very interesting article

[bossy22]

http://www.theawl.com/2010/03/inconsistent-pleadings-liberals-dont-flip-out-over-mcdonald-v-chicago

A well-chewed bit of conventional wisdom holds that cultural conflagrations find no better accelerant than a Supreme Court opinion. Under this theory, smoldering social divisions explode into Samuel Pepys territory when the Court short circuits the democratic process and moves definitively to settle a social issue. Exhibit A is typically Roe v. Wade, which, in attempting to remove abortion from the realm of political controversy, instead visited upon us several decades of incessant yelling and pictorial craziness (think sonograms, bloody fetuses and snowflake babies).
This theory is about to get its biggest test in a while. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what will be, in all probability, the most important gun rights case ever. If the Court holds as expected, every state and local gun regulation will be subject to Constitutional challenge, and a recently-dormant wedge issue might reassume its place among gays and babies as a preeminent locus of social controversy. Only this time, the loudest yells might be coming from the left.......

[paulsby]

1. a civil rights case in "the birmingham of the North"

as MLK so aptly described chicago...

liberty will expand and local despots will be put in their place...

plus ca change...

[MineralMan]

2. Not interesting enough to have been posted twice, though...

[X_Digger]

3. Good simple explanation of incorporation..

My wife found this yesterday, and has been using it to explain McDonald on her livejournal political discussion group.

[PavePusher]

4. While it may be a good explaination...

it sure could have been a good bit less slanted and biased.

No blatent sterotypes in that article, so sir-eeee.... :sarcasm:

[X_Digger]

5. Agreed..

.. but it's hard to find a non-biased source on this issue.