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Filibusters, Gun Control, and Jafsie

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In all the excitement over the Judicial ruling that President Obama exceeded his authority with some recess appointments, the Journalists commenting on the sensational development seem to have missed a partisan implication question.   Will the Republicans use that decision as the grounds for starting impeachment proceedings against the President they love to hate?

Speaking of gun control, Zorn reports that Col Lindbergh was armed when he accompanied Dr. Condon when the doctor went to pay the ransom money and that the famous flyer noticed a fellow (who most likely knew that the Lindbergh baby was dead and that the ransom transaction was a fraud) walking away from the rendezvous location.   If (subjunctive mood) Col. Lindbergh had shot that person in the back, would he have been exonerated for an act of vigilante justice or would he have been convicted of murder by a jury of gun control advocates?   Just asking.

It will soon be the fiftieth anniversary of the time when Lee Harvey Oswald said to journalists:   "I'm a patsy."

Now the disk jockey will play Johnny Cash's "The Long Black Veil," Merle Haggard's "I'm the only Hell my mama ever raised," and the Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley."   We have to go buy a "Go Niners!" T-shirt.   Have a Lombardi Trophy winning type week.

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