CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 08/12/2013

U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: An attack on National and Parental Sovereignty Shortly before the U.S. Congress broke for their recess, talk in the Senate of the resurrection of the United Nations Disabilities Treaty was being had – a treaty that was signed on July 30, 2009 by former Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice. In fact, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) is trying to make deals with Republican lawmakers right now to make sure the treaty passes the second time around. Read More

Despite Obama-Putin friction, Hagel meets with Russian defense minister While President Barack Obama pouts over the disrespectful treatment he’s endured at the hands of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the Pentagon noted that Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel met with Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoygo in Washington, D.C., Friday. At the same time, Secretary of State John Kerry and his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, joined the discussion which was dubbed the “Two-Plus-Two Talks.” Read More

Coal is 21st century power The backbone of our modern civilization is based on relatively cheap and abundant energy. Coal has been the inexpensive and reliable engine of our economy for generations and up until the 70’s, billowing smokestacks were the sign of economic prosperity for the United States and other developed countries. Read More

“We win and they lose” “An economy in distress, vast natural resources locked up with no plans to put them to use, and a regulatory regime that inhibits the development of resources and the creation of jobs.” Sound familiar? These words were written by William Perry Pendley, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy and Minerals at the Department of the Interior under Ronald Reagan. They describe the America that Reagan encountered when he became president in 1981. But, they could just as well be about 2013. Read More

Women, You Are Called ‘For Such a Time as This’ I love the Old Testament account of Queen Esther, a beautiful young Jewish woman who put her life on the line to serve God and save her people. Esther had been orphaned as a child and raised by her cousin Mordecai. She was elevated from a life of relative obscurity – via rather unique circumstances – to sit atop the throne of the Persian Empire. King Xerxes chose her, from many, as his queen following a royal bridal contest. He was unaware that Esther and Mordecai were Jewish. It is unlikely that he would have chosen Esther had he known. Mordecai was then appointed to a low level government position. Read More

What will be your fate America? Bradlee Dean warns of horrific history repeating in America if justice is not wrought through We the People. Read More