Author Archives: J Christian Adams

Pennsylvania Poll Finds Strong Support for Voter ID, Minimal Difficulty Obtaining ID


A new Inquirer Pennsylvania Poll shows 64 percent of the state’s likely voters support Pennsylvania’s voter ID law, with approval as high as 73 percent in the Pittsburgh area, and a smaller 53 percent majority in voting irregularity-plagued Philadelphia.  Not surprising numbers, as voter ID remains consistently popular nationwide. 


 


But what may surprise the ACLU, NAACP and others in the anti-ID crowd:  The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that “94 percent said it would not be difficult for them to obtain the necessary ID to vote. Three percent reported it would be ‘somewhat difficult,’ 2 percent ‘very difficult,’ and 1 percent said they did not know or declined to answer.”


 


These numbers put to the lie the Left’s baseless (and refuted) claims that voter ID requirements lead to widespread disenfranchisement. 

But is The Christian Post right in asserting that “the issue raised by liberals is not the difficulty in obtaining a valid ID, but that such laws are a throwback to Jim Crow laws of the early twentieth century that were enacted to discourage blacks and other minorities from voting.”?


 


Half right.  The “Jim Crow” smear is tossed about with reckless frequency by the Left, but “the difficulty in obtaining a valid ID” is precisely the issue raised in their legal challenge.  However, not only did a Pennsylvania court find that argument unpersuasive, Obama campaign volunteer Elizabeth Sims, who’s been offering assistance to Pennsylvania voters, says, “In my phone calls, I haven’t had one person who’s said that they didn’t have ID, and I’ve made hundreds of calls.”

“Pentagon blows it again on military voting”

link @ the Washington Examiner:

In a stern Sept. 7th letter to Defense Secretary
Leon Panetta, MOVE author Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, chastised the
Pentagon for its “clear violation of a central provision of this federal
law. … The MOVE Act was not optional, and neither is our moral duty
to protect the civil rights of our men and women in uniform and their
families,” Cornyn wrote.

The Left plots new ways to overturn free speech in “Citizens United”

A glimpse of what the Left is up to:

We progressives have been in quite a tizzy about Citizens United, especially now that 2012 election cycle is swamped with Super PAC money. Citizens United,
you’ll remember, is the 2010 Supreme Court case saying that
corporations have the same rights to engage in political speech as you
and I do. In response, a number of progressives have proposed constitutional amendments to do away with corporate “personhood.”

…Instead of amending the constitution to weaken corporate “personhood,”
we should focus on changing corporations themselves so that overturning Citizens United
would be unnecessary. We should use this historical moment to nudge
corporations closer to what the Supreme Court assumed they are in its Citizens United
decision — “associations of citizens.” While the constitutional effort
is defensive and palliative, a campaign to redesign the corporation
itself would be affirmative and transformative. To cure Citizens United, we don’t have to amend the Constitution — we need to rethink corporations.

Justice Alito says media report inaccuracies on decisions, including Citizens United

The AP reports: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A.
Alito Jr. expressed frustration Friday at what he said were inaccuracies
in the media about the court and its decisions, saying it’s difficult
to sit by when opinions are misinterpreted.

‘‘Sometimes it’s inadvertent, and sometimes opinions are spun, just
like everything else. … They’re reduced to a slogan that you put on a
bumper sticker, and that’s very frustrating,’’ he told an audience of students

Alito cited the Citizens United ruling, which freed corporations and
labor unions of most limits on political spending, saying it involved a
complex area of elections law and applicationsd

‘‘Campaign finance is very complicated, so it’s easy to get it wrong,
and sometimes people get it wrong inadvertently,’’ he said.


And sometimes they get it wrong purposefully and intentionally to create hysteria.