by Jane Richey | Sep 12, 2013 | Voting Issues
The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) in April sued Walthall County, a white-majority southern Mississippi county that voted for Mitt Romney in 2012, and also nearby Jefferson Davis County, which has a black majority and voted for Barack Obama. The Jefferson Davis...
by Jane Richey | Feb 27, 2013 | Voting Issues
Voting Rights Act passed by Congress in 1965 ensured that states could not get around the new law by coming up with more changes to local voting rules. For those areas that had historically discriminated against people, the law required that they check with the feds...
by Jane Richey | Jul 6, 2012 | Politics
Four years ago this month — on July 2nd, 2008 — Obama delivered a speech in Boulder, Colorado in which he promised the creation and establishment of a “Civilian National Security Force.” He further promised it would be “just as powerful,...
by Jane Richey | Jul 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Republican lawmakers are asking governors to support the repeal of President Obama’s healthcare reform law by refusing to implement its provisions. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) are leading the group, which focused on the...
by Jane Richey | Jun 29, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
As the hours passed, three reactions proved predominant, and conservatives began to coalesce around them. These three came from GOP Governors, the House leadership, and the very Tea Party that James Carville had pronounced dead earlier this week. The governors, for...