Links and Minifeatures 2008 04 28 Monday

Carnival of Personal Finance

Carnival of Real Estate Investing

Hurray! Indiana's Voter ID law upheld!

Every time someone votes who is not entitled to, it effectively disenfranchises someone who is entitled to. Even if you don't drive, a state ID is cheap (some states will even give them free if your income is below a certain level), and you have all the time you could possibly need to get one.

Grasping at Straws: The NY Times on McCain

[R]egarding the non-violation of FEC rules: the article itself states that the FEC didn't even begin not-adopting this new non-rule until December - and the travel in question took place from August through February. Not in any conceivable universe would McCain ever to have been held to have violated in August a rule that didn't exist before December. And presumably if the FEC had had enough members to pass this rule in December, the McCain campaign would have then stopped doing whatever it is that the Times is so indignant about.

And WHY does the commission not have enough members to conduct business as usual? The Times is unusually reticent on that point. That's because the reason the FEC doesn't have enough members is that Barack Obama has blocked President Bush's nominee from being confirmed.

Instapundit on criminalizing policy differences.

Maybe this is what Obama means by "change"

Obama seems pretty much "brought to you by the Ministry of Truth", aka the mass media.

Convenient Memory Holes upon Demand! Whiffleball Questions! Pretending Major Inconsistencies Don't Exist! Ignoring Inconvenient Associates! How far can the media go into the tank for Hope and Change Man!

"Deadbeat Dads" Who Are Actually Moms