“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods,” the great libertarian muckraker H.L. Mencken once opined. Of course he was right. Leftists double down on this idea when they support turning welfare offices into voter registration centers. It is a subversive, antisocial act, as I argued in my recent American Thinker op-ed, “Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American.” That’s why Richard Cloward, Frances Fox Piven, ACORN, and a host of other left-wing, Saul Alinsky-inspired community organizing outfits were so delighted with the Motor-Voter law signed into law in 1993 by President Bill Clinton. These activists wanted to encourage welfare dependency … Continue reading Shrieking on the Left

Left-wingers often have problems with reading comprehension. A case in point is Rick Hasen of Election Law Blog. In my recent American Thinker op-ed, “Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American,” I argued that it is destructive to register welfare recipients to vote so that they can vote themselves more government benefits. It is even worse that our tax dollars are used to register welfare recipients at welfare offices. It is a policy that would cause the Founding Fathers to roll over in their graves. Yet Hasen misrepresents my views. He writes Wow.  Deny the right to vote the poor … Continue reading Rick Hasen isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer