U.S. Supreme Court Rules That We Don’t Have a Second Amendment

What the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) does NOT do can be as important as what it does. This week SCOTUS ruled … albeit by not ruling … that the Second Amendment is limited to possession of handguns in one’s home … but all other regulations are constitutional. Back in 2008, SCOTUS issued … Read more

Punishing the innocent

One of our oldest and most cherished principles is that punishing innocent people is to be avoided at all costs.  (Blackstone said that ‘it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer’.  Benjamin Franklin raised that from ten to a hundred.)  And yet, in the last few months, punishing the innocent has become one of the main activities of government at all levels.

Read more

Notable Quote – John Hinderaker

…I don’t know about a landslide, but I too think the ground is shifting in Trump’s favor. In January, I thought he was a 99% lock for re-election on a record of peace and prosperity. Then the Wuhan virus came along, and state shutdowns devastated the economy. Next, while peace reigns abroad, left-wing rioters, looters … Read more

Cross FI

And I know why many of Faith don’t care

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Read more

Treating Disease as a War

“…$30 million dollars per person that died of covid-19…”

A little context from Facebook (emphasis mine, reformatted): I don’t want to sound insensitive but with 2 trillion more in spending covering what was never really a national threat it’s going to cost 30 million dollars per person that died of covid-19 just in federal deficit spending. Has not anyone noticed we were not really … Read more

Share to...