Posted By Russ Emerson on November 13, 2003 at 7:40 pm
My garage is full of power tools, but they’re all woodworking tools.
I have to get my hands on some metal-machining tools now, of course. Because now I can make one of these:
It seems that, in a rare moment of lucidity, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the “commerce clause” of the Constitution means what it says — that activities not considered to be interstate commerce cannot be outlawed by Congress.
Like, for instance, owning a homemade machine gun. (Article
here, PDF of the court’s decision
here.)
[Yes, yes, I know — decisions of the Ninth Circuit don’t apply to North Carolina. Just this once, though, I wish they did. And man, oh man, I loved my M-60 — the best firearm Uncle Sam ever issued to me.]
Via
Instapundit.
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Posted By Russ Emerson on November 13, 2003 at 4:31 pm
The Dallas Morning News editorial page opines on PFC Jessica Lynch — “she suffered for us.”
That she did, and God bless that brave woman. But to paraphrase Gen. George S. Patton, wars are not won by suffering for your country; wars are won by making the enemy suffer for his country. It is dismaying to see soldiers who do the “dirty work” of war shunted to the side, while we immortalize a noble victim. A culture that lacks the stomach to honor its blood-stained warriors, men who do the killing necessary to defend it, is in trouble.
[Emphasis mine.]
After what she endured, is she a “hero”? I tend to think not — she is, rather, a survivor — but she is worthy, at the very minimum, of a great deal of respect for putting herself in harm’s way on our behalf.
[Via Rod Dreher in NRO’s The Corner.]
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