heller, that case did not involve questions of bringing a gun into the home.on is far broader than the actual point of the holding. in our system, cases are valued for their reasoning that they offer, not merely for the literal outcome of the judgment. it is the reasoning that the court uses which guides lower courts and future courts as they resolve questions that come before them. and in the heller case, one of the things that the court was required to do and the supreme court was required to do by the circumstances before it, to decide the issue of what it means to bear arms because after all, the district of columbia in his litigation plan had an argument that airing arms has a unique militaristic idiomatic meaning. if you are bearing arms you are going forth into battle, you were soldiering and therefore the district argued bearing arms tells you the second amendment is limited to a militia of military purpose and you can only their arms at the direction of state authorities. outside outside the home of course because you were not going to be engaging in

not that bob heller was all that shaken by it. what did you hear last night? >> middle of the night, there was a big thump. i went back to sleep. this morning i was surprised that half the street was covered with dirt and mud. >> the two luxury cars weren't the only ones damaged. >> there were ten cars that were here in the area. because it was the middle of the night. we didn't have very good descriptions of what the damage actually was. so we'll do follow-up with them. >> on the other hand, had it happened in the daytime, someone could have been outside and someone might have been injured. on the other hand if it broke in another location there might not have been damage at all. >> the pipe had a break, a hole in the top of the pipe. that caused between the size of the hole, the water going through the pipe, six-inch pipe. the water pressure with a lot of force, so it caused the asphalt and concrete and everything else to come up with it when the water broke through. >> the pipe we're told is 40 years old. one connecting the water main with the hydrant so no

heller was a good test case for another reason. it was reason by the courts most prominent exponent of jurisprudence, anthony scalia. thanks to the last 30 years, scalia successfully made a powerful case for two important opposition. first the, the right to keep and bear arms is a individual private right. not a right of the states to organize militias. second, the purpose is to enable individuals to exercise their inherent or natural right of self-defense, including the right to defend themselves against criminal violence. but that's not enough to resolve the initial textual puzzle about the relationship between the prefatory language and the clause. scalia tries to do this as any originalist must. but his analysis is full of fallacies and absurdities. he provides no tenable explanation in the constitutional text. and he provides no evidence of any kind about the proper scope of the people's right to keep and bear arms. the most difficult question, which scalia never even addresses is how codifying the right to arms in the constit

it is obvious that with the heller decision compaq -- decision, it is an individual right to possess a gun for self- defense. but now,

house is complete, yes, there are currently two vacancies due to anthony weinerelie and also dean heller in nevada has gone over to the senate.s >> caller: it would be 535. if it weres ompleted with the 435. >> caller: and 100 senators? >> host: yes thereng is. >> caller: when the house is full there are actually 535 senators? >> host:of when the congress is are 535 members, that's right. >> caller: i understand they have a commission on the seconde phase, three republicans in the senate, three democrats in the house and the republicans. >> host: with special joint committee that is part of this bill, that's right. >> caller: they will do the heavy work on applying what will go intosands the second phase. >> host: that is their task anyway. they have $1.5 trillion in cuts to come up with is part of the second part of this lifting of the debt ceiling and that is bys thanksgiving. go ahead with your comment. >> caller: why do we take those 12 people on that commission, fire the other 523 senators and senators and representatives and let thosegog 123 and three, three and three run the count

it is obvious that with the heller decision compaq -- decision, it is an individual right to possess a gun for self- defense. but now, with that particular modification, there are now challenges across the country of what gun-control laws mean, so i want to make sure that through findings that we are submitting today that we clarify the board of

it is obvious that with the heller decision compaq -- decision, it is an individual right to possess a gun for self- defense. but now, with that particular modification, there are now challenges across the country of

it is obvious that with the heller decision compaq -- decision,

heller decision compaq -- decision, it is an individual right to possess a gun for self- defense. but now, with that particular modification, there are now challenges across the country of what gun-control laws mean, so i want to make sure that through findings that we are submitting today that we clarify the board of supervisors' intends, passed by the board of supervisors and by the voters, to reflect research and statistics and insure that the existing police code is fully enforceable. we have seen quite a few people killed or injured by bullets, by the use of handguns directly or indirectly in san francisco. that is on par with the trend that we are seeing throughout the bay area, and, of course, the state and nationwide. over 100,000 americans nationwide are hit by a bullet, effected by gun crimes, and it is important that we do not lose sight that in order to insure public safety, which i believe is a civil liberty and a right of all of our people that it is now the government's obligation to do everything needed to make sure the people are safe. this collides with the intri

