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Sarah Palin tells Jay Leno she will continue to jot notes on here hand. You gotta give this women credit for not backing away from an issue the libs used to make her appear much less than intelligent. Rather than ducking she takes it head on and effectively turns it to her advantage. Remember "all wee wee'd up?" Keep us laughing with you Sarah!

It could be a very good year in America as five Supreme Court Justices are lined up behind the Second Amendment, or a citizens right to bear arms. This issue has been a political football for years and it seems that perhaps, and hopefully once and for all the Supreme Court puts it to rest. Some excerpts from todays Los Angeles Times. Reporting from Washington - Most of the Supreme Court justices who two years ago said the 2nd Amendment protects individual gun rights signaled during arguments Tuesday that they are ready to extend this right nationwide and to use it to strike down some state and local gun regulations. Indeed good news for American sportsmen and all law abiding citizen concerned about protecting themselves and their homes against criminal activities against their person or property. More. Since 1982, Chicago has outlawed handguns in the city, even for law-abiding residents who sought to keep one at home. That ordinance was challenged by sever...

Rational Nation USA is in the process of evolving, and as such is devoting the time this week to put into place the changes envisioned over the past five months. Posting will likely be spotty this week as the changes require time with Rational Nation USA's site re-designer and web consultant. We ask your understanding and patience as we put the final touches to this weeks "transition" and roll out. Rational Nation USA's vision is to evolve into a sight that all can find value and insight. While the publisher remains, as always, the "independent" conservative, the vision for the site is to be one where political opinions and discourse runs the spectrum of political ideas. As always Rational Nation USA is committed to rational, reasoned, and thoughtful discourse. Disrespectful or vulgar comments will continue to  be met with the swift and decisive "delete key" without comment. More later this week.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.    Calvin Coolidge   Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.    Herbert Hoover   Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.    Ronald Reagan Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.    George Washington I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to b...