The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
Looks like he’s been audited, once again:
Their intentions were not to bring us into compliance as they have claimed in the past but it was to specifically try and drum up violations in an attempt to paint us in a bad light before the Judge.
Looks like they felt like they needed to dig for some dirt now that they lost their motion for summary judgment. Ryan also has some tales of SHOT show.
If you’ve always wanted to lock up all the hippies, this could be your chance.
Looks like trouble is afoot between Georgia and Tennessee. There was, once upon a time, the same kind of problem between Virginia and Pennsylvania over who owned parts of what are now Western Pennsylvania (take that Virginia! We won! ).
We’re going to have President Obillery folks. Mike Bloomberg is running petitions to make a third party run (via Instapundit). It’s looking increasingly likely that this authoritarian fascist is going to be throwing his jack boot into the race.
Normally I would suggest Bloomberg will draw the authoritarian fascist vote away from Hillary, but McCain’s saving grace in the election, if there is any, is that he has strong appeal to independent voters who like McCain. If Bloomberg draws right leaning independents away from McCain, it’ll easily hand the election to Obillery.
And that’s not even considering the fact that Ron Paul I think will also run as either an independent or Libertarian in the general election. I don’t see what else he’s going to do with all that money.
Stock up on EBRs while you can, it’ll be a damned miracle if we don’t end up screwed with a Democratic Congress and Democrat in the White House.
Robb has the story from Minnesota, where churches sued to overturn the Minnesota Personal Protection Act, which made Minnesota a shall-issue state. In this unbelievable ruling, the Minnesota Court stated:
The decision means the Edina Community Lutheran Church can continue to legally bar guns with signs saying “Blessed are the peacemakers. Firearms are prohibited in this place of sanctuary.” Other churches may choose their own wording.
The decision also means that parking lots, day-care centers and other charitable, educational and nonprofit facilities owned by churches may ban firearms.
Strictly speaking, the ban has always allowed churches to ban concealed carry on premises, but the legislature drafted a state wide standard for the signs to be uniform, and conspicuously posted, much like the 30.06 signs (I still love how the numbering on that one worked out) in Texas.
The proper response to this, of course, is for the legislature to strike all signage provisions from the MPPA, and revert to enforcing bans on concealed weapons using laws against trespass. Pennsylvania works this way, and it works well.
One wonders how the Court of Appeals would have ruled if the Minnesota legislature had simply chosen to allow concealed carry without any kind of license whatsoever?
Churches are free to ban gun within their churches, using trespassing laws that have been common law for centuries.  The legislature, by mandating signage, specifically intended to ensure that license holders knew that they were carrying into an establishment that prohibited concealed carry. The intent of the legislature has been thwarted by an activist court, and I hope the legislature will take to fixing this problem.
Over at Leibowitz’s Canticle, there’s probably the best and most detailed summary of the respondents’ brief filed in D.C. v. Heller.
Via Dave Hardy, who also has links to several other thoughtful posts on the subject.
… a corporate “good neighbor” community program I can really get behind.
McCain would, there is no question, be a lousy leader of an ideological movement. But the Republican party is not an ideological movement. It is a political vehicle for the American right-of-center. Those who confuse the Republican party with the conservative movement are indulging in a fantasy — that there is purity in politics and that there is something immoral about ideological impurity.
UPDATE: Ooops… I had a quote of the day already. Make this the Quote of Tomorrow then. Tam’s quote was a lot funnier, and I’d hate to displace it.
Eric at Classical Values thinks so:
I think the vindictive nastiness turned people off to both McCain and Romney. And there was Mike Huckabee, a mild-mannered populist. Someone who doesn’t talk down to people like Romney, and who doesn’t frighten them like McCain (if only because there’s been no anti-Huckabee hate machine to further frighten those who fear the politics of acrimony).
Huckabee was a protest vote. And I think a lot of the Huckabee voters weren’t so much protesting McCain and Romney as they were the acrimony.
That Huckabee (a Southerner) was dismissed, derided, and laughed at by virtually all the MSM pundits might have been a factor too.
I have to admit, last night I, an anti-Huckabee guy to the core — found myself very soothed by the reassuring cadences of Huckabee’s voice, and the apparent simple humanity of the man, and it was immediately clear what happened. This might be irrational (and of course I am leaving out the Mormon issue — which sooner or later will probably be addressed by someone), but there it is.
The angry anti-McCain chorus (and the response to it) created a backlash, not in McCain’s favor, but in Huckabee’s. I think they wanted to get even with the “sides” — and I don’t blame them even though I recognize that last night’s Huckabee vote was in the long run little more than an act of retaliatory political vandalism.
Read the whole thing. It’s an interesting take on yesterday’s events.