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Dr. Bill Rogers at KeepAndBearArms.com - Assume Responsibility or Go Away: Some folks are saying that we MUST do something about guns. Dr. Rogers has a few recommendations: study history, study the criminal mind, learn to shoot. [kaba]
Study history. Look closely at the societies that have "outlawed" guns. Consider the governments gone awry, the refusal to admit liberty in speech, print, and conduct, the promises of "peace in our time" followed quickly by sequestration of political dissidents (and their families) and then the construction, filling, and emptying (by implementation of some sort of "final solution") of the death camps. History is clear: an unarmed society is a short-lived society filled with misery, imprisonment and death. Do we think we shall be spared the constants of history simply because we are Americans?
Claire Wolfe at Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership - The Black Book of Communism, Reviewed by Claire Wolfe: everyone knows that the fascists killed 6 million jews in World War II. Few know that the communists were much worse. Over 100 million killed, mostly in China and Russia. Claire reviews a book that tells the story. [jpfo]
Declan McCullagh at politechbot.com - IRS may muzzle what nonprofit groups do on the Net: the IRS is proposing rules that will allow it to remove the non-profit status of an organization for non politically correct posts by users of the site or links to other sites. They are now seeking comments on this proposed regulation. The comment address is at the end of the article as well as a pointer to the regulation's text. [grabbe]
Linda Greenhouse at the New York Times -
Supreme Court Bars Traffic Roadblocks Intended to Check for Drugs 
:
Yay! The Supremes have taken away one more Nazi tool. Drunk driver
checkpoints are still legal, but you can't include a drug-sniffing
dog. Strangely, Justice Thomas had the right idea, but a totally wrong
conclusion. [grabbe]
In a separate dissent, Justice Thomas said he doubted that the Constitution's framers would have regarded any roadblocks as acceptable but that since the court's precedents were not open for re-examination in this case, "I believe that those cases compel upholding the program at issue here."
The Marijuana Policy Project - Supreme Court to Issue Historic Ruling on Medical Marijuana: the Supremes will rule on whether medical necessity may be used as defense in drug cases. The article does't say when.
New articles in The Libertarian series by Vin Suprynowicz:
- Mining rules exceed congressional intent (surprise) - Not in my backyard spelled backwards. Hehe.
- {@Justice Dept. determined to prove there is a Jabberwock} - Noone can sustain a monopoly without government assistance, IBM and Microsoft included. But that hasn't stopped the government from pursuing anti-trust cases against businesses that neglect to pay their protection money.
- GOP congressman upset over election night 'early calls' - Why we don't need any government regulations on network election coverage. If networks want to call the race for Mickey Mouse the day before the election, that's their first amendment right. Any network that reports erroneously too often, however, will lose market share. The market is the proper regulator here, not legislation. Anyone who decides not to bother voting because of what some TV newsperson says deserves what (s)he gets.
"ResCafé is a Swing-based Java utility for reading and extracting resources such as ICONs and MENUs from the Resource Forks of Macintosh files. It is somewhat similar to ResEdit on MacOS except that it is not an editor; it operates on files in a read-only fashion." I have no need for this right now, but it looks like a good thing to know about. [wes]
