Paul weighs Supreme Court challenge to NSA surveillance programs  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday said he would examine ways to block the National Security Agency's surveillance programs before the Supreme Court.  —  “I'm going to be seeing if I can challenge this at the Supreme Court level,” vowed Paul on “Fox News Sunday.”

IRS Staff Undermine GOP Claims That White House Directed Targeting Of Conservative Groups, Top Democrat Says  —  Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) — the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee — pledged to release transcripts of interviews with Internal Revenue Service (IRS) …

Peeping Barry  —  WASHINGTON — THE acid that corroded George W. Bush's presidency was fear — spreading it and succumbing to it.  —  You could see the fear in his eyes, the fear that froze him in place, after Andy Card whispered to W. in that Florida classroom that a second plane had crashed into the twin towers.

Op-ed: Why I'm backing legislation to fix our broken immigration system  —  Everybody agrees that America's immigration system is broken, threatening our security and holding back our economy.  The combination of porous borders and lax enforcement has made us a magnet for illegal immigration.

After Newtown shooting, mourning parents enter into the lonely quiet  —  In NEWTOWN, Conn. — They had promised to try everything, so Mark Barden went down into the basement to begin another project in memory of Daniel.  The families of Sandy Hook Elementary were collaborating on a Mother's Day card …

Analysis: Syria crisis shows why Israel must remain strong  —  Whether Syrian death toll is 80,000 or 100,000, this figure is more than all people killed in nearly a century of conflict between Israel and its enemies, including several wars and thousands of acts of terrorism.

Dem senator skeptical call tracking needed to thwart terror threats  —  Democratic Sen. Mark Udall (Colo.) on Sunday expressed skepticism that the National Security Agency's massive phone tracking program was really necessary to help the government thwart possible terrorist attacks.

On the Sunday Morning Talk Shows, a Rather Familiar Cast of Characters  —  WASHINGTON — In mid-February, Senator John McCain went on the NBC program “Meet the Press” to explain his unhappiness with President Obama's nominee for defense secretary.  A week later, he took to “State of the Union” …

Fed study: Tax hikes, not spending cuts, are slowing the recovery … Why is the Obama recovery the weakest recovery since the Great Depression?  According to a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, it is not because the federal government failed to borrow and spend …