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It is either the case that African Americans, young people, old people, and poor people labor under some onerous yet curiously undetectable burden that keeps them from obtaining free, government-issued photo IDs, or it is the case that Hillary Clinton, the NAACP, et al. are full of bunk when they claim that voter-ID laws such as the one just adopted in North Carolina amount to “disenfranchisement.” The evidence strongly suggests the presence of ambient bunk levels approaching toxicity. In general, Americans are very handy when it comes to acquiring free things issued by the government, and none of the groups...

Groups launching citizenship, voter drive Local organizations will join in a national effort this summer to produce a million new voters and citizens and urge them to get involved in government. At a news conference at City Hall this morning, Christine Neumann-Ortiz, director of Voces De La Frontera, an immigrant worker rights organization, said her organization along with other Wisconsin groups will participate in the "We are America" campaign, a national effort to register poor and working class people as voters and to encourage those eligible for citizenship to become naturalized. The new effort grew out of the recent marches...

Wealthy Democratic political gadfly Connie Milstein, who calls herself "an ordinary Park Avenue matron," will now have to change her tune. Sources tells us the heiress to the Milstein real-estate fortune has just gone to contract to buy a Fifth Avenue duplex apartment with a $15.7 million asking price. Milstein made a name for herself in 2000 during the Bush-Gore election when she was caught on camera bribing homeless potential voters with cigarettes in exchange for a vote for Gore. She was eventually fined $5,000 for her spirited activism. Unlike the homeless, Ms. Milstein has signed on to take a...

DETROIT - A judge's order requiring some provisional ballots in Michigan to be counted even if they are cast in the wrong precinct was put on hold Sunday, the second time in as many days that a federal appeals court dealt a setback to Democrats who wanted to ease voting restrictions. A 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (news - web sites) panel in Cincinnati issued a stay of a lower court ruling that had reversed Michigan's policy for counting provisional ballots, saying it will hear an appeal of the issue quickly. On Saturday, the same three-judge panel had rejected...

As the days dwindle down to a precious few leading up to November second, the big three branches of the Liberal election machine have kicked into high gear. Charges have been leveled by the political, entertainment and news divisions. Tales of galloping woe fill the crisp autumn air as accusations of repression, suppression and downright aggression emanate daily from the Left. Out on the hustings, at the obligatory Democratic pander-stop at a black church in Cleveland, John Kerry said, "We're seeing efforts by the Republicans, unfortunately, in various parts of the country to suppress votes and intimidate people, to do...

(MADISON) – By a nearly 2 to 1 margin, the Wisconsin Assembly has passed Assembly Bill 111 -- legislation that would require prospective voters to show a state-issued photo ID at the polls. Republican Party of Wisconsin (RPW) Chairman Rick Graber hailed Thursday evening’s 60 – 34 vote, calling it a key victory in the battle against election fraud. Graber pointed out that 4 Democrats joined 56 Republicans to support AB 111. “This is simple, common-sense reform that would help prevent our open election system from being exploited,” Graber said. “The intent of this bill is to keep felonies from...

After hearing about all the disgust and outrage over the Minnesota rally- no class festival, I started wondering if the Wellstone memorial was indeed, as several talk radio hosts have said, the lowest thing the demacrats have ever done. So, in honor of the Wellstone rally/funeral I propose we have a Lowest of the Low demac'RATs in action contest. You can mention one event or several, and you can go back as far as you want. For starters, I would like to nominate Hillary, standing on the senate floor, holding up the newspaper with "Bush knew" on its cover,and trying...