Watched it all. Romney was lame. Huckabee was excellent and fun as always. Giuliani ripped Obama a new asshole. He was awesome, best I have ever seen him. And Sarah… I’m in love. She hit it out of the park. She made the connection and that is what she had to do. She is an absolute doll who kills her own food. She is no vapid airhead "from central casting." This lady has a future, be it this year, or some time in the future. The McCain choice was inspired. The leftist demolition machine has truly met its match. They will do well to find an easier target. This lady will return fire. I am impressed.
Nelson Lund, Heller and Second Amendment Precedent argues that Heller erred in trying to reconcile its result with US v. Miller, when it should simply have recognized that Miller was wrongly decided.
Nelson Lund, Anticipating the Second Amendment Incorporation: The Role of the Inferior Courts argues that the 2nd Amendment should be incorporated into the 14th, and applied to the States, and that lower courts should not rely upon anti-incorporation case law and upon "it's up to the Supremes to change things."
Larry Chapman, Second Amendment Plumbing After Heller on the other hand, argues against 14th Amendment incorporation.
The 2A is becoming the one interesting field of con law. The First Amendment has been mined for, what, forty years or so. Debates over what is obscenity, what are fighting words, and whatnot are really getting to be a bit boring. But the 2A can keep scholars busy for another few decades. And the courts, as well.
Sarah Palin just finished her speech. Incredible. Along with the stuff you would expect in a speech like this, an introduction and some nice words about her running mate, she took it straight to Obama and his campaign.
It would have been easy to take lay off Obama, but she didn’t shy away from it at all:
“It’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform, not even in the state Senate,”
“Since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves, I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.”
“What exactly is our opponent’s plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish after he’s done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make the government bigger and take more of your money.”
And straight to the media -
“Here’s a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this country.”
I am looking forward to the VP debate.
Any Questions?
WHEREAS, September 5, 2007, will mark the 337th anniversary of the day when the jury, in the trial of William Penn, refused to convict him of violating England's Conventicle Acts, despite clear evidence that he acted illegally by preaching a Quaker sermon to his congregation.The more I know about Sarah Palin, the more I like Sarah Palin!
WHEREAS, by refusing to apply what they determined was an unjust law, the Penn jury not only served justice, but provided a basis for the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment rights of freedom of speech, religion, and peaceable assembly.
WHEREAS, September 5th, 2007, also commemorates the day when four of Penn's jurors began nine weeks of incarceration for finding him not guilty. Their later release and exoneration established forever the English and American legal doctrine that it is the right and responsibility of the trial jury to decide on matters of law and fact.
WHEREAS, the Sixth and Seventh Amendments are included in the Bill of Rights to preserve the right to trial by jury, which in turn conveys upon the jury the responsibility to defend, with its verdict, all other individual rights enumerated or implied by the U.S. Constitution, including its Amendments.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Sarah Palin, Governor of the State of Alaska, do hereby proclaim September 5, 2007, as:
Jury Rights Day
in Alaska, in recognition of the integral role the jury, as an institution, plays in our legal system.
Dated: August 31, 2007
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...They kicked in the front door there at about 12:23 p.m., police said.This couple did an outstanding job of protecting hearth and home. One goblin toes up and the other in the hospital. This was the goblins second home invasion of the evening, thankfully it is the last for at least one of them.
"I was sleeping and all of a sudden they busted through the door," Keith Hoehn said. "My wife had a 12-gauge in her face, and he told her 'Don't you scream, bitch, or I'll blow your F-in head off.'
"Well ... she did scream."
"I screamed for my husband," Kellie Hoehn said.
The gunman turned the Remington 870 pump-action shotgun toward Keith Hoehn.
"I thought he was going to blow my head plumb off," Hoehn said.
But Kellie grabbed the muzzle, and the struggle began.
"We just tackled him," Keith Hoehn said of the man, who probably outweighed him by about 90 pounds.
