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Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton holds her memoir &quot;Hard Choices&quot; at Bunch of Grapes Bookstore, in Vineyard Haven, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, during a book signing event for her memoir &quot;Hard Choices.&quot; Hillary Rodham Clinton says she's looking forward to hugging out her differences with President Barack Obama. Obama's former secretary of state told reporters Wednesday that she's proud to have served with him despite some differences of opinion. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

PRUDEN: Huggin’ and chalkin’ on the campaign trail

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama arrives to speak about developments in Iraq, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, from Chilmark, Mass., during his family vacation on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Obama welcomed new leadership in Iraq as "a promising step forward" Monday amid a political and security crisis in Baghdad, saying the only lasting solution is the formation of an inclusive government. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama briefed on violence in St. Louis suburb

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon speaks during a meeting on jobs and education at the National Governors Association convention Saturday, July 12, 2014, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Missouri troopers to take over Ferguson security

By David A. Lieb and Jim Salter - Associated Press

** FILE ** Gov. Jay Nixon speaks during a news conference held at the Capitol on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, in Jefferson City, Mo. (AP Photo/The Jefferson City News-Tribune, Julie Smith)

Governor vows change in Ferguson police response

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Deteriorating Defense Capabilities Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

LYONS: The fallout from foreign-policy malfeasance and nonfeasance

By James A. Lyons

FILE - In this Friday, March 26, 2010 file photo, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to the press in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's Nouri al-Maliki has given up his post as prime minister to Haider al-Abadi, state television reported Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014 &#8212; a move that could end a political deadlock that plunged Baghdad into uncertainty as the country fights a Sunni militant insurgency. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Iraq’s Nouri al-Maliki resigns as prime minister amid chaos

By Guy Taylor and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 9, 2014, photo, President Barack Obama speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, about the ongoing situation in Iraq. The Obama administration is grappling with how to bridge the gap between its increasingly dire assessment of the threat posed by the Islamic State group and the limited, defensive air campaign it has so far undertaken, which military officials acknowledge will not blunt the group’s momentum. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama weighs strategy against Islamic State

By KEN DILANIAN and LARA JAKES - Associated Press

President Barack Obama stands with then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as he announces that she will travel to Myanmar, on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asia summit in Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) ** FILE **

HUMPHRIES: Islamic State collects heads while Obama, Hillary have a hug summit

By Rusty Humphries

desperation: Displaced Yazidi Iraqis gather for food at the Nowruz camp in Derike, Syria. While the U.S. and Iraqi militaries have given food and water, the Kurds took it on themselves to rescue them, a sign of how Syria's Kurds are using the conflict to establish their own rule. (Associated Press)

U.S. Yazidis wary of arming Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, after criticizing President Obama's foreign policy, said through a spokesman Tuesday that she looks forward to "hugging it out" with the president at a party Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

HURT: Hillary Clinton — a woman of no convictions

By Charles Hurt

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greets a customer during a book signing of her new book "Hard Choices" at Northshire Bookstore on Tuesday, July 29, 2014, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Clinton is making selected stops to promote her book about her four years heading the State Department under President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

PHILLIPS: The conservative nightmare for 2016

By Judson Phillips

Paul Ryan, inspiring Democrats

PRUDEN: Democrats swimming in a sea turning red

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

Former President Jimmy Carter has co-written an op-ed criticizing Israel's actions in Gaza. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) . (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

EDITORIAL: Jimmy Carter, the pariah president

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Milton Wolf, right, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Kansas, talks to a woman as he campaigns at a parade on Saturday in Gardner, Kan. Backed by the tea party, Mr. Wolf is challenging incumbent Pat Roberts in the primary election Tuesday, Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

PHILLIPS: The biggest upset

By Judson Phillips

Israeli Defense Minister, Moshe Ya'alon, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, attend the cabinet meeting at the defense ministry in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, July 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, pool)

Netanyahu to White House: Don’t ‘second guess me again’

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President Barack Obama speaks about Congress, foreign policy and immigration, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

DELBECCARO: The Obama way: litigation not leadership

By Thomas DelBeccaro

Keith Saunders, left, a certified Cover California insurance agent, explains a health insurance plan to Mark Tammes at a registration site hosted by Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers, Monday, March 31, 2014, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) ** FILE **

Obama administration asked whole D.C. Circuit to take on major Obamacare case

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Rep. Timothy Murphy, Pennsylvania Republican. (Associated Press)

Rep. Tim Murphy: GOP knew HealthCare.gov would be an ‘unmitigated disaster’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times