Charles Pickering News

Leading up to yesterday's House Oversight Committee hearing on Benghazi, the conservative media worked diligently to drive home the idea that the "whistleblowers" who testified had been silenced and were unable to make their voices heard to Congress or other investigative authorities.

Not Thaddeus. At least, not so far. In a surprise, conservative Democrat Max Baucus of Montana last week announced he wouldn't seek re-election, giving up the powerful chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee.

Two people from very different areas on the Jones Junior College campus were selected as JCJC's 2012-13 Higher Education Appreciation Day, Working for Academic Excellence representatives.

The lobbying firm Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock reported it was paid $30,000 to lobby during March on behalf of FWD.us for comprehensive immigration reform.

Regular followers of the Daily Convo will be familiar with the back-and-forth we've been featuring between JERRY STEPHENSON and ALLEN MILLER.