]]>http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/07/public-identity-1/feed/1Generation Opportunity: Let Section 215 Expirehttp://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/05/generation-opportunity-let-section-215-expire/
http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/05/generation-opportunity-let-section-215-expire/#commentsThu, 21 May 2015 23:01:22 +0000http://www.conservativedailynews.com/?p=111384Washington, DC – (5/20/15) – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday that the Senate will vote this week to extend Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, which has been used by the National Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence agencies to justify the bulk collection of domestic phone records. Earlier this month, a federal appeals court ruled that Section 215 cannot be legitimately interpreted to allow for such activity.

Luke Kenworthy, Director of Policy Engagement at Generation Opportunity, released the following statement:

“The Senate should let Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act expire. Section 215 exemplifies the unacceptable trend of mass surveillance that threatens all of our freedoms.

“It makes sense that there is broad bipartisan support for allowing Section 215 to expire. It has been widely misinterpreted to give the government far more power than was originally intended.

“Privacy matters – it’s essential for free speech, commerce, and for holding our leaders accountable. Digital privacy is especially important to young Americans, as we use our phones, computers, and digital devices more than any other generation.

“Our generation says: let Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act expire. It’s only the first step, but it’s necessary for Congress to prove to us that our elected officials are ready to defend our fundamental right to privacy.”

]]>http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/05/generation-opportunity-let-section-215-expire/feed/2Ballot Box Demographicshttp://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/05/ballot-box-demographics/
http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/05/ballot-box-demographics/#commentsMon, 11 May 2015 23:40:40 +0000http://www.conservativedailynews.com/?p=111193The 2016 Presidential Election campaign cycle started early this time around and perhaps those of us most interested keeping tabs on candidates are the nation’s older folk, reports the Association of Mature American Citizens.

Seniors have always been keen on their voting rights, accounting for the lion’s share of voter participation, particularly in recent federal elections. Individuals in their fifties and sixties have consistently turned out in blocs that make up more than 50% of the ballots cast in key elections. Those over 65 years of age have accounted for nearly two thirds of the vote in some elections over recent years.

There are a number of reasons that as people grow older the more focused they are on their political leadership, not the least of which is the desire to protect the government programs they paid for in their younger days. Issues dealing with things like Social Security and Medicare are critical to them.

]]>http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/05/ballot-box-demographics/feed/1Christian persecution on the rise around the worldhttp://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/05/christian-persecution-on-the-rise-around-the-world/
http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/05/christian-persecution-on-the-rise-around-the-world/#commentsFri, 01 May 2015 23:13:39 +0000http://www.conservativedailynews.com/?p=110979

WASHINGTON, DC, May 1 – The persecution of Christians is not limited to the middle east. A new report by the human rights group, China Aid, shows that a tidal wave of brutal religious oppression is sweeping across Communist China. Its 2014 Annual Report of Religious and Human Rights Persecution in China issued just days ago revealed that there was a 300% increase in the cases of religious persecution last year.

“Although the Chinese persecutors might be described as tame compared to the atrocities of the jihadists or so-called ‘holy warriors’ in Arabia and Africa, the China Aid report suggests that Christians have become a target of choice on a global scale,” according to Dan Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens.

The statistics confirm that notion. David Curry, president of Open Doors, which keeps track of nations based on the severity of persecution, has reported that the targeting of Christians worldwide reached historic levels in 2014 and that this year things may get even worse. Open Doors estimates that there are some 100 million Christians around the world who are in fear of their lives just because they believe in Christ.

“In regions where Christians are being persecuted as central targets, the trends and issues we track are expanding,” Curry said.

It is interesting to note that North Korea tops the list of the world’s worst oppressors, but it is the massacres perpetrated by extremist Islamic terrorists that are cause for the greatest concern, Weber noted. “The abuses in China and North Korea are alarming but in some Middle Eastern countries, there are few, if any, Christians left. Radical Muslims with distorted views of their mission in life have used extraordinarily cruel and vicious means to wipe out whole Christian communities. They’ve beheaded men, women and children in great numbers. Women are raped and sold off as sex slaves.”

