John Fund lists several cases of significant voter fraud in the US, and wonders where the outrage of Democrats went;

[T]he most interesting news came out of Seattle, where on Thursday local prosecutors indicted seven workers for Acorn, a union-backed activist group that last year registered more than 540,000 low-income and minority voters nationwide and deployed more than 4,000 get-out-the-vote workers. The Acorn defendants stand accused of submitting phony forms in what Secretary of State Sam Reed says is the “worst case of voter-registration fraud in the history” of the state.
The list of “voters” registered in Washington state included former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, New York Times columnists Frank Rich and Tom Friedman, actress Katie Holmes and nonexistent people with nonsensical names such as Stormi Bays and Fruto Boy. The addresses used for the fake names were local homeless shelters. Given that the state doesn’t require the showing of any identification before voting, it is entirely possible people could have illegally voted using those names.
Local officials refused to accept the registrations because they had been delivered after last year’s Oct. 7 registration deadline. Initially, Acorn officials demanded the registrations be accepted and threatened to sue King County (Seattle) officials if they were tossed out. But just after four Acorn registration workers were indicted in Kansas City, Mo., on similar charges of fraud, the group reversed its position and said the registrations should be rejected. But by then, local election workers had had a reason to carefully scrutinize the forms and uncovered the fraud. Of the 1,805 names submitted by Acorn, only nine have been confirmed as valid, and another 34 are still being investigated. The rest–over 97%–were fake.

Speaking of which – where is Landslide Annie these days?

Greg Staples is all over the carnage;

The first event in Halifax two weeks ago — a cocktail reception featuring Leader Stephane Dion and six of his erstwhile rivals — attracted about 60 people who paid $250 each. After expenses, however, party insiders say the event netted only about $5,400.

$5,400 down.
$3,994,600.00 to go.
Now that’s some kind of organization. Nearly $10,000 to pull off a cocktail reception that would have fit inside the Delisle community hall with half the floor space roped off. What were they serving for drinks?
Speaking of needing a drink…

The furor over the year-end grants to groups seen to be friendly with the Liberal Party began last April with a story that the Bengali Cultural Society received $250,000. The story had legs because one of the organization’s executives was vice-president of the riding association of Liberal MP Maria Minna.
The next day, we found out that the Iranian-Canadian Community Centre was given $200,000 just three weeks after it registered as a charity and that its directors included a Liberal candidate in the coming election.

More at the link.

Lisa Schiffren;

But let’s be real here. The fact is, Hillary was wearing a fairly low cut summer top. She was not displaying cleavage, as the shot on Drudge indicates. Someone else wearing the same outfit might have done. But Hillary Clinton does not have cleavage to display. Period. Indeed, Hillary never forgave her mother-in-law, Virginia Kelly for pointing this out decades ago to the young Bill Clinton, a cleavage man if ever there was one.

Ann Coulter was right.

Lorne Gunter;

Canadian aboriginal leaders have for decades flown all over the globe eagerly denouncing this country’s human rights record against them.
What none has ever mentioned (at least none that I know of) is that aboriginal governments are themselves exempt from Canada’s most fundamental human rights laws.
The very rights violations they accuse non-native governments of, their own governments are unaccountable for.
Thanks to a “temporary” clause in the 1977 Canada Human Rights Act (CHRA), charges of bigotry, discrimination and harassment of the kind frequently levelled against non-aboriginal society cannot be brought against native councils and organizations.
After three decades of being shielded against the provisions of the CHRA, it is past time aboriginal governments were brought under the act’s mandate.
Equality cuts both ways.
Abe Lincoln once said that “he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave.” It works the same for aboriginals and human rights. The very rights aboriginals insist they be granted they must themselves be prepared to grant their own people — and be held accountable when they do not.

Not according to the opposition. Here’s a quote from Anita Neville, the Liberal aboriginal affairs critic that’s deserving of some sort of award;

“Human rights rammed down a community’s throats are not human rights,”

Since when, exactly?

Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it…

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… before an audience. Oops.

(Someone might want to save that clip to YouTube before it’s yanked).

The “Youtube” Democratic debate is getting fairly heavy coverage here – CTV (what liberal bias?) had a gushy little segment on it last night. Via Slate, this moment,, seems to be getting some attention on the blogosphere;

Biden’s obnoxious response when he insulted the gun owner toward the end as being nuts. It wasn’t so much a personal gaffe as a moment that projected an ugly image of the Democratic Party as out of touch with rural voters and gun owners — big problems the party has been trying to overcome. He got a huge cheer from the audience, but that just compounded the problem.

