‘News, Liberty Alerts, Election 2012’ Archives
U.S. House Resolution 1923: Public Officials Accountability Act
Liberty Alerts, Overcriminalized.com Sponsor: Quigley (D - IL) Official Title: A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit public officials from engaging in undisclosed self-dealing. Status: 5/13/2011: Introduced in House 5/13/2011: Referred to House Judiciary Committee Commentary: The 24-year-old federal "honest [...]
Three of ‘World’s Worst’ Regimes Sit on U.N. Human Rights Council
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com Three of the world’s 17 most repressive regimes, as identified in a new report released this week, have been members of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council since its inception and have never been censured by that body. China, Cuba and Saudi Arabia have never been the subject of a [...]
Blago Just Wanted To “Get The Rich To Help The Poor”
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Chicago—Like Isaiah in the Old Testament, Rod Blagojevich wanted to “get the rich to help the poor” when he offered to send Barack Obama’s close friend (Valerie Jarrett) to the U.S. Senate in exchange for a nonprofit set up by wealthy Democratic donors close to the president. The multi [...]
U.S. EPA Gave $1.29 Million to China
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com The Environmental Protection Agency has given at least $1,285,535 in grants to China to promote environmental research in the country. In all, the EPA issued six grants that went to China, most of which pertained to researching methane in Chinese coal mines and reducing carbon emissions in China, a [...]
Speaker Boehner Will Not Comment on Weiner Scandal
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Ryan, CNSNews.com House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday refused to answer questions on whether the House Ethics Committee should investigate the alleged hacking of Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-N.Y.) Twitter account. At a Capitol Hill news conferemce on Wednesday, Boehner said only, “You’ll have to talk to [...]
National City Declares War on Small Business
Liberty Alerts, Institute for Justice You can say this much for National City—it doesn’t do things by half measures. Faced with a major loss in court over the city’s attempt to gain eminent domain authority over many of the city’s businesses, the city has responded by coming up with an even more radical plan. It plans to destroy [...]
Senator Jim DeMint Considers White House Bid
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America News broke yesterday that United States Senator Jim DeMint hinted he may be interested in a run at the Presidency, and we believe he would be a top tier candidate right out of the gate. According to The Hill newspaper, DeMint “has discussed a White House bid with his wife and will pray on the question [...]
Tennessee House Unanimously Urges Counties to Display Ten Commandments
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel The Tennessee State House of Representatives passed a resolution urging each county to permit the Ten Commandments to be posted in their respective courthouses. The resolution passed unanimously 98-0, with two abstaining from the vote. The resolution reminds Tennessee lawmakers of America’s rich [...]
FCC Colluded with Leftist Organization Free Press to Push Government Regulation of Internet, Documents Show
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has uncovered documents from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that indicate officials at the FCC colluded with the leftist Free Press organization to publicly push a new plan [...]
Israel: Facing New Danger
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, continues to emphasize that Jerusalem will remain the undivided capital of Israel. Celebrating Jerusalem Day this week, Netanyahu recalled that before the Six Day War Jerusalem was what he called "suffocating, a city that did not develop, [...]
John Bryson: Redistribute Wealth To Keep Poor From Cutting Trees
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com John Bryson, President Obama’s nominee to head the Commerce Department, told a UN energy conference in 2009 that a global wealth redistribution program was needed to keep poor people in developing countries from using their own forest resources. “What we’ve got to do is find ways to map out [...]
U.S. Pulls Out of Latest United Nations ‘Racism’ Conference
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com Five months after a bipartisan group of lawmakers urged the Obama administration to announce immediately its intention to stay away from a United Nations racism conference to be held in September, the State Department announced Wednesday that it would not attend the event. The plan has [...]
Former D.C. Prosecutor: It Would Be Crime for Weiner to File False Police Complaint
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com Joseph E. diGenova, former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said today it would be a crime for Rep. Anthony Weiner (D.-N.Y.) to file a complaint with the police claiming his Twitter account had been hacked if he knew it had not been hacked. Last Friday, a Tweet that included a lewd [...]
Bribes Are Part Of Politics, Blagojevich Tells Judge
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Chicago—Trading a U.S. Senate appointment for a personal benefit is perfectly legal and politicians throughout history have committed similar acts, according to Rod Blagojevich, who took the stand for a fourth day Wednesday in his corruption retrial. As a recent example the impeached Illinois [...]
Statement by Judicial Watch and its Client AZ State Senate President Russell Pearce on SCOTUS’ Decision to Uphold E-Verify
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton and Judicial Watch client Arizona State Senate President Russell Pearce offered the following statements today regarding the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the constitutionality of Arizona’s “Legal Arizona Workers Act,” legislation crafted by Pearce to [...]