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria [ISIS] and the terror group, Al-Shabaab, have openly stated their intent to rid the lands they seek to control of Christians either by murdering them or forcing them to renounce their faith. They’ve even reached out to Europe using terror and the threat of terror to create havoc in Paris, Rome and elsewhere in the Christian world.

Individuals on both the right and the left have expressed concern. The conservative evangelist Reverend Franklin Graham said he is concerned about the rapid spread of the anti-Christian movement and what could happen in the United States. He criticized the “conspicuous” silence of our political leaders.

Earlier this month 12 Christian refugees from Libya were thrown overboard and drowned by Muslim extremists. Liberal columnist Kirsten Powers wrote about it in her column in USA Today. She, too, was critical, singling out President Obama for remaining “mute” on the incident. At a joint news conference after a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Powers noted that Mr. Obama “failed to interject any sense of outrage or even tepid concern for the targeting of Christians for their faith. If a Christian mob on a ship bound for Italy threw 12 Muslims to their death for praying to Allah, does anyone think the president would have been so disinterested? When three North Carolina Muslims were gunned down by a virulent atheist, Obama rightly spoke out against the horrifying killings. But he just can’t seem to find any passion for the mass persecution of Middle Eastern Christians or the eradication of Christianity from its birthplace.”

Weber concluded that while the rise of Christian persecution is gaining greater attention, there is a need for western countries, including the U.S., to view the problem as a matter of foreign policy. “We need a serious solution to a grim problem. We need to encourage our leadership to take appropriate action to preserve and protect religious freedom at home and abroad. The Founding Fathers considered the right to worship enough of a national security issue to make it a key part of the first amendment in our Constitution. We need, as a nation, to take it seriously enough to make it a priority of our foreign policy.”

The average 15-year fixed mortgage also held steady, at 3.03 percent, while the larger jumbo 30-year fixed mortgage reversed last week’s move and settled at 3.92 percent. Adjustable rate mortgages were slightly higher, with the 5-year ARM inching upward to 3.09 percent and the 7-year ARM now at 3.29 percent.

Mortgage rates remained at a 23-month low on a slow week for economic data, and mixed economic data at that. With the 10-year Treasury yield approaching the 2 percent mark, mortgage rates may move a touch higher ahead of next week’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting. But any confirmation of a slow economic start to 2015 or any delay in the Fed’s timetable for interest rate hikes would most likely bring bond yields and mortgage rates back down. Mortgage rates are closely related to yields on long-term government bonds.

One year ago, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate was 4.48 percent. At that time, a $200,000 loan would have carried a monthly payment of $1,011.00. With the average rate now at 3.79 percent, the monthly payment for the same size loan would be $930.78, a savings of $80 per month for anyone refinancing now.

]]>http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/04/mortgage-rates-show-little-change/feed/0CenturyLink acquires Orchestrate to enhance cloud platform with new database capabilitieshttp://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/04/centurylink-acquires-orchestrate-to-enhance-cloud-platform-with-new-database-capabilities/
http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/04/centurylink-acquires-orchestrate-to-enhance-cloud-platform-with-new-database-capabilities/#commentsTue, 21 Apr 2015 04:39:54 +0000http://www.conservativedailynews.com/?p=110704MONROE, Louisiana. and PORTLAND, Oregon, April 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) today announced the acquisition of Orchestrate, a company that offers a fully managed database service for rapid application development. The acquisition enhances the CenturyLink Cloud platform with new Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) capabilities and adds Orchestrate’s experienced data services team to CenturyLink’s Product Development and Technology organization.

“CenturyLink’s customers, like most enterprises, are expressing interest in solutions that help them meet the performance, scalability and agile development needs of large-scale big data analytics,” saidGlen F. Post, III, chief executive officer and president of CenturyLink. “The Orchestrate database service’s ease of use and ability to support multiple database technologies have emerged as key differentiators that we are eager to offer our customers through the CenturyLink Cloud platform.”

With the advance of mobile, real-time and Internet of Things applications, companies need scalable, flexible databases. In many cases, they need more than one database to provide the social, mapping and messaging features users expect. Orchestrate provides multiple flavors of well-tuned, managed NoSQL databases, to save organizations the headaches of running their own instances. Orchestrate provides full-text search, time series, graph and key-value storage through a single, simple API that combines the developer-friendliness and ease of use of NoSQL databases with the reliability of distributed databases.

