REWIND: Justice Antonin Scalia Schools Senator Dianne Feinstein
Posted: April 5, 2017 Filed under: History, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Antonin Scalia, Dianne Feinstein, SCOTUS, The Supreme Court, U.S. Constitution, video Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Sen. Franken: ‘The Document… Looks Very Different From…One I Have Sworn to Support’
Posted: March 20, 2017 Filed under: Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Al Franken, Congressional Hearing, SCOTUS, SNL, U.S. Constitution, video 1 Comment
[VIDEO] Is Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration Constitutional?
Posted: January 29, 2017 Filed under: Foreign Policy, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Donald Trump, Executive order, Immigration Ban, media, news, U.S. Constitution, video Leave a comment
Gun Owners Welcome Donald J. Trump as President of the United States
Posted: January 21, 2017 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, History, Politics, Self Defense, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Americans, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Donald Trump, Gun control, Gun laws, Gun rights, News conference, NRA, President of the United States, Second Amendment, The Pentagon, U.S. Constitution 1 Comment
Gun owners across the nation breathed a sigh of relief as Donald J. Trump was sworn in Friday morning as the 45th president of the United States.
Trump’s election was the result of a sweeping grassroots movement to upend the Washington status quo and restore the concept of popular sovereignty in America. As Trump said in his speech:
Today’s ceremony … has very special meaning. Because today we are not merely transferring power from one Administration to another, or from one party to another – but we are transferring power from Washington DC and giving it back to you, the people.
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The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.
And that, after all, is the essence of the Second Amendment, the principle that in a government of laws, and not of men, ultimate power and authority reside with the people. And that includes the power of self-defense, so that no person is left to depend solely on the state’s good graces for his or her very life.
Your NRA was among Trump’s earliest and most faithful backers during a campaign in which conventional wisdom gave him no chance of winning. As a concealed carry permit holder, Second Amendment advocate, and father to two enthusiastic hunters and shooters, Trump may well be the most pro-gun president to date.
Trump’s swearing in also ends the imperious reign of Barack Obama, who has repeatedly said on the record that failure to see federal gun control legislation enacted was the biggest frustration of a tenure also marked by slow economic growth, terrorism, and unrest and division in the homeland.
The NRA, its members, and the pro-gun Congress you elected, thwarted Obama’s designs for new federal gun laws, but Obama aggressively used executive authority to curb Second Amendment rights wherever possible. As we note elsewhere in this Alert, Obama continued these tactics through his last hours in office, as the Fish and Wildlife Service late on Thursday announced plans to seek a ban on lead ammunition and fishing tackle in areas under its control.
Yet as President Trump said while addressing the nation and the world, “[T]hat is the past. And now we are looking to the future.” Read the rest of this entry »
Obama: Rule of Law, Due Process, Constitutional Fidelity, and Separation of Powers ‘Sets Our Country Back’
Posted: June 23, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Politics, White House | Tags: Amnesty, Barack Obama, DREAM Act, Executive Branch, Executive Orders, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration, Immigration law, Migrants, SCOTUS, Separation of powers, Supreme Court, U.S. Constitution, Unconstitutional 1 Comment
President Obama said Thursday that the Supreme Court’s 4-4 decision that will block his 2014 executive actions on immigration “sets our country back,” and is “heartbreaking” for the millions of illegal immigrants still in the country.
“Today’s decision is frustrating to those who seek to grow our economy and bring a rationality to our immigration system, and to allow people to come out of the shadows,” he said at the White House.
[Read the full story here, at Washington Examiner]
The 4-4 tie left in place a lower court ruling that found against Obama’s actions. But Obama cast the ruling as one that showed the Supreme Court was “unable to reach a decision,” and argued that it’s more evidence that the Senate needs to consider his nominee for the high court, Merrick Garland, so that the court cannot deadlock again.
“This is part of the consequence of the Republican failure so far to give a hearing to Mr. Merrick Garland,” Obama said.
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[VIDEO] Dianne Feinstein SAID WHAT? Americans Must ‘Prove Their Innocence’
Posted: June 20, 2016 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics, Self Defense, Terrorism | Tags: 4th Amendment, Dianne Feinstein, Innocent until proven guilty, PBS, U.S. Constitution 1 Comment
Zappa on Civics
Posted: December 25, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Education, Entertainment, Law & Justice, Politics | Tags: 1960s, Bill of Rights, Civics, Civil Rights, Curriculum, Frank Zappa, Social Studies, U.S. Constitution Leave a comment
CATO: Happy Bill of Rights Day!
