Second Amendment News Roundup for 6/5/08

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

Mike McCarville reports that Democratic Party bosses are unhappy with Hillary in spite of the fact that she plans to concede the nomination Saturday:
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2008/06/democrats-unhappy-with-hillary-clinton.html

Alphecca has the results of a new poll on private gun ownership:
http://www.alphecca.com/?p=805

Blogonomicon has this gem on skunks and pistol skills:
http://blogonomicon.blogspot.com/2008/06/skunks.html

Increasingly I am hearing people comment that Obama scares them. Blogstitution encapsulates this feeling perfectly in this post--a MUST-read:
http://www.blogstitution.com/2008/06/dangerous-ideas/

On this day in 2004 President Ronald Wilson Reagan died at the age of 93. Cap'n Bob and the Damsel have this moving tribute to the Gipper, who was by all accounts the greatest American President in modern times:
http://capnbob.us/blog/2008/06/05/remembering-the-gipper/

Now that the U.S. has nearly destroyed Al Qaeda and our fatalities in Iraq are the lowest since the start of the War, the Democrats in Congress are attempting a new tactic to attack Bush and our troops. Gateway Pundit has the story:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/06/crap-weasels-continue-to-attack-bush.html

Uncle has the story of a machine gun scam that involves the ATF:
http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/06/05/machine-gun-scam/

Robb Allen provides excellent reading today on the role of government:
http://blog.robballen.com/archive/2008/06/05/Misunderstanding-a-simple-concept.aspx

Sebastian show us why it's important to fight gun control INTERNATIONALLY:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/06/05/inbev-eyeing-up-anheuser-busch/

Squeaky fears for her country in this post, entitled, 'Sieg Heil!':
http://www.squeakywheelseeksgrease.com/blog/2008/06/05/sieg-heil/

Happy Birthday wishes go to BREDA!:
http://thebredafallacy.blogspot.com/2008/06/thirtyfour_05.html

Tam has a dire prediction for us if we get 8 years of a Democrat Congress and 8 years of a Democrat President:
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2008/06/tools-in-shed.html

David Codrea has the story of an open carry arrest in Wisconsin:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2008/06/open-carry-arrest-in-wi.html

John Lott is reporting that John McCain has balked at the new global warming legislation because neither India nor China are doing a thing about THEIR contribution to the problem. Even the U.N. granted the two countries a pass.
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/06/some-hope-that-global-warming.html

Many of us believe that John Bolton was the best U.N. ambassador we ever had. Just wait till you see what Bolton said about Barack Obama:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/05/john-bolton-lights-into-obama/

Monica Crowley reports on the latest of Barack Obama's close friends to be convicted in a court of law:
http://monicamemo.typepad.com/weblog/2008/06/ch-ch-changes.html

The Volokh Conspiracy has an interesting read on the eminent domain issue in California:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_06_01-2008_06_07.shtml#1212687564

Second Amendment News Roundup for 3/18/08

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

Gun Law News has the MUST-read of the day. The term 'non partisanship' concerning gun rights is a farce. Democrats have made it a partisan issue by supporting leaders in the Congress who are doing all in their power to remove our Constitutional right to firearms. And this goes for the so-called 'blue dogs' as well. If the blue dogs mean it, then let them show it by showing the liberals to the door:
http://www.gunlawnews.org/Analysis/nonp031708-2.html

There are quite a few posts on D.C. vs. Heller, which is being heard today by the SCOTUS. We begin with Mike McCarville's report on the day:
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2008/03/supreme-court-to-hear-dc-2nd-amendment.html

Alphecca points to a very blunt article on D.C. vs. Heller:
http://www.alphecca.com/?p=677

Sebastian has some info from Cam Edwards on D.C. vs. Heller:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/03/17/heller-thought/

Eugene Volokh says that there will be plenty of coverage on the 2nd Amendment today on SCOTUSBLOG:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_03_16-2008_03_22.shtml#1205776699

JR has a link to the original sources for the Second Amendment, in preparation for today's big hearing at the U.S. Supreme Court:
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2008/03/original-sources-underlying-second.html

And now to Barack Obama and the story that won't go away and WILL NOT go away, no matter what he says today in the speech he is giving on race. From this point forward anything Obama says to distance himself from the Reverend Jeremiah Wright will be utterly disingenuous. Mike McCarville reports the latest:
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2008/03/did-obama-lie-about-hearing-pastors.html

