Posts Tagged ‘conservative’
Our Dying Constitution — and How to Revive It
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum, Virginia Armstrong One of the Grand Old Men of the U. S. Senate, Sam Ervin, wrote in 1981 that The usurpation of this power by Supreme Court Justices does not prove that the Constitution is a living instrument of government. On the contrary, it proves that the Constitution is dead, and that the people of [...]
Republicans Derail Tea Party Event Over Social Issues
By Bryan Fischer A Tea Party was scheduled this past Sunday for Lexington Green - you know, where the shot was fired that was heard ‘round the world - but it got canceled at the last minute. Why? Apparently because big tent Tea Party Republicans are scared to death of social issues. Brian Camenker, the president of MassResistance, was [...]
Join Us at the Freedom Action National Conference
Join Us at the Freedom Action National Conference at Valley Forge, PA on August 12 – 14, 2010. The John Birch Society is a cosponsor of this conference. Two of our staff members, Bill Jasper and Larry Greenley, are speaking at the event, and we'll also have an exhibit there. We invite you to join us at this conference with such an [...]
Hello, I Am A Racist, Pleased to Meet You
By Selwyn Duke There is such a thing as a conditioned response. Here’s an example: Leftists call conservatives “racists.” Conservatives cower and stutter some defense. Leftists call conservatives “racists” some more. Conservatives cower some more. Question: How do you think you break this pattern? We’ve seen this again with [...]
Harry Reid Must Go!
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America Gun Owners of America is backing Sharron Angle in the United States Senate race in Nevada, and we have compiled a list of 42 reasons why Harry Reid MUST be defeated. This is one of the top races in the country and one WE MUST WIN! If any gun owner or sportsman has any doubt if Reid is pro-gun or [...]
Nil Desperandum
By Steve Farrell Liberty Letters, Samuel Adams, 1772 Human nature being what it is, patriotic fervor tends to come and go. In 1772, when it seemed to be more going than coming, James Warren reported to Samuel Adams from Plymouth about the towns he had been canvassing: "They are dead," he lamented, "and the dead can't be raised without a [...]
Why Doctors Don’t Want Free-Market Medicine — Theodore Levy
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Theodore Levy You may have heard that the AMA and “America’s physicians” favor universal health care. That’s true of the AMA, but that organization represents fewer than 20 percent of the nation’s doctors. And it’s true of many academic university physicians, but anecdotally it is obviously [...]
Elena Kagan Should Be Rejected — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly Barack Obama revealed his goal for the Supreme Court when he complained on Chicago Radio Station WBEZ-FM in 2001 that the Earl Warren Court wasn't "radical" enough because "it didn't break free from the essential constraints placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution" in order to allow "redistribution of wealth." [...]
America’s Great Religious Document — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly Tea Parties and other spontaneous groups of activists are bringing a new appreciation of the United States Constitution to grassroots America, so this Fourth of July would be a good occasion to make sure that they also appreciate our other essential founding document, the Declaration of Independence. I urge all to find [...]
Why Kagan is Unqualified … and Dangerous — Selwyn Duke
By Selwyn Duke Despite being thoroughly unqualified to occupy the bench, Elena Kagan will most likely be confirmed to the Supreme Court. This is because most of our 100 senators are almost as unqualified to judge a judge as she is to be one. What is the proper criterion to apply? Well, a simple analogy illustrates the point best. Let’s [...]
Clueless About Independence Day
Liberty Alerts, JBS.org Freedom Campaign You’ve watched them before. You’re visiting a video-hosting site and clicked on any number of the “man on the street” videos that document reactions to a particular piece of legislation or folks being asked what they think about certain issues or are quizzed on certain topics [...]
Politically Stupid People — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba If you harbor the suspicion that a lot of voters are not bright enough to understand the issues, the candidates, or anything about those who hold public office, you are right. Considering the critical issues affecting the security, economy, and the future of the nation, it is clear that we are being ruled by a cabal in [...]
Barack Obama: A Bill of Indictment — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All those with business before the court of public opinion will draw near. A bill of indictment has been issued for Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States of America. It is a call for justice from the people of the United States who allege that he is engaged in the destruction of their [...]
How Do You Spell Incompetence? — Henry Lamb
By Henry Lamb “O” is his logo, with dramatic red and blue swirls that are supposed to imply some sort of connection to the nation over which he now presides. After observing more than a year of performance, it is clear that his connection to his Muslim roots is far greater than his appreciation of the U.S. Constitution. “B” is his [...]
Rescuing Our Kids and Country From Karl Marx — Steve Farrell
By Steve Farrell It bears repeating: If we hope to halt, reverse and permanently alter America's descent into the gutter of debauchery and that political tyranny that is forever its companion — "education is the key." (1) And if so, it must be, it can only be that that education is initiated, financed, and controlled by parents, not by [...]
