From KSL Channel 5 in Utah.A student confronted by police for openly carrying a gun at Utah Valley University says he's within his rights. Now advocates on both sides say his story points to a problem in Utah law.The student posted on YouTube the confrontation he had with officers after they responded to a report of a man with a gun.Steven Gunn of ...

Five years in prison from bringing an unloaded BB gun to school to show student ROTC members seems nonsensical. Of course, this BB gun is neither a "firearm or dangerous weapon."A 17-year-old student at Huntington High School has been arrested after allegedly bringing an unloaded BB gun onto the campus.Authorities say Freddiericka Terrell was in o...

My piece starts this way:Has “Burn Notice” gotten new writers? They used to have some very insightful comments about guns and crime (e.g., see the episode in season 2 entitled “Lesser Evil”). Yet, now one needs a scorecard to keep tracks of all the errors in some of the shows. Take some of the errors in the most recent show, “Partners in ...

Obama wants to define poverty as relative and not absolute levels of income.This week, the Obama administration announced it will create a new poverty-measurement system that will eventually displace the current poverty measure. This new measure, which has little or nothing to do with actual poverty, will serve as the propaganda tool in Obama’s e...

For a month it seemed as if there was nothing but media stories about Foley and the stupid emails that he sent former interns. It turns out that then House Speaker Dennis Hastert didn't really know that much and certainly hadn't seen the emails. Will there now be a media feeding frenzy about what Nancy Pelosi knew? Apparently Massa is accused of...

I am not sure that I believe Sestak, but Sestak claims that the Obama administration offered him a high-ranking government job if he’d stay out of the race.The top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee says the Obama administration may have broken the law by offering Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) a job in order to persuade h...

With unemployment high, you would think that it would be easy to fill the quotas for Hispanics to do the Census. If I read this article in the WSJ correctly, the claim is that there are so few legal Hispanics in some areas that they can't find anyone who qualifies.But recruiting Latinos is hard for some of the same reasons they are difficult to co...

"President Clinton got on the phone and called me also and pressed me to allow his massive health care bill to be insulated by reconciliation's protection.""I felt that changes as dramatic as the Clinton health care package, which would affect every man, woman, and child in the United States should be subject to scrutiny. I said Mr. President, I c...

My newest piece starts off this way:According to Friday's announcement by the Labor Department, the nation’s unemployment rate remains unchanged from the previous month at 9.7 percent. The number was generally greeted as good news by the media. The Wall Street Journal's headline reported "Outlook Brightens for Jobless." The Los Angeles Times head...

Reportedly there are at least 12 of these 14 have strong enough feelings on the abortion issue to vote against the health care takeover. I haven't seen a list previously of these congressmen. Hopefully people in these districts will let them know they support this action. Links on how to contact each congressmen are below.Rep. Marion Berry, D-Ar...

From the Drudge Report today:'END' OF THE 'END GAME' OR 'THE END'?TODAY: Obama pushing on health care end game (AP)Last year: July 28: Healthcare endgame on Capitol Hill (Reuters) August 21: Analysis: Health care endgame near but uncertain (AP) October 14: Senate, administration begin healthcare endgame as Dem leaders express unity (Hill) October 2...

This note was of interest.Prof. Peter Morici of the University of Maryland commented on Wednesday: "Fourth quarter GDP growth was 5.9%, but 66% of that was a slower pace in depletion in business inventories. Businesses continued to sell more goods off their shelves than they produced, but depletion of inventories fell from $157 billion in the third...

Apparently using reconciliation wasn't enough for the Democrats.With Democrats lacking a filibuster-proof majority, Sen. Chuck Schumer plans to begin holding hearings to reform the potent stalling tactic, an issue that has picked up steam among liberal and junior Democratic senators.The hard-charging New Yorker, who chairs the Rules and Administrat...

From the Washington Times:Federal investigators have received more than 730 allegations of waste or fraud in stimulus act funding so far, have canceled the contracts of some bad actors and have sent a couple of dozen cases to the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and prosecutors.As the pace of spending peaks, continuing to police the $862 billion w...

Given the recent searches upheld by courts in other states, this was nice to see:Police may not search a vehicle merely because its driver has been issued a valid concealed carry permit, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday. A three-judge appellate panel weighed the actions of Indianapolis Police Officer Danny Reynolds who pulled over Mel...

The interview on KCUR's "Up to Date" can be heard here....

The Hill has the position of some congressmen here. I wish that they had more information on the congressmen who initially voted "no" last fall, but they do have the positions (or lack of positions) for those who originally voted "yes." If you live in the district of any of the congressmen who are at all undecided, please consider contacting them...

