New legal era for Second Amendment
June 29, 2008
From the Wall Street Journal:
Sphere: Related ContentWhether or not a well regulated militia remains necessary to the security of a free state, as the second amendment to the U.S. Constitution declares, it isn’t the compelling motive behind the constitutional right of the people to keep and bear arms. That, in effect, is what a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court ruled yesterday, clearing up a constitutional ambiguity as old as the Bill of Rights and at the heart of more contemporary debates over how the U.S. should deal with the biggest epidemic of gun violence among the world’s industrial democracies.
Model, Korshunova, jumps to death in Manhattan
June 29, 2008
From Associated Press:
Sphere: Related ContentA European Vogue cover model fell to her death from her Manhattan apartment building Saturday in an apparent suicide, published reports said. Ruslana Korshunova, 20, died around 2:30 p.m. in a fall from a building on Water Street, in Manhattan’s Financial District.
Israel has a year to destroy Iran’s nuke program
June 29, 2008
From the London Telegraph:
Sphere: Related ContentA former head of Mossad has warned that Israel has 12 months in which to destroy Iran’s nuclear programme or risk coming under nuclear attack itself. He also hinted that Israel might have to act sooner if Barack Obama wins the US presidential election.
ElBaradei to quit IAEA if Israel Strikes Iran
June 21, 2008
‘Ball of fire’ if Iran attacked: IAEA chief
Sphere: Related Content…[He] warned that he would not be able to continue in his role as International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general should the Islamic republic be attacked. His stark comments came as Iran stressed yet again that it will not negotiate with world powers over its nuclear programme if it is required to suspend its controversial uranium enrichment.
Liberals in Canada to shift emissions tax to reduce income tax
June 21, 2008
From the Montreal Gazette:
“A Liberal government would tax carbon dioxide emissions at $10 a tonne in the first year and up to $40 a tonne within four years. It estimates that by the fourth year revenue would reach $15 billion. That money would be reimbursed to Canadians through corporate and personal tax cuts so that the carbon tax remains ‘revenue neutral.’”Sphere: Related Content
