quote of the day

"And then, something really odd happened, mostly because I think that we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in this country. People who could not even spell the word “vote,” or say it in English, put a committed socialist idealogue in the White House, name is Barack Hussein Obama."

– former congressman tom tancredo
addressing the national tea party convention

prior to the voting rights act in 1964 literacy and civics voting tests were used to prevent african americans from voting.