Traditional press reduced to begging for information bones thrown to them by a "closed, control freak administration" ...
Remember, we had to pass the law to find out what was in it....
A father in South Carolina who fired his handgun in self-defense--and in the process killing an apparent innocent bystander--has successfully argued that he is not subject to criminal or civil liability under the state's self-defense immunity law. South Carolina's self-defense immunity statute--§16-11-450. Immunity from criminal prosecution...
One more brick in the Obamacare wall that makes it harder to repeal....
(WETM-TV) – Congressman Tom Reed is calling on Democratic Challenger Martha Robertson to give back the money she raised from a September 30th e-mail to supporters where she claimed “GOP ops” were hacking her site. In an interview with the Star Gazette, Robertson said her web manager “noticed some very, very unusual activity,” but did not say the site was hacked.
But White House premptively rejects budget negotiations while government "shut"...
But The Atlantic outdid just about everyone with this image on its story by Philip Bump, How Obama Can Deal with the Irate Republican Army (via Ed Driscoll h/t Instapundit):
Smitty had it right:
https://twitter.com/smitty_one_each/status/388234299646181376
As startling as the image may seem coming from a mainstream publication, consider that the source of the image was a photo of an Irish Republican Army terrorist, Colin Duffy, who was charged with the killing of British soldiers (he later was acquitted):
Notice the photo of Colin Duffy is the exact same photo The Atlantic used as the source for the photoshop.
I'm sure the author and editors at The Atlantic knew exactly what they were doing, even if most of the readers didn't pick up on the Boehner being equated to a specific accused murderer.
Bump made sure to invoke the Irish Republican Army in the text of the post:
(Defense attorney Mark O'Mara during Zimmerman trial)[/caption]
Even a cursory reading of the law reveals that the Stand Your Ground statute has nothing whatever to do with the Self-Defense Immunity statute, other than having been adopted by the same session of the Florida legislature.
Indeed, the legislators have simply cloaked their desire to re-impose criminal and civil liability on law-abiding people, who act in genuine self-defense, under the guise of “fighting” Stand Your Ground. In doing so, these feckless legislators merely reveal the duplicitous nature of their actions.
Under current Florida law, an unlawful aggressor who seeks to sue their victims for harm suffered at the hands of the defending victims will be compelled to reimburse the victim if the victim's use of force is judged to have been lawful self-defense. It is precisely this provision that keeps the lawyers advising the Trayvon Martin family from bringing suit against George Zimmerman.
Donald Eugene Miller Jr. walked out of Hancock County Probate Court on Monday as legally dead as ever. In 1994, the court ruled that Miller was legally dead, eight years after he disappeared from his Arcadia rental home. The same judge, Allan Davis, ruled Monday that Miller is still dead, in the eyes of the law. Miller's request for a reversal came well after the three-year legal limit for changing a death ruling, Davis said.... Miller's ex-wife, Robin Miller, had asked for the death ruling so Social Security death benefits could be paid to their two children.... She said after the court hearing that Donald Miller left the state with hefty child support bills. He was scared of a jail term, she said. He owed about $26,000 in overdue child support by 1994, she has said. Robin Miller opposed his request for a change in the death ruling, because she does not want to repay the Social Security benefits. She does not have the money, she said.... Judge Davis referred to Donald Miller's case as a "strange, strange situation." "We've got the obvious here. A man sitting in the courtroom, he appears to be in good health," Davis said.... But the three-year time limit on the death ruling is clear, Davis said. "I don't know where that leaves you, but you're still deceased as far as the law is concerned," Davis said.Eugene Miller apparently is not happy, according to the reporter who attended court:
So which will it be: catastrophe or no? And if it's catastrophe, how soon will that happen?
People on the left are ramping up the fear, and people on the right trying to minimize it, both for obvious tactical purposes of their own. But failure to raise the debt ceiling is uncharted territory, and the best opinions are just guesses---although if it fails to be raised by the October 17 deadline, I guess we'll find out whose prognostications were right and whose wrong.
Even that will not be completely clear, though, because predictions can function as a self-fulfilling prophecy, and fear is contagious.
One thing that is clear is that Paul Ryan is correct when he writes in the WSJ:
The president says he "will not negotiate" on the debt ceiling. He claims that such negotiations would be unprecedented. But many presidents have negotiated on the debt ceiling—including him.Obama would like the public to think he can't negotiate on this and that to do so would be unheard of. But what is actually going on here is that past presidents who have had to deal with divided government (which is what Obama faces; the House is in Republican hands right now) have always known that in such a situation they must negotiate. Whichever party they have been affiliated with, and whether you think they were good presidents or bad ones, they have kept faith with the basic gentleman's/woman's agreement on which our government has always run, and that is that if the other side was duly elected to be in control of another branch of government, that group has some legitimate power and must be negotiated with. Obama is different.
It seems that South Park is going to roll out a parody of the events surrounding George Zimmerman’s self-defense shooting of his assailant Trayvon Martin in an upcoming episode tonight to be entitled “World War Zimmerman.” Details are scarce, but South Park put out this press...
Authorities investigating a shooting on a San Francisco train that killed a college student last month say surveillance footage shows that people were so engrossed in their phones they didn't even notice the gunman flashing the weapon. From the Associated Press (via Yahoo): A man flashed a...
This video pretty much epitomizes how the mainstream news media fights to protect Obama and Democrats. Andrea Mitchell argues with GOP Rep. Sean Duffy as if she were Obama's press secretary. This is not an opinion segment -- I have more understanding when Ed Schultz or Chris...
Great news for the mostly furloughed IRS, now mostly out of sight, out of mind. The new rallying cry across the nation is "Don't Barrycade me, bro!" https://twitter.com/LegInsurrection/status/387977265591504896 (Video added h/t Hot Air)(see our prior post for background): ...
Martha Robertson, the Emily's List-backed Democratic candidate in NY-23, a swing district that includes Ithaca, sent out a fundraising solicitation on September 30 claiming that her webmaster had "caught" "GOP ops" trying to take down her website. Legal Insurrection broke that story, which since then has...
