A Win for the Second Amendment

The Supreme Court today, in a bare 5 member majority, held that the Second Amendment applies equally to the States as it does to the Federal government.

The case is McDonald v. Chicago, and it effectively extends the reasoning from the DC v. Heller case to all governmental subdivisions in the United States.

Samuel Alito wrote the opinion for the court: "Self-defense is a basic right ... and in Heller, we held that individual self-defense is "the central component" of the Second Amendment right. It is clear that the Framers and ratifiers of the Fourteenth Amendment counted the right to keep and bear arms among those fundamental rights necessary to our system of ordered liberty ... a provision of the Bill of Rights that protects a right that is fundamental from an American perspective applies equally to the Federal Government and the States."

So, all rights stated in the Bill of Rights apply equally to the States and the Federal governments (not just the liberal-approved rights), and the opinion is firmly rooted in the AMERICAN experience, not some wiggly international standard.

Don't tread on me! Just in time for Independence Day, too!

Krugman: So Utterly Wrong, Again

Former Enron advisor and liberal "economist" Paul Krugman opines the following today in his New York Times column:

"And this third depression will be primarily a failure of policy. Around the world — most recently at last weekend’s deeply discouraging G-20 meeting — governments are obsessing about inflation when the real threat is deflation, preaching the need for belt-tightening when the real problem is inadequate spending."

I would offer this statement as Exhibit A in his involuntary commitment hearing.

The primary, secondary, and tertiary cause of the present economic condition is too much GOVERNMENT POLICY. World wide, we are suffering from too much government, too much spending, too much government economic regulation, and too much government-enforced wealth transfer, and too many government schemes designed to try to legislate around the market.

The real fix to the present economic condition is not just less government spending, but less government period.

Until liberals like Krugman come to understand the truth that governments are a net drain on the economy, they will continue to visit this government-approved pox of malaise upon humanity. Governments produce nothing and generate no profit. Every tax dollar to the government is both a market distortion and a violation individual economic rights.

More importantly to the current condition, every dollar provided to the government is worth less to the economy than a dollar left in the hands of the person that earned it.

More government, more spending, and more stealing of the wealth of the future generations is not just bad policy, it is criminal. Paul Krugman should be ashamed for suggesting otherwise. But we all know that liberals have no shame whatsoever.

Goodbye Robert "Sheets" Byrd

Ku Klux Klan leader, longest seated Senator, the King of Pork, committed racist, and poster child for term limits Robert Byrd died this morning. West Virginia has a chance to field and seat a Tea Party candidate and replace a spendthrift blowhard.

The immediate benefit of Byrd's death is that the Democrat/Socialist financial "reform" bill may not have the votes to proceed pending a replacement. They have been rolling Byrd out and voting for him all session.

I sincerely hope Robert Byrd became a death-bed Christian and spent his last days in confession. I wish no ill on the soul of Robert Byrd. But in life, Robert Byrd was a destructive force of rare proportion, and I do not feel any constraint in telling the truth about his life and legacy.

Goodbye Robert Byrd - we knew you far too well in life.

Why Americans Prefer Conservatives

Ronald Reagan: "Well I've said it before and I'll say it again — America's best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead."

Timothy Geithner: "US can no longer drive global growth. The world cannot depend as much on the US as it did in the past."

UPDATE: Joe Biden: "[T]here's no possibility to restore 8 million jobs lost..."

Part of the Problem, Not the Solution

Via the Tax Prof Blog, it has been reported that B. Hussein Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is bemoaning that it does not have enough funding or staff to complete a report by Obama's December 1, 2010 deadline.

Harry Reid has taken it upon himself to write a letter to the Anointed One to ask for additional funding and staff on behalf of Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, co-chairs of the board.

Really? Just can't get recommendations done by December 1.

I could get constitutionally based common sense balanced budget recommendations to the President by July 1 working only in my spare time and with no budget at all.

Give me a break! If these guy wanted to be part of the solution, they should have come into this job with ideas. The entire commission is as intellectually bankrupt as the rest of the Washington DC establishment from which they were drawn.

Demon of the White House Press Corpse

Helen Thomas is now an outed racist, and has been a barely closeted racist for the past 70 years.

Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder was fired for less. Helen should be put out to pasture, finally.

See the racist spout off here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcQdWBqt14


Edit: Here is a photo of at least two anti-Semites at the White House.

Our Financier Snubs Obama Again

Red China says NO to a proposed "fence mending" visit from Sec. Def. Gates while he was in the region.

Hey Obama - how is that era of improved foreign relations coming along? How does this help us address North Korean aggression?

I've said it before - weakness invites attack, from terrorists, competitor nations, and politicians. The Obama regime is so obviously out of their league on the world stage that they endanger Americans every second the regime remains in power.