Posted: December 15, 2015 Filed under: History, Politics | Tags: American History, Bill of Rights, Civics, Civil Libertarianism, Civil Rights, Congress, Liberty, U.S. Constitution, United States Leave a comment
Today: 224th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights
Posted: December 15, 2015 Filed under: History, Law & Justice | Tags: America, Bill of Rights, Civil Rights, Congress, Founders, Liberty, U.S. Constitution 1 Comment
Constitutional History in Obama’s America
Posted: December 11, 2015 Filed under: Education, Entertainment, History, Law & Justice, White House | Tags: Civl War, First Amendment, Ignorance, Progressivism, Revolutionary war, Second Amendment, Socialism, Stupidity, U.S. Constitution 1 Comment
[VIDEO] Academic Liberals vs. the U.S. Constitution: ‘Is There a Shredder I Can Use?’
Posted: November 3, 2015 Filed under: Education, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Arizona State University, Catharine Bond Hill, David Leonhardt, Education in New York, media, news, Oberlin, Project Veritas, The Academic Left, Trigger, Trigger words, U.S. Constitution, Vassar College Leave a comment
With the release of this video by Project Veritas, the academic left is officially beyond parody. A Project Veritas volunteer poses as a student at Vassar and Oberlin who has been “triggered…
Source: Power Line
[VIDEO] Hillary Supporters Call For Repealing Bill of Rights
Posted: August 3, 2015 Filed under: Education, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Bill of Rights, Hillary Clinton, Mark Dice, media, news, The Pantsuit Report, U.S. Constitution, video Leave a commentQuote: Who Said It? Not Who You’d Think
Posted: August 1, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Allen West (politician), America, Chattanooga, Islamic terrorism, Nazi Germany, Tennessee, U.S. Constitution, United States, United States Constitution, Wesley Clark, World War II Leave a comment“Everybody knows me to be a progressive or a liberal or lefty or whatever. I think of myself as a bleeding-heart conservative. You will not f— with my Bill of Rights, my Constitution, my guarantees of political justice for all. But does my heart bleed for those who need help and aren’t getting the justice that the country promises them and the equal opportunity the country promises? Yes. I’m a bleeding heart, but I think myself to be a total social conservative. The people who are running just don’t seem to have America on their minds, not the America I think about. When I was a kid we were in love with America. As early as I can remember, there was a civics class in my public school. And I was in love with those things that guaranteed freedom before I learned that there were people who hated me because I was Jewish. I had a Bill of Rights and a Constitution, those words out of the Declaration that protected me. And I knew about that because we had civics in class. We don’t have that much in the country anymore. So before World War II or shortly after, we were in love with America because we understood what it was about and that’s what we were in love with. I believe everybody’s patriotic today. Everybody loves America. But I don’t need their flag plans to prove it. I’d like to go back to civics lessons.”
Who said it?
Answer after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] The Grammar of The Second Amendment
Posted: November 9, 2014 Filed under: Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Self Defense | Tags: Bill of Rights, Bill Whittle, Civil Rights, Firewall, Keep and bear arms, NRA, Progressives, Republican Party (United States), Second Amendment, U.S. Constitution, YouTube 1 CommentTired of listening to Progressives tell you that the Second Amendment only allows people in militias to keep and bear arms? Or that the Founders would have never intended the Second Amendment to apply to modern weapons? In his latest FIREWALL, Bill recounts a remarkable conversation about the precise wording of the Second Amendment, and sums up why the document says what it means and means what it says.
YouTube – h/t rdbrewer Ace of Spades
Zack Beauchamp’s Gun-Ban Fantasy: ‘…one of the most ignorant, ahistorical, illiterate, badly argued, self-indulgent things I’ve read in my life’
Posted: February 20, 2014 Filed under: Law & Justice, Politics, Self Defense | Tags: Andrew Sullivan, Foreign Policy, Gun rights, Political science, Second Amendment, Self-defense, ThinkProgress, U.S. Constitution, Zack Beauchamp 2 CommentsThis is one of the most ignorant, ahistorical, illiterate, badly argued, self-indulgent things I’ve read in my life: http://t.co/Y99NpGJ9OE
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) February 20, 2014
Charles Cooke‘s link takes you to Zack Beauchamp’s bright idea:
Ban the Second Amendment
Meet Zack Beauchamp, self-appointed constitutional expert. Zack’s photo and resume says it all:
Zack Beauchamp is a Reporter/Blogger for ThinkProgress. He previously contributed to Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish at Newsweek/Daily Beast, and has also written for Foreign Policy and Tabletmagazines. Zack holds B.A.s in Philosophy and Political Science from Brown University and an M.Sc in International Relations from the London School of Economics.
pundit from another planet 