Author Archives: J Christian Adams

The Segregationist

Roger Simon has more.


“How else do you explain a statement like “We don’t need to build more highways out in the suburbs. We should be investing in minority-owned business, in our neighborhoods”? [emphasis mine]


That is not what most of us had in mind when we were involved in the civil rights movement. Naïve us. Our intention was that everyone should get to live wherever they wanted, even those suburbs. They were open to all. Forget ghettoes and barrios. Equality, brother, equality. How did that old Babs Gonzales song go — “We got a New Frontier, a man in the moon, but we ain’t got integration”?


Oh well, integration was a nice idea once upon a time, but to Barack Obama in 2007 it was already seriously outdated, if it ever had any value. And why should it? An integrated society is not easily broken off into equally easily manipulated interest groups like African-Americans or Hispanic-Americans.


Segregation pays — at the ballot box.”

Rush Limbaugh Kudos for Fund and von Spakovsky

Today Rush Limbaugh talked up Who’s Counting by John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky.

Link: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/10/01/john_fund_s_new_book_on_voter_fraud_is_well_worth_your_time

Down in the lower left corner of this blog, I’ve been tracking sales of four election law related books.  One is mine, which was released a year ago Thursday.  Another is Who’s Counting.  A professor’s academic press book is the third and Tova Wang’s virtually unread book is the fourth.  Naturally, Limbaugh’s mention caused sales of Who’s Counting to spike through the day. 

A few observations about Amazon.com sales rankings.  Once your book is in the top 10,000, it has an inertia, both up and down.  It becomes harder and harder to move up, and falls are slower.  Wild jumps usually represent singular purchases. The wildest jumps represent bulk purchases by a single buyer.  And after your book has been out for a year, as Injustice has, it is fitted with “lead boots.”  That means that for any short duration of low sales, Amazon sends it down faster than recent releases.  The sales rankings have been up for a couple of months and a couple of observations.

The conservative media still has the ability to move product (and thereby the narrative) in ways other venues can ony dream of.  One mention on Rush and your sales explode.  Last time Rush mentioned Injustice it went to about #550, five months after release.   Fund and von Spakovsky’s book is moving in part because of the power of 50,000 watt talk radio – a forum reserved for people who report on voter fraud instead of deny it.  Today was another example.

Wisconsin ballots for military voters sent after deadline

HumanEvents reports on the situation and repeated failures by Wisconsin.  It also shows why the remedies required by DoJ in their consent decree with Wisconsin are inadequate to fix the problem.     


…That’s because, as reported by the MacIver Institute, “At least 30 Wisconsin municipalities failed to send absentee ballots
to military voters before the 45 day deadline, according to former U.S.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Anthony Principi, and he’s demanding the Government This entry was posted in Uncategorized on by .