CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 07/17/2013

NSA phone program will expire next year, Patriot Act author says The lawmaker who wrote the Patriot Act said Wednesday that as it stands right now, the House will never renew the provisions that the Obama administration uses to collect phone records of every American, meaning the program will be cut off at the end of 2015. Read More

Sen. Paul: The coup that isn’t as Obama disregards his duty to cut off Egyptian aid Egypt has undergone a coup, deposed its leader and the military has installed a new president. The situation is unpredictable, unstable and volatile. The country remains in a state of unrest. What do we do? We send them F-16s. Read More

What We Don’t Know About Benghazi There are still many unanswered questions about what happened in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 — as the Weekly Standard’s Steve Hayes says, just because the story is no longer in the New York Times doesn’t mean the issue is settled. Read More

Common Core Won’t Make Kids Smarter The new education standards called Common Core won’t make U.S. kids any smarter. The overall Common Core strategy is to raise middle-scoring students a point or two but do nothing to motivate or help the smarter kids or the dumber kids. CC’s goal is to achieve a result like Lake Wobegon, the fictional Minnesota town where “all kids are above average.” Read More

Why Did The Obama Administration “Organize And Manage” Protests Against George Zimmerman? Is the Obama administration at least partially responsible for turning the George Zimmerman trial into such a huge national spectacle? Judicial Watch has obtained documents which prove that the Community Relations Service, a division of the Department of Justice, was sent to Sanford, Florida in late March 2012 “to help organize and manage rallies and protests against George Zimmerman." Read More

Obamacare Gets Worse for Workers This week the House of Representatives will vote, almost precisely along party lines, to postpone Obamacare’s individual mandate. Like the 37 earlier votes to repeal the entire health care law, this bill will then move to the Senate, never to be heard from again. This, despite the fact that by a two-to-one margin (56 percent to 26 percent, according to Rasmussen) voters want to delay implementation of the individual mandate. Read More

Pointing the Finger It is an understatement to say that we live in desperate times. And it is easy to point the finger at our illegitimate and tyrannical governments in Washington and in our own state capitols and our own counties and complain about their corruption and criminality. Indeed, our leaders are base and debauched. Read More