CONGRESS’S DUTY TO D.C. RESIDENTS: A good observation in the Washington Post:

Last month, the Supreme Court affirmed that Americans have an individual right under the Second Amendment to keep and bear arms.

Just as with the First Amendment, it matters not a whit whether we reside in the state of Indiana or the District of Columbia. We are protected by the same Bill of Rights.

Sadly, since the announcement of the Heller decision, we have seen the D.C. Council continue to thumb its nose at the Constitution and defy a clear Supreme Court order by largely maintaining its draconian handgun ban.

Moreover, when Congress chose to delegate home rule to the District in the 1970s, it specified that legislation enacted by the District must be “consistent with the Constitution of the United States,” and it “reserve[d] the right, at any time, to exercise its constitutional authority as legislature for the District,

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WELL, AT LEAST IF OBAMA’S ELECTED WE’LL BE SPARED THIS KIND OF IDIOCY:

The Bush Administration has ignited a furor with a proposed definition of pregnancy that has the effect of classifying some of the most widely used methods of contraception as abortion. A draft regulation, still being revised and debated, treats most birth-control pills and intrauterine devices as abortion because they can work by preventing fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterus. The regulation considers that destroying “the life of a human being.”

Though it’s hard to imagine McCain getting behind this either. And hey, it’s no stupider than the District of Columbia classifying a Glock as a “machine gun.”

TIGERHAWK ON “Selective Greeniness.” Getting rid of fuel subsidies in places like Venezuela, Iran, and China would cut carbon emissions immensely. So where’s the call for that?

ROGER KIMBALL: Can Britain Survive Multiculturalism? British multiculturalism is symptomatic of a governing class that doesn’t really believe in the nation it governs. Can a nation survive that? It seems doubtful.

GAFFE-O-MATIC:

Democrat Barack Obama, the first black candidate with a shot at winning the White House, says John McCain and his Republican allies will try to scare them by saying Obama “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”

Er, all those other presidents? Isn’t there just one President on the dollar bill?

And have you noticed that it’s always Obama who’s actually injecting race into the campaign, under the guise of warning about what those Evil Republicans will do? And is it really likely that John McCain would be out there saying “don’t vote for Obama, he’s black?”

I anticipate a lot of Photoshop fun with this quote, though.

UPDATE: A reader emails:

Not only is there only 1 president on the $1.00 bill, but assuming he meant currency in general, he might want to look at the $10 and $100 which do not feature any U.S. President.

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Because renovation work is taking longer than expected, the opening for the Vietnam Vets of America Museum in Elmira has been postponed until later this year.

All good things to they who wait. I have been inside, work is moving along, albeit, slightly slower than anticipated, but it is looking really good!

A proposed ban on hooded sweat shirts in the Elmira school district got a big thumbs-down Wednesday during a public hearing at Elmira Free Academy.

It was all bread and circus anyway, a diversion, a shiny trinket to get the populace looking in another direction.

Can we call Mr. Bryant, Mephisto the MAgnificent, for his sleight of hand tricks?

You can weigh in Wednesday night on whether your child should be allowed to wear a hoodie if they attend an Elmira City School.

It seems much ado about nothing, pass the rule, enforce the rule, move on to bigger things.

or do we have to actualize everyones feelings, get their feedback, form a committee, hire a consultant, and then do something?

How does one say “Miserable Failure” in French? Oh wait, that would be Échec Misérable.

Sigh.

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: The Western Wall prayer controversy is getting complicated.

HMM: Green isn’t selling the way it used to.

Plus, Is it becoming cool to mock the Greens? The bossy, self-righteous, and hypocritical ones, anyway.