Orchestrate co-founders Antony Falco, chief executive officer, and Ian Plosker, chief technology officer, as well asDave Smith, vice president of engineering, are among those joining CenturyLink.

“CenturyLink Cloud features one of the most sophisticated service infrastructures in the market, with a great interface and lots of options for managing complex workflow and third-party applications in the cloud,” Falco said. “Orchestrate’s database service takes the same approach to delivering cost efficiency and ease of use. Enterprise customers are increasingly expecting one global platform to provide these services.”

Earlier this year, Orchestrate’s service became deployable via CenturyLink Cloud. CenturyLink’s other recent big data analytics moves include the acquisition of Cognilytics, a leading provider of advanced predictive analytics and big data solutions; the launch of Hyperscale high-performance cloud server instances designed for web-scale workloads, big data and cloud-native applications; and the availability of automated cloud-based Hadoop solutions. Other recent additions to the CenturyLink Cloud ecosystem include the acquisition of DataGardens for disaster recovery services.

]]>http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/04/centurylink-acquires-orchestrate-to-enhance-cloud-platform-with-new-database-capabilities/feed/0Blue Bell Creameries Voluntarily Expands Recall To Include All Of Its Products Due To Possible Health Riskhttp://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/04/blue-bell-creameries-voluntarily-expands-recall-to-include-all-of-its-products-due-to-possible-health-risk/
http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/04/blue-bell-creameries-voluntarily-expands-recall-to-include-all-of-its-products-due-to-possible-health-risk/#commentsTue, 21 Apr 2015 04:33:26 +0000http://www.conservativedailynews.com/?p=110702BRENHAM, Texas, April 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Blue Bell Ice Cream of Brenham, Texas, is voluntarily recalling all of its products currently on the market made at all of its facilities including ice cream, frozen yogurt, sherbet and frozen snacks because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headaches, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.

“We’re committed to doing the 100 percent right thing, and the best way to do that is to take all of our products off the market until we can be confident that they are all safe,” said Paul Kruse, Blue Bell CEO and president.“We are heartbroken about this situation and apologize to all of our loyal Blue Bell fans and customers. Our entire history has been about making the very best and highest quality ice cream and we intend to fix this problem. We want enjoying our ice cream to be a source of joy and pleasure, never a cause for concern, so we are committed to getting this right.”

Today’s decision was the result of findings from an enhanced sampling program initiated by Blue Bell which revealed that Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream half gallons produced on March 17, 2015, and March 27, 2015, contained the bacteria. This means Blue Bell has now had several positive tests for Listeria in different places and plants and as previously reported five patients were treated in Kansas and three in Texasafter testing positive for Listeria monocytogenes.

“At every step, we have made decisions in the best interest of our customers based on the evidence we had available at the time,” Kruse said. “At this point, we cannot say with certainty how Listeria was introduced to our facilities and so we have taken this unprecedented step. We continue to work with our team of experts to eliminate this problem.”

Blue Bell is implementing a procedure called “test and hold” for all products made at all of its manufacturing facilities. This means that all products will be tested first and held for release to the market only after the tests show they are safe. The Broken Arrow facility will remain closed as Blue Bell continues to investigate.

In addition to the “test and hold” system, Blue Bell is implementing additional safety procedures and testing including:

Expanding our already robust system of daily cleaning and sanitizing of equipment

Expanding our system of swabbing and testing our plant environment by 800 percent to include more surfaces

Sending samples daily to a leading microbiology laboratory for testing

Providing additional employee training

Blue Bell expects to resume distribution soon on a limited basis once it is confident in the safety of its product.

