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Sloan: In Mexico, don’t expect much to change with new President
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Sloan: In Mexico, don’t expect much to change with new President

By Kelly Sloan | Contributing Columnist, Rocky Mountain Voice You may have missed it, but at the beginning of this month Mexico elected a new President. By which to say they elected an extension of their previous one.  Claudia Sheinbaum, former mayor of Mexico City, won the election in what can only be described as a landslide for the ruling left-wing Morena Party. Sheinbaum happens to be Mexico’s first female President (it’s first Jewish one too, though it seems she likes to keep her Jewishness rather suppressed unless politically convenient.) More importantly, she is a protégé of her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador known somewhat affectionately as “AMLO”. Both are socialists, after a fashion, and it is not expected that President Sheinbaum will stray much from the pol...
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Cooper: Is signature verification of mail-in ballots valid?
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Cooper: Is signature verification of mail-in ballots valid?

By Bob Cooper | Guest Columnist All mail-in voting systems use a process called signature verification to verify the person voting by mail is the voter registered to vote.  In Colorado this process is based on comparing the signature on the outer ballot envelope with the digital signature images in a database called SCORE. This is the only procedure to verify the identity of the voter before that ballot is counted.  Once a signature passes signature verification, the envelope is opened, ballots are sent to be counted and envelopes are stored in a separate container.  The voter is no longer associated with their votes on the ballot.  The process of signature verification varies based on the size of a county but will always follow state statutes.  A key person in...
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Walcher: The EPA’s end run around the Supreme Court
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Walcher: The EPA’s end run around the Supreme Court

By GREG WALCHER | GregWalcher.com An “end run” was once a common football term, describing an offensive play in which the ball carrier runs around the end of the defensive line. But today it is more often used rhetorically to describe a strategic dodge, any maneuver to bypass, circumvent, or sidestep. It’s more common in politics than in football. Many Westerners celebrated earlier this year when the Supreme Court finally declared once and for all that “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) does not include every creek, pond, ditch, puddle, and parking lot drain in the country. EPA spent nearly a decade trying to use WOTUS as the regulatory tool for a vast expansion of federal jurisdiction, to include virtually all activity that touches any water, ignoring the plain language...
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Krannawitter: Campaign finance reform is to blame for prosecution of Trump
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Krannawitter: Campaign finance reform is to blame for prosecution of Trump

By THOMAS L. KRANNAWITTER, PH.D. | Liberty Lyceum Substack Campaign finance laws—not merely McCain-Feingold—were at the heart of the recent jury conviction of Donald Trump. A more accurate title, therefore, could be: Revenge of Campaign Finance Reform Laws. The essence of campaign finance laws and regulations should be offensive—even outrageous—to self-governing United States citizens. Imagine those in government commanding how and when and whether you spend your own money, and then demanding detailed reports when you do. That’s what campaign finance reform laws are all about: Controlling the many in ways that benefit established, incumbent political elites. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT THE LIBERTY LYCEUM SUBSTACK Editor's note: Opinions expressed in commentary piece...
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Prager: Why Americans mistrust election results more than the citizens of any other democracy
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Prager: Why Americans mistrust election results more than the citizens of any other democracy

By Dennis Prager | TownHall.com Last week, 27 European nations voted for their representatives in the European Parliament. If you were aware of this, did you happen to notice that there were no allegations of cheating in any European country? If you are on the left, you might respond that there were no such allegations because the right did better than the left, and it's the right that makes these allegations. But that response has little merit. For one thing, there were no such allegations, let alone demonstrations, during all the years left-wing parties won European Parliamentary elections or national elections. For another, in America, it is not only the right that has charged election fraud: Hillary Clinton, for example, still claims the 2016 election was stolen from her. T...
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Ganahl: Free speech is not the enemy of progress
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Ganahl: Free speech is not the enemy of progress

By Heidi Ganahl, Rocky Mountain Voice Commentary On Wednesday, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 24-084 into law, effectively creating what some might call the state’s own Ministry of Truth. The bill, supposedly aimed at preventing the spread of misinformation and disinformation, establishes a partnership between the state attorney general and the Education Department. It's designed to reduce "factually inaccurate data" and "encourage respectful discourse." Despite the Biden administration’s failure to establish a similar federal agency, those who wish to use government power to control what constitutes fake news and truth seem undeterred. Proponents of the bill, of course, assure us that it’s not about suppressing viewpoints. State Sen. Lisa Cutter, a Democrat, ins...
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Paulson: It’s Trump’s time to shine
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Paulson: It’s Trump’s time to shine

By Terry Paulson | TownHall.com Former President Trump could easily be over-confident going into the June debate. President Joe Biden isn't even comfortable answering questions from friendly media who want him to look good. He struggles even when he has note cards. Can you imagine how he might perform in the debate when he doesn't know the questions or Donald Trump's response. Even many in his own party are worried about him not performing well.  It almost makes you wonder if this could be the Democrats' plan. A poor performance in the debates could increase the calls for Biden to step down and not run for four more years. With the next scheduled debate being in September and their Chicago convention in August, Democrats would have time to let Biden withdraw with honor and still...
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Adams, Spakovsky: Despite liberals’ hysterical denials, aliens are registering and voting
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Adams, Spakovsky: Despite liberals’ hysterical denials, aliens are registering and voting

By Hans von Spakovsky and J. Christian Adams  | The Daily Signal The truth is out there. Aliens are registering and voting in American elections. For anyone who cares to see it, the truth is available in public records in election offices across the nation. But unfortunately, those who expose the truth about voting by aliens—illegal immigrants or not—are subjected to ridicule and an onslaught from the Left to preserve the broken status quo. Some would prefer that anyone who documents aliens participating in American elections—especially with the current border crisis—simply disappear. We both testified recently before the House Administration Committee on this serious and real problem. The reactions of some Democrats on the committee were outl...
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Shafer: Here’s what the shakeup at the Washington Post really means
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Shafer: Here’s what the shakeup at the Washington Post really means

By JACK SHAFER | The Washington Times Like the owner’s manual that sends you searching YouTube for additional and useable instructions, Washington Post Publisher and CEO Sir William Lewis’ 900-word memo to his staff, emailed Sunday night, perplexes more than it enlightens. The headline news, of course, is simple enough: Lewis showed the door to Executive Editor Sally Buzbee, installed just three years ago by previous publisher Fred Ryan, who left last year after a bit of turbulence of his own. In her place, Lewis recruited two long-time former colleagues to actually produce the paper, Matt Murray and by year’s end, Robert Winnett. Beyond that, the Lewis memo fails to illuminate the paper’s new path. Like all reorg charts, the ...
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Swearer: These accounts of defensive gun use speak volumes
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Swearer: These accounts of defensive gun use speak volumes

By Amy Swearer | The Daily Signal It seems that many gun control activists want to take your guns so badly that they’re willing to take your voice, too. And increasingly, the war for the Second Amendment involves battles waged on a First Amendment front. Just ask the National Rifle Association, which last week needed the Supreme Court to vindicate its right to free speech against New York’s attempts to suppress the gun rights organization’s pro-Second Amendment views. New York’s unconstitutional assault on a Second Amendment advocacy group was, unfortunately, far from the first time that gun control activists have attacked the lawful gun industry and lawful gun owners by threatening their right to speak freely. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DAILY SIGNAL ...
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