Archive → January, 2008
NRA-PVF Endorses Will Barclay for New York State Senate
Court has your Second Amendment rights directly in its cross hairs
The U.S. Supreme Court last considered a Second Amendment case 68 years ago, but that hiatus is over. Before the court is a hotly contested case that could turn the gun debate on its ear, influence the presidential election, and surely impact our area.
Lautenberg Introduces Bill to regulate private firearms sales
Once again, anti-gun Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey has introduced legislation to regulate firearm sales at gun shows in a manner that threatens to put gun shows out of business and to regulate private sales of firearms between law-abiding citizens.
House panel OKs bill allowing guns on campuses
Law-abiding people should be allowed to carry and possess guns on the campuses of South Dakota`s public universities, a state House committee recommended Wednesday.
Gun Laws Bring Protesters, Counter-Protesters to Statehouse
Protesters at the South Carolina Statehouse calling for tougher gun laws Wednesday attracted counter-protesters who are against more restrictions on gun rights.
No handgun ban, Stockwell Day says
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day is flatly rejecting calls for a ban on handguns, saying the Conservatives government`s support for more police on the streets, and tougher laws as yet unpassed, are already putting a dent in gun crime.
Rudy Could Pave McCain’s Road to the Whitehouse
Pundits will surely attribute the gradual rise and swift freefall of the long-time Republican frontrunner more to a lengthy rap-sheet of liberal social misdemeanors than a flawed campaign strategy.
The Clintons, Race, and the 50-year-old Calculation
Since I think the Clintons would probably sell their souls and firstborn for another White House tenure, the idea they would play the race card raises no eyebrow here.
WWJ(ack)D?
The unstated – yet obvious – conclusion the breathless coverage of Sen. Ted Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy conferring their endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for the presidency is that their endorsement also has the imprimatur of the late John F. Kennedy.
The Base is Wrong About the Gang of 14
When conservatives lay out their long list of apostasies committed by John McCain, one of them is always his role in the Gang of 14, the 7 Democrats and 7 Republicans in the Senate who agreed to a judicial compromise in 2005. To put it plainly, the critics of the deal are flat out wrong.