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...from Tamborello’s customarily rich compilation of sounds, “To a Fault” challenges the listener with the chirps of birds and a constantly changing tempo. Tamborello allows long musical interludes to dominate the track, relegating Grizzly Bear’s lyrics to the background. “Dumb Luck” is another example of Tamborello’s talent for mixing seemingly incompatible sounds to tickle the ears of his listeners. The long periods of synthesized sound that dominate the majority of the album are sources of fascination as organic and electronic tones...
Polls on guns are hotly contested. But national majorities have consistently opposed sweeping bans, however rare, on handguns while supporting the more moderate gun-control measures that are common in many states--including waiting periods and background checks. That's why the Parker litigation, spearheaded by Bob Levy of the libertarian Cato Institute, seems like the perfect Supreme Court test case for gun-rights supporters. "We picked the D.C. law because it is so extreme," Levy told me. Now that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has been replaced by Samuel Alito, Levy is "cautiously optimistic" of victory next June...
Levy calls himself an incrementalist and says he is not interested in challenging waiting periods and background checks. But a Supreme Court decision in his favor might have effects far more sweeping than he intends. To rule for Levy in the Parker case, the court would have to repudiate its long-standing view that the Second Amendment protects nothing more than the collective right of states to arm their militias. Instead, it would have to embrace the view that the amendment protects a fundamental right of individuals to arm themselves for private uses like self-defense...
...court rules this way, it could open the floodgate to a wave of challenges to many of the moderate regulations that most Americans support. "You could very easily envision a challenge to the Brady Law on the grounds that there shouldn't be background checks for the exercise of a constitutional right," says Dennis Henigan of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Henigan also imagines challenges to the federal machine-gun ban and to a wide array of state licensing and registration laws. And convicted criminals might routinely contest the sentencing laws that increase their jail time for using...
...Asian at home-American outside,” and “Jumped to her death from a Manhattan building two months later” appeared on a blue screen as “Gangster’s Paradise” blared in the background...