]]>http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/04/blue-bell-creameries-voluntarily-expands-recall-to-include-all-of-its-products-due-to-possible-health-risk/feed/0UN Human Rights Council Condemns Israel, Absolves Hamashttp://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/07/un-human-rights-council-condemns-israel-absolves-hamas/
http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/07/un-human-rights-council-condemns-israel-absolves-hamas/#commentsWed, 23 Jul 2014 19:32:45 +0000http://www.conservativedailynews.com/?p=98190NEW YORK, July 23, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — AJC is dismayed by the adoption of a UN Human Rights Council resolution that sharply criticizes Israel, while totally absolving Hamas of any role or responsibility in the current conflict.

The vote took place in Geneva today. The resolution was adopted with 29 nations voting in favor, the United States opposed, and 17 countries, primarily from Europe and Africa, abstaining.

“Because of the ‘automatic majority,’ Israel can’t get a fair hearing,” Harris continued. “Instead, Israel is held responsible for a conflict solely triggered by Hamas. That Hamas is a terrorist group that fires hundreds, if not thousands, of deadly missiles into Israel, that it seeks Israel’s annihilation, and that it uses its civilian population as human shields are all deemed immaterial. Shame on the UN Human Rights Council! Bravo to the United States for standing up for principle and integrity.”

The resolution describes Israel as the “occupying power,” though Israel left Gaza in 2005 and gave local residents their first chance in history – something no other nation had ever done – to chart their own destiny. It also calls for establishing a “commission of inquiry,” reminiscent of the ill-fated and one-sided Goldstone Commission created after the Israel-Hamas war in 2008-9, whose report was eventually repudiated in large part by Judge Richard Goldstone himself.

“Fact: The UN Human Rights Council has focused more on Israel than any other nation on earth,” Harris added. “Fact: The UN Human Rights Council has blithely ignored egregious human rights violations in those parts of the world that don’t suit the interests of the ‘automatic majority.’ Fact: The UN Human Rights Council discredits itself by this selective and skewed focus. And fact: The UN Human Rights Council has set back the cause of Arab-Israeli peace by empowering Hamas, an avowedly terrorist group.”

]]>http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/07/un-human-rights-council-condemns-israel-absolves-hamas/feed/0NASA’s ‘Flying Saucer’ Readies for First Test Flighthttp://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/06/nasas-flying-saucer-readies-for-first-test-flight/
http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/06/nasas-flying-saucer-readies-for-first-test-flight/#commentsMon, 02 Jun 2014 19:38:32 +0000http://www.conservativedailynews.com/?p=97771WASHINGTON, June 2, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA’s flying saucer-shaped test vehicle is ready to take to the skies from the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, for its first engineering shakeout flight.

The first launch opportunity for the test vehicle is June 3, when the launch window opens at 8:30 a.m. HST. The test will be carried live on NASA TV and streamed on the Web. The Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) will gather data about landing heavy payloads on Mars and other planetary surfaces.

“The agency is moving forward and getting ready for Mars as part of NASA’s Evolvable Mars campaign,” said Michael Gazarik, associate administrator for Space Technology at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “We fly, we learn, we fly again. We have two more vehicles in the works for next year.”

As NASA plans increasingly ambitious robotic missions to Mars, laying the groundwork for even more complex human science expeditions to come, accommodating extended stays for explorers on the Martian surface will require larger and heavier spacecraft.

The objective of the LDSD project is to see if the cutting-edge, rocket-powered test vehicle operates as it was designed — in near-space at high Mach numbers.

“After years of imagination, engineering and hard work, we soon will get to see our Keiki o ka honua, our ‘boy from Earth,’ show us its stuff,” said Mark Adler, project manager for the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. “The success of this experimental test flight will be measured by the success of the test vehicle to launch and fly its flight profile as advertised. If our flying saucer hits its speed and altitude targets, it will be a great day.”

The way NASA’s saucer climbs to test altitude is almost as distinctive as the test vehicle itself.

“We use a helium balloon — that, when fully inflated, would fit snugly into Pasadena’s Rose Bowl — to lift our vehicle to 120,000 feet,” said Adler. “From there we drop it for about one and a half seconds. After that, it’s all about going higher and faster — and then it’s about putting on the brakes.”

A fraction of a second after dropping from the balloon, and a few feet below it, four small rocket motors will fire to spin up and gyroscopically stabilize the saucer. A half second later, a Star 48B long-nozzle, solid-fueled rocket engine will kick in with 17,500 pounds of thrust, sending the test vehicle to the edge of the stratosphere.

