Below The Beltway

Barack Obama’s campaign is asking the Federal Government to get involved to stop an independent group from running ads against him:
Sen. Barack Obama has launched an all-out effort to block a Republican billionaire’s efforts to tie him to domestic and foreign terrorists in a wave of negative television ads.
Obama’s campaign has written the Department of [...]

Once again, it appears that John McCain is refusing to rule out the idea of re-instituting the military draft:

Here’s the transcript:
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Senator McCain I truly hope you get the opportunity to chase Bin Laden right to the gates of hell and push him in as you stated on your forum. I do have a [...]

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It’s all summed up in this quote:
“We are fast becoming a nation of alienating individualists, unwilling to put the unifying values of patriotism ahead of our narrow self-interests,” Mr. McCain warned in a speech during his 2000 presidential campaign. He added that “cynicism threatens to become a ceiling on our greatness.”
There’s a simple reason for [...]

Just over a month after the United States Supreme Court struck down the District of Columbia’s handgun ban, the man who brought that case is suing the District again over it’s response to the Supreme Court’s ruling:
The man who successfully challenged the D.C. handgun ban before the U.S. Supreme Court filed a second federal lawsuit [...]

A Federal Appeals Court has tossed out the FCC’s fine for Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction”:
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday threw out a $550,000 indecency fine against CBS Corp. for the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Janet Jackson’s breast-baring “wardrobe malfunction.”
The three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit [...]

Its looking like the effort to overturn the California Supreme Court’s decision on gay marriage isn’t going very well:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Californians are likely to uphold the right to gay marriage in the state by voting against a ballot measure that seeks to override a court ruling allowing same-sex unions, poll results showed on [...]

A re-post from last year, but still worth reading today:

Two Hundred Thirty Two Years Ago, Thomas Jefferson wrote the following:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate [...]

After nearly two centuries of silence, the Supreme Court today struck down a District of Columbia gun ban and affirmed that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms:
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices’ first major [...]

In the latest edition of The Drew Carey Project, it’s a defense of the North American Free Trade Agreement:
 Campaign season is just getting warmed up, but looking back on the primaries we’ve already seen plenty of the usual fare: candidates shaking hands, hanging out at diners, and scaring voters about foreigners who are taking your [...]