Solution to Voter ID Legislation

The main argument against requiring voters to present a valid state id in order to vote is that it would create a type of tax on the poor that can't afford the id. The solution to this is simple: have the state or federal government subsidize ids for individuals that fall under a certain income level. As a conservative I am against governmental subsidies 99% of the time, but I feel after doing a cost/benefit analysis this would make sense. First, it would be cheap, since obtaining a state id card is very inexpensive. Second, it would take away liberals' only excuse to be against it, thus ensuring that left-winged groups like ACORN would have a harder time engaging in voter fraud, since every election they do.

The New Party of the Rich

Here's some commentary by the Heritage Foundation on the new demographics of how the rich votes.

"Democrats now control the majority of the nation's wealthiest congressional jurisdictions. More than half of the wealthiest households are concentrated in the 18 states where Democrats control both Senate seats."

Sudan Charges British Teacher of Blasphemy

A British teacher working in a private school in Sudan has recently been charged with blasphemy. While teaching her students the importance of voting, she allowed them to choose the name of the class teddy bear. The students overwhelmingly picked the name Muhammad for the class bear. Now the teacher faces up to 40 lashes as punishment.

Is their any doubt that cultures that govern themselves by sharia law are morally inferior to western cultures?

Adam Adds:
Yes, but western cultures also had their brutal past. Not under sharia law, but just as immoral. Instead of a sword they used the cleaner and more effective guillotine to take the head off dissidents.

The basis for the machine's success was the belief that it was a form of execution, contrasting with the methods used in pre-revolutionary, (old regime) France. In France, before the guillotine, members of the were beheaded with a sword or axe, while commoners were usually hanged, a form of death that could take minutes or longer - other more gruesome methods of executions were also used, such as wheel"the wheel, burning at the stake, etc. In the case of decapitation, it also sometimes took repeated blows to sever the head completely. The condemned or the family of the condemned would sometimes pay the executioner to ensure that the blade was sharp in order to provide for a quick and relatively painless death.

Islamic Terrorists Pay Mexican Drug Lords For Assistance Crossing U.S. Border

Though, in general, I'm usually skeptical of the argument that Islamic terrorist could potentially sneak across our southern borders to harm us, this article in the Washington Times has changed my train of thought somewhat. The article reports that Iraqi and Afghani terrorists tried to pay Mexican drug lords to help them sneak weapons and them across our southern border.

According to the FBI advisory, each Middle Easterner paid Mexican drug lords $20,000 "or the equivalent in weapons" for the cartel's assistance in smuggling them and their weapons through tunnels along the border into the U.S. The weapons would be sent through tunnels that supposedly ended in Arizona and New Mexico, but the Islamist terrorists would be smuggled through Laredo, Texas, and reclaim the weapons later.

Adam adds:
They should let them try, It would great sniper practice.

Laura Ingram Interviews Tom Brokaw

Newsbusters.org has the low down on the Tom Brokaw interview with Laura Ingram.

Brokaw insisted Limbaugh "doesn’t want to hear another point of view, except his." Ingraham disagreed. Brokaw added: "The problem with talk radio is they only want to hear one note...The problem with talk radio is they mock anyone else’s point of view, and they do it often in a mindless fashion."

INGRAHAM: So I just resent the whole, you mention Rush Limbaugh in the book, you [have] kind of a throw-away line about Limbaugh and it’s in the Drug section, and without a doubt, Rush Limbaugh is the most influential boomer, I think, in the media today. There is no person who’s had more of a profound impact on the way people think about politics than Limbaugh, and he gets a line in kind of the Drug thing. And I just, don’t think that’s right.