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Entries Tagged as 'The Left'

Court Ruling Protects Our Gun Rights

July 5th, 2008 · No Comments

By Dave Workman at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the Second Amendment means what it says, and that the right “of the people” to keep and bear arms applies to individual citizens regardless of service in a militia, Helmke and crew undoubtedly are feverishly trying to rework their strategies on [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Guns · The Left

GCO Files Federal Lawsuit Against Atlanta Mayor

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

GeorgiaCarry.Org filed a federal lawsuit July 2 against Mayor Shirley Franklin and Hartsfield Aviation General Manager Ben DeCosta over their illegal policy and DeCosta’s specific threat to arrest (falsely) Rep. Tim Bearden. You may read the complaint here.

Declaring the Airport to be a Gun-Free Zone, and threatening to arrest and prosecute Plaintiff Bearden [...]

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Tags: Atlanta · Crime/Law · Government · Guns · The Left

Obama ‘08

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

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Tags: Election · The Left

Early Analysis From DC v. Heller

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

The following post was written by David J. Schenck of the Jones Day office in Dallas. He filed an amicus brief on behalf of State Firearm Associations in support of the respondents. Via SCOTUSblog (all emphasis mine):

It is not hyperbole to describe today’s decision in Heller as the most significant opinion of this century, [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Election · Guns · The Left · The Right · The US

You Are Known By The Company You Keep

June 29th, 2008 · Comments Off

From a little-read article on USAToday:

A judge in Ohio says the state’s method of putting prisoners to death is unconstitutional because two of three drugs used in the lethal injection process can cause pain.
Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge said Tuesday the state’s lethal injection procedure doesn’t provide the quick and painless death required [...]

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Tags: Government · Terrorism · The Left

Evolution From Rugged Individual To Sheep

June 24th, 2008 · Comments Off

From the San Jose Mercury News:

Investigators struggled Tuesday to explain why a 27-year-old man with no criminal record and no apparent signs of mental illness savagely beat his toddler son to death on a dark country road.
Sergio Casian Aguiar, who worked at a supermarket in Turlock, was fatally shot by police Saturday night after he [...]

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Tags: Absurd · California · Crime/Law · The Left

Voting For Obama Is Like …

June 24th, 2008 · Comments Off

From Bruce over at No Looking Backwards:

… voting for Obama is a lot like opening a MySpace account. If you’re over the age of 25 and doing either of those things, there’s something wrong with you.

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