New Case of Voter Fraud Helps Democrats–Surprise!

Posted on February 21, 2013 by

FRANK CAMP

Every two years, the process is the same: Republicans–keenly aware of the prevalence of voter fraud–try desperately to get some kind of voter identification laws passed. It is, of course, a state by state issue; requiring the coordination of many individuals. In response, the Democrats bray and babble about voter suppression; comparing the issuing of voter identification laws to poll taxes and other such tactics that were used in the past to keep minorities from voting.

According to the ACLU’s website: “Voting rights are under attack in this country as state legislatures nationwide pass voter suppression laws under the pretext of preventing voter fraud and safeguarding election integrity. These voter suppression laws take many forms, and collectively lead to significant burdens for eligible voters trying to exercise their most fundamental constitutional right…During the 2011 legislative sessions, states across the country passed measures to make it harder for Americans – particularly African-Americans, the elderly, students and people with disabilities – to exercise their fundamental right to cast a ballot. Over thirty states considered laws that would require voters to present government-issued photo ID in order to vote. Studies suggest that up to 11 percent of American citizens lack such ID, and would be required to navigate the administrative burdens to obtain it or forego the right to vote entirely…Despite this frenzy of state legislation to counteract so-called voter fraud and to protect the integrity of our elections, proponents of such voter suppression legislation have failed to show that voter fraud is a problem anywhere in the country. Aside from the occasional unproven anecdote or baseless allegation, supporters of these laws simply cannot show that there is any need for them.”

It’s interesting that the ACLU–long a Liberal bastion–would be trying so fervently to dismiss the allegations of voter fraud. Could they be riding on any kind of bias?

According to National Review, a particularly glaring case of voter fraud is being investigated in the great state of Ohio: “Melowese Richardson is the Ohio poll worker who admitted to casting two votes in November for President Obama. Now, Ohio officials are investigating if she voted in the names of four other people as well and cast a total of six ballots in the 2012 election.”

In addition to this case, there were numerous other cases of voter fraud, or fraudulent voter registration during the 2012 election. Back in September, the LA Times wrote about ten counties in Florida where potentially fraudulent voter registration forms were uncovered. Following that, in the days after November 6th, Congressman Allen West was defeated in his bid for reelection. He lost in an unfair fight, as many counties reported over 100% voter turnout; some counties even reported turnout as high as 140%.

These are just several cases of fraudulent voter registration. There are many more. As it stands now, approximately 30 states have some kind of voter identification law, many of which are flimsy at best. The ACLU claims it is an undue “burden” to obtain a government issued ID. Is that so? Anyone can go to a DMV and obtain a photo ID in several hours. And if that “burden” is indeed such a problem, why not make getting a photo ID a smoother process? There are certainly ways to make the process of obtaining government issued identification easier.

So, what is at the heart of this issue? What blood keeps this alive? The Democrats want votes. The Democrats are very aware that the majority of voter fraud–as evidenced by the examples provided; as well as numerous others–heavily benefits them. They know that if legitimate identification is a prerequisite to vote, they will lose every double vote, ineligible vote, illegal vote; and all other fraudulent votes that have helped them win elections in the past; including the election against Allen West.

Strict voter identification laws are a necessary piece of a healthy electorate. Of course the demand shouldn’t be undue, but there should be some demand. The reality of the world we live in is such that fraudulent voting will only continue to be a problem if we do nothing to stop it. The ACLU, and other Liberal fronts want you to believe that Conservatives want to return to the days of poll taxes and extreme voter restrictions. That is a blatant lie. This is the truth: Liberals need voter fraud to win elections.

Marguerite de Valois said: “The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.” As long as the Left can scream and spit venom at anyone who tries to enact reasonable voter identification laws, and get away with it, they will do so. As long as the Left can hide behind the concept of “voter suppression,” they will continue to stonewall voter identification laws and a healthy electorate.

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Liberals Skewer Conservative Senator Ted Cruz–He’s Doing Something Right!

Posted on February 17, 2013 by

FRANK CAMP

Denis Diderot said: “Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.” A machine is designed to function in the same way every time it is used. If there was a chance that your dishwasher would leak water half of the times you used it; you’d get a new dishwasher. America, however, wasn’t designed to be a machine, despite what many may think. Washington was designed with the intent of flexibility, so as to avoid entrenched corruption. Elections, term limits, impeachment, recall elections; these are all safeguards against corruption. Despite those safeguards, corruption has deeply infected our political landscape. Washington has become a cartel, filled with career criminals, thirsting for power. So when one person–in this case, one man–comes out with aggression against the political machine, he should be celebrated. 

 
Ted Cruz, in his short time in office, has rocked the establishment Republicans and summarily freaked out the Democrats. The measure of a successful Conservative is how much hatred they accrue from the Liberal Left. Ted Cruz’s cup overflows with the Left’s rage.
 