Online Society, Offline Civilization: How the Internet is Ushering in the End of the Age — Selwyn Duke
By Selwyn Duke When people discuss the overall effects of the Internet, they will weigh the good and the bad. On one side, they may mention how the Web, along with talk radio, has broken the stranglehold over public opinion the mainstream media once enjoyed; on the other, they may cite the pernicious effects of pornography, cyber-bullying or [...]
Elena Kagan: A Dangerous Judicial Activist — Bryan Fischer
By Bryan Fischer Next week, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on President Obama’s nominee to the United States Supreme Court, current Solicitor General Elena Kagan. Americans who are concerned about the rule of law and a return to constitutional standards in our jurisprudence have every reason to by assertively, [...]
Pelosi Trying to Shove DISCLOSE Act Through Congress Once Again
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America The Washington Post corroborates what Gun Owners of America has been hearing on Capitol Hill. Top Democrat leaders in the House are trying to make another go at the DISCLOSE Act... and they think they are very close to getting the votes to pass it. According to the Post article from [...]
Bring Back Prohibition! — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba That’s right. Bring back Prohibition. It was such a success, right? Oh sure, it led to the development of organized crime, everyone ignored it, and it took a Constitutional amendment to get rid of it, but it did save so many from the evils of demon rum—not! Taxes on things people enjoy are generally called “sin” [...]
Rise of the New Right
Liberty Alerts, JBS.org Did you see the Rise of the New Right? It's a "documentary" by Hardball's Chris Matthews. He takes a swipe at those opposed to President Obama's policies by lumping them all into the Tea Party movement while smearing The John Birch Society, Oath Keepers, Rand and Ron Paul, and others. Of course, the [...]
Training Teachers To Teach “Social Justice” — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly The monthly journal called Education Reporter recently published an informative expose by a teacher who attended a conference on training teachers how to teach students what is called "social justice." "Social justice" has become a code word for a specific type of teaching in U.S. public schools that is contrary to [...]
Too Much Government in the Gulf — Ron Paul
Texas Straight Talk with Ron Paul Sadly, the disaster in the Gulf continues this week as BP’s efforts at containment keep hitting snags and residents along the coast scramble to clean up and defend their shores and wildlife. Many have criticized the federal government in the past weeks for not doing enough. The reality is there is only so [...]
R.C. Hoiles and Public Schooling — Wendy McElroy
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Wendy McElroyIn a letter dated May 23, 1946, the libertarian publisher R. C. Hoiles wrote to Leonard E. Read, who would establish the Foundation for Economic Education later that same year. Hoiles advised Read on what he believed was the underlying cause of America’s alarming shift from individual liberty [...]
The Afghanistan Quagmire — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba The war in Afghanistan has been going on for more than eight years as of this writing. Over that period of time I have been against it, for it, against it, for it, and now I return to what my instincts and experience told me all along. It’s over. That war is lost. Once the Taliban acquired surface-to-air missiles, the [...]
You Can Fight City Hall! — Henry Lamb
By Henry Lamb When Smart Growth and Sustainable Development washed across the nation in the 1990s, property rights activists were overwhelmed. Visioning councils sprang up everywhere, and towns, cities, counties, and regions soon had “Vision 2020 Action Plans” that transformed normal communities into “Sustainable Communities,” and, for [...]
Free Speech Gag Bill Moving In House
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America The ability of American citizens to communicate with their elected officials is one of the most important rights that help preserve our freedoms. In fact, of all the forms of speech protected by the First Amendment, political speech is at the top of the list. This is exactly what the Supreme Court [...]
The Loyal Opposition — Steve Farrell
By Steve Farrell On the 6th of June 1776, Boston's Samuel Adams wrote to fellow Son of Liberty, James Warren, President of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts: "Tomorrow, a motion will be made, and a question I hope decided, the most important that was ever agitated in America." Indeed it was. The motion introduced in the Second [...]
BP: Perfidious Albion? — Phil Brennan
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway The wild Celtic blood that courses through my blood vessels tends to make me view anything amiss connected with the British as just another aspect of Perfidious Albion, (treacherous Briton) the cynic’s time honored way of describing our English cousins. It certainly [...]
Awaiting Armageddon — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba I do not know what it is about Islam and liberalism that causes both to turn logic and truth on its head, but we have been witnessing it in different ways in recent days. First there was the “humanitarian” flotilla running the Israeli blockade of Gaza and then there was the appalling anti-Semitism of Helen Thomas, [...]
Gov. Daniels: A “Truce” Is A Surrender — Bryan Fischer
By Bryan Fischer As you likely are aware by now, Indiana governor Mitch Daniels has called for a "truce" in the culture war, especially on abortion, while our nation's leaders look for a solution to our fiscal crisis. Daniels was getting high marks from conservatives as a potential dark horse for the presidential nomination in 2012, but he [...]
