CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 08/28/2013

Obama to Sign Global Gun Control Agreement With only a little more than a week left of the August recess, we know that Barack Obama is dangerously close to adding his signature to the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. Before lawmakers left Washington Jay Carney said not only that the Obama Administration “looks forward” to signing the Treaty, but will do so “before the end of August.” This stated, the supranational gun-control treaty could take Obama’s signature at any moment. Read More

Evidence: Syrian Rebels used Chemical Weapons (not Assad) Recent news of a chemical weapons attack in Syria smacks of desperation. The question comes down to who is most desperate right now, the Assad regime or the Muslim Brotherhood rebels? Consider that since June, Assad’s forces have been winning. According to a CBS News report from last month, victories for the rebels had become “increasingly rare” and that the Muslim Brotherhood-backed opposition fighters were sustaining “some of their heaviest losses” near Damascus. Read More

Senator Rand Paul is Right About the NSA, Wrong About the Supreme Court United States Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky is outraged about the surveillance activities of the National Security Agency which has been caught red-handed collecting vast troves of data on American citizens in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. Read More

Is Article V in Our Future? Attacks on the U.S. Constitution are coming from all sides. The New York Timesopened its op-ed page to several liberal professors of government: one calls our Constitution “imbecilic,” another claims it contains “archaic” and “evil provisions,” and a third urges us to “rewrite the Second Amendment.” Read More

Carbon dioxide: The “gas of life” It’s amazing that minuscule bacteria can cause life-threatening diseases and infections – and miraculous that tiny doses of vaccines and antibiotics can safeguard us against these deadly scourges. It is equally incredible that, at the planetary level, carbon dioxide is a miracle molecule for plants – and the “gas of life” for most living creatures on Earth. Read More

Flashback: Fortenberry Speech on No U.S. Military Involvement in Syria (Video) Representative Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) speaks on the House floor, July 25, about the importance of prohibiting U.S. military involvement in Syria. Read More