CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 10/29/2013

Sean Penn: Ted Cruz, Conservative Congressmen have Mental Health problems Appearing on the Piers Morgan Show, actor and liberal activist Sean Penn said recently that tea party lawmakers should be ‘committed’ for mental health problems. Penn said such should be accomplished via executive order. Read More

Snowden’s Latest Offense: Letting Foreign Voters Know What Their Leaders Have Long Known Edwin Snowden’s stories keep leaking out, yet Russia says he must not do this. The latest one is on how the NSA spies on European leaders. They all knew this. Their voters did not. Read More

Madisonian Compromise Amid Uncompromising Progressivism It seems that no one is happy with the results of the latest round of budget/debt negotiations — least of all the American people, who, according to one poll, would like to replace every member of Congress. This, of course, can’t really be the way forward. To find that, we have to reacquaint ourselves with the approach to political negotiation designed and modeled by the Founders and their most faithful successors. Read More

John Carpenter’s Prophetic Visions of the American Police State As freedom crumbles around us, why do “we the people” allow it to happen? In Carpenter’s view, the real enemies of freedom—the real aliens—are us. The lesson: they live, because we sleep. Time to wake up. Read More

When the Have Nots Become the Haves Saul Alinsky the political thinker who seems to have had more impact on President Obama than any other was very clear in his most important book about what his motives were and what he was aiming at, “What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. ‘The Prince’ was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. ‘Rules for Radicals’ is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.” Read More

Sexual Predator Honored With U.S. Postage Stamp Benjamin Franklin famously quipped, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Franklin evidently failed to envisage today’s postmodern left. For the conservative, there exists at least one other certainty, and it is this: The degree to which “progressives” attack you corresponds precisely to the degree with which you challenge any among their assorted, distorted and sordid sacred cows. Read More

Gov’t Workers ‘Absent’ 50% More Than Private-Sector Workers A government worker is 38 percent more likely to be absent from work for personal reasons or illnesses than a private-sector worker, and government workers miss 50 percent more of their usual work hours as a result of such absences than do private sector workers, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Read More