Second Amendment News Roundup for 3/20/08

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

John Lott reports that Barack Obama is in even more trouble over the Reverend Wright because of what Obama said about Don Imus during the controversial statements he made on the air:
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/03/possible-new-problem-for-obama.html

Dr. Lott also says that scientists are puzzled about the oceans getting COLDER for the past 5 years in light of the belief of many that we are in the midst of dangerous 'global warming':
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/03/scientists-puzzled-that-ocean-is.html

Lott also has a list of reactions from various sources on the day after the oral arguments were heard in Heller:
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/03/some-more-reactions.html

Gun Law News has videos of Helmke and Henigan after the oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court:
http://www.gunlawnews.org/Federal-Politics/hm031908-2.html

The Volokh Conspiracy has an excellent piece entitled, 'A Layman's Guide to Heller':
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_03_16-2008_03_22.shtml#1205935463

FreedomSight has 'the day after' roundup of Heller commentary:
http://freedomsight.net/?p=2337

Mike McCarville says that Hillary's 3 AM ad won few converts because neither she nor Obama do well on the issue. Her ad has only served to highlight the person Americans trust for that 3 AM phone call, and it AIN'T a Democrat!:
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2008/03/clintons-3-am-ad-won-few-converts.html

Alphecca reports that Tennessee is expanding civil rights with a slew of handgun bills that are sailing through the legislature:
http://www.alphecca.com/?p=682

Say Uncle says that the Feds are continuing to threaten gun rights bloggers:
http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/03/19/feds_threaten_blogger-2/

David Codrea at The War on Guns is one of the bloggers threatened by the Feds, in addition to Ryan Horsely at Red's Trading Post:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2008/03/jpfo-and-inspector.html

As David reported above, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership is yet another blog threatened by the Feds. Here the organization responds to the threat with some sharp words for the Inspector. This is the MUST-read of the day!:
http://www.jpfo.org/alerts02/alert20080317.htm

Syd at Front Sight, Press has great commentary on 'the threshold question':
http://www.snubnose.info/wordpress/rkba/supreme-court-hears-the-threshold-question/

Bitter has invited us to an open debate on predicting the outcome of D.C. vs. Heller and its impact, if any, on the 2008 election:
http://www.thebitchgirls.us/?p=8005

There was a lot of talk about machine guns at the D.C. vs. Heller showdown, although the issue is irrelevant in this case. Snow Flakes in Hell comments and points to David Hardy's assessment of the subject:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/03/19/more-on-machine-guns/

Tam tells it like it is to those who are obviously completely ignorant of the American form of government, although they have college degrees:
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2008/03/civics-101.html