CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 07/10/2013

State Department spent $630G to boost Facebook ‘likes,’ report says The State Department spent more than $630,000 on advertising campaigns to boost the number of Facebook “likes” for the agency’s pages on the website, according to a report released by the agency’s inspector general. Read More

IRS Head considers canceling $76 Million in Union Bonuses Citing budget cuts, the Internal Revenue Service is canceling this year’s employee bonuses for managers and is working to cancel bonuses for union workers, the agency announced Tuesday. Acting IRS head Danny Werfel told workers in an email that he is canceling the bonuses because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year. The agency was scheduled to spend nearly $98 million on employee bonuses this year – $76 million for union workers; $19.3 million for nonunion workers, including managers; and $2.5 million for executives. Read More

American Hero Edward Snowden Followed the Constitution and Ephesians 5:11 Many in the press have vilified him as someone who violated his contract with his employer. They think he should be punished for failing to keep these criminal activities secret. We disagree. You see, Mr. Snowden, and the government, are bound by the Supreme Law of the Land – the Constitution, and his allegiance to that document, to the American people and to God (see Ephesians 5:11) require him to expose violations of the law. We are grateful that he did so. Read More

Excuses, Excuses The Obama administration and its various apologists in the media have long since elevated excuse making to something of an art form. This is, after all, an administration that once blamed high unemployment rates on ATM machines. Even by those standards, however, the excuses surrounding the administration’s decision to delay implementation of Obamacare’s employer mandate rise to imaginative new heights. Read More

College Girls, Bottled Water and the Emerging American Police State What do college girls and bottled water have to do with the emerging American police state? Quite a bit, it seems. Read More

Obama Is Embarrassed by ObamaCare Barack Obama assured us that, after his signature legislation ObamaCare went into effect, we would surely like it. Now Obama has decided he doesn’t want us to find out how it affects us until after the 2014 elections. Read More