The UN: Self Defense is Not a Human Right

David Kopel at Volokh 

Earlier this week, Sen. Fred Thompson wrote to Field & Stream magazine, criticizing the UN’s campaign against the human right of self-defense. The Thompson campaign touted the letter on its website, and the letter got a

Peg Noonan at the Wall Street Journal…

(Yes, owned by him who must not be named…)

….has come up withwhat has to be the line of the week, as regards Hillary Clinton’s deer in the headlights dance, the other

John Harris over at the Politico:

Congressional Democrats certainly know the power of a throw-the-bums-out message. It vaulted them to power a year ago this week. Little wonder anxiety is boiling over inside the new majority as lawmakers ponder a

Mike Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard:

The Wall Street Journal reports on the stunning success of Representative John Murtha in channeling taxpayer dollars to pork-barrel projects in his district, including awards for companies under FBI investigation and others which show

An interesting set of conditions leads to some interesting mail to catch up on, this morning.

Last night, I took a healthy swipe at Glenn Greenwald. (I know… it’s a target that’s all too easy, but someone hadda do

And so we see The New Republic finally awakening from its long silence on the Scott Beauchamp issue, to say absolutely nothing, other than it’s all the army’s fault.

Gee.  Big surprise.  It strikes me, that the real show of

Let’s get straight to it.  What the hell were Obama’s people thinking when they invited a white openly gay minister to open for his South Carolina gospel concert with Donnie McClurkin?I’ll repeat it once more.

I said, what the hell

Bit wrote the following yesterday while discussing the Canadian conservative upswing.

Oh, by the way, there’s been an awful lot of chatter, lately, as regards the Canadian dollar coming up somewhat higher than the American dollar just recently.  Of

John Gibson calls out Neal Gabler as a “lowlife” and a “coward.”

I guess I can get behind that assessment, Michelle.

How is it though, that the company that leftists would have you believe was inspired by Joseph Goebbels, can

Scott over at PowerLine speaking of the Rush Limbaugh smear letter signed by 41 Democrats in the United States Senate, and the New York Times artcile on the subject

The auction of the letter for the benefit of the Marine

Captain Ed, yesterday:

Twenty-two months have passed since Canadians gave Liberals the heave-ho after Adscam, and apparently, Conservative government suits them well. Before the Sponsorship Programme corruption scandal brought down Paul Martin and his administration, the Liberals painted Stephen

Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters, remarking about Neil Gabler showing us a little class:

Here’s the partial transcript of this unbelievable moment in television history from Saturday’s “Fox News Watch” (h/t Hot Air, video available here):

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World oil production has already peaked and will fall by half as soon as 2030, according to a report which also warns that extreme shortages of fossil fuels will lead to wars and social breakdown. —

This is the headline

Mark Steyn today:

Last Thursday, Nancy Pelosi, as is the fashion, used the phrase “the children” like some twitchy verbal tic, a kind of Democrat Tourette’s syndrome: “This is a discussion about America’s children … We could establish ourselves as

There’s an awful lot of smoke going on just now over the reporting of KDFW’s Rebecca Aguilar, as regards a 70 year old guy whose business was broken into twice, and who twice defended himself with his firearms.

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