Second Amendment News Roundup for 5/21/08

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

My favorite intellectual, Dr. Walter E. Williams, has a brand new op-ed that is a MUST-read for anyone supporting gun rights:
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/08/ControlCriminalsNotGuns.htm

Michelle Malkin reports that Barack 'Pennsylvanians Love Guns and Jesus Only in Bad Times' Obama has made more gaffes than Dan Quayle, but it is never reported in the mainstream media:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/21/barack-obama-gaffe-machine/

L. Neil Smith at Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership writes a scathing article on the NRA, and it is offered here as an alternative point of view. Read it, and then make up your own mind:
http://www.jpfo.org/smith/smith-friends-like-nra.htm

On the other hand, Roberta X takes a much more benevolent point of view:
http://twowheeledmadwoman.blogspot.com/2008/05/whats-nra-for.html

Dr. John Lott has stirred up a hornet's nest at Daily Kos with his contention that electing Barack Obama as President will mean the end of secret ballots for Union votes:
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/05/daily-kos-tries-to-correct-my-latest-op.html

The Buckeye Firearms Association is reporting that Ohio's police union is mounting an all-out attack on the Castle Doctrine which is before the Ohio Senate:
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/5685

Mike McCarville has 'the Washington Watch' for the day:
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2008/05/washington-watch-coburn-stirs-it-up.html

Sebastian has some stats on Brady Bunch-driven web traffic:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/05/21/bradylaunch/

JR has news on the Chicago gun control program of buy-backs:
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2008/05/hows-that-gun-control-thing-working-out.html

Vultures. That's a good way to describe the gun control crowd, and Armed and Safe tells us why:
http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2008/05/when-kid-in-your-town-gets-killed.html

Say Uncle reports that former Klansman Senator Robert 'Sheets' Byrd has endorsed Barack 'People Like Byrd Lynch Black Folk and Sing About it at Church' Obama:
http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/05/21/byrd-endorses-obama/

Bitter says that the fact that bloggers were welcomed along with mainstream media at the NRA Convention got some good press:
http://www.thebitchgirls.us/?p=8228

David Codrea reports that yet another law abiding gun owner has gone to jail for merely trying to protect his property:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2008/05/another-law-abiding-gun-owner-goes-to.html

World-renown Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina is now the center of the latest controversy in the continuing fallout from the Duke-lacrosse rape hoax. Liestoppers has two posts, linked below, that show that the Medical Center altered evidence in order to aid and abet convicted and disgraced former D.A. Mike Nifong. Read it all if you are interested in seeing how a prestigious university--a bastion of extremist liberalism--has become just as corrupt as the politicians it shakes hands with:
http://liestoppers.blogspot.com/2008/05/our-collective-voice-allegations.html

http://liestoppers.blogspot.com/2008/05/our-collective-voice-part-ii.html

The Volokh Conspiracy has an interesting read today entitled, 'Obama, McCain, and the Jewish Vote':
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_05_18-2008_05_24.shtml#1211329437

Squeaky shows us a VERY good reason for the citizens to have guns:
http://www.squeakywheelseeksgrease.com/blog/2008/05/21/i-cant-imagine/

Robb Allen has this to say about Barack Obama's visit to Tampa today. You gotta see it!:
http://blog.robballen.com/archive/2008/05/21/Theres-a-lot-of-Hope-in-the-air-today.aspx

Born Again Redneck posts some surprising but pleasant results from a Rasmussen poll on taxes and government services....read it all:
http://bornagainredneck.blogspot.com/2008/05/62-of-voters-prefer-fewer-government.html

The lovely Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs tells it like it is about selling out the Jews in this country and in Israel--some by liberal Jews who throw their own people under the bus, and others by none other than Barack Obama! Read it all:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/05/jewicidal-attac.html