News Briefs – Volume XVI
News briefs are a collection of interesting news stories…
Brief 1: Pennsylvania’s legislature is earning their money as they consider a ground-breaking piece of legislation. The legislation, described by Rep. Scott Perry, will allow citizens to defend themselves “anywhere you have a lawful right to be…It’s important we are allowed to avail ourselves of our constitutional right to protect ourselves. Right now, the scales are tipped to criminals or perpetrators, and I want to see the scales tipped back to law-abiding citizens.” If they can pass the legislation you you would be able to defend yourself without having to flee first. If this is a “constitutional right” then why do we need a bill to allow it? Perhaps the saddest thing is not so much that we need this legislation, but that our legislature cannot seem to pass it and that Gov. Rendell seems hesitant to sign it into law. Maybe there is a critical vote on Pennsylvania’s state cookie.
an image of The Wizard of Oz movie flashed into my mind. I hope that I don’t do this book a tremendous disservice with my analogy, but I think it fits on a very superficial level. Like Frank L. Baum, Ramo exposes our quaint life to tremendous upheaval into a world we don’t know and frankly want no part of. A journey begins as we explore the new reality of this world as we look toward leaders who can save us. Only our leaders like the Wizard are really just men with fancy titles, degrees, and curtains that shouldn’t be explored.
In a show of inordinate CLASS President Barack Hussein Obama mocked those of us who opposed his health care bill:
is a collection of past articles and “other controversial essays” covering race relations, taxes, black history month, public education, the media, and much more. Because of the format, none of the articles is more than three pages and sometimes the subject left me wanting more from Sowell.
“The crash was the honest acknowledgement of the breakdown of capitalism…caused by speculating margin traders brought down the nation.”