The following is the letter I sent to the Militia, Police, and Public Safety Subcommittee tonite on several bills they are considering tomorrow, 26 Jan 2012. The list of this committee’s members’ emails is here. Greetings Delegates Wright, Gilbert, Webert, Farris, and Lewis, I know your schedule is very busy so I will keep [...]
Picture yourself as an author, producing an article for a magazine or even a book for publication. In order to make your point or get the particulars of a scene across, you make use of prose from a literary work literally decades old, a work that’s firmly in the public domain. You send the article [...]
Nope, not kidding. Via Alphecca, we have this story: The Second Amendment Foundation and Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs will appeal a federal judge’s ruling Friday that “the Second Amendment does not include a general right to carry handguns outside the home.” Federal Judge William H. Walls, a Clinton appointee, dismissed a [...]
The General Assembly in Virginia has convened for 2012, as I alluded to in this post, and there are several bills that have been introduced for the session that relate to 2nd Amendment protections. Thanks to the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) we have a pretty good rundown of [...]
That’s uanimous, folks: The Supreme Court has rejected the Obama administration’s argument that it can dictate who churches hire as ministers or clergy in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The Obama administration unsuccessfully argued that the government can dictate who churches hire, as long as it also subjects secular [...]
In 2010 the voters of Oklahoma were presented with a proposed amendment to their state constitution that would ban all state courts from using international or cultural laws to arrive at rulings in cases before them. A US District court has now ruled that this amendment violated the US Constitution’s 1st Amendment protections: An amendment [...]
It’s tragic that a 15-year-old Texas boy was killed this week, dying by police gunfire. According to the story, Jamie Gonzalez, a student at Cummings Middle School in Brownsville, TX, brought a pellet gun to school, one that closely resembles an actual firearm. He was supposedly brandishing that gun which is what got the cops [...]
It was just after the 2005 Supreme Court Decision was announced that I first wrote about the hideously wrong ruling in Kelo v. New London. (Yes, that’s a Wikipedia article. It’s just for general info, not a legal analysis.) I have written about it since, of course, and you can see what I’ve said, specifically, [...]
OK, this is just as politically stupid as it gets: Yesterday a South Carolina law firm representing 87th House District candidate Jo-Ann Chase demanded that I “cease and desist any and all publication regarding [their] client” or they would “immediately commence legal action” against me. Well, here at BVBL we don’t take kindly to ridiculous [...]
No event could possibly highlight better the sheer disgust that’s plagued me over any attempt to rationally discuss anything with the Left these days than the shootings last week in Tucson, AZ. No sooner than I had decided to relaunch my blogging efforts did a true tragedy occur. A literally insane man (if the evidence [...]
