…that I’ll remember about Tony Snow. His laughter was infectious, even in the rare times I didn’t agree with him. We will miss him.

Line ‘em up!

Now that yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision has lovingly pistol-whipped the city of Washington, DC….other gunowners are LINING UP to go after their respective cities. Uh…I have one word to say about that: Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

Emboldened by Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling affirming the right of individuals to own handguns, advocates said they would immediately challenge a San Francisco law that prohibits guns in public housing and sue other cities nationwide to overturn gun restrictions.

The California lawsuit, which the National Rifle Assn. said it would file in federal court in San Francisco today, was one of several legal challenges that gun rights groups said they would pursue in the wake of the court decision.

Hours after the Supreme Court ruling came down, two groups sued Chicago over its handgun ban, which is similar to the District of Columbia law the high court struck down. In addition, the NRA said it would file a lawsuit against Chicago today and would also sue surrounding cities that ban handguns.

In the rainbow city of San Francisco, where the only people with guns are bad guys, this is especially sweet. Just ask Inspector Harry Callahan.

I know what you’re thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? ….

Well, do ya…punk?

The Republican Party has jumped the shark. Seriously. Gone are the days of personal responsibility. Gone. Our society….our government….someone in charge of my taxes… will bail you out.

A broad bipartisan coalition supporting a massive foreclosure rescue beat back GOP efforts to gut it Thursday, defying a White House veto threat and quashing a bid to make it victim to revelations about two senators’ VIP mortgages.

Democrats and many Republicans consider the measure a political imperative amid rising foreclosures and growing public anxiety about the sagging economy. The measure is designed to help hundreds of thousands of borrowers in danger of losing their homes, but it also would benefit mortgage holders by allowing them to avoid costly foreclosures and reclaim some of what they’re owed by people facing financial ruin.

Yep…both the lender and the borrower were victims…now both get money. All is forgiven… NOBODY is at fault. Republicans are complicit and have trash-canned the very tenets that defined their party.

Reprehensible.

Finally, I’m living in a state where they take the death penalty seriously, have a constitutional amendment supporting marriage, and know the meaning of the word “Conservative.” I’m back home.  Many thanks to Craig for keeping this site going while I made the transition to a new job, a a new home, a new dog, and a new internet provider. As I’ve watched in horror the continuing foolishness of Osama Obama, a 5-4 decision granting rights to the very terrorists who murdered thousands on 9/11, and the apparent mad dash back to September 10th, 2001 by the Left, I’ve been unable to post as I’ve been doing over the past eight years.

Now, I’m back.

Just in time for the Fall campaign. While I disagree with so much of what John McCain says he believes, he beats the heck out of Obama.  Obama’s positons on judges are enough to make me run for the polls to pull the lever for McCain in November.  We’ll deal with McCain foolishness regarding “torture” and so-called “global warming” after the election.

McCain has shown a willingness to change his views as new facts assert themselves. Hopefully, as he comes to realize his “friends” on the Left will rip him apart this summer and Fall, he will be more open to some different views on other issues as well.

Interesting.I came across a new conservative group, that apparently, can fight the good fight against George Soros and his merry band of deep pocket liberals. Naturally, democrats…. are none-too-happy about it.

Democrats are trying to chase from the political playing field a new conservative group expected to spend tens of millions of dollars this year attacking liberal candidates. 

Billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson is the principal financial backer for the group, which has taken a major role in attacking Democratic candidates in recent special congressional elections.

Faced with the group’s deep pockets, the DCCC has fired off mail and broadcast ads highlighting Mr. Adelson’s gambling interests and ties with China, which they argue is “a country notorious for forced abortions.” Democrats this week filed a third legal challenge to the group with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). 

SAY WHAT?

What kind of argument is that? So Adelson owns a casino and does business in China. So what? And his business affiliations allows you to take some kind of moral highground? Are you kidding me? Coming from the mouths of Democrats……that IGNOMINIOUS posture is rich. Filthy rich.

Hmmm…..Freedoms Watch. Love the name.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was on 60 Minutes last night. Unfortunately, there is only ONE Justice Scalia. I wish there were 8 more.

At 72, Justice Scalia is still a maverick, championing a philosophy known as “orginalism,” which means interpreting the Constitution based on what it originally meant to the people who ratified it over 200 years ago. Scalia has no patience with so-called activist judges, who create rights not in the Constitution- like a right to abortion -by interpreting the Constitution as a “living document” that adapts to changing values.

He’s on a mission as an evangelist for originalism, at home and around the world. For example, he visited the Oxford Union in England. “Sometimes people come up to me and inquire, ‘Justice Scalia, when did you first become an originalist?’ As though it’s some weird affliction, you know, ‘When did you start eating human flesh?’” Scalia told students, who replied with laughter.

After listening to Scalia….I need to take a fresh approach in my enmity- my animus towards liberals.

“I attack ideas. I don’t attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas,” Scalia says. “And if you can’t separate the two, you gotta get another day job. You don’t want to be a judge. At least not a judge on a multi-member panel.”

