CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 10/08/2013

Obama’s response to shutdown is just ‘shut up’ It has been said that politics is the art of compromise. Try as they may, Washington leaders hardly ever get absolutely everything they want. Read More

Shutdowns Make for Strange Bedfellows Inside the beltway you never let a good crisis go to waste. Even a phony one. And the effort to take advantage of such a “crisis” proves over and over again that unintended humor is often the best. Read More

Fallacious claims prop up ethanol Arguments put forward to support ethanol and other biofuels hold water like sieves – leaking billions of gallons of precious fresh water that are required to produce this expensive, unsustainable energy. Read More

Biden ‘Proud’ of Ranger who kept Vets out of WWII Memorial U.S. Representative from Texas Randy Neugebauer told a National Park Service employee recently that the NPS “should be ashamed of themselves” for blocking war veterans from visiting the World War II memorial. Read More

On Federalist 11: The Use and Abuse of Government It has not been a good week for American government. But does this mean it has been a good week for the American people? Perhaps. Read More

Transforming America’s Schools into Authoritarian Instruments of Compliance These days, it is far too easy to rattle off the outrageous examples of zero tolerance policy run amok in our nation’s schools. A 14-year-old student arrested for texting in class. Three middle school aged boys in Florida thrown to the ground by police officers wielding rifles, who then arrested them for goofing off on the roof of the school. Read More

Change Your Species, Race? Why Not? File this under, “Oh, for crying out loud.” Read More

Boehner on Obama: ‘He knows what my phone number is, all he has to do is call’ Read More

Tea party is the Solution, Not the Problem Read More

Foreign Aid unaffected by ‘Shutdown’ Read More

Al-Qaeda gunmen kill German embassy security officer in Yemen Read More

Back to Elementary School With College Professors Read More

Environmentally Safe and Economically Stimulating: Fracking Read More