CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 05/16/2013

House to vote on Obamacare Repeal today  The IRS’ unconstitutional bullying of conservative and pro-liberty groups is completely unacceptable. The fact that the world’s largest taxing entity would use its power to trample on the free speech of those who criticize Big Government is truly a disgusting fact. While we already had plenty of reason to push our elected servants to erase every word of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act from the books, the emerging reports of the IRS’ unconstitutional behavior is proof all the more. Read More

DeMint: Obamacare Is About Power  Members of the House of Representatives are scheduled to vote Thursday to repeal all of Obamacare. Given that the House voted to repeal the law last year, some commentators and observers have questioned the need for another repeal vote. However, the scandals coming to light over the last week perfectly make the case for why Congress must eradicate the law from the statute books. Read More

Retired Marine Officer Steve Klein Says: Benghazi Cover-up Began at the Top  As U.S. lawmakers continue to peel away layers of the Benghazi cover up, the partisan politics involved during the Congressional probes that have been twisted and maligned by members of the news media appear to be the only stories most news organizations are covering. Read More

Liberty or Security, How Will You Choose?  When Faisal Shahzad tried to blow up Times Square Eric Holder demanded we make our “Miranda” rights “more flexible to meet our current security needs,” a call for the destruction of our 5th & 6th Amendments. And Americans cheered the government’s assault on the Constitution, a.k.a. the fight against terrorism. The government then moved on to mass secret surveillance of US Citizens through the FBI and partnerships between DHS and our local law enforcement in statewide “Fusion Centers”. Don’t worry, not all citizens, just those the DHS has classified as “anti-government.”  Read More

Liberals in Media Content Not Scrutinizing The Obama Administration  A generation of liberal journalists who made their bones off covering Watergate seems to emerge whenever there is a (Democrat) presidential scandal to sanctimoniously remind us that no matter what this can’t possibly be as bad as All the President’s Men. Right on cue, enter Carl Bernstein. Read More

Backlash Against Common Core  The national news media haven’t discovered it, but the issue that is bringing out hundreds of citizens who never before attended political meetings is Common Core (CC). More precisely, it is the attempt of Barack Obama’s Department of Education to force all states and schools to adopt specified national education standards for each grade level that will dictate what all kids learn and don’t learn. Read More