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Hans Von Spakovsky

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Want ‘Due Cause’ for the Firing of Inspectors General?  How About This?

Want ‘Due Cause’ for the Firing of Inspectors General?  How About This?

Democrats in Congress like Representatives Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Maxine Waters, D-Calif., are criticizing President Donald Trump’s firing of 17...

30.01.2025 10

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Buy Greenland, and You May Get More Than You Bargained for

Buy Greenland, and You May Get More Than You Bargained for

President-elect Donald Trump’s interest in acquiring Greenland is certainly understandable. The “gateway to the Arctic” and location of the...

21.01.2025 3

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Consumers Unaware Allstate Is Tracking Their Driving Behaviors

Consumers Unaware Allstate Is Tracking Their Driving Behaviors

In our modern age of camera-equipped cellphones and laptops, ubiquitous social media websites, and constant GPS tracking that everyone seems to use to...

17.01.2025 3

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The Shameful Call for Clemency of a Tax Return-Stealing Felon

The Shameful Call for Clemency of a Tax Return-Stealing Felon

It is bad enough that President Joe Biden has pardoned hundreds of drug dealers, embezzlers, thieves, and other dangerous criminals; commuted the...

15.01.2025 80

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States Should Conduct Their Own Censuses, Use Citizens Only for Redistricting. Here’s How.

The inclusion of aliens, legal or illegal, in the population used for apportionment of the U.S. House of Representatives and for redistricting (i.e.,...

14.01.2025 10

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Fulton County Taxpayers Pay for Fani Willis’s Outrageous Misbehavior – Again

Imagine if you went to Hollywood trying to attract investors for the following movie plot: an incompetent, unethical, but politically ambitious local...

09.01.2025 10

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Draining the Swamp Should Start With New Civil Rights Commission Staff Director

Given vexing experiences in his first administration, once and future President Donald Trump is well aware of the resistance he will face from the...

07.01.2025 2

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A Christmas Tale, 1919

Editor’s note: This true story about my family was first published by The Wall Street Journal in 2008. It has now been 105 years since my father...

24.12.2024 40

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What Happens During a Government ‘Shutdown’?

The current battle in Congress over the continuing resolution to fund the government is a fight worth having to stop the bloated spending of the...

20.12.2024 20

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Achieving Election Integrity With a New Trump Administration

The key to what a new Trump administration can do to enhance the security of the election process is not to nationalize election operations,...

10.12.2024 2

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Getting New Leadership Confirmed Quickly for Next Trump Admin

The new Republican majority in the 119th Congress has to prove its worth, beginning with how it handles President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet...

19.11.2024 1

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Pennsylvania Officials Openly Admit to Trying to Steal Senate Seat

So much for the Left’s trope that election fraud is a myth. Enter the chairwoman of the Bucks County Board of Commissioners, Diane Ellis-Marseglia,...

19.11.2024 20

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No, Elon Musk Is NOT Breaking Federal Election Law

Despite what you may hear from leftist so-called election law “experts,” Elon Musk is not violating federal law with his America PAC’s...

22.10.2024 2

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Are UK Labor Party and Harris Campaign Headed for Legal Jeopardy?

The United Kingdom’s Labor Party and Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign may be marching into the same legal jeopardy as the Australian Labor...

18.10.2024 1

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Why Is the Naval Academy Engaging in Election Interference?

By inviting a speaker, history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat of New York University—who has already said that she plans to attack presidential candidate...

02.10.2024 2

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Did New York’s Mayor Accept Foreign Bribes and Campaign Contributions?

Did New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat and former police captain, accept foreign bribes and foreign campaign contributions? That’s the key issue...

27.09.2024 20

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Get Ready for Another Mail-In Ballot Fiasco

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Many states are sending out mail-in ballots now for the Nov. 5 presidential election. Yet at the same time that so...

26.09.2024 20

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Criticism of Project 2025’s Reforms of Federal Election Commission Is Ill-Informed, Dangerous

Those attacking me for my participation in Project 2025, for which I wrote the chapter on how the Federal Election Commission should be run, reveal...

24.09.2024 3

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Question for ‘Elite’ Colleges: Were You Lying Then or Are You Cheating Now on Race-Based Admissions?

When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its monumental decision in 2023 telling colleges and universities that “yes,” they did have to comply with the...

20.09.2024 2

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Trump Wins More Lawfare Dismissals in Georgia

The second attempted assassination of Donald Trump over the weekend came just after the dismissal by a Georgia judge of more lawfare charges...

17.09.2024 3

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The Easy, Cheap, Quick Solution to the RFK Jr. Ballot Issue

Early voting is starting in many states, both in-person and through the absentee balloting process, which makes resolving the issue of Robert F....

07.09.2024 3

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As Usual, The Washington Post Gets an Election Story Wrong

One of the problems with reporters for The Washington Post is that they repeat the claims of liberals as if they are facts, without questioning the...

27.08.2024 1

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Google Finally Gets Its Comeuppance

In a recent court order, federal district court Judge Amit Mehta said what most of us have suspected for years: Google’s market dominance in online...

21.08.2024 20

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The 5th Circuit Stops Democrats’ Misuse of the Voting Rights Act—and That May Shift Control of Congress

In an Aug. 1 decision over redistricting of county commission seats in Galveston, Texas, the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has issued a...

03.08.2024 10

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