HoodaThunk?

And this time it’s not a joke. At the moment I’m borrowing a connection at Fairfax Hospital recovering from a cardiac stent insertion. I should be OK but that’s where I’ve been the past 4 days. More in a day or so.

That line out of the commonly-known Miranda warning won’t be in there much longer if the Obama administration has their way. I noted this back on Thursday but didn’t have much of a chance to comment until now. The case in question is Michigan v. Jackson which was appealed to the Supreme Court in 1986. [...]

Back in 2005 President Bush signed the Lawful Commerce in Arms Act which was passed to prohibit frivolous lawsuits like those filed by the City of New York and Washington, DC that sought to hold gun manufacturers responsible for criminal acts committed by 3rd parties who happened to use their products in their crimes. In [...]

In my previous post on weapons in a church, I pulled up the Virginia law on carrying concealed weapons in an attempt to determine whether Virginians are legally allowed to do so today. I didn’t make it out of the 1st section without running into a mistake jarring enough that it derailed my research for [...]

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RedState’s morning briefing for 2/10/2009 has a number of interesting items: FEBRUARY 10, 2009 1. Specter, Snowe, and Collins Premise Their Stimulus Vote on a Lie They said it was not as large as it turned out to be 2. Congressional Budget Office Says Recession Will End This Year Without Stimulus With one, we’re going [...]

The Washington Post has a front-page story in this morning’s edition on a dawning realization by the citizens of Montgomery County, MD. After years of wagging accusing fingers at those of us who see illegal immigration as a problem precisely because it’s illegal and tends to cause a rise in crime wherever it’s allowed, it [...]

Patrick Ruffini makes his feelings plain in his tweet on the attempts by Apple to open a store in DC’s Georgetown: “DC Luddites blocking first Apple Store in the Capital.” From the linked story: The wait for Apple’s first retail store in the nation’s capital will reportedly drag on, as local preservationists have been unable [...]

People who know me well know that I’m a big fan of Star Trek. And yes, that includes having gone to a number of conventions in my younger days although I never dressed in the shows’ attire. I feel a fondness and familiarity toward the characters and, by extension, to the cast members who portrayed [...]