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FILE - This Aug. 28, 2014 file photo shows President Barack Obama speaking in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, before convening a meeting with his national security team on the militant threat in Syria and Iraq. President Barack Obama&#8217;s acknowledgement the U.S. still lacks a strategy for defeating the growing extremist threat emanating from Syria reflects a still unformed international coalition. The president will meet with his top advisers and consult members of Congress to prepare U.S. military options. At the same time, he is looking for allies around the world to help the U.S. root out the Islamic State group that has seized large swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

PHILLIPS: It takes two to tango, only one to make war

By Judson Phillips

This photo taken Aug. 21, 2014 shows health care tax form 1095-A in Washington. The federal agency that brought you the glitchy HealthCare.gov website has a massive new project. Technical difficulties on this one could delay tax refunds for millions of Americans. That agency is the Health and Human Services department. To facilitate complicated connections between the new health care law and income taxes, HHS will have to send some 5 million households new tax forms that are like W-2s for health care. Those forms are called 1095-As, and they’re being introduced next year. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

New challenge for HealthCare.gov: Tax forms

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

‘All hope is lost’: Worried Democrats cry desperation in fundraising tactic

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about the economy, Iraq, and Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, before convening a meeting with his national security team on the militant threat in Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Russian fund with US advisers eludes sanctions

By JEFF HORWITZ and STEPHEN BRAUN - Associated Press

** FILE ** U.S. Pacific Command's Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III, talks to the media following a session on "Security Outlook" in the ongoing World Economic Forum on East Asia Friday, May 23, 2014, at the financial district of Makati city east of Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

China actively agitating, creating instability, says U.S. Adm. Locklear

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Horner (CEI)

New York legal brief may be blueprint for Obama climate change deal

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican (Associated Press)

Coburn: Did feds illegally skirt Obamacare employer mandate?

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. Tom Coburn says federal seasonal and temporary workers were included on rosters — thereby sidestepping Obamacare penalties. (Associated Press)

Coburn: Feds may have broken law on employer mandate

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Mitt Romney

PRUDEN: Another look at a savvy loser

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

President Obama is nearing a self-imposed deadline for taking unilateral action to try to halt deportations, and is facing pressure from immigrant-rights groups to go as broadly as possible. (Associated Press)

Legal settlement likely to slow deportation of illegal immigrants

By Stephen Dinan and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2012 file photo, Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana addresses activists from America's political right at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington. Jindal planned to file a lawsuit Wednesday Aug. 27, 2014 against the Obama administration, accusing it of illegally manipulating federal grant money and regulations to force states to adopt the Common Core education standards. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

HARPER: Media earn failing grade for poor Common Core coverage

By Christopher Harper

** FILE ** President Barack Obama speaks during the American Legion national convention in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

California law presses schools to teach ‘significance’ of Obama

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Outgoing commander of ISAF, U.S. Gen. Joseph Dunford, first left, and incoming U.S. Army Commander for International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF), Gen. John F. Campbell, first right, salute during a change of command ceremony at the ISAF Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. ISAF is a NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan that was established by the United Nations Security Council in 2001. It will end its mission at the end of 2014. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

US commander: Taliban will test Afghans in 2015

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

An F/A-18C Hornet coming from Iraq lands on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014 in the Persian Gulf. Aircrafts aboard the George H.W. Bush are flying missions over Iraq after U.S. President Barack Obama authorized airstrikes against Islamic militants and food drops for Iraqis trapped by the fighters. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

GRAY: In Iraqi airstrikes, a troubling pattern emerges

By C. Boyden Gray

Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist waves after visiting a phone bank, Monday, Aug. 25, 2014, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Crist is running against opponent Nan Rich for the democratic nomination for Florida Governor. Florida's primary election is Tuesday. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Crist wins Florida Democratic primary for governor

By Brendan Farrington - Associated Press

Lady Bird and Lyndon Johnson with Jackie Kennedy in the bloodied suit, moments after Johnson was administered the presidential oath. (AP Photo/White House/Cecil Stoughton, File)

HUMPHRIES: Give Obama some credit; He’s not Carter bad … He’s LBJ horrific

By Rusty Humphries

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem speaks during a press conference, giving the first public comments by a senior Assad official on the threat posed by the Islamic State group, in Damascus, Syria on Monday, August 25, 2014. Al-Moallem warned the U.S. not to conduct airstrikes inside Syria against the Islamic State group without Damascus’ consent, saying any such attack would be considered an aggression. Al-Moallem also said that Syria is ready to work with regional states and the international community amid the onslaught of Islamic militants there and in Iraq, adding that the Syrian government is a crucial partner in the war on terror. (AP Photo)

AP sources: U.S. surveillance planes fly over Syria

By Lolita C. Baldor and Julie Pace - Associated Press

FILE - This June 13, 2014 file photo shows Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill. speaking in Chicago. The surge of Central American children crossing the U.S. southern border has shifted the politics of immigration, weakening one of the most potent arguments Democrats plan to make against Republicans in November and in the next presidential election. In the past month, the number of Americans who rank immigration as the nation&#8217;s top problem has tripled in surveys conducted by Gallup _ putting the issue on par with the economy and unemployment as the most frequently named issues facing the country. (AP Photo/Stacy Thacker, File)

EDITORIAL: The amnesty afoot

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell (Associated Press)

Obamacare contracts soar past estimates, audit finds

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times