Conservative News--4.7.12

Allies of conservative judge upset by Obama court remarks say politics don't ... Washington Post (blog) NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge who called out President Barack Obama for saying it would be "unprecedented" for the Supreme Court to strike down a law like his administration's health care overhaul is a conservative voice on what may be the nation's ... See all stories on this topic »

Is this conservative judicial activism? Politico He specifically called out "conservative commentators" who have made the same charge in other cases. Conservatives, however, have criticized "judicial activism" where judges resorted to novel legal theories to invalidate acts passed mostly by state ... See all stories on this topic » Politico

McConnell was right and conservatives should perk up Washington Post (blog) Madison for over two centuries and we'd lurch from constitutional crisis to crisis without a final arbiter, why in the world would any conservative argue that maybe Obama wouldn't have to follow the Supreme Court's dictates? It's mind-boggling, to be ... See all stories on this topic »

US tie could foil conservative Islamist Egyptian presidential candidate msnbc.com (blog) By Charlene Gubash, NBC News Producer CAIRO – In an ironic twist of fate, the most conservative and anti-American of Egypt's Islamist presidential candidates may be barred from running because his mother was a US citizen. See all stories on this topic » msnbc.com (blog)

NDP in dead heat with Conservatives Montreal Gazette It has been a Liberal-Conservative tug-of-war in federal politics since Confederation, but a new poll confirms a shift to a new political split: Conservative-New Democratic Party. The NDP is now tied with its ideological rival, the Conservative Party, ... See all stories on this topic »

Tea partyers press to oust long-serving GOP Sens. Lugar, Hatch as not ... Washington Post Lugar and Utah's Orrin Hatch, 78 and sent to Capitol Hill in the same year as Lugar, are tea partyers' top Senate Republican targets for defeat this year, portrayed as old bulls out of touch with today's conservatives. They are the GOP's two most ... See all stories on this topic »

Conservative Confusion over Obama and 'Social Darwinism' The Atlantic Hofstadter called social Darwinism a "phase in the history of conservative thought" and wrote: Darwinism was used to buttress the conservative outlook in two ways. The most popular catchwords of Darwinism, 'struggle for existence' and 'survival of the ... See all stories on this topic »

Kraft drops membership in conservative group amid protest Chicago Tribune Kraft Foods joined Coca-Cola in bowing to consumer pressure this week to cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative lobbying group that has recently backed controversial voter ID and so-called "stand your ground" laws. See all stories on this topic »

Coca-Cola, Kraft leave conservative ALEC after boycott launched Los Angeles Times By Tiffany Hsu Coca-Cola Co. and Kraft Foods Inc. bowed to consumer pressure this week and cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative lobbying group that has recently backed controversial voter ID and so-called "stand your ... See all stories on this topic »