“Our goal is to get to an altitude and velocity which simulates the kind of environment one of our vehicles would encounter when it would fly in the Martian atmosphere,” said Ian Clark, principal investigator of the LDSD project at JPL. “We top out at about 180,000 feet and Mach 4. Then, as we slow down to Mach 3.8, we deploy the first of two new atmospheric braking systems.”

The project management team decided also to fly the two supersonic decelerator technologies that will be thoroughly tested during two LDSD flight tests next year.

If this year’s test vehicle flies as expected, the LDSD team may get a treasure-trove of data on how the 6-meter supersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerator (SIAD-R) and the supersonic parachute operate a full year ahead of schedule.

The SIAD-R, essentially an inflatable doughnut that increases the vehicle’s size and, as a result, its drag, is deployed at about Mach 3.8. It will quickly slow the vehicle to Mach 2.5 where the parachute, the largest supersonic parachute ever flown, first hits the supersonic flow. About 45 minutes later, the saucer is expected to make a controlled landing onto the Pacific Ocean offHawaii.

NASA TV will carry live images and commentary of LDSD engineering test. The test vehicle itself carries several onboard cameras. It is expected that video of selected portions of the test, including the rocket-powered ascent, will be downlinked during the commentary. Websites streaming live video of the test include:

]]>http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/06/nasas-flying-saucer-readies-for-first-test-flight/feed/0Dr. Ben Carson Takes 2nd Place in 2016 Presidential Straw Pollhttp://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/06/dr-ben-carson-takes-2nd-place-in-2016-presidential-straw-poll/
http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/06/dr-ben-carson-takes-2nd-place-in-2016-presidential-straw-poll/#commentsMon, 02 Jun 2014 19:26:55 +0000http://www.conservativedailynews.com/?p=97767MERRIFIELD, Va., June 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee, a political action committee formed to draft Dr. Ben Carson into the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, is proud to announce that Dr. Carson made a strong showing in the 2014 National Republican Leadership Conference (NRLC) presidential straw poll, coming in 2nd place in a crowded field of twelve contenders.

“Dr. Ben Carson continues to prove he is a strong presidential contender for 2016 taking top spots in poll after poll,” said Vernon Robinson, the Committee’s campaign director. “Dr. Carson continues to say that if enough Americans clamor for him he will run for president, and a strong showing in the NRLC straw poll clearly shows that the grassroots are clamoring for him.”

The NRLC poll was conducted over the three-day conference May 29-31 in New Orleans, and surveyed 1500 attendees. Dr. Carson was in a dead heat with Sen. Ted Cruz, narrowly coming in 2nd place with 29.38 percent of the vote to Cruz’s 30.33 percent. The next closest contender was Sen. Rand Paul who came in a distant 3rd with 10.43 percent of the vote.

Dr. Carson’s strong showing in the straw poll is the latest in a series of polls showing that the American people are clamoring for him to run. In January, Dr. Carson overwhelmingly won the Linn County, Iowa, midterm caucus straw poll with 87 percent of the votes. And 77 percent of respondents to a poll of Tea Party activists said they support Dr. Carson. Dr. Carson went on to take top spots in both the Northeast Republican Leadership Conference in New Hampshire and the Conservative Political Action Conference Straw Poll in Washington DC.

“Dr. Carson’s seems to be noticing the groundswell of support for his candidacy demonstrated by thousands of Committee volunteers around the country, and hundreds of thousands of petitions urging him to run,” said John Philip Sousa IV, national chairman of the National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee. “Dr. Carson is the potential candidate best suited to heal our nation and put America back on the path to prosperity, and wins like the NRLC straw illustrate that conservatives stand behind him.”