"I'm 220 (pounds)," he said. "All I could do was try to hold onto that shotgun.
"My wife was trying to keep the muzzle away from the kids' rooms. I looked down and I saw he was pulling on the trigger the whole time.
"I found out later that the safety was on -- praise the Lord."
Kellie let go long enough to grab a jar candle, Keith said, "and she popped him in the head."
Then she started battling the attacker's accomplice who had a handgun, Keith said. The couple's son grabbed his little sister and they hid in a closet with a pellet gun, Keith said.
'HE GOT RIGHT BACK UP'
The fracas spilled out onto the front lawn, where Keith Hoehn finally seized the shotgun.
He fumbled with the safety and then shot at Pierson, who was already in the van, wounding him.
"My wife said he had a gun," Keith said. "I didn't know if he was going to shoot us."
Then he fired at Benoit.
"He got right back up," Keith said, "and started charging me again.
"Well, I shot him again, and I guess that was it."
I regret to report that this is not a genuine image of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. My heart was broken by this debunking. Hat tip to Dan Gifford (sigh)...
Author Peter Manso faces a decade in prison for nonviolent firearms violations
POSTED September 2, 12:21 PM
J.D. Tuccille - Civil Liberties ExaminerProlific writer Peter Manso, author of, among other books, biographies of Norman Mailer and Marlon Brando, has been indicted on a dozen firearms charges by a Massachusetts grand jury and faces years in prison.
Did he brandish a gun in public? Threaten a neighbor with a drive-by shooting?
No, the guns were all stored, quite securely, in his locked and alarmed home. In fact, police discovered the weapons only when they responded to a burglar alarm while the writer was away. Either the guns were in plain view — evidence that Manso expected no legal trouble for their possession — or else, as Manso’s attorney alleges, "Truro police searched Manso’s house illegally while responding to the alarm." (The Times of London reports they were "in a cupboard.")
The mindboggling criminal charges for mere possession of inanimate objects are reported by the Boston Globe as follows:
Manso was indicted on charges of illegally possessing a large capacity weapon (a Colt AR-15 assault rifle), four counts of illegally possessing loading devices for that weapon, three counts of illegally possessing firearms, one count of illegally possessing ammunition, and three counts of improperly storing a firearm, according to a spokeswoman for Plymouth prosecutors.
The most serious charge, illegally possessing the assault rifle, carries a minimum sentence of 2 1/2 years in prison and a maximum of 10 years in prison. No date has been set for Manso’s next court hearing.
The main problem seems to be that Manso’s Firearms Identification Card expired after the passage of new legislation in 1998 — previously, FIDs lasted a lifetime; now they expire every six years. The new law has caused endless problems in the Bay State, since authorities have not been very effective about informing gun owners of the change. As the Globe reports, "In July 2002, a State House committee found that thousands of Massachusetts residents were probably unaware that they needed to renew fire identification cards."
The "assault rifle" is a separate issue, since that’s just outright illegal in Massachusetts. Still, Manso is in good company in its possession. In Can Gun Control Work?, James B. Jacobs, Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice at New York University, reported that Boston’s assault weapons ban has enjoyed a rousing compliance rate of about 1%. Challenged by a law that seems purely arbitrary and unnecessarily restrictive (banned assault weapons are mechanically indistinguishable from many perfectly legal firearms), large numbers of Americans simply shrug their shoulders and symbolically tell legislators to go fish…
…Strictly speaking, the recent Heller decision should have made these charges impossible. By finally recognizing that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms, the Supreme Court ostensibly put the right to bear arms on the same footing as the right to free speech — and you can’t require people to get a license to speak their minds, nor can you ban high-capacity printing presses. But we’re still exploring the full implications of that decision, and Heller was worded loosely enough that it may permit restrictions of the sort that we would never permit to be applied to any other individual right.
So Peter Manso faces a potential life sentence (he’s 67) for doing no harm to anybody by violating laws that few respect and even fewer understand and thereby making himself vulnerable to officials who may be out to get him.
