By John Lott Published June 28, 2010 FOXNews.com With another closely decided 5 to 4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled today that state governments are not able to ban most Americans from owning most types of handguns. The court ruled that firearms are “essential for self-defense.” The court found that if the Second Amendment indeed [...]

Published June 29, 2010 FOXNews.com As many as 150 insurgent fighters have been killed since Sunday in a major offensive involving about 700 U.S. and Afghan troops along eastern Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, a senior military official confirmed to Fox News early Tuesday. The U.S.-led operation was one of the largest yet in the region, [...]

Published June 28, 2010 FOXNews.com Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan pledged on Monday to do her best to consider “every case impartially, modestly, with commitment to principle and in accordance with law” if appointed to the nation’s highest court. Speaking on the first day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Kagan said [...]

By SCOTT SHANE and CHARLIE SAVAGE   Published: June 28, 2010 WASHINGTON — They had lived for more than a decade in American cities and suburbs from Seattle to New York, where they seemed to be ordinary couples working ordinary jobs, chatting to the neighbors about schools and apologizing for noisy teenagers. But on Monday, [...]

June 28, 2010 The Dodd-Frank financial reform bill doubles down on the same system that failed. President Obama hailed the financial bill that House-Senate negotiators finally vouchsafed at 5:40 a.m. Friday, and no wonder. The bill represents the triumph of the very regulators and Congressmen who did so much to foment the financial panic, giving [...]

June 28, 2010 Can Congress compel Americans to do anything? The Senate kicks off hearings today on Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court, and perhaps after hours of Senatorial oration we might even learn something about the judicial views that the Solicitor General has been so careful to hide over her career. One thing [...]

June 28, 2010 President Obama discovers the benefits of an agreement he has disdained for three years. One of President Obama’s economic failures has been his refusal to press for trade expansion, even for trade deals that are obviously in America’s strategic and economic best interests. So it’s a relief to hear that Mr. Obama [...]

June 28, 2010 There is a mismatch between the general’s Afghan mission and the president’s summons to his countrymen. By FOUAD AJAMI The chroniclers tell us that Lyndon Johnson never took to the Vietnam War. He prosecuted it, it became his war, but it was, in LBJ’s language, a “bitch of a war.” He fought [...]

Joseph C. Phillips June 28, 2010   My eldest son has decided that he wants to be a marine. His plan is to enter the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and then serve his country as an officer in the United States Marine Corps. My son is still at an age when plans for the [...]

June 28, 2010 By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS Elena Kagan, a trailblazer for women and the law, is hitting a new path that could be strewn with a few rough patches: Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on her Supreme Court nomination. Kagan’s chances are bright as she heads into a marathon week of high-pressure vetting before the [...]