Virginia State Supreme Court Says Gov. McAuliffe Can’t Give Felons Voting Rights

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I know, what’s with all this court crap, Steve? I hear you. It’ll get “worse” before it gets better. June is a busy month for those stories, and this one comes to us from Virginia, where the governors are as likely to be headed to court as anyone, and felons got the vote until they didn’t.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s action restoring the voting rights of more than 200,000 felons was unconstitutional, Virginia’s highest court ruled Friday, siding with Republican lawmakers who said the governor overstepped his authority.

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Liberals Lie about Guns … and frankly just about everything else

by Don

We can always count on James Veverka (on 12/19/2012 in the Laconia Daily Sun, laconiadailysun.com) to respond irrationally (hopefully he doesn’t have a gun), and suppress some, and misstate other, facts.

First. No “rightwinger”, no second amendment supporter believes there should be no controls on access to guns. But, they do believe criminals who use guns should be severely punished. Veverka’s claims to the contrary are lies.

Second. Contrary to depictions on liberal TV shows and movies, no gun owner I have ever met or know of “deifies” his or anyone else’s gun (perhaps just Veverka and his friends do that). NRA members recognize guns for what they are, tools that can be used for good or evil, tools that must be respected and carefully handled.

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