By Mary Theroux | Wednesday February 27, 2013 at 1:31 PM PDT | 6 Comments
The front page of Tuesday’s “Bay Area” section of the San Francisco Chronicle features a story on the latest Field Poll results: “Support Grows for Gun Control,” reporting that a majority of California voters now “view stricter gun control laws as more important than protecting the constitutional right to own a firearm.” Four pages...
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Tags: Bill of Rights, California, Civil Liberties, Constitution, crime, Gun Control, Personal Liberty, Police, Property Rights, Second Amendment
By Melancton Smith | at 12:51 PM PDT | 2 Comments
SCOTUS heard arguments today regarding the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which permits the federal government to block even minor election changes made by certain jurisdictions covered under the law, if those changes are deemed to reduce minority voting power. The covered jurisdictions, mostly in the South, are those with a...
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Tags: American History, Constitution, Elections, Power
By John C. Goodman | at 9:15 AM PDT | 0 Comments
The new healthcare law creates subsidies for employer-provided insurance for retirees, but these new subsidies phase out in 2014.[1] Moreover, the subsidies go not to individuals but to employers. Indeed, one of the ironies of the new health law is that the first subsidies are going not to low-income, uninsured families, but to General...
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Tags: Healthcare, Insurance, Regulation
By Melancton Smith | at 5:10 AM PDT | 9 Comments
According to a DOJ memo obtained by the NRA, Washington really knows that assault weapons are infrequently used in crimes and that banning high capacity magazines really will not change anything. These are just drums beat by the administration to get the public in a frenzy over the “epidemic” of gun violence. So what...
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Tags: Bill of Rights, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Criminal Justice, Gun Control
By Melancton Smith | at 4:56 AM PDT | 6 Comments
Over at The Blaze, there is a growing list of companies that have stopped selling firearms and ammunition to law enforcement agencies in states that are restricting the Second Amendment. Here is the statement from Barrett that explains its reasons for stopping sales to certain governments: Barrett opposes those who are illegally disarming the...
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Tags: Bill of Rights, Civil Liberties, Conservatism, Constitution, crime, Gun Control