Justice Thomas wrote the majority decision immediately referring to decisions in DC v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago to state that the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home. New York’s practice and policy of “proper cause” to “demonstrate a special need for self-protection distinguishable …
Category: Government
October 19, 2020: SCOTUS Three-Peat
Conservatives have a rising hope for the stability of our Constitutional Republic. The President has nominated a third candidate for the Supreme Court. Another candidate with a philosophy closer to the departed Justice Scalia than the departed Justice Ginsberg. The angst I feel about the path the country is on exists on multiple levels. One …
September 30, 2020: Debate?
I’m pretty sure a Junior High School debate team judge would give the President an F+ and the Democratic Presidential candidate a D-. That was painful and un-illuminating. The low level of respect each candidate has for the other was evident early and often. Interruption as a debate strategy? Not a good look for either …
August 31, 2020: A Biden Presidency, Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/# as of August 31, 2020.Excerpts from THE BIDEN PLAN TO END OUR GUN VIOLENCE EPIDEMICThis position paper starts off by equating the National Rifle Association (NRA) as the source for gun violence by declaring he defeated the NRA to get the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and the 1994 “Assault Weapons Ban” passed in …
May 30, 2020: 8:46
Eight minutes and forty-six seconds. That’s how long it took Space X and NASA to reach Second Engine Cut Off (SECO) on the launch of two humans into low Earth orbit on their way to the International Space Station ISS). It might have been four seconds longer. Eight minutes and forty-six seconds is how long …
January 30, 2020: Bad Theatre
On Broadway, off Broadway, and in movie houses across the country, bad theater, either presented in person by a live performers or presented in movies, there is a dynamic that plays out in every performance. There has to be an appreciative audience. An audience who will exchange their time and money for the story being …