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Select CHEESE: The Overall Celebratory, Mildly-Obsessive Edition
Maybe it’s just the holiday weekend obscuring my judgment, but it seems like there’s been a more celebratory tone in the community as of late. If true, the appropriate deduction is that freedom is spreading and our values are becoming more popular.
Let’s examine…
Firstly, the obvious. In District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court affirmed an individual’s (as opposed to just the collective) right to keep and bear arms. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Defense Mechanism, the point person for all-things-2nd Amendment, was first on the scene. Of course, I have to give it up to The Midnight Ride, who had a comprehensive four part series – yes: 1, 2, 3, 4 – on the matter. Check ‘em out.
Secondly, the “millionaire’s amendment” – a campaign-finance loophole that gives candidates running against self-funding millionaires the ability to raise more money – was invalidated by SCOTUS. In Campaign Finance Laws Suck, The Midnight Ride recognizes the goodness of said decision. But hey – you know it, I know it, he knows it – the battle doesn’t end there:
What SHOULD happen is we should just eliminate all campaign finance laws and let people give however much they want to whoever they want. I mean really this country was founded on principles of liberty, why shouldn’t people be free to give what they want to who they want?
Thirdly, there exists A Powerful, Freethinking Woman-Unlike Hillary Clinton! Any guesses on who the woman in question is? Anyone, anyone? Standard of Living gives us the answer: Alaskan governor Sarah Palin. Yes, a surprisingly vocal grassroots campaign to get a McCain/Palin ticket has erupted on the internet and, as I’ve come to learn, Blogivists is not the exception. Many of you guys, in fact, are actively producing the buzz. The Midnight Ride even changed his tagline to read “Sarah Palin: Yes She Can”. Bordering on the mildly obsessive if you ask me…be sure to ask him when the release date for “I Got a Crush…On Palin” is.
Granted, not all news can be good news. The Illinois-centric Pork Report, with their daily Pork Barrel Project of the Day thread, has plenty of headache-inducing, non-good news.
But, allow me, for one day, to willfully ignore the bad and celebrate the good. You do know what qualifies as good and what as evil, correct?
