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Who's John Thune -- and Why Is He on the GOP Short List for President?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyJohn Thune is on every short list of Republican presidential prospects, which for most people raises two questions: Who? And why? The South Dakota senator is renowned in political circles for ousting Democrat Tom Daschle, the Senate minority leader, in 2004. But he's not associated with any particular issue and he's certainly not a household name. The past few days have shown why that could change, and not just because Thune is tall, dark and handsome. To be sure, he and New York Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand more than lived up to their advance billing as bipartisan nerd prom king and queen ...
The Right Tones Down the Rhetoric
By Robert and Donna Trussell - Politics DailyFollow the Trussell cartoons on Twitter at ChaosTheoryPD ...
Prior to UT Shooting, Gun Rights Advocate John Lott Was Scheduled to Speak
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Sept. 28) -- As police authorities continue to investigate the frightening events involving an armed gunman that occurred this morning at the University of Texas, the Surge Desk has learned that University of Maryland researcher John Lott, a gun rights advocate and author of "More Guns, Less Crime," was scheduled to speak today at the UT Law School. Read full coverage of the shooting from AOL News here. According to StudentsForLiberty.org, a coalition of student groups including the Libertarian Longhorns, the UT Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, the UT Objectivism Society and the UT ...
High Court's Gun Ruling Won't End Local Skirmishes
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (June 28) -- By extending the Second Amendment right to bear arms to state and local governments, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opened the door to legal challenges to gun laws across the country. Whether the decision will change the status quo, though, remains unclear. The case, McDonald v. City of Chicago, strikes down decades-old gun bans in Chicago and its suburb of Oak Park, Ill. It follows almost two years to the day the court's landmark Heller decision striking down the District of Columbia's ban on handgun possession. That case, also decided by an ideologically split ...
Supreme Court Bans Gun Bans: Top 10 Reactions
By Dana Chivvis - Politics DailyThe Supreme Court's ruling striking down a city of Chicago handgun ban has sparked immediate, thoughtful online commentary about one of the country's greatest and oldest debates: that over gun rights -- or more specifically, the relationship among governments, gun access and public safety. Surge Desk has compiled a selection of some of the responses and dialogues coming from the blogosphere as a result of today's historic judgment. Hans von Spakovsky, on the Heritage Foundation's blog, writes that this should have been an easy decision. "It is hard to believe that anyone could rationally ...
Supreme Court Ruling Backs Individual Gun Rights
By not in system - AOL News(June 28) -- The U.S. Supreme Court declared Monday that individual gun rights under the Second Amendment apply and may be used to block enforcement of certain restrictive state and local gun control ordinances. By a 5-4 vote along the court's familiar ideological lines, the justices jeopardized two Illinois ordinances and threw hundreds more around the nation into doubt. At the same time, however, the court reiterated its view that lawmakers could continue to impose certain reasonable restrictions on gun ownership and possession. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion in McDonald v. ...
Supreme Court Ruling Backs Individual Gun Rights
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe U.S. Supreme Court declared Monday that individual gun rights under the Second Amendment apply and may be used to block enforcement of certain restrictive state and local gun control ordinances. By a 5-4 vote along the court's familiar ideological lines, the justices jeopardized two Illinois ordinances and threw hundreds more around the nation into doubt. At the same time, however, the court reiterated its view that lawmakers could continue to impose certain reasonable restrictions on gun ownership and possession. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion in McDonald v. Chicago ...
Gun Advocates Hit Va., DC, in Double-Barreled Protest
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 19) -- Protesting what they perceive as a growing threat to the Second Amendment, armed gun-rights activists gathered today in Virginia as their firearms-free brethren congregated in nearby Washington, D.C. Thanks to a law signed by President Barack Obama, a few dozen protesters were allowed to gather at two public parks in Virginia carrying a variety of unconcealed weapons, including rifles and pistols. "We are done backing up," former Alabama Minuteman leader Mike Vanderboegh told the crowd assembled at Fort Hunt Park. "Not one more inch." Olivier Douliery, Abaca Press / MCT ...
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Local, State Handgun Laws
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe U.S. Supreme Court said Wednesday that it will hear a challenge to Chicago's handgun ban -- a major case that could once again embroil the court in controversy over interpreting gun rights, NPR reported Tuesday. The court struck down the District of Columbia's similar gun ban last year in a case that was widely regarded as one of the most important of its kind in many years. With the high court having bolstered Second Amendment rights when federal laws are involved, the plaintiff in McDonald v. Chicago is now seeking those protections for state and local laws. Constitutions in 44 states ...
Sarah Palin Resurfaces to Support NRA
By Emily Miller - Politics DailySarah Palin made her first public appearance since resigning as Alaska governor at a National Rifle Association (NRA) event Saturday night in Anchorage. Palin gave a "stirring" speech on the Second Amendment right to bear arms, according to the group. ...
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