In a free country, that’s not how the law is supposed to work.
Source: Examiner.com
I guess the moral of this story is, when living in Massachusetts, if you’re going to install a burglar alarm, put your guns away before you leave the house. Jeepers. Of course, the real villain here is the “purely arbitrary and unnecessarily restrictive” “assault weapons” ban in the state of Massachusetts, the kind of “assault weapons” ban that the Democratic party has written into its national platform. I hope that Manso can beat this one on the grounds of an improper search, but his guns are history regardless.
This past summer, two things related to guns happened in NJ. First, a pair of FedEx employee’s were busted stealing guns from a FedEx facility and selling them in the PJ’s, and secondly, a 15 year old was killed while sleeping in his bed, via the apartment below. But this open Editorial asks people to post their thoughts. Just read ‘em, this is what we’re dealing with in Jersey.
Story in the DC Examiner. Apparently police responded to the tripping of his burglar alarm, wound up searching his house, and now the 67 year old author faces up to ten years in the slammer because (1) his permit had expired and (2) he had an AR-15 and several magazines.
Just do everything opposite.
The poor woman is being taught by retards. Detailed analysis at Rummel's.
She solves the problem of how do you hold the perp at gunpoint while calling police -- by forcing the perp to call them for her.
Right here.
He has made an extraordinary gesture to conservatives and the party base, offering his old antagonists a partner's share in his presidency...
For should this ticket win, Palin will eclipse every other Republican as heir apparent to the presidency and will have her own power base...
Home Invader Shot Twice, Deputies Say
Greenville County deputies said they are investigating a home invasion that ended with an exchange of gunfire between the resident of the home and the burglar.
The break-in happened at 669 Rutherford Road at the Magnolia Place Apartments just before 5:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Investigators said someone forced their way into one of the apartments. They said once the burglar was inside, the resident of the apartment opened fire, hitting the burglar twice. The burglar also opened fire, they said.
The intruder was taken to Greenville Memorial Hospital to be treated for his injuries. The resident was not injured.
Neither the name of the victim nor the injured person was released.
Deputy among 6 dead in Wash. shooting spree
ALGER, Wash. - A shooting rampage Tuesday afternoon in northwest Washington has left six people dead, including a sheriff's deputy, the State Patrol said. A suspect in the shootings has surrendered...
The dead were found at multiple crime scenes. They included the deputy shot while responding to a call and a second person killed at the same location near the small town of Alger; two construction workers found shot nearby, and a third body found a few houses away, Leary said. Authorities were investigating any connection among those sites.
A motorist was shot and killed on Interstate 5 as the suspect fled south.
Alger is north of the Seattle area along I-5.
The suspect reportedly suffers from "mental problems."
2 intruders shot, 1 killed, at North Texas homeUPDATE: More coverage from September 5, 2008 FoxNews.com.
Police say a homeowner wrested a shotgun from an intruder and shot him and a fellow intruder in his suburban Fort Worth home.
One of the men died of his wound in the shooting early Wednesday in Blue Mound, while the other is hospitalized in Fort Worth.
Keith and Kellie Hoehn (HAYN) tell police the intruders kicked in their front door and pointed a shotgun at Mrs. Hoehn's head. She brushed the barrel aside, and a struggle ensued. The husband disarmed the armed intruder and shot both.
Investigators say the homeowner is unlikely be charged. They say he shot the men out of concern for his sleeping children.
Police say they believe the intruders had broken into the garage of another house nearby earlier in the night.
CANCER LED EX-COP TO ROB: PALSYeah, plus the devil made him do it.
For almost two years, a Fort Lauderdale police officer has collected a paycheck, pension and benefits — at $110,249 a year.On the bright side, he has also done no harm...well, aside from ripping off the tax cows for a cool quarter million. But considering some of the "Only Ones" stories we've chalked up, they may be getting off cheap...
He has done no work.