A Chicago Blog

The Tribune ran an interesting piece yesterday by Jack Rakove. Rackove pointed out the rather unknown and interesting fact that both Scalia and Stevens referred to the intent of the founders when arguing their different positions on the DC gun ban.
Original intent arguments have always driven me a little insane. If there were but [...]

Another notch in Blagojevich’s belt.

Reader Dan asks why I haven’t commented on the Supreme Court Gun Decision. To which, I have absolutely no response. It is unacceptable. So here goes.
This decision is along time coming. City-wide gun bans are clear attack on 2nd Amendment rights. Period. Mayor Daley is vowing to “fight” attempts to invalidate the Chicago ban. In [...]

It appears Barack Obama is a beer drinker (PBR). Question is, what does McCain drink? Hmmm. He looks like a scotch on the rocks man to me. Thoughts?

Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Is ‘Totally Badass’
Hat Tip: Zack Christenson

From Hit & Run:
“I don’t think he’s ever had one,” Barr said. “He cannot run and hide from the fact that he is McCain of McCain-Feingold. How anybody whose signature piece of legislation is the most anti-freedom, anti-First Amendment piece of legislation passed in congress in generations, can, with a straight face, claim that they [...]

Bill Hogan’s laptop was seized as he was coming home from Germany. He didn’t get it back for two weeks. It was a spare. Bill wasn’t put out too much. Me. I’d be PISSED. I feel about my laptop, the way I imagine Charlton Heston felt about his 30 ot 6.

Just listened to a terrific presentation from the organizer of www.change-congress.org. While it was a terrific presentation, it’s just one more group obsessed with campaign finance reform. I say obsessed because they have a myopic focus on one simple equation.
Money=Influence (M=I)
Indeed, this equation is irrefutable. But it doesn’t just apply to Congress, it applies in [...]

Mapping the political blogosphere. Pretty neat.

Zephyr Teachout is talking about the decline of the American Association and quoting Tocqueville.
Americans of all ages, all conditions, all minds constantly unite. Not only do they have commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but they also have a thousand other kinds: religious, moral, grave, futile, very general and very particular, immense [...]