CONCORD, N.H. – A funny thing happened Thursday to James O'Keefe as he was delivering Gov. Maggie Hassan a hard drive's worth of raw video that the undercover videographer says shows that conditions were ripe for rampant voter fraud during the Granite State primary season – he was served with a criminal subpoena demanding the surrender of the same material to the state.
"A better use of taxpayer dollars would be to investigate the people we actually exposed on video instead of the journalists who uncovered the truth about how easy it is to break election laws," O'Keefe, whose Project Veritas specializes in impersonation and hidden-camera reporting, said in a statement.
Two recent items from the realms of faith, politics, and law deserve some reflection and applause.
First, the House of Representatives has resolved, the Secretary of State Kerry has announced, that ISIS is guilty of genocide against Yazidis, Christians, and Shiite Muslims in Iraq and Syria. At a divisive moment in American history, I take comfort from this. It seems that a plurality on the right have lost their senses of civility and proportion, while a majority on the left have lost their moral bearings altogether. Yet the House resolution was unanimous, which suggests that Americans can still tell (at least some of) the difference between good and evil and can (at least sometimes) cooperate with mere opponents against a true enemy.
