Author Archives: J Christian Adams

ACLJ: “Can states give military voters extra time”

Link = excerpt:  

The question of the case is quite simple: If a state extends
additional voting privileges to members of the military, must it extend
those same privileges to every other American?  The answer generally
depends on whether other voters are “similarly situated” to service
members and their families.  

Clearly, they are not.  Do civilian Ohioans have to pack up and go
where the Department of Defense tells them to go?  Do they have
temporary duty assignments in service of their country?  Are they faced
with the family dislocations and disruptions created by the demands of
service, including preparation for and recovery from deployment?

White Democrats in Congress from Missouri No More

 Politico.

“I]f you think you are going to take out an African-American congressman and replace him with a Caucasian and that won’t impact the Democratic Party, then something is wrong with your understanding of this. Do you think you can insult the most loyal base of the Democratic Party and not have an impact? It will destroy this party statewide.”

Post-racial?

“Palestinian Murderers, Israeli Athletes and an American Gymnast”


A non election related PJ Tatler post.

“The International Olympic Committee has refused to memorialize the murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. The reason isn’t hard to guess. The images of discord, where athletes from muslim countries either leave the field, or where officials from Islamic nations bluster at the inappropriateness of such a tribute, would be shameful and disgusting to sane people around the world. Such evil and inhumanity is best kept under wraps if you want to pretend it doesn’t exist.


In some parts of the world, murder remains as fashionable as it was in parts of Germany in 1943.


Enter one gold medal winning American gymnast – Aly Raisman.”

More at link.

John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky brief bloggers on book detailing voting fraud and necessary reforms

Video here.

Their book includes specific examples of voter fraud, which liberals often claim doesn’t exist. They write:

But voter fraud is a well-documented reality in American
elections. Just this year, a sheriff and county clerk in West Virginia
pleaded guilty to stuffing ballot boxes with fraudulent absentee ballots
that changed the outcome of an election. In 2005, a state senate
election in Tennessee was overturned because of voter fraud. The margin
of victory? 13 votes. In 2008, the Minnesota senate race that provided
the 60th vote needed to pass Obamacare was decided by a little over 300
votes. Almost 200 felons have already been convicted of voting illegally
in that election and dozens of other prosecutions are still pending.

Washington Times Book Review of “Who’s Counting”

Authors John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky
have presented hard evidence that voter fraud (some of it
well-organized), combined with incompetence, alleged “reforms,” and
bureaucratic indifference have undermined the popular trust in America’s
most precious right: picking our leaders.

…That one chapter easily could be expanded into a full-length book of its own. Much of it is based on Mr. Von Spakovsky’s experience inside the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. It
would be very difficult to exaggerate the depth of that agency’s
blatant corruption, partisanship and racial bias in enforcement as well
as in hiring.

and some suggested reforms:

Mr. Fund (an investigative pundit who has authored a previous work on this topic) and Mr. Von Spakovsky
(a former federal election commissioner and past Justice Department
official) bring to the table an impressive combined knowledge of voter
fraud. Their proposed remedies deserve our consideration. Here are just a
few:

1) Mandate voter ID laws; 2) make sure all voters are
Americans; 3) prevent absentee ballot fraud; 4) block fake data from
databases; 5) keep voter lists clean and updated; 6) prevent
“slow-walking” of military voter registration; 7) tighten protections
against abuses in early voting, same-day registration and the 1993
“Motor-Voter” law; 8) resist misguided efforts to abolish the electoral
college.


link. 

Review: Fund and von Spakovsky’s Who’s Counting, Your User’s Manual to Election 2012

 PJ Rule of Law.

“They document how felons like Sabrina Ruth Hall illegally voted for Franken. When she was asked on camera if her vote might have helped Franken, she unashamedly replied “I don’t know, but I hope it did.” Naturally Eric Holder has failed to prosecute Hall under 42 U.S.C. § 1973gg-10(2), a statute which criminalizes casting an illegitimate ballot in a federal election.


But Holder isn’t alone if failing to uphold the Rule of Law. The authors also call out John Kingrey, the head of the Minnesota County Attorneys Association. Minnesota actually makes it a crime for a prosecutor to fail to investigate when presented with sworn evidence of voter fraud. Why didn’t Kingrey advocate investigations into the rampant election fraud in 2008? According to Kingrey, that course of action “diverted resources from the job that we want to do.” Kingrey was more interested in engagement on legislation related to bong water.“