Half-cocked D.C. gun searches - Examiner.com

Half-cocked D.C. gun searches - Examiner.com: "Mayor Adrian Fenty and Police Chief Cathy Lanier may have all the best intentions, but their “Safe Homes Initiative” is constitutionally and otherwise objectionable on several levels. The initiative involves door-to-door visits with police asking residents for permission to search their homes for guns. Any firearms found will be confiscated, but owners won’t be prosecuted unless the guns are determined to be linked to specific crimes.

The program has drawn criticism not just from gun-rights lobbies such as the National Rifle Association but also from the National Black Police Association and the American Civil Liberties Union. No matter how much respect and support police officers deserve, there is still an intimidation factor involved any time an officer is on one’s doorstep, such that the “permission” may not seem as voluntary as police mean it to be. So where does this end? How long before Lanier sends police into selected neighborhoods — selected by whom and on what basis? — asking to search homes for marijuana, terrorist literature, evidence of intent to commit a crime, fireworks or Cuban cigars? Lanier is establishing a precedent that would have horrified the founders of this republic.

What is clearly at work here is the District’s determination to enforce its broad gun ban while it still has nominal power to do so. Never mind that a federal appeals court has ruled the ban unconstitutional, or that most observers of last week’s Supreme Court oral arguments on the issue reported that a majority of justices seem inclined to throw the law out. Never mind that the fundamental constitutional right of gun ownership is at issue. District officials appear to believe their own antipathy to guns outweighs all those pesky concerns about whether the Constitution empowers their confiscations. But the guns they take away today may turn out to be perfectly legal under the Constitution. It would be far better to wait for the high court’s direction than to rush, half-cocked, into this kind of a crackdown."
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The mayor and chief of police of the District of Columbia are sending cops door to door asking for permission to search for guns. As the editorial says, they are afraid they are going to lose before the USSC in the Heller case and this might be their last chance to enforce this law before it goes bye-bye.

YouTube - CBS Exposes Hillary Clinton Bosnia Trip.

YouTube - CBS Exposes Hillary Clinton Bosnia Trip.
Now this has got to hurt.

Photo of airport under siege

As you can see, the Tuzla airport was a nightmare of sniper fire and chaos. Here is Hillary Clinton sprinting for her car. Right. What a crock.

You wonder at some point if maybe Hillary Clinton, like her husband, believes that if you get away with lying it is the moral equivalent of telling the truth. Even by Washington standards they acquired a reputation for dishonesty. That's saying something.

Clinton Misspoke About Bosnia Trip, Campaign Says - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog

Clinton Misspoke About Bosnia Trip, Campaign Says : "The Clinton campaign says Senator Hillary Clinton may have “misspoke” recently when she said she had to evade sniper fire when she was visiting Bosnia in 1996 as first lady."
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May have? Misspoke? How exactly to you "misspeak" about which of the following happened: (a) you were shot at by snipers while covering your head and running for your car, or (b) you listened to a little girl read poetry before agonizing over which restaurant to choose for dinner?

There is only one way to say this: "she lied."

The Supreme Court and Indecency - New York Times

The Supreme Court and Indecency - New York Times: "The Supreme Court is throwing itself back into the debate over indecency on television, and that may not be a good thing. It agreed last week to review the Federal Communications Commission’s policy of punishing broadcasters for airing “fleeting expletives” — a few isolated bad words. A federal appeals court wisely struck down the F.C.C.’s harsh rules, which have done serious damage to free speech. We hope the Supreme Court does not authorize the F.C.C. to return to its censorial policies."
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POLS 354 and 101:
The New York Times is worried that if the FCC punishes broadcasters for "fleeting expletives," it will do "serious damage to free speech." I find the argument weak. What do you think?

The Supreme Court and Indecency - New York Times

The Supreme Court and Indecency - New York Times: "The Supreme Court is throwing itself back into the debate over indecency on television, and that may not be a good thing. It agreed last week to review the Federal Communications Commission’s policy of punishing broadcasters for airing “fleeting expletives” — a few isolated bad words. A federal appeals court wisely struck down the F.C.C.’s harsh rules, which have done serious damage to free speech. We hope the Supreme Court does not authorize the F.C.C. to return to its censorial policies."
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POLS 354 and 101:
The New York Times is worried that if the FCC punishes broadcasters for "fleeting expletives, it will do "serious damage to free speech." I find the argument weak. What do you think?

JURIST - Hotline: DC gun ban case: plaintiff's attorney on the Supreme Court oral arguments

JURIST - Hotline: DC gun ban case: plaintiff's attorney on the Supreme Court oral arguments
POLS 354:
Here is Alan Gura, who just argued DC v. Heller as Heller's attorney, describing the experience and explaining his strategy.

Hillary's Balkan Adventures, Part II - Fact Checker

Hillary's Balkan Adventures, Part II - Fact Checker: "The Pinocchio Test

Clinton's tale of landing at Tuzla airport 'under sniper fire' and then running for cover is simply not credible. Photographs and video of the arrival ceremony, combined with contemporaneous news reports, tell a very different story. Four Pinocchios."
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There is an 8 year old girl reading poetry to Hillary Clinton right there on the runway. Game, set, match. What a whopper. How big a lie do you have to tell to get MORE than four Pinocchios?

Climate facts to warm to | The Australian

Climate facts to warm to | The Australian:

"Duffy asked Marohasy: 'Is the Earth still warming?'

She replied: 'No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years.'

Duffy: "Is this a matter of any controversy?"

Marohasy: "Actually, no. The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued ... This is not what you'd expect, as I said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you'd expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to increase, temperatures should be going up ... So (it's) very unexpected, not something that's being discussed. It should be being discussed, though, because it's very significant."
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This is a surprising set of comments from legit scientists. Check it out.

YouTube - Hillary Clinton Lies About Her Bosnia Trip

YouTube - Hillary Clinton Lies About Her Bosnia Trip?
Here is the video from the post below, along with Clinton's description at the recent press conference.