Go give Mike Harris a push, if you’re so inclined.
(And if you’ve not voted for Grant Devine yet in the Saskathewan poll, there’s still time!)
Remember – follow the rules and vote once. Because cheating is for Liberals!

At Angus Reid;
IS LORNE CALVERT DOING A GOOD JOB AS PREMIER OF SASKATCHEWAN?
Update – here’s another!

Canada’s Greatest Premier: The Saskatchewan Edition

I was undecided, until I looked over to the host site’s blogroll and noticed the link to rabble*.
“Tommy Douglas, Not Dead Enough!”
So I voted for Grant Devine.

Don Surber;

Under Democratic leadership, Congress has gone from the brink of the abyss and leaped. Whee!
Pollster John Zogby broke down the numbers.
“The Democratic Congress gets poor marks across the ideological spectrum — just 21 percent of liberals and 10 percent of the very liberal give it positive marks, while 14 percent of conservatives and 14 percent of the very conservative give it positive ratings,” Zogby wrote.
“Among Democrats, just 19 percent give Congress positive marks, compared to 13 percent of Republicans and 8 percent of political independents.
“By way of comparison, the Republican Congress had a 23 percent positive job approval rating last October, just a week before voters tossed the GOP out of their leadership posts in both houses.”
After six months, Democrats do have one bipartisan accomplishment: Everyone hates Congress.
Not so George Walker Bush. Among Republicans, 63 percent still think he is doing an outstanding job
Congress now has no base outside of its staff, the reporters who cover it and Mom, and even she is wavering.

He doesn’t think this is funny.

Guess who wrote this?

“Speaking of Merasty, people should really take the long-view. If he had legitimate reasons to resign, then he will be back when he’s ready. If he left because he’s upset at not getting the shadow cabinet position that he wanted, then maybe we are better off without such quitters. Either way, the bright side is that we have a chance to bring in a new face. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s David Orchard.“

Other possible “bright” sides:

In pictures.

An ABC News correspondent tries to get an answer from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Well, that was a waste of a perfectly good TV.

I was given a heads up this weekend about allegations regarding Judy Sgro’s daughter, and campaign co-chair. A few quotes taken from over 25 pages of complaints and discussion which date from the beginning of the year to the present;

Deanna Natale, the former lawyer at Total Credit Recovery recently had a difference of opinion (involving injuries and lawsuits) with her old alma mater where she enjoyed many felicitous years of gouging the public through litigation and unscrupulous mortgage brokerage practices. She is now plying her trade up the road at Global Credit and Collections located in the Motorola Building at 8133 Warden Ave., Suite 400, Markham, Ont.,Tel. 905-479-2222 or 1-800-463-4929. Natale’s office is just down the hall in suite 405 at 905 413-8748. Basically, it’s just a fancy boiler room operation with lots of security and carded entry. They haven’t made too many friends. I wonder why.
You didn’t mention whether Global had bought up your account or were just earning a commission on it from someone else. Sometimes collection agencies will buy up large amounts of old and SOL (stats barred) paper for almost nothing on the dollar, send out bluff notices and play the numbers. Surprising, the money that’s lined up to buy the stuff.
Last week, I had a guy from New Brunswick send me several emails concerning exactly the same phoney statement of claim from her. Maybe she’s sending them out en masse and just working the numbers.
Natale sent him one of those bogus Form 7A’s (Statement of Claim in Ontario Small Claims Court) threatening legal action in her jurisdiction of Richmond Hill. (I thought it should have been Newmarket, Ont.) In any event, his line of credit was just over the 6 year mark since the date of last activity on the account – which is the limitation period in NB). Natale wanted $6,000 OR ELSE! It was even more confusing since the address of the bank where the original line of credit loan was taken out and the borrower’s address were in the same New Bunswick town. That would mean that any lawsuit would have to be filed there, not in Ontario, irrespective of whether or not the debt had been bought up by Global. These bogus Form 7A’s always have a blank red seal in the upper left hand corner and the word “Draft” in the top middle. In this case, I told the guy that Global was SOL because the debt was SOL.
It seems you also are just one more target of Natale’s huffing and puffing. Since Natale is using bluffs and threatening lawsuits when, as a lawyer, she knows full well what the provincial laws of jurisdiction and limitation are, then people should send in a formal complaint to the Law Society of Upper Canada keeping copies of all her correspondence with her as submission evidence of professional misconduct.

