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I’ve been invited on behalf of Del. Michael D. Smigiel (R-36) to testify at the House Judiciary Committee tomorrow on behalf of his bill HB 9.  This bill would allow conceal weapon permit holders from neighboring states to carry their weapons in Maryland.  A similar bill was introduced by Smigiel last year but failed in the same committee.

I’m in the midst of writing my testimony.  I hope to have a written version available for download after my testimony.  I will be live tweeting during the hearing and hopefully will be able to provide a vote tally before I leave.

If legislative term limits ever needed a poster child, it would be Jim Moran (D-VA 8).  It seems like each term he gets elected to makes him dumber.  In a recent interview, Moran says:

The fact is that when you cover another 40 million people so that we and localities and so on don’t have to pay for uncompensated care — we pay for more than $100 million of uncompensated care through tax bills just in the 8th district alone — the fact is that when you cover another 40 million people, that’s hundreds of thousands of new jobs in the private sector for health professionals.

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As November 2nd comes closer, candidates are starting to become more and more aggressive.  “President” Obama, in a speech in Seattle, still blames Bush for the current economic disaster: “The biggest mistake we could make is to go back to the very same policies that caused all this hurt in the first place.”

Obama has been in office for two years.  Since then, the national debt has hit an all-time high, tripling what it was before.  This statement was made by the Obama administration, and not “right-wing” conservatives.

Every democratic politician says that they are proud of what they accomplished, such as a healthcare bill that nobody wants.  What’s funny about this is that democratic congressmen aren’t calling it “healthcare bill”.  They are calling it “making insurance affordable to everyone” or “taking control away from insurance companies.”

Poll after poll show Americans viewing the current state of politics negatively.  But Obama and his comrades are intent on lying to the electorate by saying things are getting better.  Unemployment is still at 10%, despite promises made by every democratic Tom, Dick, and Harry.  Even after controlling the House AND Senate for four years, things have gotten worse, not better.
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During her confirmation hearings, VT Senator Patrick Leahy asked Judge Sonya Sotomayor many questions having to do with her beliefs and various rulings already made by the Supreme Court.  Many conservatives voted her down because of how slippery her answers were.  And now that she is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, one must ask: was she being truthful in her testimony?

In their monthly magazine, the NRA cited how Justice Sotomayor stated one thing about gun rights and then dissented in the recent McDonald v. Chicago decision.

Sen. Leahy: Is it safe to say that you accept the Supreme Court’s decision as establishing that the Second Amendment right is an individual right? Is that correct?

Judge Sotomayor: Yes, sir.

Leahy: Thank you. And in the Second Circuit decision, Maloney v. Cuomo, you, in fact, recognized the Supreme Court decided in Heller that the personal right to bear arms is guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the Constitution against federal law restrictions. Is that correct?

Sotomayor: It is.

Leahy: And you accept and applied the Heller decision when you decided Maloney?

Sotomayor: Completely, sir. I accepted and applied established Supreme Court precedent that the Supreme Court in its own opinion in Heller acknowledged, answered the — a different question.

The NRA points out that in the McDonald v. Chicago decision, she dissented and agreed with her liberal colleague Justice Breyer.  He states in his dissenting opinion (pg. 210), “In sum, the Framers did not write the Second Amendment in order to protect a private right of armed self-defense.”

If Sotomayor recognized that the “personal right to bear arms is guaranteed by the Second Amendment”, why did she agree with Breyer?  Normally, if a justice agrees in part, they will provide their own dissent.  Sotomayor did not do this.  Stevens, who also dissented with the majority opinion, filed his own dissent.  Sotomayor has filed her own dissents before.  So why not in this case?

Somewhere, she lied.  She either lied during her confirmation hearings or she lied on the bench.  Either way, Congress should investigate and find out.  Hopefully, if the Republicans retake the House in November, they will start impeachment proceedings.

I’ve always said that peace cannot exist without justice.  Peace without justice is anarchy.  It is justice that allows peace to prosper.  Without justice, those who wish to do harm can do so without regard to its consequences.  Furthermore, justice provides the people with knowing that actions against them will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

The Attorney General of the United States recently dropped all charges against the Black Panthers for voter intimidation.  YouTube has a few videos of the voter intimidation.  Justice Department did not release an official statement but simply dropped the charges.  Most charges are dropped when there is not enough evidence to move forward with a trial, but with the video evidence, it seems like this is not the case.

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