Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has helped boost the campaigns of candidates around the country. Can she do the same for Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, who has been trailing in the polls in his Senate race against Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Hays? Palin this week endorsed Tiahrt, saying he is a “protector of our Constitution, a pro-family, pro-Second Amendment commonsense conservative who has never voted for a tax increase and has fought to end the wasteful spending coming out of Washington.” And in an apparent shot at Moran, Palin said that Tiahrt “didn’t just stand on the sidelines complacently, but instead actually battled against the bailouts, the debt-ridden stimulus spending, the cap-and-tax energy schemes, and Obamacare.”
The U.S. Supreme Court did the world a great big favor Monday in ruling that “no” means absolutely not in any way, shape or form when it comes to providing supposedly high-minded assistance to designated terrorist organizations. Adherents of the PKK, which has killed 22,000 in fighting for independence for Turkish Kurds, and of the LTTE, which killed 100 in a single bombing aimed at achieving Tamil independence from Sri Lanka, contended that a statute barring support for terrorist organizations violated their First Amendment rights. The difficulty is that organizations like the PKK and LTTE, not to mention Hamas and Hezbollah, conduct terror campaigns while providing social services to constituents. A six-member majority of the court correctly recognized that Congress had solid grounds for prohibiting Americans from supporting what appear to be the lawful activities of a designated terrorist group because of the very real risk of abetting the organization’s nefarious aims. — Follow us
