Second Amendment News Roundup for 2/10/08

Focusing on guns and politics, here is today's Second Amendment News Roundup:

The MUST-read of the day is this editorial in Invester's Business Daily on the growing number of scientists who are worried about climate change, not about global warming but about global cooling, based upon their observations of the sun. It seems that normal sunspot activity has been unusually quiet, which usually correlates to a decade of cooling on earth: http://ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287279412587175

AOL News is reporting that Barack Obama won every state Democratic primary held on Saturday, and by a large margin over Hillary:
http://news.aol.com/elections/story/_a/obama-sweeps-democratic-contests/20080209075609990001

Of Arms and the Law reports that the D.C. vs. Heller case has been all over the news lately in light of the U.S. Congress filing a brief in support of Heller...which Vice-President Dick Cheney also signed, in opposition to the Administration's official position in support of D.C.:
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2008/02/heller_in_the_p.php

Armed and Safe also comments on the case, noting that there is overwhelming support in the Congress for the Supreme Court to uphold the lower court's overturning of the D.C. gun ban:
http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2008/02/perhaps-theres-hope-for-congress-after.html

A controversy over gun laws in South Carolina brought out protesters and counter-protesters recently at the state Capital:
http://www.wspa.com/midatlantic/spa/news.apx.-content-articles-SPA-2008-01-30-0035.html

Dustin's Gun Blog has an excellent post in the form of an allegory on illegal aliens entitled, 'The Bird Feeder':
http://dustinsgunblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/allegory-bird-feeder.html

Bravo for the ladies! The Volokh Conspiracy reports that a brief has been filed in D.C. vs. Heller on behalf of over 100 female legislators and academics who support the overturning of the D.C. gun ban due to women's issues, such as SAFETY and SELF-DEFENSE:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_02_03-2008_02_09.shtml#1202597488

That settles it. All American Blogger has ample proof that something is causing Americans in large numbers to go freakin' nuts. Now it is Toledo, Ohio that wants the Marines kicked out of town:
http://www.allamericanblogger.com/2115/now-the-mayor-of-toledo-kicks-marines-out/

Red's Trading Post says that World Net Daily has picked up the story on the ATF official who left her gun in a bathroom:
http://redstradingpost.blogspot.com/2008/02/world-net-daily-covers-story-on.html

Traction Control has a litmus test for the single-issue voter:
http://tractioncontrol.well-regulatedmilitia.org/?p=961

Tam has the quote of the day over at A View from the Porch:
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2008/02/they-were-both-poisoned.html

Our favorite intellectual, Dr. Walter Williams, lays it on the line about the silly talk of the politicians concerning the issue of 'change.' In fact, he says they are stupid, and I agree:
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/08/sillytalk.htm