CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 03/15/2011

Death by 1,000 Cuts The "Continuing Resolution" in the U.S. Senate expires on this Friday, March18th. This backward and forward checkers exchange between Republicans and Democrats -- who appear to be afraid to play a real chess match -- borders on sublime stupidity with neither side making the moves that will let the People castle their kings and put the opponent---the growing national debt - in check, and then initiating the first real moves to really lower our debt by keeping their November, 2010 promise to the voters to trim $100 billion in real, ugly monetary fat off the budget, call "checkmate!" Read More

White House Urges Supreme Court Not to Jump Into Health Care Law Cases Prematurely The Obama administration told the Supreme Court on Monday night it should stay away from a high-profile challenge to the 2010 health care law until after a lower court has had the ability to review the case. Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal wrote, "there is no basis for short-circuiting the normal course of appellate review." Katyal also says Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's case is problematic because he may lack sufficient standing to challenge the health care law. Read More

Juan Williams: It's Time to Defund NPR It just keeps happening. NPR's leadership keeps [stumbling] over its microphone wires and then asking everybody else to plug them back in. I know everybody thinks I must be in a vindictive mood, celebrating the sudden departure of NPR CEO Vivian Schiller after her hand-picked personal fundraiser was caught on tape disparaging TeaParty activists and taking more shots at me. I'm human and do have some thoughts but it's okay to keep them to myself. Read More