So is True the Vote.  See the rally flyer here.

That’s the opinion piece by Marlin Schneider in the Wisconsin Rapids Tribune. Here

Thank God, the rhetoric is finally toning down in Wisconsin.  One had wondered if the rhetoric could get any worse than accusing supporters of photo ID of suppressing the vote with racist Jim Crow laws or poll taxes.  This rhetoric is so much more adult.  Santa apparently won’t be able to come down the chimney without his photo id.   

the tease.

Leaders of the resurrected radical group ACORN are lobbying the Obama administration in what appears to be a concerted effort to game the electoral system to help Democrats, new evidence suggests. At least five Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now leaders have visited the White House this year alone. One of those ACORN officials has been involved in vetting Department of Justice hires who may help to enforce the voter fraud-enabling National Voting Rights Act (NVRA), also known as the Motor-Voter law.


here is the rest of the story @ American Spectator.

AP story at the link

The Post and Courier has a story wondering why Rhode Island Democrats would support a photo ID bill if it was designed to mimimize Democratic votes.

South Carolina and Rhode Island are both among the original 13 states that signed the Declaration of Independence. Both are on the Atlantic Coast. And both have single-party-dominated legislatures that this year passed laws requiring voters to provide photo identification.

But the S.C. General Assembly is run by Republicans, while the R.I. General Assembly is run by Democrats.

Yet:

Five months ago in Rhode Island, Democratic Rep. Jon Brien made this convincing, bipartisan pitch for his state’s voter ID law:

“I think that party leaders have tried to make this a Republican versus Democrat issue. It’s not. It’s simply a good government issue.”

And reasonably verifying a voter’s identity simply makes sense.

Full story at the link

An article from a former supporter and civil rights activist turned critic over at American Spectator.

“Like so many others, I found myself actually weeping at the wonder and the hope that filled American hearts during the Inauguration ceremonies. And like so many others I have almost cried since that day, but for other reasons. . . .

The sad truth is that our president has flunked every racial test he has taken  . . .Anti-white and anti-Semitic thugs are flourishing in this spineless atmosphere — even though we Americans had every right to expect Mr. Obama to deal with them harshly.

All of which brings us back to the New Black Panther case. Remember that one?”

Full story at link.

I will be speaking in Indianapolis on Thursday, December 8, at noon in the “Tokyo Room” at the Conrad Hotel.  I will have books to sign also.  The details are here:

Location:
Conrad Indianapolis
50 West Washington
Tokyo Room

Speaker:

At the link.  The author doesn’t seem to understand why Texas would be having so many problems getting its voter ID law precleared when “the U.S. Department of Justice has not objected to similar Voter ID laws in Arizona, Louisiana, Florida, and South Dakota which have jurisdictions that must also face Department of Justice pre-clearance.”  

The answer is very simple.  The Obama Administration and the Holder DOJ decided quite a while back that there will be no voter ID laws approved and implemented during his reign. This despite Department precedent of approval going back to the Clinton and Bush Administrations.  And that doesn’t include the fact that the Crawford decision at the Supreme Court is hanging over the whole debate.  It’s as if it never was written.

With the Left having lost the legal war over photo ID and then losing major public opinion battles on the state and legislative level, DOJ has quickly become the sole remaining bastion of holdouts, opposing the very concept of voter ID and arrogantly ignoring Crawford. 

Reason or reasonableness plays no factor, politics does. 

Regardless of past approvals in other Section 5 states or the Supreme Court’s approval stamp on the fundamentals of photo ID, this Civil Rights Division will not approve any voter ID law, PERIOD.  The political leadership at the Civil Rights Division is so virulently opposed to the concept that the chances of any state having a photo identification law approved in this 2012 cycle is close to nill.

Section 5 has provided the Left and DOJ the sole remaining avenue to defy the Supreme Court and, once again, leave part of the country (Section 5 states) as second class citizens in the voter ID debate.  Despite a lot of noise, states can usually pass and implement voter ID laws without incident.  That is true, unless you are under Section 5 where no matter what type of law you pass, it will never be good enough for the Holder DOJ.   

The battle over voter ID in the Section 5 states has become part of the larger political argument despite 80% approval in the country.  The Supreme Court attempted to de-politicize the issue by approving the Indiana Voter ID law by a 6-3 margin and leaving this as a political issue to be decided by state legislatures.  However, a few refuse to accept that answer, with a majority of the few working full-time at DOJ.  This behavior is ripe for a smackdown.

 Clues at Rule of Law.