Author: Horace Cooper

Coming to a Car Near You? The Department of Transportation’s Creepy Black Box

National Policy Analysis #639 /
Possibly coming soon to a new car near you – mandatory tracking and recording of your automobile usage. At one point it was part of the effort to reauthorize federal highway transportation programs. It was included in S. 1813 and ...
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Voter Fraud is Real: Why the Voting Rights Act Should Be Used to Fight Election Fraud

National Policy Analysis #636 /
Election fraud in America is no laughing matter. Florida election officials have discovered that the state's voter polls have 53,000 dead voters still registered to vote.1 That's a whole city of dead voters still "eligible" to vote – more than ...
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Does the Tax Man Cometh?

Project 21 Commentary /
In a frustrating and disappointing blow to individual liberty, the Supreme Court's four reliable liberals and Chief Justice Roberts upheld a coercive and unprecedented federal encroachment on our freedom and our nation's health insurance industry. Liberals are celebrating while conservatives ...
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Do Free Speech Rights Apply to Union Members, Too? In Knox v. SEIU, Supreme Court Soon to Rule on SEIU Funding Gimmicks

National Policy Analysis #637 /
Summary Labor unions are notorious for coercive, strong-arm tactics. They have a sordid history of intimidating workers to join a union and stifling members and non-members who oppose that union's agenda. The facts in Knox v. SEIU show that California's ...
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Voter ID and South Carolina: The Supreme Court Speaks Yet DOJ Won’t Listen

National Policy Analysis #634 /
Summary The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice has formally objected to South Carolina's new voter identification law. The Department of Justice is effectively ignoring Supreme Court precedent, signaling a willingness to ignore electoral voter violations, raising grave ...
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Justice Department Plays Fast and Loose with Facts and Constitution in Challenging Texas Voter ID Law

National Policy Analysis #633 /
Summary The civil rights division of the Department of Justice has formally objected to Texas' new voter identification law. The state of Texas has rightly appealed this decision. Unfortunately for taxpayers in Texas, they will have to cover the costs ...
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The Birth Control Mandate is Unconstitutional

National Policy Analysis #632 /
Introduction The American public is witnessing a fascinating, even historic, event: the Obama Administration's attempt to suppress basic expressions of religious faith. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)'s recent rulemaking mandating that church-sponsored and affiliated enterprises that provide ...
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Supreme Court Decision in United States v. Jones a Significant Step in Preventing a Surveillance State

National Policy Analysis #630 /
In a major blow for liberty and Constitutional government, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled this week that the government can't rely on technology to get around the Fourth Amendment's ban on warrantless searches. In United States v. Jones, the ...
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When the Dead Vote, the Living Suffer: Department of Justice is Wrong to Oppose Voter ID

National Policy Analysis #631 /
Dead men tell no tales, the old saying goes – but that doesn't mean they can't vote. Shocking new video footage has just been released showing undercover reporters with their hidden cameras rolling, strolling into New Hampshire polling locations and ...
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NTSB’s Cell Phone Ban is the Nanny State on Steroids

National Policy Analysis #629 /
On December 13, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced it is recommending a total ban on the use of cell phones and text-messaging devices while driving. Previously, the NTSB had recommended such bans only for novice drivers, school bus ...
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