Outside the Beltway

Will the massacre of twenty children in a Connecticut elementary school mark a turning point in America’s gun culture? Don’t count on it.

..because apparently we can apply a modern definition of “arms” to the constitution, but not modern understandings of the word “citizens.”

Chief Justice Roberts: “Although the breadth of Congress’s power to tax is greater than its power to regulate commerce, the taxing power does not give Congress the same degree of control over individual behavior.”

Ron Paul’s opposition to the Fourteenth Amendment would make a Paul Administration an enemy of civil liberties.

Mitt Romney is still being dogged by charges of changed positions. Now, he’s trying to spin that as a good thing.

A new look at Clarence Thomas’s 20 years on the Supreme Court, from a critic, is surprisingly positive.

What’s a little thing like freedom of speech when there are shops being looted and burned?

Is it reasonable to state that countries with less guns are more likely to become tyrannical than countries with more guns?

The Supreme Court resolved a 100+ year old Constitutional ambiguity today, but the legal issues surrounding gun control remain as murky as ever.