WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — The Benghazi cover-up is opaque, convoluted, multifaceted, and rife with betrayal and heavy-handed efforts to shut people up. Even some of the most knowledgeable intelligence experts are running up against an iron-fisted wall of resistance from a leviathan government impervious to any and all efforts to penetrate its fortress-like web... (more)

BRYAN FISCHER — If a Machiavellian genius were to set out to destroy the United States, he would do three things. Disarm and weaken our military so it cannot defend us against foreign enemies. Disarm the National Guard so it cannot defend the States against the federal government. Nationalize and militarize law enforcement by weaponizing bureaucrats.... (more)

LARRY KLAYMAN — Oct. 13, 2013, was the day the first shots were fired in the New American Revolution. This occurred when yours truly, joined by fellow tea partiers Gov. Sarah Palin and Sens. Mike Lee and Ted Cruz, spoke before a crowd of angry patriots who had gathered in front of the World War II Memorial to protest having been prevented from entering this hallowed ground for military veterans by the Obama-run U.S. Park Service during the government shutdown.... (more)

RICHARD VIGUERIE — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has, at least temporarily, deescalated its armed standoff with Cliven Bundy and his family at their Nevada ranch -- though Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has ominously pledged: "It's not over. We can't have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it's not over."... (more)

NEWSMAX — Texas Gov. Rick Perry says his state's Attorney General Greg Abbott wasn't making a dare against the federal government over a land rights dispute; it was a promise.... (more)

DAILYCALLER — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is intentionally sidelining one of his own Republican committee chairmen -- and the chairman's attempts to pass conservative reforms -- in order to better secure his own path to the speakership.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Republican candidates must do a lot more than just fight the Affordable Care Act if they hope to win back the Senate and conquer the White House, says former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The fondest dream of the modern Democrat is to neutralize the votes of the yokels in Peoria and put important decisions in the hands of sophisticates in places like San Francisco and Manhattan. The modern Democrats took a step closer to realizing their ambition last week when New York joined nine other liberal states with laws to undermine the Electoral College.... (more)

NEW YORK POST — An Oregon woman says she thought she was opening up her family's ranch to local Muslims to teach them how to grow and can veggies -- and that her husband was even expecting a tax write-off.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — A stunning example of IRS political activity and liberal bias is sitting in plain view for all the world to see, following an investigation by WND. The IRS has just stripped a small, obscure, conservative nonprofit of its tax-exempt status for two alleged rule violations a decade ago, while taking a hands-off approach to a famous leftist website that's well-financed by billionaire George Soros and other liberals and has engaged in more egregious practices for years, and on a much vaster scale.... (more)

BREITBART — Eric Cantor has never been closer to wielding the speaker's gavel, but he may want to keep an eye over his right shoulder. As speculation heats up about whether Speaker John Boehner will return in 2015, Cantor is in the midst of a kind of shadow job interview with House conservatives, and it isn't going all that well.... (more)

FOX NEWS — U.S. Army paratroopers are arriving in Poland to begin a series of military exercises in four countries across Eastern Europe to bolster allies in the wake of Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula last month.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — First lady Michelle Obama told "LIVE with Kelly and Michael" co-hosts Michael Strahan and Kelly Ripa that Sundays for the first family have become more about napping, downtime and family time than about church or godly worship... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Cliven Bundy doesn't normally do interviews on Sundays. But this Easter Sunday, the 67-year-old Nevada cattle rancher stepped out of his church, leaned up against the side wall and talked to America about what really matters to him deep down, revealing a side to him not normally seen in media interviews.... (more)

CBS — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says "something is going to happen" to get Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy to stop letting his cattle graze on federal land. "It's obvious that you can't just walk away from this. And we can speculate all we want to speculate to what's going to happen next," Reid told KSNV-TV... (more)

NEWSMAX — Republicans who say they are in favor of amnesty for illegal immigrants are "continuing a scam," that got them elected but could ultimately spell ruin for the party, according to one conservative author.... (more)

BREITBART — At a prominent conference of education innovators, Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is considering a 2016 presidential run, called for more guest worker programs and a path to amnesty for all of the country's illegal immigrants.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson has found 38 fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill to sign on to his lawsuit fighting what he calls executive overreach.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — You may already think that Obamacare is criminal -- forcing consumers to pay for coverage of treatment they'll never need, fixing prices and excluding coverage of certain live-saving measures. And then there are those fines.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A Republican lieutenant governor candidate in South Carolina is calling for Christian parents to pull their children out of "godless" and "pagan" public schools. "We cannot win this war we're in as long as we keep handing our children over to the enemy to educate," E. Ray Moore said at a rally earlier this month in Charleston, reports The Huffington Post.... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — Do Republicans still have a majority in the House of Representatives, or did I miss something? I know that to date they haven't used that majority power very frequently or effectively. They haven't gotten to the bottom of Benghazi. They haven't arrested Lois Lerner. They haven't even considered freezing the debt limit, thus rendering Obamacare and lots of other unconstitutional, irresponsible and unsustainable government spending moot.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday further undermined the use of racial preferences in higher education by upholding a voter-approved Michigan law that banned the practice in decisions on which students to admit to state universities.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — With its ruling upholding the right of Michigan voters to ban racial preferences in state university admissions, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday took what legal scholars are saying one more step away from the concept of federal supremacy.... (more)

MICHELLE MALKIN — I've always thought entrenched left-wing journalists in Washington needed their heads examined. Much to my satisfaction, it appears the corporate media bosses of at least one Beltway anchor now agree.... (more)

STEPHEN STONE, RA PRESIDENT — On April 15 -- Tax Day, ironically -- RenewAmerica reached a significant milestone when its Facebook page surpassed 100,000 fans. In the week since, the site has attracted 10,000 more... (more)