Common Folk Using Common Sense

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The History Of The Right To Arms

November 18th, 2007 · Comments Off

From the DOJ Report on the Second Amendment, 2004:
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Blackstone’s Commentaries, first published in 1765-1769, were for the colonists and the Founding Generation the leading exposition of England’s laws and constitution. In them, he confirmed that the English right to arms was an individual one and explained that it had grounds broader and deeper than the [...]

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Tags: Government · Guns · The US

Is The Media Beginning To Turn On Comrade Hillary?

November 18th, 2007 · Comments Off

From (the normally Liberal) Camille Paglia at Salon:

The mainstream media have been in a breathless tizzy about how Hillary Clinton waffled, tripped, stumbled or generally screwed up at the Democratic debate in Philadelphia two weeks ago.
But Hillary’s performance at prior debates was never as deft or “flawless” as the media claimed in the first place. [...]

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Tags: Election · Media · The Left · The US