CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 09/18/2013

GOP House Leaders Move Budget Resolution Forward Calling Obamacare a “train wreck,” House Speaker John Boehner said today that he and the leadership have decided to align with conservatives and withhold all funds for Obama’s healthcare law in the Continuing Resolution. Read More

TIME Shows Syrian Rebel Beheading The Obama Administration’s false narrative that paints the Syrian Rebels as a moderate federation of “freedom fighters” is a gross distortion of reality. Read More

Who Needs Congress When You’re a King? All throughout history mankind has had to put up with Leaders of various dispositions towards justice or tyranny. Whether it is the ancient history of Israel, Babylon, Persia, Rome, Assyria, Egypt through the despotic Kings and oligarchs throughout world history the vast overwhelming majority have been predisposed to self-aggrandizement, tyranny and injustice. Read More

Mr. Politician, “What will you undo for me?” In his book titled What I Saw in America, G. K. Chesterton wrote the following: We are perpetually being told in the papers that what is wanted is a great man who will do things. What is wanted is a great man who will undo things; and that will be a real test of greatness. These days, in my home state of Maryland, this is precisely what we need. And we should follow Chesterton’s advice most especially in the upcoming elections. Read More

Capitalism’s Triumph ‘Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.” That statement came not from a tea-party leader or a congressional Republican, but from Bono, singer, celebrity, and global anti-poverty activist, speaking to Georgetown’s Global Social Enterprise Initiative last year. Read More

Boehner Republicans Heading for Big Mistake The latest example of Speaker John Boehner’s coziness with Barack Obama is the current plan to give the President a grant of tremendous power, not authorized in the Constitution, called Fast Track. The Constitution gives Congress exclusive authority “to regulate commerce with foreign nations,” but Fast Track would give the president power to sign trade agreements before Congress has an opportunity to vote on them and then unilaterally write legislation making those agreements U.S. federal law. Read More