CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 08/26/2013

U.S. lawmaker eyes ‘surgical’ attack on Assad after alleged chemical weapons use While the United States appears to be inching towards a war with Syria, the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons — the Obama Administration’s “red line” — is suspect. Read More

March on Washington 2013 Brings Liberal Distortion Looking over the program for the festivities commemorating the 50th anniversary of the civil rights March on Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, it’s hard to not feel sober about the whole thing. I say sober because there is good news and bad news. What’s the good news? Read More

Trial of Muslim Brotherhood leaders begins in Cairo The criminal trial in a Cairo courtroom of some of the Muslim Brotherhood leaders is scheduled to begin on Sunday, an Israeli counterterrorism said. Read More

‘Gay’ Lawmaker to Christians: ‘We’ll Take Your Children’ Few people doubt that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie hopes to become president in 2016. Unfortunately for him, he may have just signed away any chance of that. Read More

Obama flatters himself with FDR, JFK comparisons President Obama fashions himself as a 21st-century counterpart to his Democratic predecessors Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. But seven months into his second term, the 44th president is not offering Americans anything like a New Deal or New Frontier. Read More

North America: an oil and gas powerhouse Perhaps you read the USA Today editorial on August 19 that concludes with: “the most important gains could come from radical shifts that are as unanticipated as was North America’s emergence as an oil and gas powerhouse.” It points out “that free enterprise has a way of solving problems that is beyond the capabilities of government.” And continues: “The surge in domestic oil and gas production—spurred on by such new techniques as hydraulic fracturing (or ‘fracking’) did not come about as the result of government energy polices, but largely in spite of them.” Read More

Gun Control: Eyes Wide Open As the gun-control issue rages on – and rest assured, friends, it is raging on – gun-grabbing criminals tell one contrived or fabricated lie after another, acting under the guise of representing the people while they continue down the road of pushing their illegal agenda “forward” in the face of the American people. Read More