‘Eligibility rules bar millions of voters in US’
This article in this morning’s Herald, by someone called Peter Huck,  is packed with half-truths, omissions, distortions and flat-out lies. Pretty much standard Herald fare, then. 
Update: For a dose of truth and commonsense, try the latest Woodpile Report

‘Ixquick Stops Recording Browser and Platform Information Entirely.
•    We don’t collect any personal information on our visitors. Nada. Zilch. Zero.
•    When you use Ixquick, we do not record your IP address, we do not record which browser you are using (Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, etc.), we do not record your computer platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.), and we do not record your search words or phrases. In fact, the only information we do record is an aggregate total of how many searches are performed on our website each day (a measure of overall traffic), and those overall traffic numbers broken down by language.
•    Our zero data collection policy protects your privacy, since your IP address, browser, and platform information can be combined with other data to uniquely identify your computer, your location, or you. It is also important not to record search terms, since they can convey personal information as well. (Think of someone entering their own name and/or social security number.)….’
What’s more, Ixquick is not politically biased, as Google is.

‘The surveillance experts at the National Security Agency won’t tell two powerful United States Senators how many Americans have had their communications picked up by the agency as part of its sweeping new counterterrorism powers. The reason: it would violate your privacy to say so…’
A clear “up yours” from bureaucrats who are supposed to be accountable to the people’s elected representatives.
From an interesting (and somewhat scary) article at Belmont Club.

A high-profile Masterton man caught driving with a breath alcohol level three times the legal limit has won a bid to keep his name secret.
….Mr Blathwayt (defence lawyer. kg) told Judge Carrie Wainwright that a psychiatric report showed the man suffered from significant stress and anxiety which would be made worse if his name was published.
Judge Wainwright agreed and permanently suppressed his name, although she noted he had at least two previous convictions for drink-driving…’
And will this effing social worker posing as a judge be held responsible when this clown kills somebody? We all know the answer to that. And what’s with the “at least two” previous drink-driving convictions? Don’t they know how many?

‘The Mercedes-Benz 540 K Special Roadster is one of only 30 built. It may exceed the world auction record of US$16.4 million, set by a Ferrari last year, and comfortably beat the price of a Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder convertible, one of three included in the series of sales, which is estimated at US$9m.’      (click the pic for a larger version)

…So far, the media has done nothing but blame the wrong people. At the first site of violence in Colorado, ABC’s Brian Ross turns to the Tea Party because apparently that’s the only template he knows. He could not have been further from the truth.
If police reports are accurate, the violence at a Conservative lobbying group in Washington DC was perpetuated by a radical leftist whose motive was purely political. He said so. He reportedly said he shot up the place because of what it stood for. It doesn’t get more clear than that. It’s like a guy going into a US Military Base yelling “Allahu Akbar” and the media still wondering what the motive is. Wait, that happened as well and the motive was ignored. “We don’t know why Major Hasan did this,” is what most media observers said. ..’
It’s getting to the point where a “moderate leftist” is as much a myth as the “moderate muslim” unicorn…

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The answer to their fears is always more laws and regulations. Which may be all well and good, until they wake up one morning and discover that what they regarded as perfectly ordinary yesterday, is today verboten…

‘New Black Panthers to RNC: Our ‘Feet Will Be On Your Motherf***ing Necks’  source
But of course, the media will fail to cover this.

‘So a ship that’s not Australian and on its way to Singapore picks up some people 46 nautical miles off the coast of Indonesia, inside Indonesian waters, and turns around and takes them to Christmas Island? Why didn’t it take them to Indonesia? ‘    source