CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 06/27/2013

SNAP Theatrics Fall Flat It has become a set piece of political theater for liberal Democrats, carried out in recent weeks by everyone from New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner to Connecticut senator Chris Murphy and a bevy of congressmen: attempting to eat on the $4.50-per-day food budget supposedly provided by the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the program formerly known as “food stamps.” While always good for a headline, and generally accompanied by amusing photographs of the bizarre meals the politicians cobble together on their meager budget, the so-called SNAP challenge is also arrant nonsense. Read More

Heritage: SCOTUS Decision by the Numbers The Heritage Foundation today published a short overview of the ramifications of this week’s Prop 8 and Defense of Marriage Act cases at the Supreme Court. Read More

Court rulings elevate sexual identity over race The Supreme Court’s decisions are dividing Democrats as much as Republicans. This week the U.S. Supreme Court issued a series of opinions defining civil rights that could portend a dramatic change in American culture, but it’s probably not the one you’ve heard the most about. Read More

America’s Ruling Troika Who rules America today? Not the people; they have been vanquished. America is ruled today by a collectivist Troika – an Executive-Congressional Combine, Judicial Oligarchs, and a Corporatist Banking Cartel – who have as much concern for the resplendent principles that formed our country as street pimps have for romance and love. How has this Troika come to possess its power over our lives? It has accrued its power by conveying endless privileges (handouts, subsidies, loans, quotas, monopolies, price controls, tax breaks, etc.) to an ever-swelling mobocracy. This buys the mobocracy’s support every election year and insures the Troika’s permanency. Read More

Ruling Class Without a Clue What are we to think about the market falling out of bed after Gentle Ben Bernanke’s hint last week that he might start tapering off the money printing operation at the Fed? Was it because the Fed is, in fact, following a dangerous deflationary policy, as Larry Kudlow writes? Given that gold and other metals are down 30 percent from their highs, Larry has a point. Or was it nothing to do with the Fed, but instead renewed problems with the Euro? Or with the property implosion in China? Read More