Things of Note

Republic of T leads with a hard hitting piece on Joe Biden's statement and the Republican reaction and why the former is truer than he knew and the latter is rightly and properly scorched:

Conservatives cried foul, but have not yet cited any evidence that the vice president was wrong. And I don’t mean in the literal sense, though it might be a stretch for conservatives like Peter Beinart to consider that Biden did not literally mean that “Romney, who once claimed (falsely) that his father marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., plans to bring back slavery.” (It makes sense, though, that a party that either defends slavery or labels anything it doesn’t like as “slavery” — was too cowardly to face up to the reality of slavery in the constitution — wouldn’t see the deep irony here.)

Mr. Heath is not only talking about black disenfranchisement, either; he's talking about the drug war.

Direct link to News21, which is looking into Republican Satanic ritual abuse "voter fraud."  And not finding a lot, although the source of the push for voter ID seems to be related to--surprise, surprise--ALEC. Via Skippy, who pointed at nbcnews.com, which has the bullet-point version.