Maybe you’re like me, but the more former Justice O’Connor speaks, the more I’m convinced she is separated from reality.  This morning I was doing something I rarely do – watching Morning Joe on MSNBC.  I was flipping through the tube and noticed Justice O’Connor talking to Joe, so I stopped for a minute to listen.

Joe said he, although a pro-life conservative, was always amazed at the interest in the abortion issue despite the fact it rarely came up in Congress.  Justice O’Connor said the same thing from the Court’s perspective, and then she added she was always amazed that we, in America, have not settled on the issue like other countries had.  At that moment, I began shouting at the television – maybe she could hear me, who knows?

Justice O’Connor, the reason we have not “settled” on the issue is because your cohorts on the Supreme Court ripped the decision out of our hands.  You never gave the political process the chance to work, and instead, you trumped up a Constitutional argument that abortion was a constitutionally protected right, despite the fact that nowhere in our Constitution is that right mentioned.  So, this entire “problem” is one of your making, and I say “your” because you had the chance in 1992 and 2000, specifically in Casey and Stenberg, to return the decision to the political process.  Instead, you saw yourself as Emperor and made the decision for us.  Thanks, a lot!

I know Justice O’Connor did some good on the Court on federalism issues, but please spare me anymore of her judicial kind on the Court.  Give me someone with some true principles, rather than someone wanting to be liked.

First, Plaxico Burress is a moron.  Let’s get that out of the way.  Mr. Burress is a wide receiver for the New York Giants, and hero to the G-Men fans for helping their team vault over the previously undefeated (and seemingly unconquerable) New England Patriots in last year’s Super Bowl.  But last weekend, he crossed the Hudson into a downtown Manhattan night club with a loaded conceal firearm.  While there, he accidentally shot himself in the thigh.  For all of you who are wondering, he wasn’t scheduled to play this weekend anyway because he was on the mend from another non-gunfire related injury.  So, no bets have to be changed by this simple misfire.

Mr. Burress was treated for his injury at a local hospital and later release.  Despite NYC law, the gunshot wound was not reported by the hospital staff.  It would’ve never come to light, except for a sports reporter broke the story.

Since then, you’d have thought Mr. Burress was on the FBI’s most wanted as a terrorist suspect.  How could he have done such a thing?  Not fire the gun, but carry it into the lovely NYC?  He has been charged for violating a recent NYC law that prohibited anyone from carrying a loaded non-permitted pistol in the city.  The sentence for such a crime – mandatory 3+ years in the pen – again, not for firing the weapon, only for carrying it!

I’ve wondered since all this took place whether the recent Heller v. DC decision will allow such a law to stand.  Admission – I haven’t looked into all the facts surrounding the case, and trust me, facts matter in legal proceedings and nothing is as it appears.  So, more and more details will tell the tale of what really happened, but assuming nothing substantial changes, is the law prohibiting carrying a concealed and loaded weapon a constitutional?  Sure, the Heller decision did not strike down all gun laws, but it definitely made them challengable.

To my knowledge, Mr. Burress is not a convict, minor or incompetent.  He didn’t carrying the gun into a courthouse, airport, train station, post office, church, bank, or even school.  He simply carried a gun into a night club.  Do those facts make NYC’s law arbitrary, capricious or a little over the top?  Our dear Justice Scalia, I think, would have a field day with this one.

We’ll see, and it will be interesting to find out if one of the NFL’s most notables will be the next 2nd Amendment hero.

Stay tuned…

You may have heard that the newly elected Democratic Congress wants to make one of its first priorities in January to strip workers of the right to vote by secret ballot whether to unionize. It is called the Card Check Bill. Union bosses want to know who votes against them, because that way, they can lobby, bribe, coerce, bully or threaten those voters with retribution if they don’t vote the union way. Union bosses can only survive with members, and for years, unions have been losing members in mass. Unions are livid that they have not organized Wal-Mart or the new car manufacturers across the South. They promise job security and great benefits. Unfortunately, they don’t tell their members that only the unions’ survival matters – not the worker’s. They will shut a plant down in a second rather than giving in to management’s demands for reasonable collective bargaining terms.

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