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A federal judge ruled Thursday that a Michigan law banning straight-ticket voting would place a disproportionate burden on African Americans' right to vote, and granted a request for a preliminary injunction to block enforcement of the law. Mark Brewer, a lawyer in the case and former head of the Michigan Democratic Party, argued that the elimination of straight-party voting would likely have a larger impact on African-American voters, noting "extremely high" correlations between the size of the African-American voting population within a district, and the use of straight-party voting in that district. New straight-ticket voting law in Michigan prompts lawsuit...

Could The Time Be Ripe for The Great Monarch? Is He Here Among Us Now? by Sandra Airey I'm a Catholic born in 1947, raised in a family with many devout Catholics, and taught by pre-Vatican II nuns for 12 years. My life has been unusual for more than one reason. I was born the second child to a woman with Rh negative blood and a severe heart defect. I ended up with minimal brain damage ( causing partial seizures affecting awareness ) and connective tissue disease. My mother knowing about the circumstances of my birth was aware that I...

Kevin and I sat down to discuss political punditry in 2016. He believes ‘armageddon sells’ in political discourse, yet while there are future economic problems on the horizon, things aren’t as bad as they’re made out to be. As an original Never-Trumper, his opinion of the Republican Nominee is unwavering. I ask if he and his likeminded colleagues have painted themselves into a corner. He also answers those on Ricochet[.com] who suggest SCOTUS is a legitimate reason to pull the lever for Trump in November. Kevin D. Williamson is National Review’s roving correspondent and director of the National Review Institute’s...

FR brothers and sisters, this thread is for all the Ted Cruz supporters. I'm a proud Texan, and ashamed of Ted Cruz. I am supporting the Trump / Pence ticket all the way. This experiment in a republic form of government with limited federal controls will not survive a Hillary presidency. I believe in my heart that Trump will be a transformational president. The good he'll do will outlive his Trump Towers. As for Ted, I don't think he'll win another election here in the great state of Texas. That being said, there are FReepers who still support Ted. I'd...

Former House speaker addresses the Republican National Convention

Donald Trump Talks About Melania's Speech to George Stephanopoulos | Speechwriter came to Donald Trump and said she made a mistake and he rejected her resignation.

Thank God Trump, not Cruz is running.

Hillary Clinton must be getting so jealous of Donald Trump’s marketing brilliance with his hugely successful “Make America GREAT Again” campaign theme. At the Republican Convention, Trump’s campaign theme brilliance was further embellished: Each day of the RNC schedule was focused on four cohesive sub-themes of “Make America Great Again.” . Monday: Make America Safe Again . Tuesday: Make America Work Again . Wednesday: Make America First Again . Thursday: Make America One Again This shows a great ability to organize & strategize – traits that will make for good leadership later. And traits desperately lacking on the Left. So,...

It’s not just native-born Americans expressing nativist sentiments these days. Somehow, it’s immigrants, too. “I think that enough immigrants entered this country,” Rosa Berezovskaya, an 86-year-old immigrant who came to the United States from Kiev in 2003, told the Forward in a story that ran last week. “We also came here as immigrants in our own time. But we can’t let in crooks, we can’t let in untrustworthy people that will cause us problems,” said 82-year-old Olga Dubova, who emigrated from Ukraine in 1995, in the same article. “I like his honesty, that he’s against Muslims, that he’s against refugees,”...

One of the top candidates being considered for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Running mate in 2016 has had some email problems of his own. Tom Vilsack, the former governor of Iowa and President Barack Obama’s current secretary of agriculture, was caught up in a 2004 scandal that resulted in emails being “inadvertently” destroyed. Vilsack partially blamed himself for destroying emails regarding the Iowa Department of Economic Development Foundation. The Des Moines Register had requested the emails. Vilsack’s response to the controversy, rather ironically, mirrored Clinton’s response to her own email scandal: he basically said he was old and...

AUSTIN, Texas – A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Texas' strict voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act and ordered changes before the November election. ADVERTISEMENT The ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals instructs a lower court to make changes that fix the "discriminatory effect" of the 2011 law, but to do so in a way that disrupts this year's election season as little as possible. President Barack Obama's administration took the unusual step of deploying the weight of the U.S. Justice Department into the case when it challenged the law, which requires Texas residents...

Texas’s voter ID law violates federal laws prohibiting electoral discrimination, an appeals court ruled Wednesday. The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the 2011 state law, widely viewed as the one of the nation’s strictest such requirements, ruling that it violates section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. "The record shows that drafters and proponents of SB 14 were aware of the likely disproportionate effect of the law on minorities, and that they nonetheless passed the bill without adopting a number of proposed ameliorative measures that might have lessened this impact," Judge Catharina Haynes wrote in the ruling.

Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump's eldest daughter, is scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention on Thursday.

Earlier today, Ed cracked into the curious story of how Ted Cruz is going to wind up addressing the Republican National Convention tonight, supposedly without endorsing the party’s nominee. ... Jim Geraghty jumped into the same debate in today’s edition of the Morning Jolt, ... "Are we absolutely certain Trump’s judicial picks will be good ones? Can he really secure the border, or will Trump water down his wall promises? Notice Rick Perry, who also spoke at the convention but who did not endorse or mention Trump from the stage, recently said it’s going to be a “digital wall.” Are...

Ahead of his father's nomination, Trump's oldest child talks about making the case for his father as the next president of the United States.

On "Hannity" tonight, Frank Luntz spoke to a focus group of undecided voters about the Republican National Convention and the most impressive speaker they saw tonight: Donald Trump Jr. They described the son of the Republican presidential nominee as very sincere, charismatic, authentic, articulate and genuine. "The father should take lessons from the son," one man said. "He didn't tear anybody down." Several members said they wish that Trump Sr. was more coolheaded and less controversial like Trump Jr. They acknowledged, however, that a great child is testament to great parenting. "If Donald Trump would act at home the way...

The Donald J. Trump for president campaign is on track. Saving his most biting criticism for Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama, his gaffe-free performance of late follows a bumpy stretch where personal attacks on the media and a federal court judge hurt his campaign. The Donald's newfound discipline coincides with the departure of former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and the ascendency of new campaign top adviser Paul Manafort. Trump also deserves kudos for his choice of Mike Pence as his running mate. His decision to pick Pence is smart on several counts. First, Pence is a serious conservative on...

"Rules for Radicals" by Saul Alinsky is dedicated to Lucifer - Here is the dedication quote: "Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom." — Lucifer.