Casting a Wider Net: Regaining Some of the Black Vote

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  September 8th at 12:12 PM  | 

There was a time when the Republican Party was associated with civil rights for blacks in this country. Of course, the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, had fought a war over ending slavery and issued the Emancipation Proclamation. It was a Republican Administration that ruled over Reconstruction and passed the Civil War Amendments to the Constitution that granted ex-slaves citizenship and voting rights. Conversely, it | Read More »

About Those Tax Returns: We’ve Seen This Tactic Before

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  August 6th at 10:25 AM  | 

With the current debate instigated by the Democratic Party and David Axelrod and Barack Obama regarding Romney’s tax returns, this strategy is nothing new. Two points are immediately obvious. First, as long as Obama’s obedient media keeps harping on the issue, it will be kept in the forefront. Second, Mitt Romney is under no legal or moral obligation to release ten years worth of tax | Read More »

Shelby County, Alabama: The Specifics and Voting Rights

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  July 15th at 08:39 AM  | 

The Shelby County case was officially initiated in April 2010, but the real story begins in the 1980s. Then, it what is known as the Dillard case, several blacks challenged the method of at-large elections for county commissioners in Alabama. Shelby County was not an original defendant, but eventually became one. The lower court found that Alabama would often resort to the at-large method to | Read More »

Ground Zero in Voting Rights- Shelby County, AL: The Background

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  July 14th at 07:43 AM  | 

To understand this issue, we need to go back in time because this issue and this case most definitely pertains to the reality of 2012 versus the reality of the early 1960s. Inevitably, like the gay marriage issue, there are charges of “racism” and “bigotry” injected into the argument. Already, groups like the ACLU and NAACP are viewing this case as “potentially setting civil rights | Read More »

The Disturbing Trend Series- Part 3:The Voting Rights Act of 1965 Penalizes for the Sins of the Past

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  June 5th at 11:04 PM  | 

Recent reports out of some websites indicate that the Justice Department under Eric Holder and Barack Obama is under orders to vigorously defend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 from challenges. This extends from redistricting considerations to voter ID laws, especially the latter. The ostensible reason behind their opposition to voter ID laws is that they disenfranchise minorities, students, and seniors. Voter ID laws per | Read More »

Liberals are Racist

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  February 25th at 04:03 PM  | 

In 2012, Obama will inevitably use two strategies to win reelection. Being the incumbent, he must run on his record. Given that record, it is dubious at best. He gave us the auto bail out, the stimulus, Obamacare, Frank-Dodd and tried to tip the balance of power towards his cronies in the unions through liberalizing the NLRB. His Justice Department has sued Arizona when they | Read More »

Voter ID Law Hysteria

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  October 4th at 10:30 AM  | 

One inevitable sideshow that has been gaining some traction in the Liberal blogosphere and Lame Stream Media are some recent articles about voter ID laws. Most of this is being fanned by a report from the Brennan Center for Justice, itself hardly a bipartisan, independent voice. Their latest “study” states that because of recent laws enacted by states, close to 5 million Americans may be | Read More »

Us Racist, Jihadist, Terrorists

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  August 5th at 08:09 AM  | 

So, the great debt ceiling debate and controversy is over for now and the post mortems are being written as to who won and who lost. Although the devil is in the details and we really don’t know much of the details, it is a wait and see game now. From my standpoint, the inclusion of some trigger mechanism to force cuts under threat of | Read More »

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Watch: Part 3

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  June 7th at 06:48 PM  | 

Just when I thought I would get a break from comments from Debbie Wasserman Schultz, she did not let me down.  While the rest of the country was watching the Weinergate scandal unfold with the DNC Chairman saying it was “a private matter between him and his wife,” she unloaded with another highly partisan comment.  When taken in the context of who Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Read More »

The Ultimate, Unspoken Obama Strategy in 2012

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  June 4th at 09:00 AM  | 

     Back in early 2008 when Barack Obama, an innocuous Senator from Illinois, began to make rumblings in the Democratic primaries against the Clinton machine, I began to investigate this fellow.  Of course, I remembered his 2004 Democratic convention speech and the fact that he was an alleged rising star within the Democratic Party.  From 2004 until his election as President, in fact, Obama’s Senatorial | Read More »