It would be nice if the little league baseball teams were embarrassed by this behavior, but they problem won't be.The local baseball league might not want Matt Carmel’s money. But he’s found a league that does. After the South Orange-Maplewood Baseball Committee turned down Carmel’s $300 check to sponsor a team, the nearby Morris Rugby Foot...

Roger's review starts of this way:James Madison once said, "It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood." The great Founding Father's words aptly describe the problem we have today with an arcane 67,5...

Pollster Mark Penn warns Democrats not to pass the partisan Health Care bill. . . . Reconciliation has been used before to pass major legislation. Proponents of this approach are fond of pointing to the passage of welfare reform, COBRA, and Bush's '01 and '03 tax cuts as evidence that the Democrats are fully inside the lines. For the administration...

It will be interesting to see ABC's explanation for the pulled video and why the new video doesn't seem to fit what was originally claimed.Toyota Motor Corp. on Monday criticized ABC News, saying a recent report it ran on sudden acceleration used video showing an engine revving in a parked Toyota vehicle, not a car that was being driven on a road.T...

Apparently the Obama administration is appealing this decision. In America, another fascinating home-education tussle has been going on. Uwe and Hannelore Romeike have been granted asylum because, they say, they face persecution in Germany for home-educating their children (they have been fined and say they feared losing custody of their five offsp...

From Dennis Cauchon at USA Today:Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds.Accountants, nurses, chemists, surveyors, cooks, clerks and janitors are among the wide range of jobs that get paid more on average in the federal government...

So we have a deadline for rushing through something as important as health care reform because the president has to go traveling abroad? Is this a serious reason for a deadline to quickly pass such a bill?Barack Obama has given Democrats a March 18 deadline for the House to pass the Senate version of a healthcare reform bill before he leaves on a ...

I haven't verified this nor have I determined how frequent it is:a considerable amount of the criminal element are now painting the tips of their ‘Real Weapons’ with an orange tip. It’s easy to understand their reasoning. Once again, Law Enforcement find themselves in a deeper hole. Ironically, if this criminal who has no criminal record and ...

Why not? I guess that the point of the stimulus was wealth redistribution so why not distribute the money based on the race of the recipients? Latinos and blacks have faced obstacles to winning government contracts long before the stimulus. They own 6.8 and 5.2 percent of all businesses, respectively, according to census figures. Yet Latino-owned...

The British government suppressing information on problems with bad patient care. What this article indicates is that the waiting time is reduced only by lowering the quality of service even further.DAMNING reports on the state of the National Health Service, suppressed by the government, reveal how patients’ needs have been neglected.They diagn...

From the WSJ:Europe's highest court ruled Thursday that setting minimum retail prices for tobacco in Ireland, France and Austria is against European laws.The three countries all argued that minimum prices protect public health by making sure tobacco isn't too cheap.The European Court of Justice ruled that setting minimum retail prices was against t...

Radek Sikorski is a great guy and would make an amazing president for Poland. I got to know him some when we were both at AEI.Radek Sikorski and Bronislaw Komorowski held his first pre-election rally, Sunday, aimed at securing the nomination as Civic Platform‘s candidate in this year‘s presidential elections. At his first election rally for Ci...

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This is bizarre on so many levels. Should fishing be outlawed because it harms fish? It is my understanding that fish don't feel pain. Could one imagine what the implications this would be for eating animals?Last month, Antoine Goetschel went to court here in defense of an unusual client: a 22-pound pike that had fought a fisherman for 10 minute...

Remember that this estimate is by the Democrat controlled Congressional Budget Office. There are a lot of claimed spending control that will never occur to even get to the CBO number.A new congressional report released Friday says the United States' long-term fiscal woes are even worse than predicted by President Barack Obama's grim budget submiss...

This is pretty bizarre."He didn't know did they talk to him about it what actions were taken to tell him this isn't allowed," Lorena Hurtado, Manuel's mother. . . .Manuel's mom doesn't see anything wrong with her son putting his hands like this and shooting down at the ground. She doesn't think it poses an immediate threat to the school or Manuel's...

This new Rasmussen Poll says that more Americans oppose stricter gun control. It is interesting that so few Americans support Chicago's gun control law.The Supreme Court is wrestling with a major case questioning whether Chicago’s handgun ban violates the Second Amendment, but 69% of Americans say city governments do not have the right to preven...

No matter what one thinks of the policy, the media apparently isn't doing a very good job of covering this issue.While President Barack Obama and his administration are calling for an end to the Bill Clinton-initiated "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays and lesbians in the U.S. military, most Americans are being told only half the story.Contrar...