COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Von Spakovsky: Numbers Don’t Lie: America’s Border Crisis Is Biden-Made
The Biden administration’s open-border policies and its refusal to fully enforce federal immigration laws have imposed huge costs on local communities across the country. Border states are groaning under the enormous cost of sheltering, feeding, educating, policing, and providing medical care for tens of thousands of illegal aliens.
Constitutional Priorities, Not Ideological
Greetings everyone. I pray your 2023 is off to a resounding start and will continue to rise in expectation and reward. I wish that I could say the same with what we have seen from the Biden administration so far. Here in Texas, we witnessed a modern-day Potemkin Village masquerade when Biden decided to conduct a drive-by at the El Paso port of entry.
An Election; Not a Coronation
This past week the American people were given a very important lesson about constitutional governance, a vital one for our Republic.
Back to Basics
In 2023, America needs a civics lesson: get back to basics. We must resolve to be better citizens of this Constitutional Republic.
The Word “Omni”
Talk about omni-incompetence! No one can run their household the way we see this group of Keystone cops running our budgetary process.
The Anti-Constitution Party
There is only one way to describe the progressive socialist left: it has devolved into the anti-constitution party.
Reparations: the New Slave Wages
Over the centuries, it has been the Democrats who have brought forth the policies of secession, slavery, segregation, and socialism . . . the dreaded Four Ss of the leftist apocalypse.
Panem et Circenses
We are being utterly distracted by the modern-day bread and circuses all the while our constitutional rights are being undermined.
Von Spakovsky: Partisan opportunism on the city council
Despite their claims to the contrary, the nine liberal members of the Boston City Council displayed crass, partisan opportunism by recently voting to let 16- and 17-year-olds vote in local elections.
Hey Antifa, Who Are the Real Fascists?
Constitutional conservatives believe in individual rights and freedoms as enshrined in our Constitution, such as free speech and freedom of expression.
von Spakovsky: We Shouldn’t Be Promoting Voting by Mail
A polling place under the bipartisan supervision of election officials and the observation of poll watchers has numerous advantages. It helps ensure not only that the ballots are completed by the registered voters and deposited in a locked, sealed ballot box, but also that the voters’ eligibility and identity are verified; that no voters are pressured or coerced to vote a particular way by candidates, party activists, and political guns-for-hire, who are all prohibited from being inside the polling place; and that no ballots get “lost” in the mail or not delivered on time.
Von Spakovsky: Key Part of Constitution in Play as Supreme Court Hears Election Case
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Moore v. Harper, a case that turns on the meaning of a key provision in the Constitution outlining the Framers’ structure for congressional elections.
America’s Constitutional Obstacle to Totalitarianism: the Second Amendment
Our Founding Fathers created the Second Amendment in the US Constitution as the obstacle to tyranny.
The Real Threats to the Republic
When the very people who took an oath to support and defend the Constitution, breach that oath of allegiance, it is a very serious matter that must be addressed.
Supreme Court Justices Question Team Biden’s Reckless Border Policy
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by Texas and Louisiana over Biden administration guidelines that severely restricted the Department of Homeland Security’s enforcement of federal immigration law against illegal aliens.
The City of No Consequences
We need a House GOP that will be strong, principled, and resolute in holding violators constitutionally accountable.
Reflections from Rocky Top
Instead of the usual political punditry, I wanted to share my reflections from up here what we Tennessee graduates fondly refer to as "Rocky Top."
Maricopa Mulligan
I do not think it is wrong to say the 2022 midterm election in Maricopa County, Arizona must be redone . . . in golf it is called a Mulligan. #MulliganInMaricopa
Déjà Vu All Over Again
America cannot afford a “deja vu all over again” scenario in which enables the progressive socialist left to ever have the levers of power in Washington, DC.
Von Spakovsky: As The Dust Settles From Election Day, A Mixed Victory For Election Integrity Appears
The final results in the Nov. 8 elections heralded several important changes to state election-integrity laws across the country. While some of the initiatives, approved via ballot referendums, will improve the integrity of state elections, others are more invidious, making elections in those states more insecure.