Author Archive | Jim Lindgren

The Brennan Center has released an Investigator’s Guide to “Voter Fraud”. It details a series of questions that should be answered when assessing claims of voter fraud, and notes that many claims of “voter fraud” are overstated. (I suspect much the same can be said of many claims of “disenfranchisement.”)

Federal indictments have issued against four individuals who had been working on ACORN voter registration drives in Missouri. These indictments are supposedly part of a national investigation into fraudulent voter applications. Unlike prior reports of dead-people voting, here there are allegations of actual fraud. Gateway Pundit has more. Perhaps because I grew up in Philadelphia […]

Ohio papers, including the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Cincinnati Enquirer are reporting that the lawsuit over Ohio’s new Voter ID rules has been settled, at least in regard to next Tuesday’s election. According to these reports, it seems the rules will be somewhat loosened so as to allow voters without photo ID’s to provide other […]

The Associated Press is reporting: Conservative columnist Ann Coulter has refused to cooperate in an investigation into whether she voted in the wrong precinct, so the case will probably be turned over to prosecutors, Palm Beach County’s elections chief said Wednesday.

The Associated Press is reporting: A federal appeals court has blocked a landmark judgment against the tobacco industry, allowing the companies to continue selling “light” and “low tar” cigarettes until their appeals can be reviewed. The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit also allows the companies to continue for now […]

The New York Times reports: Researchers at the Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Aging report that a natural substance found in red wine, known as resveratrol, offsets the bad effects of a high-calorie diet in mice and significantly extends their lifespan. . . . Resveratrol is found in the skin of grapes […]

Today the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the first of the term’s big Clean Air Act (CAA) cases, Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp.:. The case arises out of claims by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that Duke Energy Corporation violated the CAA when made modifications to a number of its power plants without […]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has posted the three-judge panel’s three opinions in Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless v. Blackwell. Here is the opinion of the court, the separate concurrence, and the separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part/a>. Rick Hasen has some commentary here, and Election Law […]

Here is more evidence: Elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror and use their reflections to explore hidden parts of themselves, a measure of subjective self-awareness that until now has been shown definitively only in humans and apes, researchers reported yesterday. The findings confirm a long-standing suspicion among scientists that elephants, with their big brains, […]

One of the many voter initiatives on the ballot in Ohio is Issue 2, the “Ohio Fair Wage Amendment,” a proposal to enshrine an ever-increasing minimum wage in the Ohio state constitution. If it passes (and polls suggest it will by a large margin) the Ohio minimum wage will rise to $6.85 an hour in […]

The Ohio State election law blog reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has stayed the TRO blocking enforcement of the state’s new voter ID requirement. The three-judge panel (Gibbons, McKeague, Tarnow [by designation]) stated that it “will issue an opinion shortly.” While analysis of this ruling must await the opinion, […]

An analysis of state-wide records by the Poughkeepsie Journal reveals that 77,000 dead people remain on election rolls in New York State, and some 2,600 may have managed to vote after they had died. The study also found that Democrats are more successful at voting after death than Republicans, by a margin of four-to-one, largely […]

Today’s Washington Post reports that the American Civil Liberties Union is dropping its lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of provisions of the USA Patriot Act, citing “improvements to the law” recently made by Congress. “While the reauthorized Patriot Act is far from perfect, we succeeded in stemming the damage from some of the Bush administration’s most […]

Today’s Cleveland Plain Dealer reports: A federal judge Thursday evening blocked enforcement of new identification requirements for absentee voters, agreeing that the state’s voter ID law is vague, confusing and unevenly applied by Ohio election boards since early voting began this month. “Absentee voters are suffering irreparable harm right now,” said U.S. District Judge Algenon […]

Politicians love to fall all over themselves to promote the ethanol use. In 1990, this resulted in Clean Air Act provisions that compromised the effectivenes of fuel content requirements and led to widespread MTBE water pollution. (While MTBE was the pollutant, the provision that led to widespread MTBE use was pushed by the ethanol lobby.) […]