]]>http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/06/dr-ben-carson-takes-2nd-place-in-2016-presidential-straw-poll/feed/5Americans Clamoring for Ben Carson in 2016http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/05/americans-clamoring-for-ben-carson-in-2016/
http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/05/americans-clamoring-for-ben-carson-in-2016/#commentsFri, 23 May 2014 20:16:43 +0000http://www.conservativedailynews.com/?p=97685MERRIFIELD, Va., May 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee, a political action committee formed to draft Dr. Ben Carson into the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, has announced a video contest to spread the word about why Dr. Carson should run for the 2016 Republican nomination. There will be three winning videos, chosen based on the number of Facebook “likes” they receive. Winners will receive their choice of a Silver iPad Air™ or a Microsoft Surface™.

“We’re excited to launch this video competition to let the American people make their voices heard in clamoring for Dr. Carson to run for president,” said Vernon Robinson, the Committee’s campaign director. “We need a principled leader in the White House in 2016, and these videos will let the world know Americans believe Dr. Carson is that leader.”

Participants are encouraged to create their video, upload it to YouTube and send the URL to contest@RunBenRun.org, to be uploaded to the Committee’s Facebook page. Contestants must gather as many “likes” as they can by spreading the word to family and friends. All videos will be posted to the Facebook page between 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. ET once they have been submitted. The three submissions that garner the most Facebook “likes” will win. All entries must be submitted by midnight onFriday, May 30. Winners will be declared on Monday, June 9.

The National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee delivers roughly 4,000 petitions to Dr. Carson each week from Americans who want him to run. In January, Dr. Carson overwhelmingly won the Linn County, Iowa, midterm caucus straw poll with 87 percent of the votes. He also finished strong in the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and Northeast Republican Leadership Conference straw polls. In a recent poll of thousands of Tea Party activists, 77 percent of respondents said they support Dr. Carson.

Since its founding in August 2013, the National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee has raised more than $5 million – outpacing the fundraising efforts of the Ready for Hillary PAC. Nearly 75,000 individuals have contributed to the campaign and more than 10,000 volunteers have joined the effort.

About the National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee

The National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee is a political action committee formed to draft Dr. Ben Carson into the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. It was founded by John Philip Sousa IV and Vernon Robinson, and works to raise awareness of Dr. Carson’s qualifications and to engage grassroots conservative activists in clamoring for Dr. Carson to run for president.

“Judge Rabner is the ringmaster of the New Jersey Supreme Court’s activist circus, a court that has wrecked the state’s economy and its legal culture by imposing its will instead of faithfully interpreting the law. By reappointing Rabner, Governor Christie has made it clear that he has no interest in keeping his promise to remake the New Jersey Supreme Court. Christie is hanging his hat on the fact that he also nominated Lee Solomon, a Republican. But Solomon is just the latest in a string of Christie nominees with no discernible judicial philosophy. This isn’t compromise; it is total surrender.

“The next President could replace as many as three justices on the U.S. Supreme Court and countless appellate judges, shaping the federal judiciary for a generation. Republicans who like the idea of a Christie presidency should ask themselves whether they can trust him to fill those seats with true constitutionalists. If you want a Court full of Souters and Stevens, then Christie is the candidate for you.”

]]>http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/05/chris-christie-further-complicates-2016-presidential-ambitions/feed/0Dem Lobbyist: GOP Will Control House and Senate in Mid-Term Electionshttp://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/04/dem-lobbyist-gop-will-control-house-and-senate-in-mid-term-elections/
http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/04/dem-lobbyist-gop-will-control-house-and-senate-in-mid-term-elections/#commentsFri, 25 Apr 2014 18:35:23 +0000http://www.conservativedailynews.com/?p=97369WASHINGTON, April 24, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — APRIL 24, 2014-WASHINGTON, DC—The Republican majority in the House will rise to its largest margin in history and the Senate will transfer from Democratic control to Republican come the November mid-term elections, says Neil Dhillon, a Democratic lobbyist and former senior congressional aide. It’s inevitable with the President’s approval rating at a record low 37% plus the traditional gains for a President’s opposing party in mid-terms that it will be an historic night for Republicans in November.

Even with 6 months out it’s an easy call to make now, says Dhillon. There’s an added clincher that a large population of newly registered Republican voters are Asian and Hispanics and that will further propel the Republicans in November. The President’s pressure on Congress on Immigration Reform, Energy Dependence, Federal Deficit, and Health Care will continue to determine whether his approval rating will rise or lower over the next few months.