A typical complaint;

Last Friday I received a letter and suspicious looking forms from Natale Law Offices. I too have never lived in the GTA. I do not owe money to the institution she says she’s is collecting for. The forms she sent look phony. Im happy she doesn’t have my SIN… Funny how she threatens to proceed with this fraudulent claim if she hasn’t heard from me within 10 days of the date of her letter. Yet I received the letter 14 days after the date of the letter. I have already reported this to the financial institute that she says I had owed money to. I will also report this to the RCMP tomorrow and to whoever else will listen!
I have since checked my credit rating with Equifax; it’s clean as a whistle.

And another;

From BC: I decided to do a google search on Deanna Natale after we too received a letter (this is the 3rd one) from Natale’s law office last week, claiming we owe money to Hilco for an account purchased from Wells Fargo that goes back to 2000. I checked our Equifax report and it has nothing on it, and I’ve never heard of either one of them. I got the whole package from her, the phony looking form 7a with the phony looking red seal.and the gmail?? come on!! What respectable business person uses that! SCAMMER is the first thing that came to my mind, so I just chucked them in the garbage. I’m going to take the advice of Raymond and make a paper airplane. . I wonder how many people actually pay, thinking they do owe it.

And more here at DiscoverVancouver.com.
Natale Law Offices has a website hosted under the unusual url of aiwlibraryfurniture.com. Bizarre.

A dollar short. Robert Novak finally “gives a full account of his role in the firestorm over revealing the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame.”
Be sure to read down to the part where Scooter Libby’s name comes up.

Dean Barnett;

It’s probably comforting for Democratic politicians to believe that Markos leads the movement in the progressive blogosphere. That being the case, all they have to do is soothe the savage breasts of Markos and other rabble-rousing bloggers and then get back to business as usual. That’s why Democratic politicians are so unfailingly solicitous of the liberal bloggers.
But it doesn’t work like that. If Markos came out tomorrow and said he’s supporting Hillary, the people who read his blog would tell him to pound sand. They would keep reading his blog, but they wouldn’t open their hearts or their wallets for Hillary.
CONSERVATIVE TALK RADIO has the same kind of dynamic. The people who listen to conservative talk have their own views, and they are extremely well informed ones at that. They listen to conservative talk because they hear opinions that are friendly to their political and personal philosophies. Listeners also tune in to conservative talk because, unlike liberal talk, conservative talk shows are fun and entertaining.
[…]
In truth, the Republican Party should be grateful for both talk radio and the blogosphere. If certain Republican politicians had paid attention to talk radio rather than baselessly assail it, they would have seen how dangerous this immigration bill was. If the bill had passed, the damage to the party would have been incalculable. The political class should appreciate the presence of an early alarm system like talk radio rather than bemoan it.
As far as the blogosphere is concerned, both the left and right blogopsheres have readerships that are puny parts of the electorate. Rush’s and Sean’s audiences are each nearly 50 times the size of the most-read center right blog. But the blogs provide an even earlier alarm system. If we’re going berserk in the blogosphere, the smart politician should take note.

A must read for politicians and their advisors.

A response for Andrew Pining For More “Federal” Power Coyne.
The unspoken truth about Canadian “identity” is this – “We are more like Americans than we are one another”.
If we wanted to be like Ontario, we’d have done it by now.

Ottawa Citizen;

Senator Dan Hays may best be remembered as the parliamentarian who finally got the ball rolling on change at the Senate by vacating his Liberal seat today, about seven years before his official retirement date.
As the Trudeau-appointed senator admittedly suspected, his resignation has allowed Prime Minister Stephen Harper to announce that he is filling his vacant seat with senator-elect Bert Brown — a move that is sure to shake up the appointed members of the sleepy chamber in the fall.
Ensuring that his commitment to changing the Senate didn’t go unnoticed, Mr. Hays followed up his departure announcement with the release in late May of his paper, Renewing the Senate of Canada: A Two-Phase Proposal, which proposes a royal commission on Senate reform — much like the one held in Britian.
But in his last media interview from Parliament Hill this week, the well-liked 68-year-old lawyer denied his resignation is meant to act as a catalyst for change to what has been his working home away from Calgary during the past 23 years. The former Senate speaker and onetime leader of the opposition said he felt it was simply a good time to leave after holding virtually all the top jobs in the upper house.
He admits he knew what would happen next: “I wasn’t surprised that the prime minister went to the list (of senators-elect) given his previous statements … and I’m pleased for Bert Brown. Probably no one in Canada wants to be a senator more than him.”

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