Voter Fraud Isn’t Real: As the ACLU and NAACP take Pennsylvania to court over its new voter ID law, the state has had to make a rather large concession: “In a Pennsylvania court filing, the state says it has never investigated claims of in-person voter fraud and so won’t argue that such fraud has occurred in the past. As a result, the state says, it has no evidence that the crime has ever been committed.”
Washington State May Use Federal Immigration Database to Check Voter Eligibility: Our secretary of state, Sam Reed, “requested permission from the Department of Homeland Security to access the system, which includes records of more than 100 million legal US immigrants—citizens and noncitizens… Officials say the information won’t be used to make wholesale purges of the state’s elections database, as has been done in other states.”
Holy Shit, Mitt: As Paul reported last night, a Romney adviser went balls-out on the Vote for Mitt, Racists! campaign yesterday by arguing that Romney’s better appreciation of “Anglo-Saxon heritage” would make him better able to work with the UK.
Protesters and Police Clash in Anaheim: After two deadly police shootings this weekend, protests got more dramatic last night. “Protesters hurled rocks, traffic cones and other objects at police clad in riot gear as officers chased people along sidewalks and streets throughout the evening and fired less-than-lethal projectiles into crowds after giving a dispersal order.” There’ve been five fatal police shootings in Anaheim so far this year.
Siiiiiiiiiiigh: The shootings in Aurora appear to have caused Colorado gun sales to spike dramatically. “The state approved background checks for 2,887 people who wanted to purchase a firearm—25 percent more than the average Friday to Sunday period in 2012 and 43 percent more than the same interval the week prior.”
Pay to Park and Ride? Sound Transit considers charging for park-and-ride lots.
Whooping Cough on the Rise: Those no-vaccination people “partially to blame.”
Sports vs. Religion: Since the Olympics occur during Ramadan this year, Muslim athletes are facing the question of whether or not to fast before and during competition.
The Hipster Olympics: Happened in Berlin. Photos here.
Do You Want to Read a Really Long, In-Depth Interview with Antonin Scalia? Me neither. Short version: Blah blah blah, he’s still a douchebag.
Sorry, Ladies: Turns out new North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is married.
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