When Courts Collide - Last

When Courts Collide - Last year, in US v. Emerson, the US Fifth Circuit held that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to bear arms.

Last week, the ultraliberal Judge Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit in Silveira v. Lockyear has reached the opposite conclusion.

Next stop - the Supremes?

Eugene Volokh - an überblogger and UCLA law professor with a long rap sheet on Second Amendment issues - tells us where Reinhardt got it wrong.

Now Iss ze Time on Shprockets Ven Ve Kill Ourselves - Berlin avant garde art fans mistake a suicide for a performance installation.

"A group of visitors to the center at first thought the body lying on the ground at the art center was part of an art performance," said police spokeswoman Christine Rother. "It took a while before anyone realized it was not an act but a suicide."