Must be tied to sustainable fusion. And balanced budgets. And all that other stuff that is perpetually just around the corner.
8 May, 2007
Gun Rights in DC
Ramesh has an update on the Parker case, which may be on its way to the Supremes.
The case has split gun-rights activists in the past, with some of them fearing that asking the Court to pronounce on the matter could set back their cause if it leads to a disappointing answer. But Levy says he is finding less resistance now. Optimism about how the Court would resolve the issue has increased thanks to the replacement of Justice O’Connor by Justice Alito. Nodding to the political circumstances of the moment, he adds that “the Court is probably better than it’s going to be. So for folks who do want review the timing may be just right.”
The Realignment of America
Michael Barone reminds us that “demography is destiny“.
It has become a commonplace to say that population has been flowing from the Snow Belt to the Sun Belt, from an industrially ailing East and Midwest to an economically vibrant West and South. But the actual picture of recent growth, as measured by the 2000 Census and the census estimates for 2006, is more complicated. Recently I looked at the census estimates for 50 metropolitan areas with more than one million people in 2006, where 54% of Americans live. (I cheated a bit on definitions, adding Durham to Raleigh and combining San Francisco and San Jose.) What I found is that you can separate them into four different categories, with different degrees and different sources of population growth or decline. And I found some interesting surprises.
Unicorns
Daniel Pipes sees the seeds of our salvation.
Is it not telling that great numbers of moderate Muslims see danger where so many non-Muslims are blind? Do developments in Pakistan and Turkey not confirm my oft-repeated point that radical Islam is the problem and moderate Islam the solution? And do they not suggest that ignorant non-Muslim busybodies should get out of the way of those moderate Muslims determined to relegate Islamism to its rightful place in the dustbin of history?
The only way western civilization doesn’t get creamed is for the unicorns to win. We need to support them.
With Republicans like these
who needs Democrats? They’re trying to pile on to Nancy Pelosi for grabbing a little federal pork for San Francisco. Seems Pelosi’s husband owns properties that could benefit from a project at the Embarcadero. And the stupid Republicans are whining about corruption. How lame.
One of the properties is 5,400 feet away from the redevelopment site.
Guess what, New York Post. I can do arithmetic! That’s over a mile.
San Francisco is roughly square, and 7 miles on a side. Pelosi’s spokesman was right to say that “1.1 miles is a long way in San Francisco.”
So, Republicans, please stop going out of your way to look stupid. That Pelosi is corrupt is hardly front page news. How about going after her for the really damaging stuff she’s doing, like fraternizing with the enemy, unconstitutionally running her own foreign policy, and doing her damnedest to lose the war?
Oh, right. That would require backbone.
The Fort Dix Plot
Michelle Malkin has it all covered here. Kudos to the John Doe.
Charles at LGF notes that CNN, albeit in scare quotes, used the I-word. A crack in the wall, or a slip-up?
That John Doe better watch his back. CAIR and other terrorists will be after him now. If they can find time between their FBI training sessions.
