How gun rights examinations inform Capital “L” Liberty

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  May 5th at 11:49 AM  | 

A confession of a 2000 conservative convert: I have never owned a gun and, until recently, had never been particularly animated by gun rights debates. Don’t get me wrong, I have always favored the inalienable right to own a firearm for self defense and survival (hunting before and after Kroger) and always believed that the Second Amendment protected an individual right and not just a | Read More »

DeVine Examiner declares N.C. for President-Elect

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 21st at 01:13 PM  | 

Paint it Blue! North Carolina may Now and only now, be “declared” for the President-Elect. Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com Incompetence or subterfuge by the Associated Press in their “reporting” on the counting of the presidential election votes in North Carolina? It’s obvious to this former trial lawyer that a competent cross-examination would find then | Read More »

Tortured logic on Gitmo Military Tribunals

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  November 11th at 02:35 PM  | 

Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine, in Examiner.com Last August, Osama bin Laden’s former driver was sentenced to just five and a half years in prison for providing material support for Al Qaeda in the first trial of a terror suspect by a Special Military Commission (SMC) at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Salim Hamdan, who could have received 30 years to life, appeared healthy in his | Read More »