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Kilpatrick gets blown out; but wins primary election

August 6, 2008

Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick virtually won reelection last night. Even though 32,462 people voted for some else (over her 20,888 votes). Had Mary Waters or Martha Scott sat this election out, Cheeks Kilpatrick would be in the unemployment line today. 

  • Carolyn C. Kilpatrick 20,888 — 39%
  • Mary Waters 19,183 — 36%
  • Martha Scott 13,280 — 25%

The voters of Michigan’s 13th District sent an overwhelming message: “We don’t want you in Congress.” However, becasue of the egos of Walters & Scott, back to congress Kilpatrick will go.

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Gas Prices 2001-2008

August 5, 2008

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Scarborough calls Olbermann, “Too Stupid to be on TV.”

July 23, 2008

Redlasso is out for the moment, so these two videos may not work. I’ve added the above video just in case.

Countdown with Keith on July 22, 2008

The next morning on Morning Joe, the gang called out Olbermann. Scarborough flat out says he is too stupid to be on TV. With former Democrat congressman Harold Ford, Jr. agreeing.

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You have the right to bear arms!

June 26, 2008

Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the majority (Kennedy, Thomas, Roberts and Alito).  The “District of Columbia prohibition on the possession of usable handguns in the home violates the Second Amendment to the Constitution.”

This is a victory for the United States and our constitution! And we owe President George W. Bush a big thank you on this one. This would not have happened without Justice Sam Alito, his last appointment to the court. 

Like I said yesterday, elections matter and it’s important who does the appointing to the Supreme Court. We will see what Senator Obama does about this today. He shocked everyone when he agreed with the conservatives judges over the child rape law. He is one record last year saying he believed the DC gun ban was constitutional, well we see another change in position… I can only imagine.

Key quotes from Justice Scalia and the majority:

“We start therefore with a strong presumption that the Second Amendment right is exercised individually and belongs to all Americans.”

“the most natural reading of ‘keep Arms’ in the Second Amendment is to “have weapons.”

“The term was applied, then as now, to weapons that were not specifically designed for military use and were not employed in a military capacity.”

“Putting all of these textual elements together, we find that they guarantee the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation.”

“Thus, we do not read the Second Amendment to protect the right of citizens to carry arms for any sort of confrontation, just as we do not read the First Amendment to protect the right of citizens to speak for any purpose.”

“The prefatory clause does not suggest that preserving the militia was the only reason Americans valued the ancient right; most undoubtedly thought it even more important for self-defense and hunting.”

“It was plainly the understanding in the post-Civil War Congress that the Second Amendment protected an individual right to use arms for self-defense.”

“Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.”

“Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”

“We also recognize another important limitation on the right to keep and carry arms. Miller said, as we have explained, that the sorts of weapons protected were those ‘in common use at the time.’”

Read the full thing or download for later here.

 

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  • Text of the Supreme Court ruling  (thanks SCOTUSBLOG.com)
  • Washington D.C. Vs. Heller
  • Google Books – More Guns, Less Crime
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    Child Rape and the Supreme Court

    June 25, 2008

    “This session of the Supreme Court has been a winner for child rapists and terrorists.” – NBC News

    The United States Supreme Court ruled today that “the death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child.” The ruling was a close 5-4 decision with Justice Kennedy joining the five liberal judges on the court. The eight amendment of the United States bill of rights protects citizens from “excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” Today the Supreme Court ruled on the side of the child rapists. They agreed the death as a punishment is too harsh for raping a child. 

    This is why elections matter why it’s so important to vote for Senator John McCain this November. I have not read statements from either campaigns, but I would bet a lot of money that Senator Obama supports the decision and Senator McCain does not.

    The Hot Air blog quotes from the dissent here:

    ‘Alito responding to Kennedy’s baseline nonsense that only murder is depraved enough to warrant the ultimate punishment. Citations omitted:

    ‘With respect to the question of moral depravity, is it really true that every person who is convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death is more morally depraved than every child rapist? Consider the following two cases. In the first, a defendant robs a convenience store and watches as his accomplice shoots the store owner. The defendant acts recklessly, but was not the triggerman and did not intend the killing. In the second case, a previously convicted child rapist kidnaps, repeatedly rapes, and tortures multiple child victims. Is it clear that the first defendant is more morally depraved than the second?

    The Court’s decision here stands in stark contrast to Atkins and Roper, in which the Court concluded that characteristics of the affected defendants—mental retardation in Atkins and youth in Roper—diminished their culpability. Nor is this case comparable to Enmund v. Florida, 458 U. S. 782 (1982), in which the Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits the death penalty where the defendant participated in a robbery during which a murder was committed but did not personally intend for lethal force to be used. I have no doubt that, under the prevailing standards of our society, robbery, the crime that the petitioner in Enmund intended to commit, does not evidence the same degree of moral depravity as the brutal rape of a young child. Indeed, I have little doubt that, in the eyes of ordinary Americans, the very worst child rapists—predators who seek out and inflict serious physical and emotional injury on defenseless young children—are the epitome of moral depravity.’”

     

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