Free Plaxico Burress

The Giants player may lose his freedom (3 1/2 yrs) and carreer for committing a "crime" in NYC that would be a wristslap in most other jurisdictions that respect the Bill of Rights. From the WSJ:

...In 40 states, including Connecticut, law-abiding adults are issued permits once they pass a fingerprint-based background check and a safety class. In New Jersey, carry permits are virtually never issued. In New York City, carry permits are issued, but to applicants with some form of political clout rather than on the basis of his or her need for protection.

The Second Amendment might not require New Jersey or New York City to issue as liberally as Connecticut does. But with a population of several million and only a few thousand (consisting mainly of politicians, retired police and celebrities) able to get permits, New York City's licensing process is almost certainly unconstitutional on a number of grounds,including sheer arbitrariness...

Having said that, Burress is an idiot. If you're going to spend $500.00 or so for a gun, then spring for a $50.00 holster. And don't ever carry a gun stuffed into your sweatpants!

Mayor Compare Global Warming to Terrorism

Terrorism and Global Warming have "the same potentials of destroying the planet that we live on." So says Dear Leader Bloomberg. If that's the case, should we go after global warming skeptics "every place in this world, find them and kill them, plain and simple"? There's a lot of enviro-socialists who would YES! Absolutely!

From smoking, Trans Fats to guns and now this, Bloomberg has proven his fascist credentials as he turns to government force in order to eliminate every private behavior he disapproves of. In that tradition, he and his fellow travellers find an enemy that exists only on the flimsiest of scientific conclusions. Nevertheless, Bloomberg will fight that enemy since "No scientist knows for sure what's going to happen, but you don't want to wait to find out." Well, scientists don't for sure if a giant meteor will wipe us all out either. But that doesn't mean I'm calling for everyone to move underground. In short, these "problems" have nothing to do with science and everything to do with state power and the elimination of "chaotic" individual liberty and choice.