Via Instapundit:

GEORGIA’S VOTER ID REQUIREMENT was struck down as discriminatory. That’s to vote though. You still need one to buy beer. . .

The site he links to is The Institute for Southern Studies, which was founded “in 1970 by veterans of the civil rights movement” and they think the ban on photo ID to vote is a Good Thing.

What they’re doing, of course, is fighting the last war. Apparently they believe the photo ID requirement is an attempt to suppress the black vote, and similar to a poll tax. They’re worried about the lack of DMV offices in Atlanta, for goodness sake. Atlanta has been run by African-Americans since 1973.

The threat to blacks in “Georgiafornia” is not old-fashioned whites trying to prevent them from voting, it’s from illegal immigrants who are taking their jobs, and if not prevented, diluting their vote by voting illegally.

No one in Georgia’s Capitol was trying to prevent black citizens of the United States from voting. They were trying to prevent citizens of Mexico from voting.

And as usual, all it takes is one Judge having a flashback to the Civil Rights Movement to stop them.

From Norway on Sunday came the appalling news the Fjordman blog is considering shutting down. Since February this blog has been the primary source of hard news on the on-going Islamic conquest of Scandinavia, occuring complete with soaring rape rates, draconian media repression, and traitorous politicians (Norway invented Quisling, remember).

Fjordman has a lot to be depressed about. All is not lost: the Immigration-sceptic Progress Party vaulted into the role of being the second largest Norwegian party at the recent election, increasing its vote share by 50%. (This received no publicity at all in America.) But any further advances needs to be quick: the political establishment seems bent on making any questioning of immigration a criminal offence.

In fact, Fjordman’s weariness in common in the blogosphere. Keeping up a blog of the quality and vitality of his is ENORMOUSLY HARD WORK. Several valuable ones have closed recently, for instance a favorite of mine, The Epic of Gilgamesh . Another, the Dow Blog has mentioned the possibility. Enthusiasm and novelty will carry one only so far. An Army marches on its stomach.

That is why we at VDARE.com reject the trickle of peevish and spiteful e mails which have arrived denouncing our fund raising appeal. Yes, it would be nice if all our writers could operate for free. But, as the loss of these and other wonderful blogs shows too clearly, it is physically and emotionally impossible to sustain.

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