CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 07/19/2013

Obama blasts ‘stand your ground’ law during press briefing In keeping with the advice of former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel – to never let a good crisis go to waste — President Barack Obama took to the microphone on Friday and during his comments on the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin tragedy he questioned whether or not Florida’s so-called ‘‘stand your ground’’ law has a positive influence on peace and public safety in American, according to law enforcement officials. Read More

Justice Department places ‘hold’ on Trayvon Martin trial evidence, including George Zimmerman’s gun – which Florida law says must be returned to him The U.S. Department of Justice, overseen by Attorney General Eric Holder, has ordered the Sanford, Florida police department to keep possession of all the evidence from George Zimmerman’s second-degree murder trial – including the exonerated neighborhood watch volunteer’s gun. Read More

CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 07/18/2013

Nonie Darwish Speaks About Sharia Law: An Inside Look From an Ex-Muslim Woman "The United States of America will be destroyed by Sharia Law," says Darwish. This is one more reason why lawmakers must reintroduce H.R. 973 in this 113th Congress. Read More

House votes to delay ObamaCare mandates The House voted Wednesday to delay key components of ObamaCare, in a bid by emboldened Republicans to chip away at the law after the administration acknowledged new problems with its implementation. Read More

Mike Huckabee 2016? I like Mike Huckabee. I carry an endorsement from Mike Huckabee on the title page of my website. Mike Huckabee endorsed my last book. And as Fox News pointed out, I played a role in his 2008 Iowa Caucus victory that made Huckabee a national political figure. So my hope is that what I write next will be received in the spirit it is intended—as friendly advice. Read More

CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 07/17/2013

NSA phone program will expire next year, Patriot Act author says The lawmaker who wrote the Patriot Act said Wednesday that as it stands right now, the House will never renew the provisions that the Obama administration uses to collect phone records of every American, meaning the program will be cut off at the end of 2015. Read More

Sen. Paul: The coup that isn’t as Obama disregards his duty to cut off Egyptian aid Egypt has undergone a coup, deposed its leader and the military has installed a new president. The situation is unpredictable, unstable and volatile. The country remains in a state of unrest. What do we do? We send them F-16s. Read More

What We Don’t Know About Benghazi There are still many unanswered questions about what happened in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 — as the Weekly Standard’s Steve Hayes says, just because the story is no longer in the New York Times doesn’t mean the issue is settled. Read More

CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 07/;16/2013

You Will Be Made to Care Human nature prefers conflict avoidance, especially when that conflict requires the drawing of moral laws. We would prefer the and-also scenario over the either-or. If there’s a way to put off doing the right (hard) thing, we will most assuredly find it. Read More

Senator Cruz: Gang of Eight “Penalizes Businesses” that hire U.S. Citizens Speaking at the Black American Leadership Alliance’s March for Jobs in Washington, D.C. yesterday, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz spoke against the Senate’s recently-passed Gang of Eight immigration bill. Sen. Cruz highlighted the fact that the bill, if it passes the House and is signed into law, would impose penalties on U.S. employers for hiring American citizens and permanent residents. Read More

The Politics of Race “White Hispanic.” I almost choked on my plate of nachos when I heard that one. “White Hispanic” sounds eerily like the turn—of—the—last—century, Jim Crow-era definitions of race, which were so arbitrary they are almost laughable in the age of DNA testing to determine genealogical lines. There is nothing scientific about calling someone a “White Hispanic,” yet it has been the label du jour for the media in describing George Zimmerman, the man recently exonerated for killing Trayvon Martin. Read More

CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 07/15/2013

Green Energy’s Too Expensive On Wednesday, July 10, the House passed H.R. 2609—which Bloomberg News called a “$30.4 Billion Energy-Water Spending Measure.” The 2014 Energy-Water Development appropriations bill will cut spending on renewables and other green energy programs in half and was passed mostly along party lines—with 4 Republicans voting against and 7 Democrats for it. Read More

U.S. military introduces ‘Robo-Warrior’ to Americans A state-of-the-art humanoid “Robo-Warrior” was introduced to Americans on Thursday in Waltham, Mass., and homeland security, anti-terrorism and warfare will never be the same if the claims of its effectiveness prove true, according to police and military leaders. Read More

George Zimmerman: In Hiding Found not guilty, George Zimmerman walked out of the courthouse a free man, and then went into hiding. Zimmerman and his parents have received death threats, and the Obama administration is going to go against the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution (Double Jeopardy) and is unconstitutionally filing federal charges against George Zimmerman. Read More

CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 07/14/2013

72 shot, 12 killed in Chicago over weekend, yet media obsesses on a plane crash in San Francisco where two die San Francisco International Airport was ground zero for national media attention as it focused on a jet crash which claimed the lives of two passengers. Although the crash was spectacular and captivated our attention….The very fact only 2 people lost their lives in the fiery mishap should have been enough to realize many other weighty events were happening around the country. Read More Palin’s Provocative Proposal: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Conservatives Leaving the GOP Ronald Reagan once famously said “I didn’t leave the Democrat Party, the Democrat Party left me.” These days, millions of conservatives around the country feel the same about a Republican Party seemingly hell-bent on abandoning every principle other than crony capitalism. Read More ‘Gasland’ scandal ignited at EPA When the anti-fracking hoax-fest “Gasland Part II” premiered on HBO July 8, eco-filmmaker Josh Fox probably wasn’t expecting explosive emails to surface exposing his fakery and how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency colluded with him in a campaign to destroy “fracking,” the hydraulic fracturing technology that’s making America energy independent. Read More Impeach Obama: More than a Joke Have you seen the latest joke that’s being passed around, all over the internet? It’s called “The ‘Who’s On First?’ Routine As Told By The Obama White House.” Read More

CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 07/12/2013

McCarthy Confirmation Near With Obama recently declaring a de facto “War on Coal” we can see that the Administration is finally ramping up its Big Government environmental agenda, one that Obama has long had in mind. More than a war on just coal alone, this new Executive Crusade is a war on energy, factories, and jobs. Read More

DHS to UC: Janet Napolitano exits Homeland Security, moves to Higher Ed Today, “Big Sis” Janet Napolitano announced she is stepping down from her position as the Secretary of Homeland Security. Napolitano, having presided over Obama’s Department of Homeland Security since January 21, 2009, announced she will be transitioning to her new position as President of the University of California school system next month. Read More

CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 04/18/2013 (5 articles)

House Votes Against Privacy, Passes CISPA Bill  Today the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act — or, CISPA — shamefully passed with 288 yays and 127 nays. Among the 29 Republicans who voted against the bill today, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie said, “CISPA erodes liberties [and] allowed sharing of people’s private information without consent and without accountability.” Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, also voting against the Act, said that, “The bill threatens our due process rights protected under the Fourth Amendment and prohibits companies from guaranteeing your privacy.” Read More + Watch Live

Senate will likely pull S. 649  Today the Senate voted on the two amendments that they did not attend to yesterday — the Barasso and Harkin-Alexander amendments. The first of these passed with 67 yays and 30 nays, while the second passed overwhelmingly with 96 yays and 2 nays coming from Senators Mike Lee and Rand Paul. (Sens. Cowan , Lautenberg, and Warren did not vote on either amendment.) The Harkin-Alexander amendment was the “mental health” amendment ... Read More