Miscellaneous News. [Updated]

One of the axises of evil has been broken today, thanks to North Korea submitting for outside inspection a long-delayed declaration of its nuclear program. Old Bush can hang* his head up high or we can all breathe a sigh of relief we didn't go to war with them.
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Larry Sinclair gave an interview last night with Jeff Rense over his arrest and the aftermath.

Rense of course should be taken with a huge grain of salt since he is a promoter of various conspiracy theories. However, listening to Sinclair's latest allegations, including the Social Security Administration allegedly cutting off his benefits, makes this worth listening to.

This is the latest. Either he's a flagrant con or else he is being harassed beyond belief.
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*--I meant "hold," but "hang" might be a better word.
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Don't expect "liberals" to condemn the USSC pandering to the NRA and coming up with a completely fictional "gun rights" ruling, which defies ALL precedent on this issue.

In a dissent he summarized from the bench, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that the majority "would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons."

He said such evidence "is nowhere to be found."

Justice Stephen Breyer wrote a separate dissent in which he said, "In my view, there simply is no untouchable constitutional right guaranteed by the Second Amendment to keep loaded handguns in the house in crime-ridden urban areas."

The Second Amendment relates to MILITIAS, not to individuals, but the high court doesn't give a shit about that. The majority is going to make the rules as it sees fit, to hell with precedent or to what the Constitution actually says.

Edit: Many, many years ago, former USSC Chief Justice Warren Burger, a hunter, wrote an article in Parade magazine titled "The Right to Bear Arms." A quote from the interview that came with the article (the article Burger wrote doesn't have the quote itself) appears in the book Under Fire, which is about gun control and the NRA:

The most outspoken opponent of the way the NRA has interpreted the Second Amendment is, surprisingly, the conservative former Supreme Court chief justice Warren Burger. Burger, a lifelong hunter and gun owner, has called the gun lobby's interpretation "one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime...[The NRA has] misled the American people and they, I regret to say, they have had far too much influence on Congress of the United States than as a citizen I would like to see."

(p. 136)

The quote is accurate, by the way. I, like my late mother, who once bought into the NRA bullshit on this issue, read the original article and interview (Parade, January 14, 1990), and right then and there she changed her mind on gun control.

Not only does the NRA have an undue influence on Congress, but now it has an undue influence on the courts.

Before "liberals" start cheering this decision in thinking they are going to get the hunter/rural vote, they need to recognize this ruling is a continuation of decisions whereby the high court makes up its own rulings and defies precedent. The 2000 Bush v. Gore decision was just the first one of what would be many rulings made for political rather than constitutional considerations.

Edit II: Sorry I have had to keep editing this post. I posted it way early in the morning and had to keep going back to make sure I was trying to make sense.
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