CenLamar | Est. 2006

Scalia Rejects Third-Party Candidate from Appearing on Louisiana Ballot I’ve written before about the controversial efforts of purging newly-registered voters from the rolls here in the Great State of Louisiana. Today, the New York Times (a paper Governor Palin is suddenly fond of quoting) is reporting that the voter purging efforts in many swing states appear to be illegal, and unfortunately, Louisiana is on the list (though we’re not considered one of those swing states). In addition to this controversy, Louisiana has also battled court cases protesting the state’s registration deadline for placing nominees on our ballot. Apparently, the deadline…

And it makes The Smoking Gun and, no doubt, will soon make the national wires. Quoting: OCTOBER 8–Angered by a delay in the receipt of his voter registration card, a Louisiana man today threatened election officials, claiming that he urgently needed to cast a ballot to “keep the n****r out of office,” according to police. Wade Williams, 75, was arrested this morning on a felony terrorizing charge after allegedly calling the Registrar of Voters and warning that he would come to the state office and empty his shotgun unless he got his registration card. Using profanity and racial slurs, Williams…

Updated with video: BloggerInterrupted interviews supporters outside of a Palin rally in Strongsville, Ohio. “Breathtaking ignorance” is how he describes it. The talking heads and the national blogosphere are all over Senator John McCain’s and Governor Sarah Palin’s latest attempt to tie Senator Barack Obama to William Ayers, a former member of the Weather Underground, an organization (if you can even call it that) which attempted to detonate small, homemade bombs in and around government buildings during the 1960s, as an expression of defiance against the Vietnam War. A serious crime, to be sure, and one that was committed when…