CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 05/01/2013

Lawmakers compare DHS ammo reserve with U.S. Army  Our demands are being heard – more lawmakers are coming to our side and holding the Department of Homeland Security accountable. The House Committee of Oversight and Government Reform last Thursday examined the DHS’ stockpiling of ammunition and revealed some very disturbing information. Opening the meeting, Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz made it a point to specifically clarify that “we [the Committee] are not talking about the Department of Defense [and] we are not talking about the Department of Justice” knowing full well that the figures he would release would stand as a shock to many. Read More

How Serious Are Republicans?  Shortly after President Obama finally released his proposed budget a couple weeks ago, Representative Greg Walden of Oregon, the chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee, launched a stinging attack on the president not over the president’s call for more taxes and spending or because the president’s budget never balances and adds trillions to the national debt, but because the president actually proposed modestly slower growth in Social Security benefits. A “shocking attack on seniors,” Representative Walden called it, accusing the president of “trying to balance this budget on the backs of seniors.” Read More

Commissioner Richard Rothschild: Local officials the ‘last line of defense against government run amok.’  People are scared. They fear their government has become perverted, and our Constitution is being shredded. People ask, “Why do they do this”? Well, “Because we let them.” In our efforts to be reasonable, we have demonstrated we will tolerate the intolerable… and THIS is a mistake. Individual rights of life, liberty, and property are being replaced with collectivist goals of “social equity.” Read More

They say success has many fathers, but Benghazi Libya is the orphan on the White House step  This snippet from a CNN feature story after the fall of Libya’s strongman Moammar Gadhafi put the whole gambit in Libya into proper political perspective: “The fall of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is a significant foreign policy triumph for U.S. President Barrack Obama.” It went on to say “Gadhafi’s utter defeat seemingly put new wind in the sails of humanitarian intervention.” This was to be the “good” foreign policy military intervention for the administration to show us how it’s done. Read More

Support drilling, fracking, Keystone … and exports  The interminable war on drilling, fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline has taken some bizarre turns. Now it’s getting worse, as opponents grow more desperate, and the moon again grows full. Deepwater drilling, 3-dimension and 4-D seismic (the ability to visualize 3-D over many years), deep horizon horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, and other technological marvels have obliterated environmentalist claims that the United States and world are running out of oil and gas – and therefore we need to switch to subsidized, land-hungry, job-killing wind turbines, solar panels and biofuels. Read More

Carney: ‘Benghazi Happened a Long Time Ago’  White House spokesman Jay Carney remains to be disconnected with the State Department. Read More