The latest example of the “up is down, down is up” approach to the people’s business can be found in Virginia. There governor Terry McAuliffe – the former national Democratic party chairman – is unilaterally allowing 200,000 felons to vote in future elections, even though his action is expressly prohibited by the state’s constitution.

The white liberal academic establishment got beaten by the very politically correct thought police they have unleashed on America. Good. It is about time the self-important, arrogant thugs of the Ivory Tower industrial complex get a taste of the brutish, anti-intellectualism they have created. May they get many more in what is rapidly resembling a replay of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

Voters have figured out the scam. These establishment politicians come around and stir up the masses with promises to rein in government, stop Obama, repeal Obamacare and the rest of his destructive, anti-American agenda. Once safely in office, nothing ever gets done.

In the documentary that made him a household name, Dinesh D’Souza criticized the Obama administration for eroding America from within – which is exactly what’s happening to our country. As D’Souza pays the price for his prescience, the vast left-wing conspiracy is sending a simple message to anyone who dares to follow in his footsteps: “Fall in line now.”

Unfortunately so-called “conservatives” in some coastal states are trying to block the Obama administration’s decision to permit offshore energy exploration. Take Mark Sanford. The “Republican” congressman from the Palmetto State has flip-flopped on supporting offshore drilling — citing “potential impacts on the environment” including “large blocks of untouched coastal estuarine areas.”

As U.S. Senators take up the nomination of Loretta Lynch for Attorney General, they should keep an eye across the country on the scandal enveloping now-former Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber. At first glance, these two unfolding political dramas might seem as far apart as “the east is from the west,” but a closer examination reveals a troubling common undercurrent.

Four years ago, the Republican-controlled U.S. House — elected on the strength of an anti-Obamacare wave — passed its first repeal of the hated legislation. This week, the House repealed Obamacare again — and is sending its bill (along with a blueprint to replace the law) to the U.S. Senate, which is under Republican control for the first time in eight years. How high are the stakes?

The modus operandi of America’s far left isn’t subtle: It’s all about “taking.” Money, property, privacy, speech, guns — you name it. Everywhere we look, the foundational underpinnings of our once-free, once-prosperous society are being encroached upon by government’s emboldened totalitarian impulses.

Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear King v. Burwell — a case which exposes a fatal flaw in Obama’s signature legislation. When Obamacare was drafted, the law’s health care subsidies (and the taxes collected to pay for them) were explicitly confined to those states establishing their own health care exchanges. That’s not a statement of opinion, either, it’s written in black and white right there in the law — which expressly limits such subsidies to qualified plans enrolled “through an exchange established by the State.”

You can’t argue with global warming zealots: Whatever the thermometer reads, they’re right and you’re wrong. Whatever the short-term, intermediate or long-term data suggest, all these eco-radicals see is additional proof of their distorted worldview. Hot summers? Mild winters? That’s global warming. Mild summers? Frigid winters? That’s global warming, too.