Supreme Court Strikes Down D.C. Gun Ban, Upholds Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Associated Press
From: www.FoxNews.com

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.
The court’s 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment. [...]

Honoring the Man Who Designed the Pringles Can

Friday, June 06, 2008
By Greg Gutfeld

So last week, a true American hero passed away and the press barely said a word.
I am talking about Fredric J. Baur, the man who created the potato crisp packaging system for Pringles — otherwise known as “a can with a lid.”
This is the greatest [...]

Navy Shoots Down Ballistic Missile in Test Off Hawaii

HONOLULU (AP–From FoxNews) — The U.S. military intercepted a ballistic missile Thursday in the first such sea-based test since a Navy cruiser shot down an errant satellite earlier this year.
The military fired the target, a Scud-like missile with a range of a few hundred miles, from a decommissioned amphibious assault ship near Hawaii’s [...]

This N’ That

Steve Williams-Opinion Page Editor,

Victorville Daily Press
The U.S. Commerce Department predicted that the Gross National Product for the first quarter of the year would grow by .6 percent, but it didn’t; it grew by .9 percent.
Why is that noteworthy? Because the department underestimated the strength of the American economic system, and because it also belies [...]

Happy Birthday to All Those Born in June

One of the birthstones for June is the Moonstone.
Moonstone almost seems magical with a ghostly shimmering glow floating in a crystalline material. The Romans thought that moonstone was formed [...]