CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 05/31/2031

Criticism of IRS grows amid allegations of targeting beyond Tea Party  What started as a scandal over the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups has broadened, with lawmakers and other critics now questioning whether other kinds of organizations were unfairly flagged for additional scrutiny. Read More

“Does History Repeat Itself?”  The notion of history repeating itself hinges on whether or not we have “learned from it”. Learning lessons from history requires a broad base of knowledge and understanding. You can learn facts, statistics and memorize the Gettysburg Address and yet remain ignorant of the lessons that history bears. Knowledge puff up and learning the “letter” of history but the denying the spirit of it is a vain intellectual pursuit that repeats the pitfalls of the human timeline. Read More

Are backroom sue-and-settle deals actually sweetheart lawsuits?  An important new report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce entitled “Sue-and-Settle: Regulating Behind Closed Doors,” shines a light on the backroom manipulations now common between Big Green activists and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — among others — to impose regulations unlikely to gain approval in Congress. Read More

Is the Necessary and Proper Clause either Necessary or Proper?  I want to begin by saying that I believe the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, with the Bill of Rights included, comprise the most enlightened, ennobling, and beneficial documents ever penned by the hand of man. I also believe that the Constitution afforded the United States the greatest level of freedom and opportunity ever experienced by humanity. This freedom and opportunity in turn released the talents and abilities of the American people to build the greatest nation ever to exist, rising from thirteen states exhausted and impoverished from years of war into a prosperous and powerful nation which by the end of the twentieth century stood upon the world stage as the uncontested sole superpower. Read More

Biometric Database tucked inside Gang of Eight immigration bill  Page 1,318 of the markup bill details the establishment of a “photo tool” – a giant federal database managed by the Department of Homeland Security, supplied with individuals’ biometric information from all of the fifty states. If established, the database would house a file for every person carrying a driver’s license or equivalent state-issued photo I.D., and contain their name, age, Social Security number, along with their photograph. Read More

North American Federation: Secretary Napolitano, Canadian officials meet  The U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and several officials from Canada, including Denis Lebel, Transport, Infrastructure and Communities minister and Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews, on Thursday released what they termed the “first-ever joint United States-Canada Border Infrastructure Investment Plan (BIIP).” According to Napolitano, “The development and release of this initiative fulfills a commitment made under the 2011 United States-Canada Beyond the Border Action Plan.” Read More