CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 09/30/2013

Reid Tables House Budget Resolution on the Eve of New Fiscal Year Senate Majority Leader Harry took a vote to table the latest Continuing Resolution — passed yesterday by the House– immediately after the chamber assembled this afternoon. The motion passed along party lines, 54-46. “We are not going to change Obamacare,” said Mr. Reid minutes shortly after his party killed the bill. Read More

Cruz, Republicans Vow to Hold Firm on Obamacare Demands A conservative challenge to the president’s health care law has the federal government teetering on the brink of a partial shutdown. Read More

Sen. Paul on CBS’ Face the Nation: President Obama Unwilling to Compromise Sen. Rand Paul yesterday appeared on CBS’ Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer to discuss the debate over Obamacare and the continuing resolution, and his idea to avoid a government shutdown through a conference committee. Read More

Cruz on MTP: Time for Washington to Listen to the American People On Sunday morning, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) appeared on Meet the Press with David Gregory to discuss defunding Obamacare, avoiding a government shutdown, and making Washington, D.C., listen to the American people. Read More

Compromise In Politics? No, Confront Among the pearls of wisdom conveyed in Ecclesiastes is that everything has its time. “A time to be born … a time to die, a time to plant … a time to uproot, a time for war … a time for peace.” The founders of the United States drew up a Constitution to serve as an operating manual, in its checks and balances, for peaceful, deliberative government. They understood human nature ... Read More

African Islamists attack and murder sleeping college students Suspected Muslim terrorists ambushed a Nigerian college’s students as they slept in their dorm rooms early Sunday morning. Nigerian officials say at least 50 students, all males, were killed by the armed gunmen. Read More

The Church Militant – Part II Today across the country, recruiters for the military are doing their best to recruit young people for the service by only giving them one side of the story, namely, the financial and educational benefits, and leaving off their duty. But what the young people who sign up for the military fail to realize is that when joining the military, sooner or later they are going to be brought into the battle (2 Timothy 3:12). Read More

Terry McAuliffe’s MyCar Isn’t Even a “Real Car”: Car and Driver With the embarrassment the three “er”s—Switzer, Wiener, and Filner—have created for the Democratic Party, one would think they would want to steer clear of scandal-ridden candidates. But—no. Terry McAuliffe is, once again, hoping to become the governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia when voters go to the polls next month. Among his friends, McAuliffe is known as The Macker—which my sources tell me is a play on the Yiddish “Macher,” meaning: “Big shot. A man who is (or thinks he is) really important. Usually refers to someone who is showing off in some way.” Read More