Armed Services Week at the Federal Voting Assistance Project  continues through July 7.  FVAP is asking all Americans to do one simple thing – if they have friends and loved ones overseas, ask them this week if they have done everything they can to request an absentee ballot – and they can do it right now so they will have one for the fall.  Call your friend or loved on THIS WEEK and tell them to go to FVAP’s webpage which will easily guide them through the process.  You can find it at www.fvap.com.

There has been a great deal of speculation about how South Carolina Democratic Party Senate Candidate Alvin Greene came up with the $10,000 filing fee.  Some have speculated funding from interests to ensure an easy glide for Sen. Jim Demint.  But the answer might be simpler than it seems.  Alvin Greene, as reported by the Charleston Post and Courier, in a story that has gotten little national attention says Greene received a lump sum in separation pay from his military service.

Recall that a variety of calls have been made to criminally investigate Greene regarding how he paid his filing fee after he defeated State Court judge Vic Rawl.

Criticism of Port Chester voting plan.  Detroit News.

The ACLU has begun looking into elections in Crisfield MD.  The Delmarva Daily Times  reports the DOJ’s Voting Section is expected to follow and do the same: “Within days of the June 16 election, the American Civil Liberties Union detailed a number of alleged irregularities, including unlawful voter identification requirements and the failure to offer rejected voters a provisional ballot, which the group said appeared to have disproportionately affected African-American voters. The ACLU said it was acting on behalf of mayoral candidate James Lane and several African-American voters. . . .Robin Cockey, the city’s attorney, said he was unaware the Justice Department planned to launch an investigation. ‘That’s interesting and surprising,’ he said. ‘I didn’t know the ACLU thought this was still a viable issue.’  Cockey said he is still in the process of conducting his own investigation, but believes the ACLU’s allegations are unfounded.”

Anyone who has not seen this should watch it.  

And here is one of the fine national officers of the National New Black Panther Party.  Muhammad is the “National Field General” of the New Black Panther Party.     This is the man who announced before the 2008 election a nationwide deployment of New Black Panthers at election sites across America. You’ll see Mr. Muhammad giving instructions on how to don ski masks, and lie in wait for police officers in DeKalb County, Georgia.  When law enforcement officers drive by, he goes “cobra” on them with “AK’s and Shotguns.”  “Set up with walkie talkies, then they [the police] will be driving through” then they shoot them.  When their widows grieve at the murder of their police officer husbands, you’ve got to see how he feels about their loss.  “He was a good cop!”  

The Washington Post has an interesting letter from the Executive Director of Fairvote: We Need a Constitutional Amendment for Special Elections.

Of course the short answer is, yes we do.  Literally, without an Amendment, our Constitution vested power in states to set their own election rules, and most of all, their own schedules. Anyone who has been in Mississippi or South Carolina during a June or August primary is probably very much in favor of a Constitutional Amendment that would ban such madness.   But seriously, the founders gave the states the power to set their own rules.  Why?  Because they are states.  They are independent sovereigns that have reserved powers to determine how and when to send elected officials to represent them in Washington.  Imagine that gruesome collection of Senators in the federation in the equally gruesome last three Star Wars movies.  See, all those folks were sent to the Senate on the terms and proclivities on each planet.  Sure, I know, strange example.  But its “more red than the ivory tower.”  Ultimately the founders made a choice as to what the ground rules are on this issue.  And the states get to decide how to send Senators to Washington because the states were given that power, not Washington.   In this era, with distrust of Washington at an all time high, I very much doubt most Americans want even more power to write the rules taken from the states and given to Washington D.C.

I’ll be on Dennis Miller’s radio show  today (July 2) in the 1pm hour.   Correction – 10am hour EDT.

Incidently, it has become too difficult to keep posting all of the radio interviews I am doing. So unless it is a national show, I’m not going to post it.  With one last exception.

I will be on with the very very funny Michael Graham on WTKK-FM Talks in Boston on Monday in the noon hour.  He is the author of the very very very funny book “That’s No Angry Mob: That’s My Mom: Team Obama’s Assault on Tea-Party, Talk-Radio Americans”

An interview at Frontpage.

“The group Minnesota Majority says they spent the last 18 months matching felony criminal records with voting records.

Group member Dan McGrath says they found 289 convicted felons in Hennepin County and 52 in Ramsey County voted illegally during the 2008 election.”

Full story at KSTP-TV .

I’ll be on with Roger Hedgecock nationwide and on XM 158 on the 6pm EDT hour.