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NEW ORLEANS - President Bush visited New Orleans today in his third trip to the hurricane devastated region and met with firefighters, including a group from New York on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.Bush, on a two-day visit to the Gulf Coast area, was scheduled to do his most extensive tour so far of the interior of the city since it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina two weeks ago.His arrival coincided with the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack, the other major disaster on U.S. soil that his administration has had to face.Bush visited a base...

It is really beyond belief what is happening in New Orleans! < http://media.putfile.com/NewOrleansGunConfiscationSmall > US Second Amendmend, states: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." We need to restore and enforce adherence to the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights as the supreme protective law for firearms of law-abiding people. I can't stand this kind of gross breach of Constitutional Law, presently in New Orleans.

Some of the Supreme Court justices who defied expectations of the presidents who appointed them: -Oliver Wendell Holmes, appointed by Republican Theodore Roosevelt in 1902, sided with businesses and voted against the president in a case challenging the Sherman Antitrust Act. Roosevelt reportedly said of Holmes afterward, ``Out of a banana I could carve a firmer backbone.'' -Felix Frankfurter, appointed by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939, became a strong advocate of judicial restraint, clashing with liberal members who sought an active court role in protecting minorities and monitoring fairness in the political process, such as legislative redistricting. -Earl Warren,...

<p>In 1787, the Founding Fathers forged a bulwark of freedom, the U.S. Constitution, with its Bill of Rights ratified in 1791. In 1878, British Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone called it "the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man," in an apparent try to distinguish it from the God-given Ten Commandments.</p>