CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 08/23/2013

TSA seeks 3.4 million rounds of ammo The Department of Homeland Security is soliciting more ammunition – this time for the Transportation Security Administration. Seeing that TSA Agents operating within our nation’s airports are unarmed, the Administration’s recent request for 3,454,000 rounds of .347 caliber “training ammunition” is astounding. Read More

Concerns grow over new immigration enforcement chief appointee Two top GOP lawmakers sent a letter Wednesday to President Barack Obama stating that they have serious reservations regarding the appointment of John Sandweg as the acting director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) directorate, according to law enforcement sources in Washington, D.C. Read More

Keystone XL: not just a pipeline, a life-line The final State Department report on the Keystone XL pipeline’s environmental impact is expected in a matter of weeks. Yet, the administration continues to send mixed messages as to which direction it is leaning. If the government announced it would make no sense to rebuild the World Trade Center in New York because when finished it would create only 50 jobs for maintenance people, you would laugh yourself silly. Yet that’s the line of argument President Obama used recently while talking about the Keystone XL pipeline project that, to appease environmental activists, he has blocked for the past five years. Read More

Factions Silent on Statism Notice who is eerily quiet about the New Mexico State Supreme Court saying yesterday Christians have to compromise their beliefs in order to serve the state. Take careful note now for future reference, for if they won’t stand with you now when it’s still easy they won’t do it later when it will be much harder to do so. Notice there’s nothing from the tolerance mob, who promised you this would never happen and they weren’t out to change your religion. Read More

Behind Alaska’s Pebble Mine controversy is a hidden-influence whodunit Six federally recognized Native Alaskan tribes and commercial fishing interests started what may well prove to be Big Green’s biggest ballyhoo ever with a May 2010 letter to the Environmental Protection Agency against the proposed Pebble Mine – a huge prospect of copper, gold, and molybdenum near the vast salmon runs of Bristol Bay. Read More

Illegal Aliens Are Just Nice Guys from Other Countries? The answer to the question of “Why not just let them live here?” is best answered by all of us individually. For example, I have no problem at all answering the question. I think they should all live in your house and you should buy their refreshments and food, keep them warm, and tend to their needs above your own. Can my answer be your answer and if it is, might that be why the question remains unanswered? This is probably the only time I can remember when in many cases, the question, “Am I my brothers’ keeper?” gets answered rightfully in the negative. Read More