9th Circuit: Photo ID Okay--Kirsten Powers Agrees

Sorry vote fraudsters: Even the super liberal U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit concluded that the requirement to show a government-issued photo ID to vote is legal.

Earlier this week, the full (i.e., "en banc") court ruled in favor of 2004 Arizona ballot initiative--Proposition 200--requiring photo ID to cast a ballot. in Gonzalez v. Arizona, the appellate panel concluded that the mandate to show a driver's license or the equivalent was not discriminatory, as every common-sense person irrespective of ethnicity already knows.

As the Arizona Daily Star explains:

...the judges rejected arguments that mandating would-be voters show a driver's license or other identification unfairly discriminates against Latino voters. Judge Sandra Ikuta, writing for the majority, said while challengers made that claim, they failed to present any credible evidence.

The court disallowed one provision of the Arizona law that requires proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote using the federal form because it was inconsistent with the federal "Motor Voter Law," one of the worst pieces of legislation signed into law by then-president Bill Clinton. This issue will eventually find its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Kirsten Powers, one of the few liberal TV commentators who doesn't rely on propaganda and disinformation, says Democrats and liberals are trapped in the past with their obsessive opposition to photo ID laws:

Mitt Romney Calls Out Biased Mainstream Media

Say what you will about Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, but give him credit for going on the offense against the Obama-worshipping left-wing press which the late Andrew Breitbart correctly called the Democrat-Media Complex, who, as Romney said, "are inclined to do the president's bidding."


As Big Hollywood.com's John Nolte writes, "Yesterday's Breitbart.com interview not only made clear that Romney completely understands how corrupt the media is, but also that he's not afraid to point to them and call them by name. It's one thing to know who your enemy is, it's quite another to let them know you know."

Larry Conners, American Hero

The lazy and biased White House press corps went bananas when Bush went to his Texas ranch. But they have muzzled themselves when it comes to Obama's extensive golf outings or the first family's many lavish vacations on the taxpayer's dime. The sound you are hearing or not hearing is crickets.

That's what makes Larry Conners of St. Louis television station KMOV (News 4) an American hero:

 

By the way, in this video the president admits his official trips to international summits are scouting expeditions for his next family vacation:



On this one, we agree with Mitt Romney: "Start packing."


 

Obama Gets a Pass From Most Comedians

The only strategy for watching Fox News' The Five is the to immediately grab the remote and change the channel when they pass it to the nauseating Bob Beckel.

In a recent episode, Greg Gutfeld expounds upon how comedians, most of whom are members in good standing of the Democrat-Entertainment Complex, inexplicably find it so hard to come up jokes about the incumbent president.

 

Dershowitz: Zimmerman Indictment "Thin"

Prof. Alan Dershowitz, noted liberal and criminal law expert, describes the written indictment of George Zimmerman in the shooting of Trayvon Martin as "thin" and suggests that the affidavit of probable cause (the official name of the document) won't hold up in court at least insofar as a charge of second degree murder.



Although all the facts have yet to come out in this particular case, in general it wouldn't be the first time that political considerations might have motivated an indictment and/or that a prosecutor overcharged a defendant.

 

Casey Anothony News: Defamation Trial Goes Forward

Here's the latest on Casey Anthony: After considering several motions, a Florida Judge has ruled that a civil lawsuit against her by Zenaida Gonzalez for defamation, i.e. character assassination, can proceed to trial early next year.

As the Orlando Sentinel reports, "Gonzalez claims that Anthony ruined her reputation in 2008 when she told authorities a babysitter with the same name kidnapped her 2-year-old daughter Caylee."

The case has a January 2013 trial date.

Poll Worker Gives U.S. Attorney General's Voting Ballot to Complete Stranger

Eric Holder's politicized Justice Department is on a vendetta against laws to prevent vote fraud such as showing a government-issued picture ID at the polls. Playing the phony voter suppression card, Holder and his politicized minions claim that there is no evidence of voter fraud, despite indictments for same all over the country, most recently in Indiana (although the latter involves petition fraud).

James O'Keefe of Project Veritas shows how anyone can apparently walk in and vote in the name of none other than Eric Holder.



John Fund adds the following on National Review Online:

State Senator Harold Metts of Rhode Island got a photo-ID law put on the books in his state last year after he was told by several constituents of a pattern of voter fraud in his home town of Providence. Indeed, his own state representative and her daughter had their votes stolen by someone voting in their names in one election...Metts, the state senate’s only African-American member, says that he took a lot of heat from national Democrats for getting the ID law approved by an overwhelmingly Democratic legislature. But he says party loyalty only takes him so far. “It’s time to stop crying wolf and make the voter-ID law work for those on both sides of this issue who want to ensure the integrity of the system, while guarding against disenfranchisement.”

As one of the commenters writes under Fund's article, "It's clear to pretty much everybody that the reason the Dems are against voter ID is that they perpetrate most of the voter fraud."