If you would be
canceled, then
cancel others.
If you would be
criticized, then
criticize others.
If you would be
judged, then
judge others.
If you would be
rejected, then
reject others.
If you would be
abused, then
abuse others.
If you would be
damned, then
damn others.
It’s the golden
rule as practices
by the world.
Photograph by Siora Photography via Unsplash. Used with permission.
Fred Lucas, manager of the Investigative Reporting Project at The Daily Signal (a conservative news outlet), took a close look at what evidence there is for both voter fraud and voter suppression. In The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean Elections, he makes a convincing case that voter suppression is indeed a myth, while election fraud has a long and dishonorable history in American elections.
The two sides of election concern have a long and interwoven history, Lucas says. Voter suppression, in fact, was almost standard operating procedure in Southern states during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow periods – and it was a procedure perfected by state Democratic parties to keep as few Black Americans from voting as possible. And it played a significant role in how the Democratic Party kept a hammerlock on cities like New York and the Southern states in the 19th and 20th centuries. (I can personally testify to that control; I grew up in Louisiana, where for decades your only political choices were Democrats.)
Fred Lucas
Lucas looks at electoral reforms, undertaken by almost half of the states, to see if any of them have discouraged voting. They haven’t. The reforms include cleaning the voting rolls of dead people and people who’ve left the state (something the Michigan secretary of state recently fought to keep from happening, for some unknown reason). He discusses the business of vote trafficking (in a capitalist society, everything gets capitalized). And he also considers how race is used in the arguments over election reform.
He examines the various bills introduced and occasionally passed by one house of the current Congress that would essentially federalize control of elections (Lucas sees that as a dangerous mistake). And he presents an in-depth study of all of the various groups behind the claims of “voter suppression” and who’s funding them – including some of the biggest charitable foundations in America.
Lucas is also the author of Tainted by Suspicion: The Secret Deals and Electoral Chaos of Disputed Elections, The Right Frequency: The Story of the Talk Radio Giants Who Shook Up the Political and Media Establishment, Abuse of Power: Inside the Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump, and other works. An award-winning journalist and veteran White House correspondent, he’s written and reported for Fox News, Newsweek, National Review, History Magazine Quarterly, The Washington Examiner, Newsmax, The Blaze, Townhall, The Federalist, The National Interest, The American Spectator, The American Conservative, and other news outlets. He received a B.A. degree from Western Kentucky University and an M.S. degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. He lives in Virginia.
The Myth of Voter Suppression is both a timely and vital book. Well-research and well-documented, it tells a story of great concern and great peril for the future of American elections.
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There are few clues. No one saw the victim leave the party and make her way to the cowshed. She seemed well-liked. Her fiancé is distraught, beside himself with grief. Everyone seems shocked.
Greene and her team undertake the investigation, and it’s anything but simple. The victim may have had more love interests than her fiancé. The prospective father-in-law was adamantly against the marriage. One of her paramours was a local hood, into all kinds of crime but not known for killing girlfriends. And then the team discovers that she may have come to the party dressed in a bride’s costume to provoke someone deliberately – and possibly provoked them to murder.
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Murder of the Bride is the fourth DI Hillary Green mystery by British author Faith Martin. The author pulls off quite an amazing feat with how much she juggles – and juggles successfully – in this police procedural. It’s a fast-paced, fascinating story of love, jealousy, police department politics, and an investigating team whose members each have a number of their own dramas.
In addition to the DI Hillary Greene novels, Martin (a pen name for Jacquie Walton) has also published the Ryder and Loveday novels as well as the Jenny Sterling mysteries. Under the name Joyce Cato, she has published several non-series detective stories. Both Cato and Martin are also pen names for Walton. (Walton has another pen name as well – Maxine Barry, under which she wrote 14 romance novels.) A native of Oxford, she lives in a village in Oxfordshire.
Related:
Murder on the Oxford Canal by Faith Martin.
