CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 09/13/2013

Democrats Block Cruz Resolution to Create Joint Select Committee to Investigate Benghazi Attacks Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has introduced a resolution, S.R. 225, to create a joint select committee to investigate the Benghazi terrorist attacks from one year ago, last September 11, 2012. Read More

Emails show IRS’ Lois Lerner specifically targeted tea party Lois G. Lerner, the woman at the center of the Internal Revenue Service scandal over special scrutiny of conservative groups, specifically targeted tea party applications and directed that they be held up in 2011 in order to come up with an agency policy, according to several of Ms. Lerner’s emails released by a House committee Thursday. Read More

Reid calls Tea Party “Anarchists” (Again) Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid claimed that “anarchists” have taken over the United States legislature. Senator Reid’s remarks came after Senate Republicans blocked an energy bill due to the Majority Party’s refusal to work with them an an amendment to defund Obamacare. Read More

Putin the Peacemaker? In the geo-political game of “Survivor” the former KGB agent pretending to be president has out-witted, out-lasted, and out-played the former community organizer pretending to be president. Read More

The Homeschooling Revolution Opposing infringement on parental control of education and promoting alternatives to government-run schools is a vital task for the liberty movement. When government usurps a parent’s right to control their child’s education, it is inevitable that the child will be taught the values of government officials, rather than of the parents. Read More

How We Have Learned More and More About the Constitution’s “Convention for Proposing Amendments” Recently, conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly wrote a short piece in which she attacked the movement for an Article V convention. Her column relied on claims about the convention that had been superseded by modern research. Read More

R Street Institute promotes quirky ‘conservative conservationism’ Washington’s R Street Institute was formed last year in a split from Chicago’s Heartland Institute when the well-known midwestern conservative think tank ran a provocative digital billboard portraying global warming believers as equivalents of the Unabomber. Read More

Illegal Road from Mexico to US — A Tough Challenge Americans all have at least a small amount of admiration and respect for the illegals, who often trek across the border and withstand major obstacles before they finally arrive in the US. What a great accomplishment! Read More