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How this case even made it to the 8th Circuit defies all logic... the whole thing was based upon nothing more than a hunch or a mere suspicion, based not upon fact but upon experience. WTF!??! Is there a new exemption to the search warrant rule? The "gut feeling exemption"?

Stop of a man in a hoodie for carrying a weapon lacked reasonable suspicion FourthAmendment.com - Post details: CA8: Stop of a man in a hoodie for carrying a weapon lacked reasonable suspicion

Yes, its absolutely insane the lengths that the federal government has tortured and stretch the CC to allow it to exercise venue over state matters. One bizarre case involved the federal government successfully arguing the bootstrap sale of ketchup to a restaurant, which affected commerce. Therefore gave them controlling authority over crimes occuring at the restaurant where the ketchup was located. No joke, it was a real federal court case

It looks like the old iron bridge over the Obed River near Wartburg Tenn

Guns manufactured and sold inside a given state are subject to state laws only, not subject to federal jurisdiction under the much tortured and often ill applied interstate commerce clause.

I think the problem with all the a$$hats up there is that they honestly think we the people will bend over and take whatever they give us. That (they) in their wildest dreams could not imagine we the people as a whole standing up and with one voice, or in this case 3/4 th majority yelling ENOUGH! Once the CC was seated the full force and gravity of the situation would sink in and they would not dare challenge 75% of the states. I think the libs would blink. If for nothing more than out of complete fear their jobs and days were numbers, if not over.

The question that needs to be asked is once the number of states on board passes the threshold. Two-thirds of the state legislatures demand Congress call a national convention. Then we need to get Three-fourths of the state legislatures to ratify. But... Why not do it? It seems that is the direction we are heading in terms of state numbers. At some point we will have three-fourths of the states and I believe we should put an end to it right then and there.

Approaching space object 'artificial, not asteroid' says NASA NASA boffins report that an unknown object approaching the Earth from deep space is almost certainly artificial in origin rather than being an asteroid. Object 2010 KQ was detected by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona earlier this month, and subsequently tracked by NASA's asteroid-watching service, the Near-Earth Object Program headquartered at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. According to the NASA experts: Observations by astronomer S J Bus, using the NASA-sponsored Infrared Telescope Facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, indicate that 2010 KQ's spectral characteristics do not match any of the known asteroid types, and the object's absolute magnitude (28.9) suggests it is only a few meters in size. The mysterious artificial object has apparently made a close pass by the Earth, coming in almost to the distance of the Moon's orbit, and is now headed away again into the interplanetary void. The object has used no propulsion during the time NASA has had it under observation. However the spacewatch boffins believe that it must have moved under its own power at some point, given its position and velocity. "The orbit of this object is very similar to that of the Earth, and one would not expect a [naturally occurring] object to remain in this type of orbit for very long," said Paul Chodas, a brainbox at JPL. The experts believe that the object must be a spacecraft, or more accurately part of one - sadly not an alien visitor, though. Rather it's likely to be a booster stage from an interplanetary mission of the past, now drifting back in to Earth and out again. The next visit will probably be 2036, at which time there's a small chance that 2010 KQ will crash into the atmosphere and burn up. Approaching space object 'artificial, not asteroid' says NASA

ATF agents describe fear of retaliation ATF agents describe fear of retaliation - CNN.com

Were issued G23's with 3 13rd mags. I'm not in uniform anymore I work daily with plain clothes agents and officers from many local and state agencies and I've not seen anyone carry 15 rounders for spares. I only carry one extra 13 round mag anyways in a paddle mag/cuff combo carrier. If you were a uniform I don't see why it would matter, the only issue I could see would be over seating a 15 rounder in your gun during the stress of a gunfight.

Lawyer subpoenas red-light traffic cameras to testify against her clients... Cameras no show in court || OnlineAthens.com

Jamaica's Bloody Lesson On Guns FOXNews.com - Jamaica's Bloody Lesson On Guns Do gun bans really stop criminals from getting guns? Americans need not look no further than the massive gun battle with armed gangs fighting police and soldiers that took place in Kingston, Jamaica today. At least 30 people were killed in the fighting. It is a huge number for a small island nation of fewer than 3 million people, but unfortunately murder is so common in Jamaica that these murders won't even be noticed in the annual crime numbers. With Chicago's Mayor Daley again claiming that a gun ban is necessary to keep Chicagoans safe, Jamaica and other countries with gun bans might teach Americans a lesson. Everyone wants to keep guns away from criminals, but the question is: who is most likely to obey the law? In the case of a ban, every instance we have data for shows that when a ban has been imposed, murder rates rise. In America, people are all to familiar with the increased murder rates in Chicago and Washington, D.C.. But supporters blame those gun control failures on the ease of getting guns in the rest of the country. Yet, even in island nations such as Ireland, the U.K., and Jamaica -- all of which have imposed bans -- their easily defendable borders and lack of obvious neighbors haven't stopped drug gangs from getting either drugs or the guns that they use to protect their valuable product. Jamaica wasn't always the extremely violent country that it is today (see the figure here). Jamaica experienced large increases in murder rates since enacting a handgun bans in 1974. Since the gun ban, Jamaica’s murder rate has soared to become one of the highest in the world, currently at least double that of other Caribbean countries. Jamaica’s murder rate hasn’t sunk below 10 murders per 100,000 people since the gun ban went into effect. Even before the recent rampage, Jamaica's murder rate was about six times higher than before the ban went into effect. Indeed, Jamaica's current murder rate is so high -- at about 60 per hundred thousand people -- that 30 additional deaths in one day will barely be noticeable: 30 deaths will only increase the murder rate from about 60 to 61. Just as Mexico's President Calderon showed last week, it is always easy for politicians to blame crime on guns. The crime data in Jamaica shows the same thing as the crime data in Chicago and Washington have shown. It is the law-abiding, good citizens, not the criminals, who are disarmed by gun bans.

American Jobbery Act Dissecting this week's stimulus bill. America's New Jobs Bill - WSJ.com

Hmmm. maybe I should have posted this in the National Politics and Legislation forum. Sorry mods!

Double-dip fears over worldwide credit stress The global credit system is flashing the most serious warning signals in almost a year on triple fears of a Spanish banking crisis, escalating political risk in Asia, and a second leg to the US housing slump. Double-dip fears over worldwide credit stress The global credit system is flashing the most serious warning signals in almost a year on triple fears of a Spanish banking crisis, escalating political risk in Asia, and a second leg to the US housing slump. Double-dip fears over worldwide credit stress - Telegraph