Truth, Lies and In Between

…here’s today’s reading list.

Guns/Gun Rights/RKBA

• House GOP lawmaker: We are not backing away on gun bill
• State prosecutors push to keep Trayvon Martin’s past, drug use out of trial…

 
Politics/Congress/Government

• USA Today: Obama’s new issues: Investigations
• The Washington Post: Sen. Rand Paul aggressively courting evangelicals to win over GOP establishment

 
Government Scandals

• Report: Top IRS officials knew of Tea Party targeting two years ago
• Pentagon plans to share missile secrets with Russia opposed by Republicans
• Six times the IRS has been accused of punishing President Obama’s political opponents
• Kucinich Blasts IRS Leadership: ‘The Tone Is Set from the Top’
• Issa: IRS apology to Tea Party groups ‘not an honest one’
• Sen. Collins: Obama should condemn IRS for targeting Tea Party groups
• NEW ‘ENEMIES LIST’…
• IRS Began Targeting Conservatives in March 2010…
• NANCY PELOSI CONDEMNS; BLAMES SUPREME COURT…
• BOOK: IRS retaliates against outspoken business leaders…
• Tea Party groups threaten to sue…
• Probe Expands To Groups Opposed To Gov’t, Teaching Constitution…
• Scrutiny Deeper Than Thought…
• McConnell: ‘Just The Beginning’…
• ‘Kept shifting targets in tax-exempt groups’…
• Agency accused of leaking confidential tax documents during election…
• FLASHBACK: Romney donor vilified by Obama campaign, then subjected to 2 audits…
• Did Plouffe Justify IRS Targeting Conservative Groups?

 
Economics

• A rosier economy now colors political picture
• Opinion: The perils of populism

 
Obamacare/Healthcare

• Alexander: Fundraising to promote ObamaCare ‘may be illegal’
• HHS: Nothing improper about Sebelius’s ObamaCare fundraising

 
SCOTUS/Circuit Courts

• Justice Ginsburg: Roe v. Wade provided ‘target’ for abortion-rights opponents

 
Benghazi

• Rand Paul: Hillary Clinton does not deserve higher office due to Benghazi
• Rep. Pelosi knocks Republicans’ ‘obsession’ with Benghazi attack
• Issa intends to depose officials behind State Dept. Benghazi review
• Pickering defends State Benghazi review
• Sen. McCain calls Benghazi a ‘cover-up’
• Rep. Rogers: Expect more whistleblowers to testify on Benghazi
• Durbin: Benghazi ‘caught up’ in 2016
• The Wall Street Journal: GOP probes deeper into Benghazi review
• Gates defends Benghazi response, says critics have ‘cartoonish’ view of military
• WILL: Carney’s ‘Usefulness to This Administration Diminishing Rapidly’…
  NEWYORKER: ‘Now there is something to it’…
• DOWD: ‘It’s not true, it’s not true, it’s not true — it’s old news’…
• KLEIN: Obama ‘on the same page as Richard Nixon’…
• Inhofe mulls ‘I-word’…
• Watch out for Petraeus…
• More ‘Whistleblowers Coming’…
• Press Corps Races to Defend Hillary from Questions…
• Ben Rhodes: Obama’s Fixer behind the Benghazi Cover-Up

 
United Nations

• Gun group launches campaign to prevent vote on arms treaty

 
Department of Injustice (DOJ)

• Holder defends federal terrorism trials, dismisses critics as ‘simply wrong’

 
Military/Defense News/Veterans/DOD

• US, Afghan officials meet to hammer out security pact details
• Feature: Reservists prepare to ship out to Afghanistan
• False reports outpace sex assaults in military…
• Judge: Soldier premeditated killing 5 U.S. troops in Iraq
• Sanders sees hiring vets to process claims as part of backlog solution
• Prince Harry pays respects at Arlington National Cemetery

 
Middle East/Muslim/Islam/Jihad Douche Bags

• McCain criticizes Joint Chiefs over Syria

 
Media Bias/Hollywood Morons

• Congress eyes rising cable TV prices
• Museum reacts to outrage over inclusion of Hamas ‘cameramen’ in memorial
• Soledad O’Brien: ‘OK, white person, this is a conversation you clearly are uncomfortable with’…

 
Science/Tech/Computer

• The Ugly Facts About the Internet Sales Tax