Author Archives: J Christian Adams

Breakthrough: Election Integrity Lightning


My review of James O’Keefe’s new book Breakthrough.

“. . . These circumstances create blind spots among those who spend most of their time speaking to only the like-minded.

It allowed O’Keefe to capture ACORN workers willingly help a child prostitution ring. It allowed him to capture unionized New Jersey teachers boast about how little work they did and how even using the N-word won’t result in discipline to a tenured teacher. It allowed us to see the anti-Christian anti-Israel proclivities of officials in government funded radio.

It gave him a chance to expose the willingness of Obama campaign operatives to aid federal felonies and facilitate double voting. We saw the blind spot of Patrick Moran, a Democrat operative and son of Congressman Jim Moran, when he helped devise tactics to commit felony voter fraud in Virginia.

All the while, O’Keefe’s cameras rolled.

These blind spots permit conservatives to capture the establishment targets in their natural and embarrassing state. “

“House Update: Tiny Movement Toward Republicans”

A commentary posted on Rasmussen Reports by Larry J. Sabato and Kyle Kondik: 


At this very early point in the 2014 race for the U.S. House, small Republican gains — as in, less than five seats — look likelier than a similarly small gain for Democrats. That’s because the Republican targets just look a little better than the Democratic ones.   

While most of redistricting is complete and litigation has run its course, the piece identified judicial intervention in redistricting a “wild card”: 

Courts drawing different maps in Florida and Texas that allow Democrats to gain seats out of both places would be the electoral equivalent of divine intervention — a dose of which, having to do with redistricting or something else, is almost a requirement for the Democrats to have a real shot at taking the House next year.

“Meet the Supreme Court matchmaker: Edward Blum”

An activist with an ability to match the right plaintiff with the right legal challenge has launched two landmark Supreme Court cases that will be decided this month, and verdicts in each could create legal “earthquakes,” experts say.  Edward Blum (whose last name is pronounced “Bloom”) is not an attorney. He’s a former stockbroker who now runs the Project on Fair Representation, a non-profit legal organization that is “designed to support litigation that challenges racial and ethnic classifications and preferences in state and federal courts,” according to their website.

“FEMA official charged with voter fraud”

A Federal Emergency Management Agency official has been arrested in connection with a voter fraud case in St. Johns County.  Michel
Pawlowski, 68, was named in a complaint last fall alleging voter fraud.
He lives in Maryland. His daughter ran for St. Augustine Beach city
commission and won.  Link.

It has not been a good month for federal agencies. And the hits just keep coming.

“A culture of lawlessness prevails in Eric Holder’s Justice Department”

 Link here.

“. . .The integrity of American elections has similarly been damaged by the new culture. Despite having millions of ineligible and dead voters polluting state registration rolls before the 2012 election, Holder refused to enforce the Motor Voter law and force states to clean up this nationwide mess. Apparently reasoning that enforcement might hurt Democratic reelection chances, Holder turned a blind eye.

Men who exercise power and twist laws to achieve aims Congress never intended, while simultaneously ignoring other laws they don’t like, are destructive of our Constitutional order. The rule of law is a precious yet fragile American institution that is the foundation of our liberty, freedom, and economic prosperity. America has endured very few Attorneys General hostile to this institution, but Holder is one. . . “