Good news: SCOTUS says 2nd Amendment means you can have guns federally without outright bans. Bad news: Four lib members disagreed.
More bad news: Kagan will provide them the 5th vote next time.o
Sorry,  I corrected that assertion on the air but not on the blog and alert 5th Listener Dave Lister called my attention to it.
Still the point is that four justices voted against using the 14th amendment to confer second amendment rights. Sad.
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The decision is HERE.

Did you see THIS op ed in the Zero? Here’s an  excerpt from a piece by a man named Jim Crawford about the plundering of private property continuing unabated even after the Dorothy English smack down from the Oregon Supreme Court.
Crawford writes that in much the same way Portland stole land from owners to appropriate Forest Park (making it too expensive to continue to own) and how Multnomah County and Metro did the same against Dorothy English, planning poobahs are doing the same thing in NW Portland:

These demands have become so extreme for the North Bethany area that some estimates of the SDCs exceed $1 million per acre, which is about double what the land might have been worth at the peak of the housing market.
The concept planning and zoning process has been even more abusive for the landowners of Bonnie Slope. After refusing to even begin the process for many, Multnomah County and the city of Portland and their hired consultants produced a collection of maps and studies that were inaccurate and misleading. Much of this misinformation has since been corrected after one of the landowners hired his own consultants to rebut it. But the bureaucrats and policy-makers — aided and abetted by activists from groups such as the Friends of Forest Park, Outer Northwest Neighborhood Association and the Bicycle Transportation Alliance — have dominated the concept planning and zoning process.

An astonishing quote from Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, pertaining to the Finance Reform bill currently before Congress. Democrats again, leaving Republicans out of the process, are advancing with some 2,000 pages of legislation that Obama could sign next week, providing it passes.

Said Dodd, “It’s a great moment. I’m proud to have been here. No one will know until this is actually in place how it works. But we believe we’ve done something that has been needed for a long time.”

“No one will know how it works until it is actually in place?” Yet, it’s a “great moment” and “something that has been needed for a long time?”

Washington Post

Wall Street Journal

Even more astonishing, if not downright laughable, is Obama’s words on the legislation of “making the financial system more transparent and safe.”

Shouldn’t he first make his administration more “transparent and safe” to the American people?

Pathetic. Both of them, actually. Nevada: Don’t fall for it.

An astonishing quote from Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, pertaining to the Finance Reform bill currently before Congress. Democrats again, leaving Republicans out of the process, are advancing with some 2,000 pages of legislation that Obama could sign next week, providing it passes.

Said Dodd, “It’s a great moment. I’m proud to have been here. No one will know until this is actually in place how it works. But we believe we’ve done something that has been needed for a long time.”

“No one will know how it works until it is actually in place?” Yet, it’s a “great moment” and “something that has been needed for a long time?”

Washington Post

Wall Street Journal

Even more astonishing, if not downright laughable, is Obama’s words on the legislation of “making the financial system more transparent and safe.”

Shouldn’t he first make his administration more “transparent and safe” to the American people?

Pathetic. Both of them, actually. Nevada: Don’t fall for it.

Victoria Taft Photo

Victoria Taft Photo

Victoria Taft Photo

I had an appointment today near PGE Park and then later I went loping–no one seriously could call what I was doing running–and I found evidence. The evidence is that Portland’s weirdos are sending a serious message that they don’t trust or like the cops. Period. The Portland Police Officers Association was vandalized again overnight (here).The general lawlessness tolerated in Portland contributes to that attitude. I’ve spoken about it before many times but recently here. The upshot is that if you tolerate the little stuff the big stuff follows. See the broken windows theory of policing here.