<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" version="2.0"><channel><title>Silvercat's Lair Articles - Brought to you by JoeUser</title><link>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/rss/articles</link><copyright>© 2006 - 2008 Stardock Corporation. All rights reserved.</copyright><description>An internet diary</description><language>en-us</language><pubDate>2008-08-08T00:41:27</pubDate><lastBuildDate>2008-08-08T00:41:27</lastBuildDate><docs>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html</docs><generator>Stardock Rss Generator v1.0, Andrew Powell</generator><managingEditor>info@stardock.com</managingEditor><webMaster>apowell@stardock.com</webMaster><item><author>IanTyger</author><comments>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/316470</comments><description><![CDATA[At roughly 1015&nbsp;hrs EDT, the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the lower court ruling and struck down&nbsp;the&nbsp;unconstitutional ban on ownership of handguns and functional firearms in Washington DC. This decision is "the end of the beginning" for supporters of the 2nd amendment - it states that the 2nd amendment recognizes a pre-existing natural right to self-defense and that handgun ownership is a primary method to exercise that right.<br/><br/>The opinion itself is full of high-g...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/316470</guid><link>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/316470</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:41:27 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-08T00:41:27</pubDateParsed><title>Heller decided</title></item><item><author>IanTyger</author><comments>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/316294</comments><description><![CDATA[No decision on Heller today - The Chief Justice has announced from the courtroom that the Court will issue all of its remaining opinions tomorrow at 10 a.m. Eastern.<br/><br/>To quote Susan Ivanova - "No boom today. Boom tomorrow."]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/316294</guid><link>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/316294</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:41:27 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-08T00:41:27</pubDateParsed><title>Heller postponed</title></item><item><author>IanTyger</author><comments>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/314794</comments><description><![CDATA[As long as a man with a vasectomy can civilly marry a woman with a hysterectomy - both of them divorced atheists - I can see no reason to prevent gays from marrying civilly and enjoying all the rights, privileges, &amp; responsibilities as the first couple.<br/><br/>Discuss politely, please]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/314794</guid><link>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/314794</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:41:27 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-08T00:41:27</pubDateParsed><title>Gay Marriage</title></item><item><author>IanTyger</author><comments>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/304565</comments><description><![CDATA[Today Alan Gura et al. will be responding to Washington DC's petition to overturn the lower court decision that DC's ban on functional firearms and posession of handguns is an unreasonable infringement on the individual right to keep and bear arms recognized in the Second Amendment of the US Constitution under a Strict Scrutiny Standard of Review.<br/><br/>I can't be there, all I can do is pray that the justices can read and parse plain english.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/304565</guid><link>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/304565</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:41:27 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-08T00:41:27</pubDateParsed><title>The roller coaster is at the top</title></item><item><author>IanTyger</author><comments>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/302669</comments><description><![CDATA[In the comments to my previous article on the Rights of Man, this was posted by Locamama:<br/><br/>So you think that healthcare is a priviledge?&nbsp; I'm not talking about fake boobies and viagara, I mean basic healthcare?&nbsp; I'm one of those leftist wannabe socialists who thinks that basic healthcare is a right.&nbsp;<br/><br/>Healthcare is indeed a privilege; it is not a right possessed by the "lonely man". It is a privilege because in the end you must force another person to work for you, therefore i...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/302669</guid><link>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/302669</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:41:27 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-08T00:41:27</pubDateParsed><title>Rights vs privileges</title></item><item><author>IanTyger</author><comments>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/301006</comments><description><![CDATA[So everyone is "eulogizing" Fidel Castro right now (regardless of his actual status, it is clear his time on the stage of the world is at an end. I was reading the comments to Armed Liberal's post on the subject; and ran across a lovely comment by Celebrim (in response to an earlier comment that the US has not realized "health care is a human right.")<br/><br/>I propose a simple test for human rights. Human rights are those things that a man would possess were he the only person on the Earth. They are...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/301006</guid><link>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/301006</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:41:27 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-08T00:41:27</pubDateParsed><title>The Rights of Man</title></item><item><author>IanTyger</author><comments>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/177844</comments><description><![CDATA[The military will attempt to shoot down a crippled spy satellite some time in the next two weeks, says the New York Times. OF course, the reasons given are pretty good ones (public safety, etc). But, methinks they protest too much when they say &quot;the Pentagon said that they were not using the exercise to test their most exotic weapons or send a message to any adversaries.&quot; (Emphasis mine)<br/><br/>Anything the US Military does sends a message - and as far as messages go this one isn't too bad...