CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 08/16/2013

KY Election Law, Rand Paul, and 2016 Senator Rand Paul has confirmed that he’ll be on the ballot in 2016… in Kentucky. He’s made it clear that he is committed to running for re-election as a U.S. Senator. We know, however, that Paul is also considering a presidential bid as he has openly suggested it several times. This creates a problem… Read More

Egyptian cops given go-ahead to use deadly force on Islamists Egyptian government officials installed as the nation’s temporary leaders gave police officers permission on Thursday to use deadly physical force to defend themselves and protect government facilities from attacks by Muslim Brotherhood members and other supporters of deposed President Mohammed Morsi, a counterterrorism analyst said. Read More

Mitt Rasputin No. No. A thousand times no. Like a bad rash he keeps coming back. Like Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees in a cheesy ‘80s slasher flick he cannot be stopped. Like the character Milton Waddams in the ‘90s cult classic Office Space he refuses to accept his firing. Mitt Romney is Rasputin. Read More

Top 10 jumbo foundation grants fund Big Green Although the public image of environmentalist finance has shifted from the 1960s Birkenstock-clad hippie, the results of my new survey of Big Green grant amounts may pop a few eyes. In the past decade or so, there were 345,052 foundation grants for the environment, totaling twenty billion and change, according to an authoritative database. Read More

Defunding Obamacare: What’s a Constitutional Conservative to do? A few days ago I had lunch with my friend Reid Ribble who is Wisconsin’s 8th District Representative in Congress. I listened much more than I talked, as I knew Reid’s time schedule was tight and I wanted to hear all that he had to say especially since he is in the trenches fighting the Big Government powers that be. Reid had read my blog article What a Constitutional Conservative republican to do with DC’s No Labels? and while he didn’t agree with some of its points he was very respectful about our differences of opinion, as I was to him and his. While I disagree with No Labels, Reid and I or Reid and Conservatives have a lot more in common than our disagreements. Reid’s voting record in Congress is one the Best Conservative records in America to date and we need many more like him in Washington. Read More

Every Illegal Alien Is a Criminal Every illegal alien is a criminal. They commit a crime to enter the country. A person who commits a crime obviously is willing to break the law. Does a person willing to commit one crime stop at one when there is no punishment? Do they know where to draw the lines when their very existence in the US is a crime? Do they feel they have a right to make their own laws? Read More