In the past few weeks, watchers of the Supreme Court noted several seemingly ridiculous decisions that were all-out power grabs by the top court in the land:

• They determined that Congress cannot make immigration laws, nor can the Executive branch enforce them (Dada v. Mukasey)
• They determined that the Executive branch cannot perform its Constitutionally-mandated job of making war, by saying that enemy combatants are afforded the same rights as United States citizens (Boumediene v. Bush)
• They determined that states do not have the right to determine the use the death penalty against people convicted of child rape (Kennedy v. Louisiana)

WASHINGTON (AP) - Silent on central questions of gun control for two centuries, the Supreme Court found its voice Thursday in a decision affirming the right to have guns for self-defense in the home and addressing a constitutional riddle almost as old as the republic over what it means to say the people may keep and bear arms.

The court’s 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns and imperiled similar prohibitions in other cities, Chicago and San Francisco among them. Federal gun restrictions, however, were expected to remain largely intact.

First S.2433, now this:

Sens. Diane Feinstein D-Calif. and Mel Martinez R-Fla. authored a bill with 11 co-sponsors, including Sen. Barack Obama that was incorporated into a housing bill passed by the Senate Banking Committee 19-2 before the Memorial Day recess — a bill that creates a national fingerprint registry.

The outcry from the the mainstream media here in the United States — the very same people who complained about our privacy and liberties in the wake of the news that the NSA was listening in on phone calls involving known terror suspects — is where? Their silence is deafening.

Barack Obama is showing us through his actions exactly who he is. But are we paying attention?

You need to make your voice known. Use The Mailbox to contact your senators. Tell them since it is an affront to liberty and privacy, vote “no” on the SAFE Mortgage Licensing Act (S. 2595). And monitor the progress of this bill in our Action Center.

Just a brief update:

We’ve (finally) added three new links to our main navigation: The Jury Box, The Ammo Box, and Contact.

The Jury Box contains a brief summary about why you should serve on jury duty if selected, and one of the most important roles a jury can play in the preservation of liberties: jury nullification. There are links describing what jury nullification is, as well as some other informative links. Be sure to bookmark this page and share it with others who you know get selected for jury duty.

The Ammo Box has an explanation of our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, a list of duties for all citizens, as well as links to several important web sites. Be sure to check this out, especially since all three presidential candidates have varying degrees of animosity toward your Second Amendment rights.

The Contact form is self-explanatory. If you have a news article you’d like us to cover, or if you have some inside information you’d like us to report on, please drop us a line. We will hold your identity private if you wish, but we do ask that if you send us anything other than a link to an article on a web page that you provide us your real name and email address so we can contact you with any questions.

Finally, we’ve added a two more federal bills to watch to our Action Center. We’ll be covering them both in the upcoming days.

In Liberty,
– The Publisher