Shocker: Boston bombing suspects did not have valid handgun licenses
And this is news? This is almost too stupid to waste print on. Gee, I can’t imagine why these murderous jihadis didn’t bother to register their guns with the local police. Mystifying. Maybe it will help some of the numbskulls in Congress to understand: CRIMINALS AND TERRORISTS DON’T REGISTER THEIR GUNS, AND THEY DON’T PARTICIPATE [...]
A Sensible Suggestion: Waiting Period for Laws, Not Guns
Glenn Reynolds (the Instapundit) has a column in USA Today that makes a lot of sense. There ought to be a waiting period before legislation gets passed in the heat of the moment. Wait, hasn’t that already been tried? President Obama promised to do this before he was elected in 2008 as the *cough* most [...]
“An Absurdity Wrapped in a Legislative Incongruity inside a Farce”
That’s Megan McArdle’s description of the current discussion of minting a $1 trillion platinum coin to try and solve some of fiscal woes. That it’s even being discussed is an indication of how silly and protracted and contrived our legislative process has become. Those guys in Washington are really a joke – but if they [...]
Diane Feinstein Wants You to Turn in Your Guns
She’s introducing a “gun control” bill into the Senate when they come back in January. What she really wants, as recorded in 1995, is for “Mr. and Mrs. America to turn in their guns”. Dianne Feinstein: “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States, for an outright ban, picking up [...]
A Little More Liberty Lost: 40,000 New State Laws to Take Effect in 2012
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good [...]
58% Believe Country Would Be No Worse Off (or Better) if Congress Met Every 2 Years
Reason has the interesting results here. I’m inclined to agree: they’d certainly have less time to enact stupid legislation like ObamaCare.
Just ONE of the Reasons Why ObamaCare is Bad Legislation: 6 Pages of Law Become 1,000 Pages of Regulations
Update: The original article has been revised to show that only 492 pages of regulations were created. Yay – that makes me feel a lot better. Yes, you read that right. When Leviathan’s chains are lengthened by the insidious creep of poorly constructed (and unread) laws, its usurpations grow exponentially. Such is the case with [...]
Arizona Bill: No Birth Certificate, No Name on Presidential Ballot
Interesting. Mother Jones has a story about a piece of legislation making its way through the Arizona legislature that will require proof of citizenship in order to appear on the ballot in a presidential race. Crazy, right? Well, maybe not: Last week, Arizona state Rep. Judy Burges, a Republican, introduced a bill that would bar presidential [...]
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