And another Nice Old Lady finds herself the victim of the GOP voter-supression scam:

Ninety-one-year-old Virginia Lasater has voted and worked in campaigns for some 70 years. But Wednesday she ran head-long into the barrier Tennessee’s new voter photo ID law is throwing up for some elderly people.

Care to guess?

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“A group of tea-party activists in Texas will host a ‘modified Lincoln–Douglas debate’ between Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich next month.” [NRO, via Political Wire]

“The Massachusetts healthcare law that then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed in 2006 includes a program known as the Health Safety Net, which allows undocumented immigrants to get needed medical care along with others who lack insurance.” [LAT]

Public-service comics usually don’t fare well, mainly because the Message tends to undermine the Fun. But when the Centers for Disease Control tackles an outbreak of the Undead, it’s a match made in Zombie Apocalypse — you do have an emergency kit, don’t you?

Plus, this:

“I’m pretty sure Mrs. Clements was trying to attack her own cat, and she just nearly got me!”

Our only quibble is the cop-out ending, where the CDC enjoys a happier fate than it does in The Walking Dead.

Centers for Disease Control’s Zombie Comic Teaches General Emergency Preparedness [Comics Alliance]

“An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the premise of ‘Angry Birds,’ a popular iPhone game. In the game, slingshots are used to launch birds to destroy pigs and their fortresses, not to shoot down the birds.” [NYT, via @pourmecoffee]

Title: “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?”

Author: Pat Buchanan

Rank: 20

Blurb: “America was born a Western Christian republic, writes Buchanan, but is being transformed into a multiracial, multicultural, multilingual, multiethnic stew of a nation that has no successful precedent in the history of the world.”

Review: “Pat’s thesis is clear throughout the book: America is disintegrating before our eyes. ‘What happened to the country we grew up in?’ It’s a question that I, as someone born in 1960 and someone who shares Pat’s Christian beliefs, can identify with.” (Fr. Charles Erlandson, Tyler, Texas)

Customers Also Bought: “Why Catholics Are Right”, by Michael Coren.

Footnote: If you’d like to return to the days when Papists were scorned by polite society, fine by us.

Suicide of a Superpower [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon Kickback Link]

“Putting aside the entirely legitimate liberal criticism of Obama’s prosecution of the war on terror, his penchant for secrecy and his disappointing civil liberties record…” [Greg Sargent/WaPo]