CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 06/26/2013

Facts on Common Core Conference Call Common Core is the Department of Education’s latest power grab — one that threatens all primary and secondary educational institutions: public schools, private schools, charter schools, and even home-school programs. Through a “combination of bribes, federal handouts” the federal government is forcing this program into existence. “Over the past three years, the Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has been quietly working to seize control ... Read More

SCOTUS and Marriage: What It Means There are four key things to know following Wednesday’s much-anticipated U.S. Supreme Court opinions on the hot-button issue of marriage. Four takeaways from the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinions on the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 on Wednesday ... Read More

Who Does Commisioner Richard Rothschild Think He Is? At a social gathering last weekend a Maryland State Senator was overheard to make a derogatory comment regarding Carroll County Commissioner Richard Rothschild. Commissioner Rothschild, you may recall, was instrumental in passage of the “Second Amendment Preservation Resolution” in Carroll County. This resolution is an act of nullification and is a necessary first step in protecting citizens from the lawless actions that the legislature has recently taken denying law-abiding Marylanders the God-given right to defend themselves and their families. Read More

Fighting Terrorism by Arming Terrorists The Obama administration appears to be moving toward arming rebels in Syria, though the White House has only publicly confirmed an increase in the “scope and scale” of its military support. By one estimate, seven of nine key rebel combatant groups are Islamist. “As the civil war has dragged on, the rebels have become more Islamist and extreme,” the Economist reports. Thus the administration’s decision to arm only the non-Islamist rebels may soon resemble O.J. Simpson’s search for the “real killers.” Read More

Obama’s Pre-K Power Grab Under the media’s radar, Obama has been aggressively promoting one of his fiscally extravagant projects announced in his 2013 State of the Union Address: “preschool available to every single child in America.” The plan for the federal government to take over the care of preschool children, a longtime goal of the feminists that used to be called universal child care, is now (probably to sound academic) called Pre-K. Read More

The Biggest Ponzi Scheme In The History Of The World Did you know that you are involved in the most massive Ponzi scheme that has ever existed? To illustrate my point, allow me to tell you a little story. Once upon a time, there was a man named Sam. When he was younger, he had been a very principled young man that had worked incredibly hard and that had built a large number of tremendously successful businesses. He became fabulously wealthy and he accumulated far more gold than anyone else on the planet. But when he started to get a little older he forgot the values of his youth. He started making really bad decisions and some of his relatives started to take advantage of him. One particularly devious relative was a nephew named Fred. One day Fred approached his uncle Sam with a scheme that his friends the bankers had come up with. What happened next would change the course of Sam’s life forever. Read More