PATRIOT ACTION ALERTS 07/09/2013

House must STOP Big Brother With the Senate having made their decision – passing S. 744 with 68 yays and 32 nays – the future of immigration legislation lies with the House of Representatives. This said, it’s time for the House to lead. U.S. Representatives must avoid duplicating the Senate’s mistakes and restart immigration reform legislation from the ground up, tackling issues individually through short, straightforward bills. Read More

Privacy group files Supreme Court petition challenging NSA spying A public-interest research organization based in Washington, D.C., on Monday became one of the first major groups to take legal action with regard to a National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance operation that was discovered when a contracted NSA systems analyst, Edward Snowden, illegally released classified information. Read More

Are the States Out of Date? We must face the fact the dam has broken and the foxes are guarding the hen house. The ship has sailed and the fix is in. Read More

Why does America still have Freedom of Religion? Freedom of religion was a radical shift from the status quo in the Western World at the time of the American Revolution. To have freedom of religion meant that the central power would not be able to use religious means in order to limit the individual rights of the people and their conscience. To be sure, it is an exaggeration to indicate that the British subjects were without choices when it came to their religious preferences and convictions. But the truth of the matter is that the relationship between the Church of England and the political mindset of imperial Statism was such that to have a religious conviction that stood opposite the opinion of the King and “his” Church, was to be seen as a traitor. Therefore, to assume, as many Puritans did, that the Kingdom of God was to nullify all earthly Kingdoms in the theological “last days,” was a dangerous doctrine indeed. Read More

Palin’s Provocative Proposal: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Conservatives Leaving the GOP Ronald Reagan once famously said “I didn’t leave the Democrat Party, the Democrat Party left me.” These days, millions of conservatives around the country feel the same about a Republican Party seemingly hell-bent on abandoning every principle other than crony capitalism. Recently on Fox News, conservative rock star Sarah Palin channeled that frustration when she said ... Read More

All we need is (Mia) Love Mia Love is the Left’s worst nightmare, a black woman out there touting self-reliance and entrepreneurship. Such principles are anathemas to the Democrats and MSM. Love’s success dismantles their narrative that minorities need endless government entitlements due to being victims of an eternally racist America. Read More