CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 05/15/2013

Chaffetz: Impeachment not ‘off the table’  CNN’s Wolf Blitzer talks to Rep. Jason Chaffetz about the likelihood of impeachment. While Rep. Chaffetz doesn’t give any kind of solid answer, he says impeachment is not “off the table.” Read More

Attorney General Holder to testify before House Judiciary Committee  With the Justice Department at the forefront of major news stories that do not bode well for the department and it’s agencies, the House Judiciary Committee requested the nations top law enforcement official, Attorney General Eric Holder to appear before members of the committee on Wednesday afternoon. Read More

What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi  Congressional hearings, White House damage control, endless op-eds, accusations, and defensive denials. Controversy over the events in Benghazi last September took center stage in Washington and elsewhere last week. However, the whole discussion is again more of a sideshow. Each side seeks to score political points instead of asking the real questions about the attack on the US facility, which resulted in the death of US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.  Read More

Did You Do Anything to Keep Liberty Alive?  One day our grandchildren may ask us this question. Will we have an answer that will make us and them proud or will we have to sit silent knowing we stood silent when it was time to speak or remained passive when it was time for action? Now is the time for all believers in limited government to stand up and be counted. Now is the time for all who believe, “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” to remember “That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”  Read More

Obama’s War on the Young  According to recent polls, younger Americans are increasingly disillusioned with government and cynical about the political process. Maybe they will finally realize that they are being played for patsies by the Obama administration. After all, on issue after issue, President Obama has fed younger voters a steady diet of high-minded rhetoric and then delivered policies that leave them holding the bag. The most recent example is Obamacare. Read More

WaPo is wrong on Paul, Small Arms Treaty  The Washington Post‘s Ezra Klein recently wrote an article dismissing legitimate dangers of the United Nations’ Small Arms Treaty. While Klein’s piece singles-out Kentucky Senator Rand Paul as type of conspiracist-wacko, the crux of his argument — in addition to trying to attack one of the most prominent Senate conservatives, one who may very well place a bid for the Oval Office in 2016 — is that the conservative perception and argument against the Small Arms Treaty is one of “total fantasy.” Read More