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Supreme Court strikes down Washington D.C. gun ban. Details. It's absurd that this decision was only 5-4. The implication is stunning. That means 4 members of the Supreme Court think that a complete ban on handguns doesn't violate the 2nd Amendment. That means those 4 justices have 0 respect for the highest law of the land, and probably use it for toilet paper in their private bathrooms. We should start the impeachment process on those 4 justices now. I'm emailing my representatives and calling for immediate impeachment of the 4.

McCain backs decision. Obama straddles issue. Obama straddles every issue, and McCain loves to equivocate too.

Thanks to the funding and corruption generated by our war on drugs, Mexican drug cartels hire Mexican soldiers to come to the US and perform home invasions and assassinations and take on our border patrol and police. If we spend more money on this war, it just flows to the drug cartels creating more violence and corruption. Drugs are not our problem. The war on drugs is our problem.

Economic growth still weak at 1% in Q1. Dow lowest so far this year.

30 people killed in separate bomb attacks in Iraq.

At least in part because of US meddling in Pakistani internal affairs, the situation in Pakistan keeps degrading. Terrorists burned down a ski lodge and many girls schools.

North Korea produces incomplete document detailing its nuclear program and hands it over to China, not the US. I guess they want China to vet it before we see it otherwise China might be implicated for all the technology and money it provided NK to develop nuclear weapons. Bush reduces sanctions. This is going to come back and bite us in the future. Cato welcomes the developments despite highlighting the deficiencies in the report. I think that's naive. North Korea is just playing us for fools to get some trade and use the wealth to develop more weapons. So far we have gained nothing of value, and given up plenty. North Korea has given up nothing of value, but gained plenty. As soon as we reach the point where North Korea must give something of value, like a working nuclear reactor or a nuclear weapons, they'll back out and laugh at us for the fools we are.

Our surveillance society is one step closer to the All-seeing Eye that will dominate our lives as engineers link artificial intelligence with surveillance cameras. Think about how different children born today will be because they will grow up knowing that somebody is watching their every movement.

Because UK government banned anonymous sperm donations, sperm banks are running empty. Government ruins everything it touches.

Spain extends rights to great apes. You have to be kidding me. I guess since the Spanish are committing suicide with a fertility rate of 1.37, culture-shock is driving them to find alternatives to humans. I don't think the great apes will keep their culture alive.

If harnessing volcano power is cost-effective, go for it. But don't subsidize it if it's not.

I had no idea Obama was proposing a "0 to 5" plan to indoctrinate children in liberal ideals from birth, pushing for universal pre-K. I guess by Obama's standards, the government monopoly on education has been so successful for ages 5 to 18, we should expand it all the way back to birth. I can see the government agent looking through the window, tapping his foot, waiting for the birth so he can go in and grab the baby from the parents for the good of society.

I wonder how many jobs, mostly low income jobs, it will cost Americans when Obama implements his plan to apply Social Security taxes to households making over $250,000 a year. Obama's plan will end plenty of gardeners, maids, nurses, nannies, and far more jobs supported by those jobs. That's what Democrats call helping the poor and middle class.

Cato explains that US sugar policy guarantees minimum prices and strict import restrictions, making sugar expensive and promoting the wasteful use of land.

IT students are outsourcing their coursework to India and Romania. This is what the liberal attack on our values has reduced us to. Hard work doesn't mean anything. They want good grades, and that's all that counts because consequences don't mean anything, just motives. Just pay your tax, sit back and let somebody else take care of your problems for you.

Looser rules for domain names?

It's nice to know that even Bill Gates understands that Microsoft sucks. This memo is a strangely satisfying read.

Scientists theorize that large impact might have created the disparity between Mars' northern and southern hemisphere.

Schwarzenegger says feeding our oil addiction isn't a solution to our energy problems. Give me a break. That's like saying I'm addicted to water. Without oil, we'd still be in the steam engine age. Oil is the wonderful fuel that enabled us to develop from that age to the modern age. I have a proposal. How about we pass a law banning any person who talks about oil in a bad way or talks about our oil addiction from using any product that is derived from oil? That would cut demand sharply, bringing down prices for the rest of us.