it is obvious that with the heller decision compaq -- decision, it is an individual right to possess a gun for self- defense. but now, with that particular modification, there are now challenges across the country of what gun-control laws mean, so i want to make sure that through findings that we are submitting today that we clarify the board of supervisors' intends, passed by the board of supervisors and by the voters, to reflect research and statistics and insure that the existing police code is fully enforceable. we have seen quite a few people killed or injured by bullets, by the use of handguns directly or indirectly

not that bob heller was all that shaken by it. what did you hear last night? >> middle of the night, there was a big thump. i went back to sleep. this morning i was surprised that half the street was covered with dirt and mud. >> the two luxury cars weren't the only ones damaged. >> there were ten cars that were here in the area. because it was the middle of the night. we didn't have very good descriptions of what the damage actually was. so we'll do follow-up with them. >> on the other hand, had it happened in the daytime, someone could have been outside and someone might have been injured. on the other hand if it broke in another location there might not have been damage at all. >> the pipe had a break, a hole in the top of the pipe. that caused between the size of the hole, the water going through the pipe six-inch pipe. the water pressure with a lot of force, so it caused the asphalt and concrete and everything else to come up with it when the water broke through. >> the pipe we're told is 40 years old. one connecting the water main with the hydrant so no

too much money and running a big deficit, a mirror image of what we see the united states. >> order heller, former member of the federal reserve, think for joining us. >> the dow was up 3 1/3 points. >> new this morning, interim mayor of san francisco, and we will run for mayor. he has decided to run for a full four year >> the 59 europeayear old will e three other is a on the ballot in november. >> to with a recovery after surviving a fire last night. jackie sissel has details. >> in this pacific and its neighborhood, a fire said to women to local hospital. the start of lhasa to run 11:30 p.m. when the san francisco fired a formal received a phone call at 1980 jackson street. when they got here, they were told that there were at least two women inside the building. they were able to knock them fleams relatively quickly. the two women suffered severe burns as well as smoke inhalation. investigators will be back to determine what started the fire. initial investigations say that cigarettes may have played a role. >> also new this morning, a man is in critical condition after a shooting in o

joseph heller wrote the classic world war two book catch twenty two about the insanity of war this is being applied now to the job market you know you can't you can't get a job unless you have a job and you get a job in a job and those around or around this vicious cycle because basically companies don't want to hire because they don't want to spend the money because all of their profits come from trading derivatives the banking sector as gobbled up fifty sixty seventy percent of the economy and you're trading electronic phantom paper with each other to create phantom profits so you create phantom printing excesses down at your friendly neighborhood treasury and and federal reserve bank but you don't want to pay higher real people you don't want to pay them any real salary you'd rather keep the money yourself again it's back to the middle ages of lords and service and you know the america three hundred thirty million people you've got three hundred twenty nine million peasants say sarah thanks for being on the concert of course thank you max and thank you don't go away stay there much

let's get some insight with robert heller, a former member of the board of governors of the federal reserveorning. >> good morning. >> we are waiting to hear from the feds @ 11:15 a.m.. do you have any expectations on what we might hear? >> i think it will recognize that the economy has slowed down further, unemployment is high, the housing market is to disturb the these are things we all the federal reserve has nothing left in their tool kit to help the economy. >> you do not think that yesterday's slide will affect what they do today? >> today's market is bouncing up again. there is a lot of volatility. the federal reserve is not focused on the stock market. they are much more focused on economic fundamentals and inflation. >> what do you think has to be >> there are all kinds of regulations restricting what people can do. try to get a building permit, it will secure your. make the regulations a little bit easier so that many of the construction workers can get put back to work. not just new construction, remodeling, redoing your kitchen, all of that would really help. >> we have spoken w

