The US Supreme Court on Monday extended the constitutional protection of the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms to every jurisdiction in the nation.

The action places in serious doubt the constitutionality of a handgun ban in Chicago, and sets the stage for more legal challenges to an array of tough gun-control laws across the United States.

The 5-to-4 decision means that in addition to the federal government, state and local governments must comply with the high court’s 2008 landmark ruling recognizing an individual right to possess handguns in the home for self defense.

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If you been reading this blog for any period of time, you know I like to dig out stories of interest that don’t make the National headlines, although maybe they should have.

This report involves a teacher in California, that pointed out a picture drawn of the U.S. flag was offensive. In the same class she praises another student for their drawing of Barrack Obama.

Better watch and protect your kids folks! A place where we once thought our children were safe is all too much turning out to be a field of immature adults who are exactly the opposite. This California teacher should be fired and replaced with a teacher who is teaching the class vs running an agenda.

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Who is Elena Kagan?
The solicitor general could become the fourth woman to sit on the Supreme Court.

I will monitor the Kagan nomination for its implications on the Constitution and our liberties.

ABC News’ Terry Moran reports on the solicitor general’s background.
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On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galli and his four friends would not even be noticed for wearing T-shirts with the American flag. But Cinco de Mayo is not any typical day especially on a campus with a large Mexican American student population.

Galli says he and his friends were sitting at a table during brunch break when the vice principal asked two of the boys to remove American flag bandannas that they wearing on their heads and for the others to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out. When they refused, the boys were ordered to go to the principal’s office.

“They said we could wear it on any other day,” Daniel Galli said, “but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it’s supposed to be their holiday so we were not allowed to wear it today.”

The boys said the administrators called their T-shirts “incendiary” that would lead to fights on campus.

So what do you think? Freedom of expression or cultural disrespect on Cinco de Mayo?

Pay teachers lousy wages and this is what you get: people mad at the world who can only feel power when they are dealing with our children. And of course, the lesson learned by the “American” kids was that Latinos get a free ride because of their minority status. This is just another example of political correctness gone amok by the left.

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The National Day of Prayer, honored in the United States for more than a half-century, is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Wisconsin has ruled.

In a 66-page opinion issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb said the holiday violates the “establishment clause” of the First Amendment, which creates a separation of church and state.

The opinion comes in a case filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based group of self-described “atheists” and “agnostics.”

Crabb said her ruling is based on “relevant case law,” and it does not prevent religious groups from organizing prayer services or prevent the President from discussing his views on prayer.

“The only issue decided in this case is that the federal government may not endorse prayer in a statute,” Crabb said.

The Justice Department would not say whether it expects to appeal Crabb’s ruling.

“We are reviewing the court’s decision,” a Justice Department spokesman said.

Within hours of the ruling, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee urged the Justice Department to “immediately” file an appeal.

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