DOJ Pressured City of Dayton to Lower Testing Standards for Police Recruits to Accommodate Minority Candidates
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has uncovered hundreds of documents from the City of Dayton, Ohio, showing that Department of Justice (DOJ) officials pressured the Dayton Police Department to lower testing standards [...]
Obama Commerce Nominee: U.S. Has ‘Obligation to Lead’ on Climate Change Legislation
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com John Bryson, President Barack Obama's nominee to be secretary of commerce, said it was “incredibly important” that the United States pass cap and trade legislation and that America needed to be a global leader in combating man-made global warming. “I regard it as incredibly important that [...]
Pakistani Muslim Clerics: Ban the Bible
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com A group of radical clerics in Pakistan wants the country’s Supreme Court to declare certain passages in the Bible blasphemous – because they depict as flawed certain biblical characters whom Muslims regard as Islamic prophets. If the court fails to do so, they said, then lawyers will submit [...]
Federal Government Says Court of Appeals Should Decide Pending ObamaCare Case
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Late yesterday, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed its Supplemental Brief at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, stating that the court has jurisdiction to decide the case and should do so. Following the argument on May 10, the panel of three judges asked the parties, which include Liberty [...]
Who’s Behind the Threat to Israel?
Liberty Alerts, Jay Sekulow, American Center for Law and Justice It has been well documented that Iran directly influences Hamas, with many calling Hamas a "puppet" terrorist organization for Iran. Now, Iranian President Ahmadinejad's spiritual mentor is calling for suicide attacks against Israeli civilians - including Israeli children - [...]
LC Files Supplemental Brief to Address Post-Argument Questions of Court
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Today Liberty Counsel filed a Supplemental Brief on behalf of Liberty University and two private plaintiffs challenging the Individual and Employer Mandates found in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as “ObamaCare” (Act). Mathew Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of [...]
Military is ‘Pulling Rug Out from Under’ Chaplains by Not Enforcing DOMA
Liberty Alerts, Pete Winn, CNSNews.com A former combat officer and military chaplain says this Memorial Day leaves him concerned about military chaplains, who currently face the threat of a military that is rushing headlong to introduce homosexuality and same-sex marriage into the armed services -- and an administration that is ignoring the [...]
DNC Chair: Republicans Believe Illegal Immigration ‘Should be a Crime’
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz denounced Republicans last week for believing illegal immigration “should in fact be a crime.” “I think the president was clearly articulating that his position – the Democratic position – is that we need comprehensive [...]
EPA Says It’s Prohibited From Considering Costs When Issuing Air-Quality Regulations
Liberty Alerts, Nicholas Ballasy, CNSNews.com The Environmental Protection Agency informed Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) in a recent letter that it considers itself “prohibited” by law from considering costs when setting National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). “I received this week a letter from the EPA regarding a letter [...]
Free Speech and ACORN: Are There Reasonable Limits?
Liberty Alerts: Book Reviews, WND.com When AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, an ally of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, told members of the United Mine workers in Illinois to "kick the out of every last" worker violating picket lines, the question was raised about just exactly how far "political" speech can [...]
U.S. Senate Rejects Efforts to Protect Gun Records from ATF
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America The Senate, by an overwhelming 85-10 vote, tabled an amendment by Senator Rand Paul which would have protected 4473’s and other gun records from blanket searches by the ATF under the PATRIOT Act. A mere 24 hours earlier, Democratic Leader Harry Reid went through parliamentary convolutions in order [...]
Obama’s ‘Victory Dance’ on Auto Bailouts Could Hurt Business, Industry Expert Warns
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com The Obama administration’s recent touting of its unpopular bailout of American automakers General Motors and Chrysler may actually end up hurting business at the two recovering firms, an industry expert tells CNSNews.com. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the expert said that if the [...]
Boehner Resolute: Spending Cuts Must ‘Exceed’ Debt-Limit Increase
Liberty Alerts, Nicholas Ballasy, CNSNews.com House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) indicated today that he is not backing down from his position, initially expressed in a speech at the Economic Club of New York on May 9, that federal spending cuts must "exceed" any increase in the federal debt limit. Boehner was asked for his reaction [...]
Pelosi to Obama: ‘We Want A Timetable To Bring the Troops Home’
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she supported legislation that would require President Barack Obama to set a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan. At a press conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Pelosi said she was backing an amendment to the National Defense Authorization [...]
Radical Obama Judicial Nominee Withdraws after Failing to Get Enough Votes
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Goodwin Liu withdrew his name yesterday as a nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, after last week’s unsuccessful cloture vote. Liberty Counsel Action (LCA) had previously sent a letter to U.S. Senators opposing Liu’s confirmation on behalf of 750,000 members nationwide. [...]
