No Straw Men

E-mail Sent to Members in Colorado
Conservatives in Colorado haven’t had much to cheer about recently. Amendment 39 changes that prospect.
For too long, the only demand of education funding has been more money. Indeed, owing to Amendment 23, Colorado taxpayers have seen their public education costs rise to record levels every year.
Amendment 39 reverses this trend […]

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E-mail Sent to Members
Why are gas prices so high and unpredictable? Here’s one big but underreported reason: The federal government, which for the past 30 years has been sealing off millions of acres of oil- and gas-laden reserves across the country and offshore, thus decreasing domestic supply.
In other words, the scarcity is not physical but […]

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E-mail Sent to Members
We all know the drill. In purchasing alcohol or tobacco, cashing a check or boarding a plane, you need a picture ID. No ID; no dice. The routine is uncontroversial and commonsensical.
But did you know that in order to vote in a national election—in order to exercise that most elemental aspect of […]

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E-mail Sent to Members
First they came for the Internet, which they wanted to smother with innovation-stifling regulations. Now they’re after your TV, which they want to keep in the clutch of a select few companies, rather than open the field to competition.
“They,” of course, are far-left groups like MoveOn.org, and their goal is as predictable […]

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Taxing capital gains amounts to double taxation
ALEXANDRIA, VA— The American Conservative Union, the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots conservative lobbying organization, announced its strong support for HR 6057, which would change the way the Treasury Department taxes capital gains, so that only real gains, not gains plus inflation, are subject to taxation.
Since 1913, the Treasury […]

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The Honorable Cliff Stearns
United States House of Representatives
2370 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Congressman Stearns:
On behalf of the nearly one million members and supporters of the American Conservative Union, I write to express our support for your legislation, H.R. 5476, to withhold United States funding from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
In March, […]

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United States Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations
Dear Senator:
On behalf of the nearly one million members of the American Conservative Union, I write to express strong support for the speedy re-nomination of John Bolton as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
We start from the premise that the U.N. desperately needs reform—and not just incremental improvements, but […]

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Free the judge from congressional purgatory
ALEXANDRIA, VA— The American Conservative Union, the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots conservative lobbying organization, today urged Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) to schedule a vote on Judge Terrence Boyle, a decision that has been disgracefully delayed for more than a decade.
In 1991, President George H.W. Bush nominated Judge […]

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In New London, CT, a man’s home is the city’s castle
ALEXANDRIA, VA— The American Conservative Union, the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots conservative lobbying organization, today expressed outrage at the inconceivable decision by the city council of New London, CT, to evict and impose back fees and rent on homeowners Susette Kelo and the Cristofaro […]

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ALEXANDRIA, VA— The American Conservative Union, the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots conservative lobbying organization, is proud to honor [Senator/Congressman John Doe (R-)] with its 2005 Best and Brightest Award.
Given annually to senators and congressmen who score 100 percent in ACU’s “Rating of Congress,” the B&B award recognizes members for their voting-based commitment to […]

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No emergency left behind
ALEXANDRIA, VA— The American Conservative Union, the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots conservative lobbying organization, today joined with five sister groups—the National Taxpayers Union, Citizens against Government Waste, the Club for Growth, the Heritage Foundation and Americans for Tax Reform—to urge Congress to purge all pork and unrelated spending from the 2006 […]

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