CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 07/05/2013

Publish All Government Credit Transactions With the federal government being $16.6 trillion in debt, there is no defending any kind of government excess or waste. As the national debt is the biggest threat to our nation’s security, lawmakers must begin to viciously attack all forms of reckless and illegal government spending. Cracking down on federal employees abusing taxpayer-funded credit cards would be a good place for them to start. Last week, an Associated Press report noted that the I.R.S. has been blowing taxpayer money on wine, diet pills, romance novels, Nerf footballs, baby clothes, popcorn machine rentals, and even internet pornography. Read More

The Anti-Ideology Syndrome Modern intellectuals are anti-ideology. They shun its use like kings and high priests shun voting. One of the first putdowns a student receives from a liberal professor when expounding the basic principles of capitalism in a college classroom is, “Oh, that’s too ideological. Your thinking is too rigid. You’re trying to label things! You must be more open to progressive experimentation and creative government. The Constitution is a living document. The use of any strict ideology or rigid set of political principles is impractical and reactionary. In a modern world, we must be flexible, pragmatic, willing to tolerate a new and ever changing role for government.” Read More

Do the Feds Belong in Indian Adoption Law? There is little more heart-rending than the sorrow of a child. The sorrow of a child—and of her adoptive parents—created one of the Supreme Court’s more compelling cases this term. I was happy to be cited extensively in one of the opinions. And, much more importantly, happy that the Court acted to minimize the sorrow of the child and of her adoptive parents. In 1978, Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). By this measure, Congress invaded yet another area traditionally governed by the several states: adoption and relinquishment of parental rights. Read More

Supreme Court Marriage Decisions The Supreme Court decision on marriage, as Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his dissent, “is an assertion of judicial supremacy over the people’s Representatives in Congress and the Executive. It envisions a Supreme Court standing (or rather enthroned) at the apex of government, empowered to decide all constitutional questions, always and everywhere ‘primary’ in its role.” Read More

Climate alarmism’s 10,000 commandments The United States will “do more,” before it’s “too late” to prevent “dangerous” global warming, President Obama told Berliners last week. If Congress won’t act, he will, by regulating carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, increasing subsidies and reduce environmental overview for wind and solar projects on federal lands, and issuing other rules that will adversely affect economic growth and job creation. Read More