I’ve got to remember that: there are ’some very good people’ who have ’some very bad ideas’. Now, could I apply that pragmatic goodwill to a John Kerry or a Howard Dean or an Al Gore?

Um…..on second thought, Justice Scalia is a better man than me.

Lately I’ve been reading the Investor’s Business Daily for reasons other than the obvious. Though I love the world of business and want that edge when I go to invest, I’m now reading IBD’s Editorial Page FIRST. Yah…it is an absolute joy to read. Here’s today’s nugget:

Carter Strikes Again

Terrorism’s favorite and our worst ex-president plans on meeting with the terrorist group Hamas. This is like talking fire prevention with arsonists. But then, Jimmy Carter never met a terrorist he didn’t like.

The Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that Carter, the man from Plains who gave the world the Ayatollah Khomeini, Hezbollah and a soon-to-be nuclear Iran, is planning a trip to Syria later this month. And his press secretary, Deanna Coniglio, did not deny Al-Hayat’s report that during the trip Carter would meet with Khalid Meshal, the exiled head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas.

We would actually be surprised if Carter, acting like he’s lobbying for the secretary of state slot in an Obama administration, didn’t visit the head of the group that, having won an election in Gaza, turned the dream of a Palestinian state into just another opportunity to attack Israel.

On taking power in Gaza, Hamas decided that rather than building a viable infrastructure with foreign assistance, feeding and educating its people, and picking up the trash, it would rather turn the territory into a launching pad for Kasam rockets targeted on Israeli civilians.

So I’m sitting here reading this and going….is this online business daily CHANNELING MY THOUGHTS?

Not just Palestinian extremism. Carter has made a career of supporting terrorists and creating or embracing the world’s habitats for inhumanity.

On taking office in 1977, he declared that advancing “human rights” was among his highest priorities. America’s ally, the Shah of Iran, was one of his first targets, with Carter chastising him for his human rights record and withdrawing America’s support. The mullahs soon took power.

In 1994, Carter jetted off to the last Stalinist regime on Earth to broker a deal whereby North Korea would promise to forego a nuclear weapons program in exchange for a basket of goodies that included oil, food and, amazingly, nuclear technology. Along the way, Carter praised North Korea’s mass-murdering dictator as a “vigorous and intelligent man.” And of North Korea itself, Carter said: “I don’t see they are an outlaw nation.”

Habitats for INHUMANITY? Oh my goodness, I almost blew out my breakfast laughing at that line. I’m telling you- it’s downright scary how dialed into my brain they are.

Today marks my last day as a resident of Illinois. The land of Lincoln has been good to me and mine for 20 years or more, but it’s time to go.

Corruption in politics leads to multiple highs and lows…

High taxes, high crime, high unemployment.

Low morale, low wages, and low trust in public officials.

Think on that, as Democrats consider nominating a man steeped in the political culture of what was once the home of Honest Abe.

The Wall Street Journal may have hit one out of the park. Yep…a Home Run. I came across an excellent piece about Obama’s cache with white America. They called it ‘bargaining‘.

The novelty of Barack Obama is more his cross-racial appeal than his talent. Jesse Jackson displayed considerable political talent in his presidential runs back in the 1980s. But there was a distinct limit to his white support. Mr. Obama’s broad appeal to whites makes him the first plausible black presidential candidate in American history. And it was Mr. Obama’s genius to understand this. Though he likes to claim that his race was a liability to be overcome, he also surely knew that his race could give him just the edge he needed- an edge that would never be available to a white, not even a white woman.

This may be the most articulate, spot-on observation I’ve ever come across. Read the whole article….impressive. Oh….and by the way….Shelby Steele is the author- a black man.

Having recovered from a major interview on Moody Broadcasting this morning, Cross Action News is up and running.  This is a must-read site, covering news from a conservative and Christian point of view.  Stuff here I haven’t seen, including this from FrontPage:

Well, NASA says recent satellite images show that the allegedly endangered polar ice cap – which will melt completely one of these summers and kill off all the polar bears if we don’t slash our greedy carbon footprints and revert to the lifestyles of medieval peasants – has recovered to near normal coverage levels.

That’s what Josefino Comiso, a senior research scientist with the Cryospheric Sciences Branch of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, told Canada’s CBC News – the Canadian government’s version of NPR/PBS - on Feb. 12.

As far as Google’s search engine knows, Comiso’s comforting report has appeared nowhere but in Canada.

There’s even better news for polar ice-pack lovers from ice expert Gilles Langis, who says Arctic ice is now even thicker than usual in spots. A senior ice forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, he’s another scientist you shouldn’t expect to see talking to Anderson Cooper on the next episode of CNN’s “Galaxy in Peril.”

Meanwhile, in other news too climatically incorrect for U.S. mainstream media to touch, California meteorologist Anthony Watts says January 2008 was the planet’s second-coldest January in 15 years.

Even more shocking, the average temperature of Earth dropped significantly from January 2007 to January 2008. As Watts explains on his Web site wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com, he determined the lower figure by crunching data from four major public and private global tracking sources.

Very much worth visiting, and linking to, and maybe even using as one of your home links, as I have done. Good job, Jason and company!