Obama Acts to Curtail Drones
By PETER BAKER, nytimes.com

WASH­ING­TON — Pres­i­dent Obama on Thurs­day announced new restraints on tar­get­ed killings and nar­rowed the scope of the long strug­gle with ter­ror­ists as part of a tran­si­tion to a day he envi­sions when the nation will no longer be on the…

americanthinker.com

Don’t Sen­ate Democ­rats hold respon­si­bil­i­ty for the IRS tar­get­ing con­ser­v­a­tive groups? Sen­a­tors Al Franken and Chuck Schumer, among oth­ers, repeat­ed­ly asked the IRS to inves­ti­gate co …

myway.com

WASH­ING­TON (AP) - A House com­mit­tee tak­ing Con­gress’ lat­est look at the Inter­nal Rev­enue Ser­vice’s mis­treat­ment of tea party groups will appar­ent­ly have to do so with­out input from the …

foxnews.com

Iran is moving ahead to update a program the West fears could be used to make nuclear weapons, diplomats said Wednesday, despite high-level diplomacy aimed at stopping it from doing so.Three diplomats said Tehran now has installed close to 700…

By Jerry Seper, washingtontimes.com

A class-action law­suit filed in fed­er­al court in San Diego says 15 IRS agents ille­gal­ly seized the med­ical records of more than 10 mil­lion Amer­i­cans, includ­ing Cal­i­for­nia judges and their …

Biden Praises Jewish Leaders for Helping Change Americans’ Views on Gay Marriage
Billy Hallowell, theblaze.com

WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is praising Jewish leaders for helping change American attitudes about gay marriage — and for the group’s role in other important issues.During a speech last night, Biden said culture and arts…

weeklystandard.com

Conservatives, Tea Partiers Launch Coalition to Stop Amnesty Bill
breitbart.com

A broad coalition of conservatives and Tea Partiers have written to members of Congress to express their strong opposition to the Senate’s amnesty bill on the grounds that it does not equal true immigration reform, Breitbart News has learned.“We…

Farm Bill Primer: 10 Things You Should Know About the Farm Bill
heritage.org

Abstract

Con­gress is once again prepar­ing to take up the “farm bill,” a multi-billion-dollar tan­gle of agri­cul­ture sub­si­dies, wel­fare pay­ments, and envi­ron­men­tal patron­age. The time is par …

GOP Senator Preserves Loophole Giving Illegal Immigrants Immediate Welfare Access
breitbart.com

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) backed down from a previous promise his spokeswoman made to Breitbart News that he would consider voting in favor of amendments to the Senate’s immigration bill that would close a loophole allowing illegal immigrants immedia…