CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 08/13/2013

An International Gun Registry The Arms Trade Treaty would mandate that all signatories create a “national control system” with a “national control list” (see Article 5) to monitor the exchange of “all conventional weapons” (see Article 2). In other words, the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty would – if adopted – create a national gun-registry, subjecting all arms sales, trades, and purchases to government scrutiny! Read More

Al-Qaeda increases bombings in Iraq during violent weekend More than 60 Iraqis were killed and more than 200 were wounded in another series of bombings across Iraq on Saturday and Sunday allegedly perpetrated by al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQII). The majority of the explosions occurred in Iraq’s capital of Baghdad, according to latest reports coming out of the Middle East, especially from Israeli experts such as counterterrorism analyst Mordacai Asher. Read More

Cruz, Santorum Speak at Family Leader Summit This is the second year for this event hosted in the first in the nation caucus state, and it was bigger and better than last year’s. The host facility said approximately 2,000 people attended the event. To put that in perspective for a local event, according to The Washington Times fewer than 400 people attended the national Faith & Freedom Coalition Conference in Washington, D.C. held back in June. That tells me that while faith in impacting the system from inside the beltway is on the rightfully on the wane, the grassroots is alive and well. Read More

The Police State Mindset in Our Public Schools Once upon a time in America, parents breathed a sigh of relief when their kids went back to school after a summer’s hiatus, content in the knowledge that for a good portion of the day their kids would be gainfully occupied, out of harm’s way and out of trouble. Those were the good old days, before school shootings became a part of our national lexicon and schools, aiming for greater security, transformed themselves into quasi-prisons, complete with surveillance cameras, metal detectors, police patrols, zero tolerance policies, lock downs, drug sniffing dogs and strip searches. Read More

Underground Bunkers and Agenda 21 How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. It may take some time, and it may take many participants, but it can be done. Eventually, all of those small bites add up to completely devouring the beast that we face. Read More

On Obamacare, Tea Party is on Right Track Vitriol has gone beyond partisan give-and-take in the nation’s politics. It is now seeping into and poisoning the ranks of the Republican Party. Mainstream Republican politicians are cringing at the proposal by senators in the Tea Party movement — Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah and Marco Rubio of Florida — that upcoming legislation to appropriate funds to operate the federal government be held hostage on condition that Obamcare funding is withheld. Read More