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By Byron York - The Washington Examiner 

After six months of mulling over November’s election results, many Republicans remain convinced that the party’s only path to future victory is to improve the GOP’s appeal to Hispanic voters. What if Romney had won 44% of the Hispanic vote, the high-water mark for Republicans achieved by George W. Bush in 2004? How many Hispanic voters do Republicans need to attract before the party can again win the White House? Continue Reading.

By Kim Davis

In a surprising report released yesterday, digital rights watchdog the Electronic Freedom Foundation awarded Twitter their maximum score for protecting user data. The EFF evaluated the commitment to user privacy of 18 major technology services by reviewing their published policies and their public record. Continue Reading.

By Ann Coulter

At first I thought the IRS scandal was leaked to distract from the Benghazi scandal. But that didn’t make sense because the IRS scandal is a more obvious abuse of power than the White House lying about the murder of four Americans in Libya. Continue Reading.

BY ALLAHPUNDIT

Yesterday I gave you an expert’s skeptical take on whether she inadvertently waived her Fifth Amendment right. Today, via Newsmax, here’s another expert with the inevitable “au contraire” — and he’s not hedging his bets either. Watch the clip and you’ll find him treating this as an easy lay-up for Issa in court; he actually uses the term “open-and-shut case” and accuses her lawyer of malpractice for letting her give a statement. Is he right? At the Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr says it’s hard to tell because there simply isn’t much precedent.

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The Need for Federal Immigration Reform

By Brad Bailey

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – A new immigration system that allows current unauthorized immigrants to be involved fully in society, paying fines for breaking the immigration laws, and not receiving preferential treatment over legal immigrants is fair. To call any of the current Immigration Reform negotiations in Washington, D.C., “amnesty” is flat out dishonest.   Continue Reading.

Act Will Impose Sweeping New Sanctions on Iran

Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) introduced a bill to impose a total export embargo on the government of Iran as the rogue nation continues to defy the United Nations Security Council by pursuing a nuclear weapons capability, sponsoring terrorism, violating the human rights of its own people, and aiding North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs. Continue Reading.

It started with a warning, proceeded to a walkout and drew to a close with IRS officials walling off the agency from congressional interrogators whose patience appears to be wearing thin.

Democratic and Republican lawmakers were visibly frustrated Wednesday at the third congressional hearing on the IRS’ practice of singling out conservative groups. Members of Congress asked, again and again, how the program started and why nobody in the agency’s upper echelons notified Congress despite knowing about it at least a year ago.  Continue Reading.

By Dana Blanton - FoxNews

After a week of revelations about government spying on reporters and the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservatives, most voters feel “like the federal government has gotten out of control and is threatening the basic civil liberties of Americans.”

At the same time, a new Fox News poll finds disapproval of President Obama’s job performance is above 50 percent for the first time in a year, his honesty rating is at a new low and half of voters already think he’s a lame-duck. Continue Reading.

“The bill can be printed, the report can be printed during the Memorial Day Recess.”

Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate Judiciary Committee has been gearing up for, and has now produced, its Grand Finale in marking up a rewrite of nation’s immigration laws. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV,) said on the Senate Floor Thursday the amended version of the immigration plan drafted by the “Gang of 8” Senators will hit the floor as soon as it is ready in June, even if that means turning away from the Farm Bill that goes to the floor May 20th.   Continue Reading.

The IRS scandal, particulary, is likely to linger

By Stuart Rothenberg

It’s hard to overstate the potential significance of the past week.

What we are witnessing is nothing less than a dramatic reversal of the nation’s political narrative — from how bad the Republican brand is and how President Barack Obama is going to mobilize public opinion against the GOP in the mid-term elections to whether the Obama administration has become so arrogant that it believes it can stonewall Congress and the public.   Continue Reading.