I won­der if it’s legal to shoot your neigh­bors and then claim self defense on the grounds that they were try­ing to kill you with sleep deprivation?

From the August 2010 issue of Rea­son Mag­a­zine:

“It’s a dou­ble stan­dard,” Akram Allos, owner of Sin­bad Café in Dear­born, com­plained to the Detroit Free Press. “Just because we didn’t have a lob­by­ist, why should we have to suffer?”

That is why you have to suf­fer, Mr. Allos. Wel­come to the land of the fee and the home of the slave.

California’s Gay Mar­riage Ban Over­turned.

Today a fed­eral judge in Cal­i­for­nia
over­turned that state’s ban on gay mar­riage, rul­ing that it
vio­lates the 14^th Amendment’s com­mand that no state may “deny to
any per­son within its juris­dic­tion the equal pro­tec­tion of the
laws.” In response to a law­suit filed by sev­eral same-sex cou­ples,
U.S. Dis­trict Judge Vaughn Walker con­cluded that Propo­si­tion 8, a
2008 bal­lot ini­tia­tive that amended California’s con­sti­tu­tion to
pro­hibit gay mar­riage, “uncon­sti­tu­tion­ally bur­dens the exer­cise of
the fun­da­men­tal right to marry and cre­ates an irra­tional
clas­si­fi­ca­tion on the basis of sex­ual orientation.”

[Hit and Run]

It’s pretty rare for the 14^th Amend­ment to be enforced. I sus­pect that if this case had involved any sig­nif­i­cant restraint on gov­ern­ment power, the out­come would have been different.

These peo­ple are so crooked they screw their socks on in the morning…

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