In Minnesota, votes are appearing, seemingly out of thin air, for the liberal Senate candidate (and onetime comedian) Al Franken. Attorney Scott Johnson says that “the election appears to be in the process of being stolen.”
Incumbent Senator Norm Coleman led in election-day results, but his lead keeps shrinking and shrinking, and is now down to an infinitesmal 200 votes out of more than 2 million votes cast.
For example, a bunch of new votes suddenly appeared in Minnesota’s Mountain Iron precinct. But as Attorney John Hinderaker notes, “Mountain Iron uses optical scanning, so the Coleman campaign asked for a copy of the tape documenting the ballots cast on election night. St. Louis County responded by providing a tape that includes the newly-added 100 votes, and is dated November 2–the Sunday before the election. St. Louis County reportedly denies being able to produce the genuine tape from election night, even though Minnesota law, as I understand it, requires that tape to be signed by the election judges and publicly displayed.”
(As John Lott notes, it’s doubtful that the new votes are valid, but previously overlooked, ballots. If they were, one would expect the vote totals for other candidates, not just Franken, to rise as well. But even as new votes for Franken suddenly appear, other vote totals remain almost the same. Franken is getting nearly 3 times as many “newly-discovered” votes as Obama, for example.)
Minnesota’s Secretary of State, who oversees the election process, was backed by the left-wing groups MoveOn.Org and ACORN. (ACORN has a long history of voter fraud and financial fraud).
The Powerline blog features continued coverage of the shenanigans in Minnesota, such as this update).
In Virginia, Tom Perriello unseated Congressman Virgil Goode by a margin of less than 600 votes. Thousands of college students’ votes resulted in the outcome. Many out-of-state college students chose to vote in Virginia rather than their home state this year, despite the fact that some of them were registered to vote elsewhere, and had received absentee ballots from their home state. Thus, vote fraud may have affected the outcome in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District.
I used to handle voting rights cases an attorney. So this is especially disturbing to me.
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I'm an idiot because I don't agree with you? I'm an idiot because my favourite authors are different than yours? I'm an idiot because I can think by myself rather than quoting someone else?I'm an idiot because the human being is more important than ideological labels to me?That's fine. We're different. Don't lose your time with me….I'm an idiot.
You're an idiot!!!
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—Tom Wolfe, author of Bonfire of the Vanities and I Am Charlotte Simmons.
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—Charles Murray, W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, author of Human Accomplishment and co-author (with Richard J. Herrnstein) of The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life.
Denise, Ann Coulter is a Republican, not a Democrate. I was wondering if there were examples of Democratic vitrol. Maybe what was meant by "democrate" in the post above is "democratic process". In which case, I agree, it has been rather uncivil. And, as always, both sides have some blame. But it was the Republican's, not the Democrates, who made name calling and mud slinging their basic strategy. It seemed to be all they had.
ddisanass, Denise D. has a very good point of view, and you might want to take it serriously. She recomends REASONABLE capitalism. The idea of the REASONABLE as a constraint on the RATIONAL is a very important consideration. The real difference between the system of governence that we have and those of "Fascism" and "Communism" is that we are not rational extreamists, rather we are reasonable.Libertarianism may be just as extream as Fascism and Communism, if the value of freedom is pushed to its limit, and is not compromised by other social values in a REASONABLE way.If you are interested in the distinction between the rational and the reasonable, I suggest you take a look at John Rawls. His Lectures in Political Philosopy would be a good source.
I agree 100% with you Alan. My answer relative to Fox and Coulter wasn't really in response to your question (my English needs to improve; sometimes I'm confusing even myself ). It was more a kind of general remark and an example of vitriol elements in US. Of course both sides have some blame and some Democrats can be unpleasant and even harsh from time to time. However, irrationality and fear are some of the Republicans trade marks and it leads to excessive language and behaviors. If criticizing our own country is wrong and anti-patriotic, if trying to find some solutions to make our country progress and improve is marxism, if questionning our good and wrong doings deserve mud slinging, when will it be possible to put a grown-up discussion on the table? Of course I'm Canadian but I love the United States for a lot of reasons and one of them is the beacon of hope the US represents in the world. However, compassion and openminded is necessary to do the job. The right wing makes me pessimistic about the result.
The right is fear, fear, fear? The left was totally taken over by it's hatred and fear of Bush. Live in reality? The hatred espoused by the left over the past 8 years equals that of the Nazis or Italian fascists. No denying that.
if this “just and fair” system is so perfect, then why is it failing so spectacularly?
don't say capitalism, because there is no capitalism in america.
The labels are nothing else than a lack of ideas, emptyness of content. With two wars and the worst economic meltdown of the last 80 years, the left had something to be afraid of. The worst President ever with 27% approval. No denying that. Those are facts.
Who in the world said that our system is perfect? In fact, our system is just and fair because is isn't perfectionist – that is, we do not sacrifice all other social values for one particular value. We don't optimize freedom at the total expense of equality and we don't optimize equality at the total expense of freedom. That is what REASONABLE means.As far as whether or not we are a capitalist society, that is how we identify ourselves, and for good reason. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
Well say. You're a very bright man. You should write more. Some peoples need to be educate. Thanks.
Sorry, I meant well said!
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