The only good news for Democrats is that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) raised close to $3 million more than Republicans in the last quarterly report. The Democrats will need to raise at least $20 million more each quarter to have any chance of forgoing full Republican control. And that is a tough road to climb.

The Senate presently has 53 Democrats, 45 Republicans and two Independents. The Republicans need a net gain of 6 seats out of 36 Senate races with Democrats fighting to retain 21 seats that include 6 races in states that Governor Mitt Romney won big in 2012. President Obama should do everything he can do now to forge some type of relations with the Senate Republicans to help ease the pain of his final two years in office. This will not be an easy task as the President and Congress barely talk as it is.

The House presently has 233 Republicans, 199 Democrats, and 3 open seats. Historically, the President’s opposing party makes big gains in mid-terms election plus the President’s approval rating is a low 37%. It appears that the Republicans will gain close to 10 seats and get over a 242 seat majority. If this occurs, this would the largest majority ever by Republicans. Republicans held a 239 seat majority in 1949 and a 242 seat majority in 2010.

]]>http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/04/dem-lobbyist-gop-will-control-house-and-senate-in-mid-term-elections/feed/2Libertarian Party of Texas Poised for Largest State Convention in its Historyhttp://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/04/libertarian-party-of-texas-poised-for-largest-state-convention-in-its-history/
http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2014/04/libertarian-party-of-texas-poised-for-largest-state-convention-in-its-history/#commentsWed, 09 Apr 2014 18:03:07 +0000http://www.conservativedailynews.com/?p=97215AUSTIN, Texas, April 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — With Generation Liberty! as its theme, the Libertarian Party of Texas will host its 2014 state convention April 11-13 at the Frank W. Mayborn Civic and Convention Center in Temple.

The party will nominate candidates for statewide office and elect new state party officers. The convention will feature an exciting lineup of speakers and events supporting Libertarian goals of peace, liberty and justice for all.

While national trends show declining party registration for Republicans and Democrats, since November 2012 the Libertarian Party has shown 11.4 percent growth (Ballot Access News).

The Libertarian Party of Texas has enjoyed growth as well. “Our growth has come from a wide variety of Texans, but we especially see interest among young people,” reports Patrick Dixon, Chair, Libertarian Party of Texas. “I am very encouraged to see future generations of Libertarians getting involved.”

The Libertarian State Convention will see over 200 delegates, with 25 candidates seeking nomination for 15 offices, and, what is tracking to be the largest number of non-delegates, in attendance.

Friday events are free and open to the public while Saturday and Sunday includes meal and speaker events that require registration.

With a 1 p.m. kick-off, Friday’s first session will provide important training for delegates to learn mechanics of the procedures observed during convention business sessions. A 3:30 p.m. “Come and Take It” rally in the Mayborn Center parking lot will feature speakers including C.J. Grisham discussing the importance of defending Second Amendment rights. Candidate debates for statewide offices are scheduled from 6 – 9 p.m.

Saturday business sessions will address state rules and nominations while break-out sessions will address topics like, “The Libertarian Message and Drugs, Data and the Dominatrix: Civil Liberties in Texas.”

Saturday’s lunch will feature Students for Liberty (SFL) founder Alexander McCobin discussing how the young generation can carry the Libertarian message.

The dinner banquet will include speakers Wes Benedict, Michael Cloud and Ben Swann. Benedict, executive director of the Libertarian National Committee, and Cloud, president and co-founder of the Center For Small Government, will talk on effectively spreading the party’s message. Swann, a broadcast news journalist known for creating “Reality Check” and his own media company, the Truth in Media Project, will deliver the keynote address.

On Sunday, 2013 SFL Student of the Year award winner, Noelle Mandell will discuss why young people matter and how Libertarians can work to attract/engage the next generation, and will also facilitate a hands-on exercise in activism.

A Sunday break-out session, “Free Beer: Liberating our favorite libations,” will highlight the challenges of small business owners in a highly regulated environment while lunch speakers will discuss “Bitcoin, Banks and Bailouts: How do Bitcoin, the Federal Reserve System, and crony capitalism affect the economy.”