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/177844</guid><link>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/177844</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:41:27 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-08T00:41:27</pubDateParsed><title>A reminder to the world</title></item><item><author>IanTyger</author><comments>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/175209</comments><description><![CDATA[I pushed the button for Thompson, who the NYTimes is reporting with 0.6% of the vote in NJ (not too shabby). I was also incorrect in my estimate that Romney would take NJ - NYtimes is estimating 55% to McCain - so my message doesn't seem to have hurt McCain's chances...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/175209</guid><link>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/175209</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:41:27 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-08T00:41:27</pubDateParsed><title>Message sent</title></item><item><author>IanTyger</author><comments>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/174195</comments><description><![CDATA[New Jersey is now a Super Tuesday state, and all of the candidates are still on the ballot<br/><br/>So on the democratic part is (and in order from left to right - I wonder how place on ballot is assigned)<br/>Barak Obama - Dennis Kucinich - John Edwards - Joe Biden - Bill Richardson - Hillary Clinton<br/><br/>On the Republican part is<br/>Rudy Giuliani - Fred Thompson - Mitt Romney - John McCain - Ron Paul - Mike Huckabee<br/><br/>Names are as spelled on the ballot.<br/><br/>I'm taking the opportunity to send a message - th...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/174195</guid><link>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/174195</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:41:27 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-08T00:41:27</pubDateParsed><title>Sending a message</title></item><item><author>IanTyger</author><comments>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/173989</comments><description><![CDATA[I have just six words to tell all of you who want to let your &quot;silence&quot; be heard by the Republicans<br/><br/>	Supreme Court Justice William Jefferson Clinton<br/><br/>Sweet dreams...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/173989</guid><link>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/173989</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:41:27 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-08T00:41:27</pubDateParsed><title>Six words</title></item><item><author>IanTyger</author><comments>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/173546</comments><description><![CDATA[I'm rifffing on Megan again - but she has an interestingcomment about the Democratic debates today.<br/><br/>	"I look at that debate and it seems to me that Democrats think they can't 	lose in November--that the only important battle is the one for the 	nomination."<br/><br/>I find that interesting, because I know for a fact this is true of New York City (It's the reason Mayor Bloomberg ran as a Republican), and suspect it's true of much of Illinois. In areas that are heavily dominated by one party, as both...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/173546</guid><link>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/173546</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:41:27 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-08T00:41:27</pubDateParsed><title>Democratic attack debate</title></item><item><author>IanTyger</author><comments>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/173012</comments><description><![CDATA[One thing that bugs me about Libertarians (and many libertarians) is their fetish for gold. Megan McArdle takes a shot at explaining some of the things that bug me (economically) about the gold standardhere andhere. In particular, the gold standard seems to be a solution for a symptom instead of the underlying disease. That disease, of course, being, an untrustworthy government. As Megan says:<br/><br/>	&nbsp;&quot;In short, you don't get anything out of a gold standard that you 	didn't bring with you...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/173012</guid><link>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/173012</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:41:27 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-08T00:41:27</pubDateParsed><title>Gold bugs me</title></item><item><author>IanTyger</author><comments>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/172831</comments><description><![CDATA[I have decided that Amicus Curiae is latin for kitbitzers]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/172831</guid><link>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/172831</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:41:27 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-08T00:41:27</pubDateParsed><title>Funny thought</title></item><item><author>IanTyger</author><comments>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/172830</comments><description><![CDATA[The DOJ brief lit the fuse that the SCOTUS tried to quench with their limited definition of the question at hand. What' at the other end of that fuse nobody knows (except possibly Justice Kennedy)...<br/><br/>	DC asked the Supreme Court to decide &quot;Whether the Second Amendment 	forbids the District of Columbia from banning private possession of handguns 	while allowing possession of rifles and shotguns.&quot;<br/><br/>	Heller asked &quot;Whether the Second Amendment guarantees law-abiding, adult 	indivi...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/172830</guid><link>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/172830</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:41:27 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-08T00:41:27</pubDateParsed><title>Thoughts on strange briefs</title></item><item><author>IanTyger</author><comments>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/172562</comments><description><![CDATA[I just ran across a literal case of damning with faint praise in a comment onMegan McArdle's blog at the Atlantic.<br/><br/>	Why are you Obama supporters so depressed? I know he's a great speaker -- 	I haven't seen a crowd in the palm of any speaker's hand like that since &quot;Triumph 	of The Will&quot; -- but as a practical matter, there is hardly any policy 	difference between Hillary and Obama. He's maybe 5% more liberal than her. 	Is style more important to you than substance? - Posted by Fred |	...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/172562</guid><link>http://ianargent.joeuser.com/article/172562</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:41:27 -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-08T00:41:27</pubDateParsed><title>Damning with faint praise</title></item></channel></rss>