And to make matters worse for the Obama campaign, Born Again Redneck reports that only 8% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Barack's close friend, Pastor, and spiritual advisor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, purveyor of hate extraordinaire:
http://bornagainredneck.blogspot.com/2008/03/8-have-favorable-opinion-of-rev-wright.html

John Lott indicates that the Obama campaign is in deep trouble over the Rev. Wright issue, and it just keeps getting deeper and deeper....note the new info that has surfaced:
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/03/real-problems-for-obama.html

Are you sitting down? Have some Valium or Scotch whiskey nearby? You will need it once you read this. John Lott reports that an anti-homeschool California judge has issued a 'decree' describing the purpose of education. Just wait till you read what the Commie said:
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-california-courts-think-is-purpose.html

Dr. Lott also observes that the present mess in the financial markets was created by bumbling government intervention:
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-op-ed-up-at-fox-news-financial.html

Squeaky has an excellent explanation as to why she supports the right to carry guns on college campuses:
http://www.squeakywheelseeksgrease.com/blog/2008/03/17/safety-alert-what-a-joke/

Che Guevara is a cult hero among the Leftwing in politics and on college campuses. Barack Obama's campaign has pictures of him hanging in campaign offices all across the country. But the Bastard was a killing machine for Fidel Castro. All American Blogger comments:
http://www.allamericanblogger.com/2402/che-guevara-took-a-lot-of-pleasure-in-killing/

Robb Allen has an excellent piece on 'who will watch the watchmen?:
http://blog.robballen.com/archive/2008/03/17/Quis-Custodiet-Ipsos-Custodes.aspx

It's been a while since we visited the subject of eminent domain. FreedomSight comments about the latest abuses:
http://freedomsight.net/?p=2327

Dustin blogs on why the gun IS civilization:
http://dustinsgunblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-gun-is-civilization.html

Roberta X and Tam visited the Indy 1500 gun show in Indianapolis over the weekend. Read all about it here:
http://twowheeledmadwoman.blogspot.com/2008/03/indy-1500-gun-show.html

LIBERTY ALERT! School Slams Property Rights

Washington, DC (TLS). Rush Limbaugh reported on his radio program today that a school in Seattle, Washington used a 'Leggo' lesson to teach students to doubt private property rights. And, my friends, the culprit this time is not the public school system, which often does the very same thing, but a private school in the Seattle area.

Students in the school were building a Leggo community which supposedly was destroyed in some unnamed mishap. Rather than rebuild the community, the faculty decided to use the incident to teach students about so-called 'private property,' and that in actuality all property is community property, given that the notion of private property assumes a community composed of the 'haves' and 'have-nots.'

The inequities inherent in the notion of private property rights, according to the faculty, are unacceptable.

As we have reported several times previously on The Liberty Sphere, there is a concerted effort in America today to gradually introduce into our society the notion that there is no such thing as 'private property.' This concept is a capitalistic notion and is, therefore, evil. The goal is to raise a generation of Americans that accept the concept of 'community property held in common,' so that the 'inequities' in society can be corrected.

The Left is attempting to reach this goal by utilizing several avenues of attack.

First, school children must be indoctrinated. The government run public school system is a natural starting point. But, as we have seen in Seattle, private schools must be cajoled into getting on board with this indoctrination by gradually enforcing state standards that mandate certain programs in all school, public and private, and by gradually requiring private schools to hire only those teachers who have their credentials issued by the state...the same as public schools.

Second, environmental laws must be given priority over private property rights. For example, if you own a large tract of acreage, and a rare, blind, albino bug is discovered on your property, a bug that just happens to be on the endangered species list, then you will be prevented from developing your property because it will be deemed to be a 'natural habitat' for this rare, blind, albino bug. Yes, my friends, similar things have happened all over the country. This is no joke.

Third, government must increasingly utilize the concept of 'eminent domain' to rob the citizens of their property in order for it to be used in whatever fashion the government decides, even to help large corporations so that the tax base in a given area will expand.

This three-pronged approach to undermine the private property rights of American citizens is working. Thus, we hear of things such as Michael Moore stating outright, 'There is no such thing as private property.'

The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in the early 20th century may have ended in failure in the 1980s, but the ideas that formed the basis for that revolution live on in the environmentalist movement and the Leftwing. They may run from the words 'Communism' and 'Socialism' and protest to high heaven any attempt to label them with these terms, but their vision, objectives, and goals are one and the same with Communism and Socialism.

When the private property rights of citizens are removed, liberty is gone. If no one single citizen can own real property, that means the collective state owns it--meaning, of course, that totalitarianism has succeeded in smashing capitalism and the liberties that go with it.