Hobby Lobby Victorious in Supreme Court Mark Meckler July 1, 2014 Engaged Citizens, News In a historic decision, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Hobby Lobby and two other family-owned businesses may opt out of Affordable Care Act mandates that employees provide insurance for certain contraceptives. The ruling confirms that people don’t waive...
Video: Ideas for Your Next Audit? Mark Meckler July 1, 2014 Featured, IRS Lawsuit, News, Scandals Sometimes if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry. Here’s a nice three-minute YouTube video for the IRS’s excuses for targeting the Tea Party and other patriotic...
Bi-Partisan Committees Discuss Protocols for Inevitable Article V Convention Mark Meckler June 23, 2014 Convention of States, News, Shared Values, U.S. Constitution An Article V convention, also known as the Convention of States, has quietly become a political inevitability, as state legislators all over the nation consider how to rein in the federal government’s unprecedented overreach and abuse. The Founding Fathers...
The Rot Runs Deep: Thousands of Bureaucrats Need to Go Mark Meckler June 22, 2014 Big Government, Featured, News, Scandals David French has a great article over on National Review, about the incompetency of government employees. When dealing with the federal bureaucracy, we’re dealing with a collection of individuals who simply don’t live with the kind of job insecurity that...
Making Sense of Cantor’s Defeat: A Guide for Baffled Beltway Insiders Mark Meckler June 17, 2014 Engaged Citizens, Incumbent Accountability, Media Coverage, News, Tea Party After a few primary defeats, the media was quick to shout, “The Tea Party is dead,” but it appears the reports of its death, to paraphrase Mark Twain, have been greatly exaggerated. News outlets across the country were baffled last week when Dave Brat...
Idaho Citizen Hits the Streets to Campaign for a Convention of States Mark Meckler June 13, 2014 News This veteran is doing everything he can to make sure Idaho joins the call for a Convention of States.
The Other Side of Gun Control Mark Meckler June 12, 2014 Featured, News Sometimes, you get so fed up with political correctness, you feel you have to do something. To take a stand against strict gun control advocates recently, one town in Colorado has passed a municipal ordinance requiring heads of households to own guns and...
Landrieu: Using ‘Clout’ for Keystone Pipeline ‘Not My Job’ Mark Meckler June 11, 2014 Featured, Incumbent Accountability, News Mary Landrieu thinks she’s pretty powerful. In a recent interview with The Washington Post, she used the word “clout” 13 times referring to her position as the Chair of the Senate Energy Committee. But if she has so much “clout,” why isn’t she...
Western States Challenge Federal Control of Land Mark Meckler June 3, 2014 Big Government, Featured, News The media has been paying attention to land issues lately, mostly because of Cliven Bundy’s recent tussle with the Feds. However, Bundy’s showdown was just a recent – though dramatic – symptom of an underlying problem that’s only now bubbling to...
“The People” Are Winning Against Common Core Mark Meckler June 2, 2014 Common Core, Engaged Citizens, News Parents are winning the battle against Common Core federal education standards. Not only are states leaving the program, politicians who support Common Core have felt the heat in recent elections. Michelle Malkin says the defeat of several Common Core...