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Justice Kennedy thinks D.C. residents need protection—from grizzlies. Is the D.C. gun law constitutional? With all due respect to those who complain that the justices on the Supreme Court are too secretive, and for those who wish, perhaps, that David Souter was more like David "West Side Days Inn" Paterson, oral argument today in District of Columbia v. Heller offers up a bounty of alarming personal revelations. [SNIP] Dellinger replies that the handgun ban is only on "one kind of weapon that's considered especially dangerous," to which Roberts retorts, "So if you have a law that prohibits the possession of...

When Wii hit last fall, one of my coworkers considered canceling his YMCA membership and working out with Wii Sports instead. While some people were working out with Wii and getting good results, I wasn't convinced that Nintendo could replace a good old-fashion gym membership, no matter how much Wii Sports boxing made me sweat. At E3 on Wednesday, Nintendo kicked it up a notch when Mario creator and all-around gaming god Shigeru Miyamoto introduced Wii Fit, the game that "turns the living room into a fitness center for the whole family," Nintendo says, utilizing an innovative new Wii Balance...

The Greensboro Police Department said in a statement Wednesday they would have no further role in investigating a fight this month at Guilford College. Since charges were taken out at the magistrate's office and police were not called to the scene by the alleged victims, the accused or college administrators, police said the matter will have to be handled in the courts. "After careful review of this case and consultation with the Guilford County District Attorney's Office, no evidence was found at this time that would allow the Greensboro Police Department to proceed any further in this investigation," the police...

DURHAM - A Durham police detective investigating the Duke University lacrosse case arrested an alibi witness Wednesday on a 2 1/2-year-old misdemeanor warrant. Taxi driver Moezeldin Elmostafa said Investigator R.D. Clayton and another officer asked whether he had anything new to tell them about the rape case before driving him to the Durham County jail. He said no and was held for five hours, until a friend posted his bail on a shoplifting charge. Ernest Conner, a Greenville lawyer who represents defendant Reade Seligmann, said the cabbie's arrest amounted to intimidation. "It appears to me they are trying to pressure...

Police trying to piece together why a gun was stored in a family's couch and how it ended up in a three-year-old's hands. According to police the boy found the gun in it's hiding place in the couch. When the boy's mother saw her son with the gun she took it from him, removed the clip, and put the gun back in the couch not knowing it was still loaded. "The three year-old picked up the gun and fired it - there was a round still in the chamber - striking the mother in the knee," St. Paul Police Officer...

After advising dieters for years to satisfy their hunger with liberal amounts of steak, eggs and other saturated fats, the promoters of the Atkins diet now say people on their plan should limit the amount of red meat and saturated fat they eat. Atkins representatives say that Atkins, who died last year, always maintained that people should eat other food besides red meat, but he had difficulty getting that message out. There has been a revision in expressing how to follow the diet, not in the diet itself, they say. But officials have not made the revision clear to consumers,...

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Who’s Right on Second? Living, breathing decisions. By Eugene Volokh Someone asked me a few days ago, after the Ninth Circuit's latest decision about the Second Amendment: Shouldn't courts read the Second Amendment as part of an evolving Constitution? Say the Ninth Circuit was wrong, last year's Emerson decision from the Fifth Circuit was right, and the Framers thought of the Amendment as securing an individual right. Shouldn't judges update it due to the passage of time, based on evolving standards of justice and practicality? 1. Well, here's one way to justify this position: The Second Amendment as written was...

As you know, Jesus’s old neighborhood is kind of dangerous with those Palestinians killing people. Concealed carry is a must now days. If Jesus were there today what would he carry? How about his disciples? I think he would carry a “junk gun” because he was not into higher priced luxury items.