Posts Tagged ‘elections’
Voter ID Prevents Election Fraud
Mike Brownfield, Heritage Foundation Last night’s nail-biter in Iowa marked the beginning of election year 2012. And with Americans heading to the polls — next in New Hampshire, then South Carolina and beyond — they will hope to rely on the integrity of the election system to ensure that every legitimate vote counts and that fraud is not [...]
Russian Protesters Organize Online
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Moscow in response to the December fourth elections. One of the protests drew a crowd of approximately 100,000 people, the largest since the fall of the Soviet Union over twenty years ago. The protesters believe former President and [...]
The Protests in Russia
By Carl L. Bankston III The mass protests in Russia against efforts by Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party to maintain its control and return Putin to the country’s presidency through electoral fraud are reminders of the fragility of political legitimacy. Legitimacy is especially fragile in a “top-down” political system, where [...]
President Calvin Coolidge on Exercising The Right to Vote
American Minute with Bill Federer In a Radio Address, NOVEMBER 3, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge stated: I therefore urge upon all the voters of our country, without reference to party, that they assemble...at their respective voting places in the exercise of the high office of American citizenship, that they approach the ballot box in the [...]
Who Needs Elections?
Heritage Foundation, Common Sense North Carolina’s Governor Bev Perdue suggested suspending elections to allow lawmakers to solve America’s problems without considering Americans' opinions. Peter Orszag, former head of the Office of Management and Budget, could not agree more. In his recent piece in The New Republic, Orszag also bemoaned [...]
For the Sake of Party or Principle?
By Steve Farrell Thomas Jefferson and John Adams had different points of view on a few subjects. One significant point of departure, at least in Adams' mind, was on the supposed benefits of party spirit. Jefferson informed the Adamses (John and Abigail) on more than one occasion that there were two kinds of spirit always present among men, [...]
National Popular Vote Would End States’ Role in Elections for President
Liberty Alerts, Ann Shibler, JBS.Org There’s a new wrinkle in the old game of manipulating the outcome of elections: A single organization is behind a massive, well-orchestrated lobbying effort in virtually every state to restructure presidential election procedures. The wealthy California-based National Popular Vote (NPV) group is bent on [...]
An Interview with Don McMillan: Reflections on the Elections
School Days, Michael F. Shaughnessy, Education News.org Michael F. Shaughnessy - Yeech! I hate what our process has become. I KNOW negative ads are effective – but the death penalty for speeding would be effective, too - but is that a good idea? 1) Don, this interview is slated to run AFTER the recent elections, so now it is safe, [...]
2010 Elections: Where To Go From Here
By Christopher G. Adamo The sheer enormity of the 2010 mid-term elections has caused disfavored political players to scramble and posture. Some who only a few years ago had believed their agenda to be the wave of the future now find themselves relegated to the political fringe, while a resurgence of traditional Americanism is proving to be [...]
Democrats Already Taking Legal Action
Liberty Alerts, Foxnews.com Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, says the DSCC is already taking legal action in some areas across the country. In Bridgeport, Ct., Democrats are looking for an hour-long extension in that precinct since polling stations ran out of ballots. According to the [...]
Exit Polls: Six in 10 Independent Voters Go GOP
Liberty Alerts, Foxnews.com THE ECONOMY OVERSHADOWS EVERYTHING Vast numbers expressed concern about the economy, and those who did were leaning decisively toward Republican House candidates. About 6 in 10 named the economy as the country's top problem, with no other issue coming close. Nearly all said the economy is in bad shape and expressed [...]
The Key Races to Watch on Tuesday
Liberty Alerts, NewsMax.com, David A Patten Top political pundits tell Newsmax that just a handful of races on Tuesday evening will show whether Democrats face the debacle of "biblical proportions" that some grass-roots conservative leaders anticipate. Newsmax asked the nation's top political experts to select three bellwether races each [...]
Not Just No, But Heck No!
By Alan Caruba The midterm elections of 2010 will be recalled as a time when the majority of voters said, not just No, but Hell No! Zogby Interactive released the results of a survey taken between October 29 and November 1. “One-half of likely voters say they do not plan to vote for President Barack Obama in 2012, compared to 40% who say [...]
Americans Vote to Fill Record 37 Governorships
Liberty Alerts, NewsMax.com Voters on Tuesday select governors in more than two-thirds of the states, the largest-ever number of gubernatorial races on the ballot. Republicans seek large statehouse gains to match a hoped-for sweep in Congress. Democrats are bracing for losses but looking for some consolation prizes amid the expected rubble: [...]
Obama: ‘Things Have Gotten Better Over the Last Two Years’
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com Doing last minute campaigning on hip hop radio station KPWR 106 FM in Los Angeles today, President Barack Obama said that things have gotten better across the board in America since he has been president. KPWR’s slogan is: “Where Hip Hop Lives.” Continue at CNSNews.com >>> Used with the [...]
