Congratulations to Joseph Cao on his win against corrupt Democrat William Jefferson (yes, the same guy who had the National Guard escort him to his house during Katrina so he could clean the cash out of his freezer).

Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Cao fled to the United States when he was 8, learned English, earned degrees in physics and philosophy, and joined the Catholic seminary.

When his views on how best to serve the poor changed, Cao went to law school, began a practice specializing in immigration, settled in Venetian Isles and started a family.

More coverage from The Chrisian Science Monitor and NOLA.com

Vin Suprynowicz, who has been a huge influence on my political views over the years with his columns and books, has decided to vote for the GOP.

I have only one marginally effective way to tell those who have spent the past three months libeling and trashing Sarah Palin — and with her, every “regular American” who owns a gun or goes to church and lives outside their oh-so-correct urban enclaves of Washington, New York, Atlanta and Los Angeles — where to shove it. And that’s to vote against the communist sympathizer who would make legally owned self-defense weapons as rare as whooping cranes, and for a true American hero — to vote a Republican presidential ticket for the first time in my life.

Via spankthatdonkey