mitchell faces 35 years to life, after being convicted of murdering ex-girlfriend danielle heller and kidnapping their 1-year-old baby in novato. mitchell, the son of the late porn king, jim mitchell, is scheduled for sentencing august 16th. >>> a lit cigarette in a san francisco hospital landed two people in the women in the hospital. firefighters say it was a race against sometime. they heard reports the women were trapped inside. crews used a ladder to get to the second story. inside, they found both women unconscious. one woman in her 80s. the other in her 60s. one of them suffered severe burns. the official cause of the fire is under investigation. but firefighters say they found a cigarette butt in a bed. >>> a scary night at the office. a man was beaten and tied up by three people who ransacked a san francisco business. it happened just before 11:00 last night, near union square on sutter street and powell. police say the three suspects, a woman and two men, approached the 29-year-old man and beat him and then bound him. they took three computers from the office and then fled.

indiana and certainly like nevada where shelley berkley currently leads the appointed senator dean hellerthe republicans continue to fight the ideological battles of 2010. they learned all the wrong lessons from that election. so, when you look, for example, at john bruener, in missouri, who is thinking about running for the senate, who is already being attacked by todd akin, the congressman in that state, who is pointing out over and over and over again to reporters about a dui arrest from several years ago. or you look at john bruning, another john from nebraska, who just a couple of weeks ago compared 100,000 nebraskans who are struggling in this economy to raccoons scavenging through the garbage. we'll win because this election lk about a choice. and i think at the end of the day if you look at nebraskans or missourians or virginians, they'll decide that tea party republicans are out of touch with their state. >> rob, let's first talk very quickly about the numbers, 23-10. guy is opentimistics, and do republican senators say, we'll get it right this year? >> governor cornyn said it wa

way forward now, with lisa lynch, former chief economist at the labor department, now dean of the heller school for social policy and managment at brandeis university. sam stovall, chief investment strategist for standard and poor's. and greg ip, u.s. economics editor of "the economist" magazine and author of "the little book of economics: how the economy works in the real world." lisa lynch, we'll start with you. we've looked at the numbers many times over the last month. some relief today? >> yes, certainly after all the drama we had over the past week, there was a collective sigh of relief when the numbers were released this morning. in particular when you look at the gains in private sector employment, 154,000 jobs added by the private sector. but at the same time, the headline number of just 117,000 net new jobs is only enough to keep up with the growth of the working age population. and really doesn't do anything to make a significant dent into the pool of 14 million workers out of work. >> brown: where did you see when you look at sectors, anything jump out at you in terms of grow

host: that is the republican weekend media address, with dean heller, a republican from nevada. you can see that in its entirety at c-span.org. savannah, ga. on our line for republicans, barbara, you're on the "washington journal." caller: the main thing that is taking jobs away is corporations sending jobs overseas, closing down the whole state of north carolina, basically everyone is a factory workers and the textile injury, -- industry, and they have no jobs now. they have destroyed the industry by sending everything overseas. you get it done cheaper, and the stuff we get back from anywhere is just half as good as what they made in the united states. why can they just bring back something -- do something so that they bring back the company's? host: to you think there are any incentives that congress could put out that would incentivize u.s. corporations to do more work here and not sending it overseas? host: they could give them -- caller: they could give them tax breaks, and and they seemed to sit around and think about what they can stop them from doing next. they just cann

political junkies are watching certain senators and how they might vote in primaries, a dick luger, dean heller the new senator from nevada. other than that, we know how this vote's going to go. >> reporter: this thing is signed, sealed and delivered. we expected according to the interview you had earlier this morning with john cornen about 70 to 75 senators are going to come on. it's interesting a lot of us thought the senate would go first to try to give cover to house members saying i'm from your home state. i supported this, go ahead and do the same. they wanted to do the inverse i'm told by house gop aide that they wanted the house to go first so members wouldn't have to worry if their senators supported it or not. it looks like 75 votes from the senate. that bill i'm told will immediately be brought over to 1600 pennsylvania avenue for the president's signature. well ahead of the default deadline of midnight tonight. >> luke, what's been interesting this morning is i'm trying to find the enthusiastic senator. i don't like this, i don't that, but i'm supporting it. it's perhaps the most un