Legalize-pot Activists Push for Upset Win in California
Liberty Alerts, NewsMax.com, AP SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California voters decided Tuesday whether to make their state the first to legalize recreational marijuana, drawing worldwide attention atop the 160 ballot measures in 37 states that also included divisive proposals to slash taxes and ban abortion. The California proposal — titled the [...]
Obama Closes Election Season Campaigning on Hip Hop Radio
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com President Barack Obama is doing an election-day media tour, granting a series of interviews to four hip-hop and contemporary music radio stations, according to his official schedule released by the White House. The four radio interviews are the only public events the president has scheduled [...]
Palin: Republican Establishment Not Behind Me
Liberty Alerts, NewsMax.com, Dan Weil You’d think the Republican establishment would tie itself as closely as it can to the rising star of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. But that’s not what’s happening, she says, according to Politico. “Some within the establishment don’t like the fact that I won’t back down to a good-old-boys [...]
Campaign to Change U.S. Policy on Cuba May Face Hurdles
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com Tuesday’s U.N. General Assembly vote condemning the U.S. embargo of Cuba serves as a reminder that those advocating an end to the policy introduced in 1962 can expect to face a tougher battle after next week’s congressional elections. In what has become a ritual over the past two decades, [...]
Just What is Barack Obama
Perspectives with Phil Brennan It is being called one of the most crucial Congressional elections in our nation’s history, and given the excesses of the Obama administration and its henchmen in Congress and it probably is. Somebody has got to put the brakes on the out-of-control spending by Congress before the nation’s economy collapses, [...]
Goodbye to One Man, One Vote — Selwyn Duke
By Selwyn Duke If you thought that “one man, one vote” reflected the full flowering of representative democracy, think again. In the village of Port Chester, N.Y., just a few towns north of my locality in Westchester County, there is a new system. It’s “one man, six votes” — brought to us courtesy of the U.S. Department of Injustice [...]
When Elections Matter More — Steve Farrell
By Steve Farrell The NewsMax Years, 2 August 1999 One thing you have to admire about Pat Buchanan, wherever he is, so are the fireworks. This was especially true of his 1992 Republican Convention concession speech which was so filled with flint and fire that Pat almost burned the Republican Party down and left it for dead. He didn’t. Given [...]
The Brits Vote for No Government — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba I doubt that many Americans paid any attention to the elections held in Great Britain on Thursday. A great many Brits apparently did not either because thousands showed up too late to cast their vote. Those that did vote ended up not giving either the Tories, the UK equivalent of our conservatives, or Labour, the UK [...]
Hope, Change, and Lies! — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba The noted political commentator, David Broder, once wrote that “Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.” That may at first glance seem cynical, but there is also a lot of truth in it. The modern presidency, from the days of [...]
Obama, Clinton Money Man Guilty of Major Fraud Scheme
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The shady Iranian fundraiser who for years donated lucrative sums to top Democrats—including the president, vice president and secretary of state—has pleaded guilty to a major bank-fraud scheme that could land him in jail for nearly two decades. Disgraced Democratic money man Hassan Nemazee admitted [...]
The Most Powerful Office is Not the President — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly Do you know that the most powerful office in the United States is not the President? Indeed, the most powerful man in the world is the U.S. President, but the presidency is not the most powerful office. Another office is more powerful because it chooses whose names will appear on the ballot for elective office and what [...]
Tea Party Progressivism — Steve Farrell
by Steve Farrell The Tea Party movement claims to be for the Constitution, but I'm not convinced they have not already been subverted by the same radical socialist progressives they say they oppose. Case in point: This morning we learn that the Tea Party movement has hired the American Civil Rights Union to push for a ballot recall of Democrat [...]
Alan Simpson Continues Where Specter Left Off — Chris Adamo
By Christopher G. Adamo Former Education Secretary William Bennett is chiding those who are advancing the notion of forming a “third party.” And he is absolutely right for doing so. Such a rift within the conservative movement at this critical moment would do more to propel the liberal Democrat agenda to uncontested political dominance than [...]
This is War — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway If current speculation is on target, there is going to be a wholesale slaughter in the congressional elections in November, with angry voters across the nation venting their anger at incumbents they believe have betrayed them by supporting the Obama health care scam [...]
Quo Vadis, Tea Party? — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway It was a dismal time for the Republican party. We had just been crushed by the decisive victory Lyndon Baines Johnson scored over Barry Goldwater in 1964, facing an 89th Congress where Democrats outnumbered Republicans in the Senate by 68 to 32, and in the House by a [...]