Murder at the University by Faith Martin.
A Fatal Obsession by Faith Martin.
A Fatal Mistake by Faith Martin.
A Fatal Secret by Faith Martin.
A Fatal Truth by Faith Martin.
A Fatal Affair by Faith Martin.
A Fatal Night by Faith Martin.
The poems reflect the understanding that these relationships change over time. Children become adults. Adults grow old. Caregivers become care receivers. Families can grow apart. The father who hoisted you on his shoulders now depends upon you to clip his nails and take him to doctor’s appointments. The friend who taught you the names of the birds is harmed by her father.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
One of those efforts was the Writers’ Project, which, among other projects, produced travel guides to cities and states across the United States. Writers also collected oral histories of still-living Americans who had experienced extraordinary events, like the Civil War.
War and Reconstruction in Mississippi 1861-1875 was one such work. It focused on the town of Holly Springs in Marshall County, in the northern part of the state. Holly Springs was noteworthy for a number of reasons, not least of which was that it had changed hands 57 times during the Civil War.
If you ask,
if you knock,
if you seek,
you have a promise,
the promise that
your question
will be answered,
that your quest
will be rewarded,
that the door
you knock upon
will open.
No cruel jokes,
no pranks,
no surprises,
but only
what’s asked,
what’s sought,
what’s knocked upon.
It’s that simple.
Photograph by Lina Trochez via Unsplash. Used with permission.
The outpouring from media is a veritable flood. But a few reports stood out for me. David Murray writes about how watching the Queen’s first televised address always makes him cry. Alexander Larman at The Spectator talks about “our remarkable monarch.” Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative explains why the British monarchy is still relevant. The Art Newspaper featured six of the best photographs from her life. And Carl Trueman at First Things Magazines writes about the Queen’s quiet faith.
God save the King.
More Good Reads
Writing and Literature
The ascent of Barbara Pym – Ann Kennedy Smith at The Critic Magazine.
How Mark Twain’s “Campaign That Failed” Captured the Nature of War in Missouri – Kristen Trout at Emerging Civil War.
The Insistent Cough of Grace: Remembering Frederick Buechner – Michael Farmer at Front Porch Republic.
Life and Culture
Stories Are Light – Millie Sweeny at Story Warren.
College Football’s Twilight: The sport as we know it is changing forever – Theodore Kupfer at CityJournal.
Is 'Rings of Power' Woke? Or Just What We Deserve? – Samuel James at Digital Liberties.
How a Firebombed Pregnancy Center Is Changing the Post-Roe Landscape – Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra at The Gospel Coalition.
A Serious Critic for Unserious Times: Hilton Kramer rejected political correctness to champion aesthetics and standards in art – Brian Allen at CityJournal.
The Trinity School gets its anti-woke comeuppance – Chilton Williamson Jr. at The Spectator.
Faith
More on Projectors in Worship – Wes Bredenhof.
The Stars Still Shine in the Daytime – Seth Lewis.
Age with Joy—Linda Schaible at For the Church.
Letter to a Deconstructing Christian: Your Questions Are Good, But Not That Good: A person who's not open to answers doesn't really have questions – Samuel D. James at Digital Liturgies.
Ukraine
Russia’s war on Wikipedia – Marsha Borak at Rest of World.
Ukraine turns the tables on Russia – Charles Lipson at The Spectator.
American Stuff
A Puritan Founding? – Miles Smith at Mere Orthodoxy.
Reflecting on a Theme: Find a Way to Serve – Sarah Kay Bierle at Emerging Civil War.
News Media
“Facebooks Removed:” A Funny Find from 1999 – Chris Martin at Terms of Service.
British Stuff
Boris helped save Britain from disaster – Rakib Ehsan at The Critic Magazine.
Poetry
“Broken Blessings” and “Jubilee” – Joshua Fullman at An Unexpected Journal.
For My Queen – Susan Jarvis Bryant at Society of Classical Poets.
The Story of Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel
