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    the man who wasn’t there

    It’s not even July, and already Obama’s deserting us, in mind, body and spirit.

    First, on the FISA capitulation:

    “The bill has changed. So I don’t think the security threats have changed, I think the security threats are similar. My view on FISA has always been that the issue of the phone companies per se is not one that overrides the security interests of the American people.”

    Really? [...]



    a nation of gun nuts

    Vice President Cheney signed on to a brief filed by a majority of Congress yesterday that urged the Supreme Court to uphold a ruling that the District of Columbia’s handgun ban is unconstitutional, breaking with his own administration’s official position.

    Cheney joined 55 senators and 250 House members in asking the court to find that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess firearms and [...]



    this is why guns have no place in the home

    UPDATE: I was wrong. Mr. Osbrink was trained in the use of weapons; he is an Iraq war vet who earned a Bronze Star for two instances of courageous action. Neither of these facts were included in the initial story I read this morning. I admit, when I read that Mr. Osbrink “shot and killed his wife as he was practicing his draw,” I saw [...]

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