In his short tenure, Cruz has introduced a bill to repeal Obamacare in full, battled Rahm Emanuel over Rahm’s campaign against gun sellers, voted against John Kerry for Secretary of State, and stood against the bi-partisan immigration reform joke proposed by the gang of eight. In short, Cruz has proved to be reliably conservative. This, of course, has upset the Left.
 
Ruth Marcus, of The Washington Post, is one of several journalists going for Cruz’s jugular. In Thursday’s Op-Ed, Marcus makes no qualms about her disdain for Cruz, saying this in regard to his questioning of Chuck Hagel: “As the committee chairman, Michigan Democrat Carl Levin, pointed out, Cruz was attempting to unilaterally rewrite committee rules, which require two years of financial information, instead of the five Cruz demanded. And Cruz’s sleazy innuendos about hidden foreign money are undercut by a separate requirement to disclose any transactions with a foreign government — going back 10 years.”
 
Now, Ted Cruz is demanding that Hagel provide financial records beyond the two years required of him. Due to past incidents in which Hagel made comments that were considered by many to be anti-Semitic; and due to Hagel’s position on direct talks with Iran, and Israel’s standing in relation to the US; Ted Cruz–as well as other Senators–has some legitimate concerns.
 
In addition to that, Hagel has quite a bad reputation amongst former staff members. According to Adam Kredo, of The Free Beacon: ”‘Yes, Hagel has crazy positions on several key issues. Yes, Hagel has said things that are borderline anti-Semitism. Yes, Hagel wants to gut the Pentagon’s budget. But above all, he’s not a nice person and he’s bad to his staff,’ said a senior Republican Senate aide who has close ties to former Hagel staffers…Chuck Hagel may have been collegial to his Senate colleagues but he was the Cornhusker wears Prada to his staff, some of whom describe their former boss as perhaps the most paranoid and abusive in the Senate, one who would rifle through staffers desks and berate them for imagined disloyalty”
 
According to The Concord Monitor: In 2009, Chuck Hagel, along with several others, wrote a letter to President Obama “urging him to open negotiations with Hamas.”
 
Because of all these factors, Senator Cruz has some concerns–and rightly so. Cruz said this: “I will point out that right now this committee knows absolutely nothing about the personal compensation Chuck Hagel received in 2008 and 2009 or 2010…We do not know, for example, if he received compensation for giving paid speeches at extreme or radical groups. In my view, given the two letters he received, it is a fair inference to assume that he and those handling his nomination assembled that information, assembled his compensation, and the only reasonable inference, I think, is when they assembled it, there was something in there that they did not want to make public. It may be that he spoke at radical or extreme groups or anti-israel groups and accepted financial compensation. We don’t know.”
 
Given Hagel’s peculiar positions regarding Israel, Iran, and what are widely regarded as anti-Semitic statements he has made in the past, Ted Cruz has every right to push for more information, especially because Hagel is being nominated for Defense Secretary. 
 
Lastly, it seems hypocritical for Liberals to be attacking Cruz for demanding financial records. May I point back to demands being made of one Mr. Romney not several months ago on much weaker grounds?
 
The fact that Ted Cruz has rankled Liberals, and even fellow Republicans, like John McCain, is enough for me to support him in full. This, on top of his stellar Freshman record, push Cruz to the front-runner spot in my 2016 Republican presidential pool. 
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Missouri Plans Gun Ban; Minnesota Follows Suit

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

FRANK CAMP

Luke Scott said: “Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.” When I read that, I cannot help but think of the domino effect; one piece falls, and the others have no choice but to fall in sequence. Of course, this theory isn’t accurate 100% of the time, but in the world of gun control, it could not be more applicable. There is solid evidence showing that strict gun control fails miserably.

This week, an anti-gun bill was introduced by Democrats in the Missouri state legislature. A portion of the bill is as follows:

“Any person who, prior to the effective date of this law, was legally in possession of an assault weapon or large capacity magazine shall have ninety days from such effective date to do any of the following without being subject to prosecution…Remove the assault weapon or large capacity magazine from the state of Missouri…Render the assault weapon permanently inoperable; or…Surrender the assault weapon or large capacity magazine to the appropriate law enforcement agency for destruction, subject to specific agency regulations…Unlawful manufacture, import, possession, purchase, sale, or transfer of an assault weapon or a large capacity magazine is a class C felony.”

Firstly, because the Missouri legislature is predominantly Republican, I doubt that this bill will get any kind of traction; but that isn’t what concerns me. The very act of introducing this bill sets a precedent that others will follow. In fact, Minnesota has already followed suit with a bill featuring identical language. Once a precedent is firmly established, it leads to further precedents that build upon the one previously set.

The language of the second amendment is such that any bill threatening infringement upon the rights of an American to hold arms is walking a very thin line. In addition to this, assault weapons have been banned since the 1930′s. According to The Christian Science Monitor: “…US civilians have been prohibited from owning automatic machine guns since the 1930s. Assault rifles available for domestic sale are semi-automatic, meaning a pull of the trigger fires one bullet.”