Angry voters track RINOs and Incumbents — Henry Lamb
by Henry Lamb Barack Obama told reporters that he rode the same wave of public anger into office that brought Scott Brown into Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. Not quite. The wave of public anger that elected Scott Brown is focused on Barack Obama and the Congressional Democrats who are pushing his policies. The public anger is more than [...]
Preventing “Moderates” From Hijacking The Massachusetts Election — Adamo
By Christopher G. Adamo Scott Brown’s stunning victory in Massachusetts has predictably generated comparisons of the current political landscape to 1994, when Republicans swept the mid-term elections, propelling them to majority status in both houses of Congress. From local and state level offices all the way to Washington, Democrats suffered [...]
Dem Donor Gets $25 Million No-Bid Govt. Contract
Liberty Alerts, Judicial Watch Although President Obama has repeatedly vowed to end the unscrupulous practice of awarding no-bid government contracts to politically-connected firms, his administration has just given a multi million-dollar sweetheart deal to a Democratic donor without considering competitive bids. The $25 million federal [...]
Time to Knuckle Down — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway Feeling giddy now that the invincible Barack has been proven vincible? That s fine, but it's time to knuckle down and resume the fight against the cabal now using the White House under Barack Obama as the command past in the war to impose Marxism on the United [...]
Educating Sarah — Diane Alden
Diane Alden, On the Blog Over America Responding to a CNN story about Sarah Palin's promise to campaign for John McCain in March, The Moral Liberal Senior Editor, Diane Alden, responded on Facebook: There was a movie years ago ... Educating Rita ... another the 'Americanization of Emily' ... I think what happened to Palin is she is getting [...]
The Quayled Lady — Why You Should Forget Sarah Palin — Selwyn Duke
By Selwyn Duke Really, there’s precious little fairness in the world. People tend to be slaves to emotion, and prejudices often reign supreme even (in fact, especially) in those who rail against prejudice. This is why we’ll see millions of Americans reflexively dismiss a politician simply because of the letter following his name; it is why [...]
Saying No to Emperor Obama — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba Yes, it's true. The emperor has no clothes. Even in a State where you cannot swing a dead cat without hitting a dozen Democrats, the voters said No. We don't want your odious Medicare ‘reform’. We don't want to be forced to buy insurance. We don't want a bill that exists only because every sweetheart deal [...]
A Vote Heard Round the World
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Boston, MA – “The people of Massachusetts fired a shot heard ‘round the world,” said Mathew Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law. Staver continued, “We are witnessing a new revolution in America. It is a revolution of ideas and values. President Barack Obama [...]
Democrat Implosion Continues — Southers Quits
The Moral Liberal with Steve Farrell This morning offers two more signs that the Obama Administration's socialist assault on America is imploding: one, the shocking election of conservative Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate in the liberal Democrat stronghold of Massachusetts -- where the folks seem to be saying, 'We may be liberals, but [...]
Obama Suffers Devastating Loss in Massachusetts Senate Upset
Liberty Alerts, NewsMax.com, David A. Patten In one of the most shocking turnabouts in modern political history, GOP underdog Scott Brown has single-handedly captured the so-called "Kennedy seat" in Massachusetts, wiped out the Democratic supermajority in Congress, and pushed the president's Obamacare agenda to the very brink of a stunning [...]
Universal Voter Registration, Next Democrat Scheme?
Liberty Alerts, WorldNetDaily, Chelsea Schilling A political correspondent is making waves with his stern warning that Democrats are scheming to manipulate the electoral process this election year by implementing a federal mandate to involuntarily register millions of people to vote – making the system ripe for unprecedented fraud and [...]
Foreign Govts Give Clinton Millions
Liberty Alerts, Judicial Watch While Hillary Clinton completed her first year as U.S. Secretary of State, her husband’s world-renowned foundation received tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Norway and Oman. The William J. Clinton Foundation has for years raked in hefty sums from [...]
Premature Obituaries — Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly The media and the leftwing commentators have been enjoying themselves ever since Barack Obama was elected President by writing articles gleefully announcing that the Republican Party is dead. The elections last month prove that those obituaries, in the famous words of Mark Twain, were premature. (more...)
Palin, Conservatism, And The Disconnected GOP — Adamo
by Christopher G. Adamo For nearly two decades now, and particularly in the wake of the 2000 presidential election debacle, Democrats have been pursuing a diabolically simple political strategy. In short, they moved hard-left, knowing how reflexively the “mainstream” Republican response would be to follow them. But of course the GOP would [...]
Brennan: First Things First
SHE'S THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR By Phil Brennan When it comes to writing about Sarah Palin the media seems compelled to focus on 2012 and her prospects of being the Republican presidential candidate then despite the fact that it is a couple of years too far. It's something like putting her into a box that's not to be opened for another two and a half [...]
