CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 08/30/2013

Obama Quietly Signs More Anti-Gun Executive Orders Yesterday Barack Obama signed two more executive orders to increase gun-control. Read More

War Drums Obama and a small number of interventionist members of Congress are pushing hard to escalate our involvement in Syria – directly and indirectly. Read More

Rand Paul: Obama, don’t rush into war in Syria The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend. On one side we have al Qaeda; on the other side we have Syria’s authoritarian president Bashar al-Assad. On one side we have Islamic jihadists; on the other side we have Christians. Read More

It Doesn’t Make Sense Our leaders aren’t stupid. They may be foolish, they may be corrupt, but they aren’t stupid. This isn’t just a Democrat phenomenon. It didn’t start with President Obama’s occupation of the White House. This is a manifestation of the Dualocracy: the regime of the government party, that great two headed Hydra wherein the Democrat and Republican Parties are merely two heads on the same bird of prey. Read More

Keynes, Orwell, and Multi-Culturalism I spent an afternoon the other day strolling through the Valley View Shopping Center in Dallas. Its once fine stores are slowly closing one by one. In their place, quaint Mexican vendors with amateurishly painted signs and sparse stores now hawk their wares as they would in a seedy swap meet. Read More

Is stopping Keystone a San Francisco hedge-fund billionaire’s shrewd investment? Tom Steyer, San Francisco hedge-fund billionaire and million-dollar donor to Democratic candidates — including President Obama — is something of a one-man Big Green with greater wealth and deeper contacts than many activist non-profit foundations. Read More

Immigrant Behavior Learned in the Home Country When residing in many of their home countries, the current illegal immigrant in the US easily would become accustomed to unenforced laws. The laws when enacted may have been very good and may have been the law of the land. The rule of law is not practiced at all times in parts of all countries. In such a scenario in which good people wind up dead or impoverished, the people learn to survive, despite the law. When they come to the US, legally or illegally, they bring their survival tools with them. Sometimes the tools help. Sometimes, they do not help. Read More