STOCKMAN.HOUSE.GOV 2 Hours Ago Stockman requests subpoena of NSA's White House, IRS phone logs WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Stockman (R-Texas 36) Tuesday asked the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee to subpoena all National Security Agency records of phone calls between employees of the White House and the Internal Revenue Service.   Stockman's office hand delivered a letter Tuesday afternoon to the Committee's office requesting a subpoena "of all records of every phone call made from all public and private telephones of all IRS personnel to all public and private telephones of all White House personnel" collected under the NSA's recently-revealed PRISM program. "Obama assures the public he only collected this information to uncover wrongdoing and protect civil liberties. Clearly he would want us to use it to investigate this case, because otherwise he'd be lying," said Stockman. "If Obama has nothing to hide he has nothing t...

 WASHINGTON EXAMINER 2 Hours Ago DeMint vs Rubio: The Heritage Foundation goes all in against amnesty by  Terry Eastland As the United States Senate began debating Sen. Marco Rubio's, R-Fla., immigration reform bill today, The Heritage Foundation launched an unprecedented online advertising campaign against the legislation. "The bill is an amnesty proposal dressed up in feel-good 'pathway to citizenship' rhetoric," Heritage marketing vice president Genevieve Wood said. The Heritage Foundation's $100,000 campaign is designed to "cut through the spin and show the proposal for what it really is—a rehashed version of the 1986 reforms that proved to be an abysmal failure," she continued. One Heritage image features a picture of Rubio and his recent promise to Univision: "First comes the legalization. Then come the measures to secure the border." The ad's tag line then reads: "Amnesty? Guaranteed. Border security? Not so much." The ...

 HOTAIR.COM 2 Hours Ago Last, best chance to stop the Gang of Eight bill: Obama's starting to get involved in immigration reform again posted at 3:21 pm on June 11, 2013 by Allahpundit The situation's critical, my friends. Senate Republicans are  beginning to cave . Rubio's screwing around with  sideshow amendments  designed to pander to conservatives without  fixing the real problem in the bill . Boehner's talking about having something on Obama's desk  by the end of the year . Mickey Kaus sounds the alarm:  It's panic time . It's time to wake up! Conservatives–while you are (rightly) excited about NSA snooping and partisan IRS corruption, the Congress is about to change America in a more profound, permanent way right under your noses. In the process it will hand President Obama the major second term achievement that will help him overcome the very scandals that are distracting you–or, rather, make his survival or re-ascendance unimportant. He will ha...