The LA Times and NewsMax have two great companion stories of a aging veteran, battling cancer yet making one last attempt to vote for his country and honor his democracy.  He has voted in every presidential election since he became in citizen in WWII after his initial internment in a camp.

His resilience has astounded doctors, his daughter said. Tanabe lifts
his arms, shakes his fists and tucks his knees into his chest every day
for exercise. He’s been holding on to cast his ballot. “We were
inspired to know that his commitment to being an American and exercising
his right to vote was that important to him,” his daughter said.

…“I think he considered [voting] a responsibility, but also a fundamental
right that he fought for,” Barbara Tanabe said. “He saw people die
fighting for their country. The foundation of our country is the ability
to be able to vote and affect policies that change society.”

Don’t let that line stop you on Election Day.

The LA Times and NewsMax have two great companion stories of a aging veteran, battling cancer yet making one last attempt to vote for his country and honor his democracy.  He has voted in every presidential election since he became in citizen in WWII after his initial internment in a camp.

His resilience has astounded doctors, his daughter said. Tanabe lifts
his arms, shakes his fists and tucks his knees into his chest every day
for exercise. He’s been holding on to cast his ballot. “We were
inspired to know that his commitment to being an American and exercising
his right to vote was that important to him,” his daughter said.

…“I think he considered [voting] a responsibility, but also a fundamental
right that he fought for,” Barbara Tanabe said. “He saw people die
fighting for their country. The foundation of our country is the ability
to be able to vote and affect policies that change society.”

Don’t let that line stop you on Election Day.

Not election related, but if you like movies, I have six movies to see before the election in two weeks.

Not election related, but if you like movies, I have six movies to see before the election in two weeks.

Of course not.  But the biggest pit someone stepped in in the last Presidential debate involved bayonets, which we learn today are very much NOT obsolete.

Of course not.  But the biggest pit someone stepped in in the last Presidential debate involved bayonets, which we learn today are very much NOT obsolete.

A pathetic and tragic post script illustrating why the once relevant and honorable Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights is today neither.  John Fund at National Review.

“Artur Davis, a former Democratic congressman from Alabama who seconded Barack Obama’s nomination in 2008, highlights the prevalence of illegal ballots. He says that from his experience of watching rampant voter fraud in his state, “the worst kind of voter suppression going on today is the wholesale manufacture of ballots in African-American neighborhoods.”

And exactly how would the Clear Channel billboards prevent anyone who is legally eligible to vote from going into a polling place? As Pam Fessler of NPR noted in her report on the controversy: “Even if the billboards are intended to intimidate, there’s no evidence such tactics work, that they don’t instead have the opposite impact.”

We’ve obtained this memo from the North Carolina State Board of Elections.  It changes the rules of the game in the middle of the game, and seems calculated to aid a certain flagging campaign for President.