Second Amendment News Roundup for 6/18/08

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

Sebastian provides a most interesting assessment of the mass corruption in Philadelphia, beginning with the labor unions:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/06/18/philly-last-union-town/

Sebastian also has this follow-up to the negotiations between bloggers and the Associated Press. So far, the news isn't good:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/06/17/ap-licensing-terms/

Jonah Goldberg weighs in on the Mark Steyn free speech case in totalitarian Canada--a MUST-read:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Mjk5MmE4YjdmZjFkNzZlOWY0ZTFiZTEwNTQ1ZjlmYTA=&w=MA==

Get a load of these losers and has-beens who have been named to Obama's national security team. The only one with any real gravitas is Sam Nunn, and I have lost all respect I once had for him due to his support of Obama. Mike McCarville has the story:
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-taps-david-boren-sam-nunn.html

Ahab found some neat stuff out in California and reminds us of what's coming up once he gets back from his trip:
http://www.nrahab.com/2008/06/17/checking-in/

JR says that a gun blogger in Texas got some good air time on HD-TV, and he posts the video:
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2008/06/local-gun-bloggers-in-news.html

Freedom Sight has an excellent definition of privacy:
http://freedomsight.net/?p=2589

Freedom Sight also has more follow-up info (mentioned above) on the Associated Press' vendetta against bloggers:
http://freedomsight.net/?p=2588

Further, Michelle Malkin is turning the tables on the Associated Press. They owe HER over one hundred thousand dollars! And if the AP has ever quoted YOU as a blogger, then they owe YOU money! The AP is not the only one that can play that game:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/17/hey-associated-press-you-owe-me-at-least-132125/

algore, the energy hypocrite, uses enough electricity at his Tennessee home to provide energy to 232 U.S. homes for a month. John Lott has the story:
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/06/drew-johnson-former-intern-of-mine-does.html

Communism is alive and well in America (they just don't have sense enough to know that their views are Communistic), and Nicki shows us the dreadful poll numbers to prove it:
http://libertyzone.blogspot.com/2008/06/were-all-so-monumentally-screwed.html

Ha! Take THAT you imbecile! Breda has a very appropriate response to an Obama boneheaded numbskull:
http://thebredafallacy.blogspot.com/2008/06/pooh.html

Uncle has an excellent read on regional patterns of ATF enforcement:
http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/06/18/atf-at-work-regional-patterns-in-enforcement/

Methinks Obama is hyper-sensitive about the Muslim thing. NOW look at what the idiot has done:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-bans-muslim-women-from-stage-in.html