In what is sure to become regarded as a landmark case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 26, in District of Columbia v. Heller, that the Constitution does not permit "the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home."

Presidential hopeful John McCain has criticized his rival, Barack Obama, for what McCain perceives to be an Obama slap at the North American Free trade Agreement. However, Obama, recently met with Prime Minister Harper of Canada to issue assurances that the "Obama Administration" will have "an enormous interest in maintaining a robust relationship with Canada and Mexico."

The U.S. spy bill that would allow the government to engage in massive collection of American citizens’ communications without a search warrant, clearly in violation of the Fourth Amendment, will move forward in the Senate.

French president and president-elect of the EU, Nicolas Sarkozy, along with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel are determined to change the will of the people in Ireland concerning the Lisbon Treaty.

In his June 18 speech on America’s energy crisis, President Bush blamed Congressional Democrats for obstructing offshore drilling, but he refuses to use his own executive power to remove shackles that have been put on Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) drilling.