First of all, i appoligize for not writing more frequently.  As some of you know we are currently in Iraq, and we are getting ready to go home.  Things are a bit crazy.

I used to read the Helena Independent Record on a daily basis in Iraq via their website, helenair.com.  Recently i’ve noticed some things that i really don’t like about them.

First of all after their last web master left, some of the pages don’t update.  I don’t know if it’s my fault, but pages from days ago will load up and not show the current news.  And naturally if you email the web master now you get no response.  Plus the buttons don’t work the way they are supposed to.  Whenever a “professional” website looks like ass, i lose some respect for the organization.

Secondly Lee Enterprises is a very liberal organization.  The IR did a mediocre job before of having some even reporting.  However recently even the tonality of the reporters has been slanted to left.  Journalist are supposed to act as impartial watchdogs for government and society, not as cheerleaders.  It’s been exceedingly horrible the last few years, and the IR has bought into it.

Third they are now censoring conservative opinions on their website.  Several members on there have informed me they are banned from posting.  I have noticed that the last several comments i have left on their website have not be “approved” by the moderator to be posted.  I really hate hypocrites that choose to allow only some people post, and not others.

Needless to say, i will no longer support Lee Enterprises or the Helena IR.  And as long as other people begin to see this, they’ll notice their subscriptions falling off.  Then they’ll go the way of the other great liberal newspapers and fail as a business.

Good riddance.

My homies at the Heritage Foundation are spot on it.  I won’t even try to claim this as my own idea, but i want to regurgitate it out to my few people that read me.  I’ll make sure to add my natural flare.

As the more fair media outlets are reporting, Elena Kagan has a very slim track record for a person being recommended for the Supreme Court.  She’s been in judicial posts since at least the ’80s, but she has never actually been a judge.  So how can the Senate accurately vet someone for a position that has no formal opinions?

Well they have to dig.  Maybe they can use their millions of dollars and hundreds of lackeys and summer interns to pour over her papers.  At least one journalist, James Oliphant from the LA Times was able drudge up that she drafted an executive order during her time working for Clinton that restricted the importation of certain semiautomatic rifle types.

There are several other reports of her comments being anti-gun.  She worked on another executive order that required federal law enforcement officials to lock up their guns.  She is also cited as saying she had no love or care for a man who was alleging that his 2nd Amendment rights were being violated.

Kagan herself commented on a book that she believes it is the duty of the Senate to properly vet candidates.  We’ll see if she lives up to that promise.

I do however have a slight glimmer of hope.  She has proven to be slightly bi-partisan.  Perhaps she won’t be another Obama lackey…you know..actually doing the separation of the branches of government.  Honestly though, i’m sure she’ll fall right into the democrat party line.

However for the news for people who believe in their civil rights, specifically for their individual right to keep and bear arms, is bad.