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West Virginia v. Anthony Kennedy et al.

Last week, the West Virginia Supreme Court issued a well-deserved slap in the face to a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, which all too often makes up the law out of whole cloth to meet its latest view of what is social and politically correct. In ...

From HANS VON SPAKOVSKY, The Weekly Standard,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Supreme Court of the United States,  Anthony Kennedy

Criminalizing Health-Care Freedom: Obamacare Supporters Would Use the Brute Force of Criminal Law for Social Engineering

The "reformers" in the White House and the House of Representatives have made all too plain their vision of the federal government's power to coerce individual Americans to make the "right" health-care choices. The highly partisan bill the House just ...

From BRIAN WALSH AND HANS A. VON SPAKOVSKY, The Heritage Foundation,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. House of Representatives,  Congressional Budget Office,  White House,  Heritage Foundation,  Ernest Istook

Dissent Is Criminal -- By: Hans A. von Spakovsky

Bob Bauer, the husband of Anita “My Favorite Political Philosopher Is Mao” Dunn, has been appointed as the new White House counsel. I know Bob, and on an everyday level he is a polite gentleman with a great family history. But he is not someone you ...

From HANS A. VON SPAKOVSKY, The Corner,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  John McCain

Those Wacky Germans -- By: Hans A. von Spakovsky

One final (but less serious) note about West Berlin and the fall of the Berlin Wall. One of Billy Wilder’s lesser-known movies, but an absolutely hilarious romp, is about Berlin just before the Wall was built. With scenes shot on location (a very funny ...

From HANS A. VON SPAKOVSKY, The Corner,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Billy Wilder,  Benny Goodman,  Wall Street Journal,  Cary Grant,  Rosalind Russell

Painting the Gulag: A Haunting Reminder of Soviet Atrocities, Courtesy of Nikolai Getman

My Russian father and German mother, who survived some of the worst wars and atrocities of the last century, came close to death many times. But I recently experienced a visual reminder of just how lucky they were, despite the many hardships they ...

From HANS A. VON SPAKOVSKY, The Heritage Foundation,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Heritage Foundation,  Robert Conquest,  Karl Marx,  White House,  Mao Zedong

Painting the Gulag -- By: Hans A. von Spakovsky

The paintings are haunting. They are the only visual counterpart to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s writings, which exposed this terrible system of mass imprisonment that Robert Conquest has rightly called “unexampled coldblooded inhumanity.” We will ...

From HANS A. VON SPAKOVSKY, National Review Online,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert Conquest,  Heritage Foundation,  Karl Marx,  White House,  Mao Zedong

Malpractice in the Health-Care Bill -- By: Hans A. von Spakovsky

Ed Meese and I have written previously in NRO about the importance of medical-malpractice reform. Well, buried in the 1,990 pages of the House health-care bill that was released on Thursday by Pelosi is a provision in Section 2531 that provides ...

From HANS A. VON SPAKOVSKY, The Corner,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Nancy Pelosi,  Congressional Budget Office

Voter Fraud in New Jersey -- By: Hans A. von Spakovsky

Jim Geraghty has a good report on the efforts being made by the Democratic party in New Jersey to make it easier for them to commit absentee-ballot fraud. They want the secretary of state to restrict the ability of local county clerks to use signature ...

From HANS A. VON SPAKOVSKY, The Corner,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Heritage Foundation

The Politicization of Justice: Kinston, North Carolina

The Washington Time’s lead story today is about the Justice Department’s objection to a change of elections in Kinston, North Carolina. Why is this an important story? Because it is another worrisome sign of how the Holder Civil Rights Division is ...

From HANS VON SPAKOVSKY, The Heritage Foundation,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Department of Justice,  U.S. Democratic Party

Citizenship and the Census -- By: Hans A. von Spakovsky

A battle is being fought in the Senate over an amendment proposed by Sens. David Vitter (R., La.) and Bob Bennett (R., Utah) to the Commerce and Justice Department spending bill. It would force the Census Bureau to do something it wants, for unclear ...

From HANS A. VON SPAKOVSKY, The Corner,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Census Bureau,  U.S. Senate,  David Vitter,  Bob Bennett

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