So, if automatic weapons have been banned since the 1930′s; what would this bill accomplish? The answer lies in the details. In addition to automatic weapons, the bill mentions semi-automatic weapons. The dominoes are falling.

Let’s put some perspective on this. Many years ago, England began with the banning of assault weapons; then moved to semi-automatic weapons; and finally moved on to a full out guns ban.

According to CNN: “In the wake of the 1987 Hungerford massacre, in which one lone gunman killed 16 people, Britain introduced new legislation — the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 — making registration mandatory for owning shotguns and banning semi-automatic and pump-action weapons…Within a year and a half of the Dunblane massacre [in 1996], UK lawmakers had passed a ban on the private ownership of all handguns in mainland Britain, giving the country some of the toughest anti-gun legislation in the world.”

In 1998, the UK banned handguns, following the previously mentioned massacre. Since then, handgun crime has doubled.

Joyce Lee Malcolm of The Wall Street Journal writes: “…In the two years following the 1996 National Firearms Agreement…Suicides with firearms went down but suicides by other means went up. They reported “a modest reduction in the severity” of massacres (four or more indiscriminate homicides) in the five years since the government weapons buyback. These involved knives, gas and arson rather than firearms.”

What is my point in all of this? My point is that even though the UK doesn’t have the same constitutional provision we have that allows for citizens to be armed, it doesn’t matter. The Democrats, using all the passion and emotion they can invoke, will effectively walk around the second amendment, until they achieve whet they want: a full out weapons ban. It will begin with a precedent banning assault weapons–though they have already been banned–then semi-automatic weapons; and it will end with handguns. Have no doubt that it will happen.

Liberals claim that banning guns will make us safer. We have solid evidence that crime knows no weapons, and it will rise or fall only depending on the whims of humanity. Liberals want us to believe that they truly care about safety; but if that was the case, they wouldn’t be blathering about gun control, because it doesn’t work.

What Liberals care about is votes. They know that gun control–specifically in the wake of several severe shootings–will help them acquire more control. With control comes power. Dictators throughout all time knew that; everyone knows that. In every human being sleeps a monster that only needs power to wake it. Once awakened, that monster seeks election.

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Tide is Turning in Abortion Debate–Liberals Running Scared

Posted on February 13, 2013 by

FRANK CAMP

Kurt Cobain said: “The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.” I have often–specifically in these columns–harshly criticized the youth of American, and young people in general, because of their impulsivity, and capriciousness. I have even gone so far as to advocate the repeal of the 26th amendment; preferring an older base voting age of 25. That being said–though young people can indeed be volatile and easily manipulated–youth does not always equal foolishness. A new trend is emerging that gives me hope for the future of our country.

 
According to a Gallup poll, Americans aged 18-29 are trending toward a more pro-life set of beliefs.
 
The following is an excerpt from the Gallup data: “The [poll] focused on public support for the “legal under any circumstances” option in Gallup’s abortion question. There is a somewhat different pattern in the trends by age for those choosing the “illegal in all circumstances” position…Two important changes are apparent. One is a significant drop in the percentage of seniors saying all abortions should be illegal…This long-term 11-point decline among seniors compares with a 9-point increase — from 14% to 23% — in support for the “illegal in all circumstances” position among 18- to 29-year-olds since the early 1990s.”
 
This trend is causing the aggressively pro-abortion advocacy group NARAL to freshen up its image. According to Janie Lorber: “NARAL leaders have not been shy about acknowledging an “intensity” gap, making it a major theme of last week’s event…Advocates on both sides of the debate agree that young adults fighting abortion are much more engaged.” For a group like NARAL to have to attempt such a reinvention shows signs of fear amongst the liberal, pro-choice base.
 
With advances in ultrasound technology, and the availability of pro-life information online; maybe the tide is turning in the abortion debate. It seems to me that young pro-life advocates are pushing back so hard because they are fighting for life. That would account for such an enthusiasm gap. Young pro-life advocates are crusading for the lives of the unborn. 
 
The youth on the Left are fighting for nothing. If you ask a young pro-choicer why they believe what they believe, you are likely to hear platitudes about “a woman’s body,” and “a woman’s right to choose.” Delve deeper, and ask them if they know the procedures involved in an abortion; they will become indignant, and try to lure you back into a maze of circular logic, ending right back at “a woman’s right to choose.” Young pro-choicers lack enthusiasm because–beyond Liberal surface level talking points–they have no idea what they are fighting for.
 
What it comes down to is platitudes versus actual, fact based information. Platitudes may be flashy, and they may go down easy, but facts–no matter how unpleasant–always triumph in the end. This enthusiasm gap between young pro-lifers and pro-choicers can only become larger.
 
I often criticize young people, but this poll is significant. It may, in fact, be the youth that change the name of the abortion debate in the years to come. It is the duty of youth to challenge corruption; and maybe–finally–they are doing just that. 
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