right now both brown and heller are leading.ey win the presidency and vice president city, or four seats if they don't win the presidency and vice president city. as i count the races, they are either even or ahead in about eight senate races. that gives them an excellent chance to take control of the senate in 2012. >> brian: and perhaps the sexiest senate race, i believe, virginia. that should be quite interesting. >> it's going to go the way of the presidential contest in virginia. remember obama shocked the world and carried virginia going democratic for the first time since 64 in 2008. if it doesn't go democratic again, then republican george allen will win. if it goes back to obama, then democrat tim kane will win. >> brian: interesting. ohio, michigan and pennsylvania, also something to look at. either way things are going to change. you got the sense a year from now, we'll watch it happen gradually here. i know you will go to your crystal ball and you predict so often so accurate. we'll be going there over and over again

. >> kentucky book fair was started 30 years ago by carl west and ellen heller, two of the founding members still involved today. we're nonprofit and our purposes are to provide grants to public schools and libraries, to bring readers together in a literary, if you will, atmosphere, and promote love and reading throughout the commonwealth. on the last count we had about 4,000 people. our focus is primarily on kentucky authors, we do accept original authors and nationally known authors. over the past 30 years, we've had a wonderful array of authors, mickey mantle, roger mudd, you know, just a lot of people to draw in the crowds. but we do focus on the kentucky authors as well. >> what role does book festival play in the community? >> oh, i tend to think it's an institution. after 30 years, we're one the oldest in the country. with provide grands to public schools and libraries. that's the sole purpose. i'm the only paid staffer. we have a 30-member boards that governs throughout the year and guides me. >> how has you noticed? as the readership changed? what have you noticed? >> our demograph

guest: ever since the supreme court decision in heller v. should of columbia concerning the scope of the second amendment, we have had this question in the lower courts about how far state and local governments can go to regulate gun possession publicly. i am a little bit loath suggest that the response to flash mobs should be for individuals to arm themselves. quite the contrary, part of why the government is so interested in interdicting these activities is so that we do not come to that, that there is public pressure for self-help as opposed to ordinary law- enforcement measures. host: san jose, calif ornia, paul. caller: there is a parallel to sobriety checkpoints, where people's access to the road is provided by local police and they are pulling everyone over. i'm wondering if the guests could kind of do comparisons there. there at the discussion already with sobriety checkpoints and the law and that thing. host: interesting question, and we will close on that. guest: sobriety checkpoints, the aclu is against those. they are engaged in

seat and dean heller of course now is in the united states senate. and if you wanted to go to the nearest hub you would have to drive 234 miles to the salt lake city international airport. but how many people have taken advantage of that? this year? 471. and the price that the american taxpayer is paying per person that chooses to get on the airplane in eli, nevada, rather than driving or finding another way to get there is $3,720. the mica language for these three airports said in addition to these 10 that we weren't going to pay more than $1,000 per passenger anymore in the extension. so that brings us to 13 and as you can see even though there are democratic senators who represent the states and the districts that are represented here, all three of these airports are in districts -- are occupied by republican members of the house. now, we spend a lot of time here attempting not to be implight and that's why we say things like -- impolite and that's why we say things like my distinguished colleague from across the aisle is surely confused on the su

it was dean heller's seat who is now in the united states senate. and if you wanted ago to the nearest hub you would have to drive 234 miles to the salt lake city international airport. but how many people have taken advantage of that this year? 471, and the price that the american taxpayer is paying per person that chooses to get on the airplane in eli, nevada, rather than driving or finding another way to get there is $3,720. the micah language for these three airports said, in addition to these 10, that we weren't going to pay more than $1,000 per passenger anymore in the extension. so that brings us to 13 and as you can see, even though there are democratic senators who the states and the districts represented here, all three of these airports are in districts that are occupied by republican members of the house. now, we spend a lot of time here attempting not to be impolite and that's why we say things like, "my distinguished colleague from across the aisle is surely confused on the subject matter at hand." but it's time to not be impolite as w

after the heller decision of 2008 there was a lot of celebrating by gun rights advocates and rightlyso. this was the first major