CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 08/14/2013

IRS scandal: Lawmakers demand emails from Lois Lerner Despite the ridicule and attacks of President Barack Obama and the Democrats against the GOP’s pursuit of information regarding corruption at the IRS, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the Subcommittee of Regulatory Affairs, on Tuesday submitted an official letter to the Internal Revenue Service’s Lois Lerner seeking e-mails related to her official duties in her non-government e-mail account. Read More

The Waste List: 66 Crazy Ways That The U.S. Government Is Wasting Your Hard-Earned Money Why did the U.S. government spend 2.6 million dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly? Why did the U.S. government spend $175,587 “to determine if cocaine makes Japanese quail engage in sexually risky behavior”? Why did the U.S. government spend nearly a million dollars on a new soccer field for detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay? This week when I saw that the IRS was about to pay out 70 million dollars in bonuses to their employees and that the U.S. government was going to be leaving 7 billion dollars worth of military equipment behind in Afghanistan, it caused me to reflect on all of the other crazy ways that the government has been wasting our money in recent years. Read More

Constitutional Sheriff Interposes on Behalf of the People Amidst the swelling sea of federal tyranny in America, there are sparkling drops of hope for a peaceful return to liberty. One such shimmering ray of hope is the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association. This group of peace officers and supporters are dedicated to upholding the oath that they took before God to support and defend the Constitution.. Read More

What if House Republicans Refused to Fund ObamaCare This Fall? Even if Republicans gain the majority after the 2014 elections, they will probably not overcome a filibuster in the Senate to pass an out-and-out repeal. In fact, the Republicans have not had a 60 vote majority in the Senate since 1911. The time for defunding ObamaCare is right now, given that the President has already announced he is delaying implementation of the employer mandate for one year. But if not now, when? Read More

Conviction of the Republican Party Evidence beyond and to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt that the Republican Party is lost and delivering America to our enemies…foreign and domestic ... Read More

Why Republicans Didn’t Win in 2012 At last Republicans can read a coherent explanation of why they didn't win in 2012, despite high unemployment and a dismal economy, the unpopularity of ObamaCare, and many scandals such as Fast and Furious. Best-selling author Dr. Jerome Corsi, who spent three weeks traveling with the Mitt Romney campaign, listening to every stump speech, gives us an inside look at the cockiness and mistakes of Romney’s staff in a new book called What Went Wrong. Read More