D.C. v. PARKER

Some of the less talked about potentials arising from a potential SCOTUS ruling affirming that the Second Amendment is indeed an individual right.

It is my understanding that visa vi the 14th Amendment; states would no longer be able to regulate firearms and would have to instead rely on federal law.

While it seems the focus is whether or not one is allowed to "keep arms", little attention is paid to the "bear arms" portion of the right. Will the Feds be issuing national carry permits?

Will civil rights organizations like the NRA (the "gun lobby" to you MSM sycophants) no longer be able to effectively lobby the government?

SPEAKING TRUTH TO IDIOCY

Truths that lefties either wont admit or simply don't understand.


The whole of Korea would likely look like North Korea were it not for the intervention of the U.S.

The NRA is a Civil Rights organization.

The ACLU is no longer a Civil Rights organization.


The notion of anthropogenic global warming is more about defeating capitalism than it is about science.


The list could go on, but lets chew on these for now.

AS PREDICTED

Michael Yon has an interesting story indicating that according to the Iraqi Islamic Party, al Queda in Iraq is defeated.


Having observed history I had previously indicated that once the charismatic leader of al Queda In Iraq was killed, we would begin to see the deterioration of the organization. So, here we are not even a year and a half latter to watch history unfold yet again. All notions be they good or bad seem to succeed when they have a charismatic leader at the helm of said notion.


Of note in the Yon story:

During the meeting, another member of the Iraqi Islamic Party said that al
Qaeda has changed its strategy now that fomenting civil war between Sunni
and Shia has backfired.

Of course, not understanding that they themselves were/are part of the propaganda war with their usual zeal for American failure, many lefties were attributing the "civil war" in Iraq to the lack of understanding of Iraqi history and the tensions that were pre-existing and could never be brought to resolution because of the past. To believe this idea that "history is all" in understanding a culture or society, we would have to model any contemporary American societal notion with the idea that slavery is still an issue. This idea of course was resolved with a real civil war and we have collectively never looked back at the notion excepting to resolve that it would never happen again.

In fact we find that if we really want to use history as a guide, it is apparent that across the globe societies and cultures evolve and change at the will of many external and internal influences, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. Notable instances are the whole of the Korean peninsula and the nation of Japan.

EDUCATION

As some of you know, I have in the past indicated that education was the most important issue surrounding a free people. Both knowledge and propaganda are power. While one allows us the freedom of original thought, the other allows us to be the vehicle for someone else's agenda. Having long been an advocate of what I call "responsible school choice", I was intrigued when I encountered a column by George Will at Realclearpolitics.

Like the Conservative in-roads into liberal media bias that were gained after it's deregulation by Ronald Reagan, there is hope that we will someday see the taming of "Big Education" via a voucher system. Of course, standing in the way of this are the usual detractors the Teachers Unions, whose concerns seem to be more about whats in their benefits package instead of the education of our children, and who (as Will puts so aptly) are not progressive at all and are instead champions of the status quo.