CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 08/22/2013

Obama, Kerry champion U.N. Disabilities Treaty With Congress returning from recess in just a few weeks, the Executive Branch is wasting no time in ramping-up their efforts in favor of the United Nations Disabilities Treaty. Barack Obama recently told disabled American veterans that the Senate’s failure to ratify the United Nations Disabilities Treaty last December was was “disappointing;” he also said: “We’re going to keep fighting to ratify that Treaty, because the United States has always been a leader for the rights of the disabled. … It’s the right thing to do. We need to get it done.” Read More

Benghazi scandal: Four State Department officials cleared, returned to duty The only four State Department workers investigated for breach of duty in the Benghazi scandal were declared not responsible for the lack of security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that was attacked on Sept. 11, 2012, according to a press briefing in Washington, D.C, on Tuesday. Read More

The Millennial War over Jacob’s Inheritance One might wonder why God would pick a desert full of scorpions and pit vipers for His kingdom on Earth when there are so many beautiful and much more edenic places for the Creator to rule His creation on Earth. Why Israel? Read More

A Republic, If You Can Keep It All forms of society rely on the continuing moral obligation of the people within that society, which is why I believe Benjamin Franklin, when asked what type of government they created, he responded, “a Republic, if you can keep it.” With socialism, you eventually run out of someone else’s money and the system collapses. With stateless society, you eventually run out of someone else’s morality and the system devolves into utter chaos. With a republic you eventually run out of people’s attentiveness and immorality reigns in government. Read More

Schizophrenic America If you can tell a lot about a culture by the entertainment it consumes, then we are a schizophrenic culture indeed. Look no further than the movies we are seeing. Read More

Next Up: Privacy Moms Politics always seems to be about women. First it was soccer moms that swooned over midnight basketball. Then it was security moms that wanted the president to keep us safe. Then, in a less kinder, gentler era, it was the Republican war to make Sandra Fluke pay for her own contraception. Now let’s Move On — to the age of the “privacy mom.” Read More