As we all know, Senator Obama owns his victory over Senator Clinton during the primaries to the left of the Democratic party;  AKA  the Progressive  Democrats.

They have they outlets in the form of the Daily Kos, Moveon.org, Code Pink etc, and a very specific agenda.

The core element of this political agenda is to end the war in Iraq. It is also to keep pushing for an impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, even so the timing of it would be ludicrous considering that the  Bush Administration is.....out of time.

After a hiatus of 69 years, the Supreme Court has ruled today on the meaning of the 2nd Amendment in the highly anticipated case of District of Columbia v. Heller. Not since 1939 has the Supreme Court heard a case testing the 2nd Amendment scope.

This is the ultimate question here: Does the 2nd Amendment guarantee an individual right to have a gun for private use, or does it only guarantee a collective right to have guns in an organized military force such as a state National Guard unit?

Today the US Supreme Court voted ( 5 to 4 ) to grant terrorism suspects held since 6 years , in Guantanamo Bay without  specific charges or trial, access to  Federal Courts in accordance to Habeas Corpus.

Justice Kennedy was the swing vote on the court.

Of course the conservatives on the Court ( Including the two Pres. Bush's nominees, Justice Roberts and Alito)were dissent votes on the case.

Senator McCain's reaction to the vote was very much in line with the one of  the Bush Administration.

LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Though he has been Chief Justice of the United States for nearly three years, John Roberts still seems to be a bit of a cipher. Yes, we know he's a conservative -- he wouldn't have the job he does today if a lot of well-placed people on the right didn't have a lot of trust in him. But I'm still not certain what that actually means for the court, and thus for the United States; I sense we still haven't seen a defining "Roberts Court" moment.

A couple of months ago, I suggested that Antonin Scalia's view of the Constitution allows you to torture people suspected of being terrorists -- but not people convicted of being terrorists. Jim Lakely, bless him, suggested that this only applied to foreign nationals who aren't protected by the Constitution -- so no worries, really.