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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's declaration that "The border is secure" signals congressional gridlock over tens of thousands of children and families who have surged across the border this year. (Associated Press)

Harry Reid declares border ‘secure’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. (Associated Press)

One-quarter of Americans say midterm elections should clean house: poll

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Voice of Propaganda Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

LIPIEN: A propaganda-free Voice of America

By Ted Lipien

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2012 file photo, a young Mexican boy, looks at a map of the recorded Arizona border deaths in a well known immigrant shelter in Nogales, Mexico. A major U.S. effort to discourage repeated attempts by immigrants to enter the country illegally by flying and busing them into Mexico hundreds of miles away from where they were caught, but government statistics and interviews with migrants in Mexican shelters suggest the dislocation is rarely a deterrent, especially for immigrants with spouses, children and roots in the U.S. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

HOLMES: Want to solve the border crisis? Stop what’s causing it

By Kim R. Holmes

Illustration on the growth of government spending by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

RAHN: How Congress lost control of government spending

By Richard W. Rahn

Comcast Corp. announced Feb. 13 that it is buying Time Warner Cable Inc. for $45.2 billion in stock. The deal combines two of the nation's top pay-TV and Internet service companies and makes Comcast, which also owns NBC Universal, a dominant force in creating and delivering entertainment to American homes. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Comcast-Time Warner and the urge not to merge

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration on humanitarian efforts extended to certain illegal immigrants by Donna Grethen/ Tribune Content Agency

ZIGLAR: Let’s not abandon families that seek refuge

By James W. Ziglar

FILE - In this June 20, 2014 file photo, immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally stand in line for tickets at the bus station after they were released from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in McAllen, Texas. Tackling what he has called a humanitarian crisis, President Barack Obama on Tuesday, July 8, 2014 asked Congress for $3.7 billion to cope with a tide of minors from Central America who are illegally crossing the U.S. border, straining immigration resources and causing a political firestorm in Washington. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

PHILLIPS: Liberal lawyers ensuring illegal aliens are never deported

By Judson Phillips

Women from Honduras traveling with their children are stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Services agents after crossing the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas. About 90 Hondurans a day cross illegally into the U.S. from Mexico. (associated press)

TRACCI: Six steps to end the border crisis

By Robert N. Tracci

First lady Michelle Obama holds hands with Jania Nelson, left, as she's escorted by Annie Willis and Alaya Shearman, right, during her visit with members of Global Kids, at Baruch College, in New York, Thursday, July 10, 2014. Global Kids works to develop youth leaders through global education and leadership development programs. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Michelle Obama to Latinos: ‘We cannot afford to wait on Congress’ for immigration

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, left, tours the Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge in Townsend, Georgia. Despite her actively backing renewal of a conservation fund, experts maintain her efforts may not be legally considered as lobbying. (associated press)

Lax laws allow Cabinet members to lobby

By Chloe Johnson - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks at a news conference after meeting with Gov. Rick Perry in Dallas about immigration on Wednesday, July 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama has worked around Congress more than 40 times this year, promises more to come

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

(Screen grab from Kendall Jones' Facebook)

Va. Democrat reportedly seeks nude shots of Kendall Jones

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Sen. Chris Coons, Delaware Democrat and author of a proposal that would repeal parts of the First Amendment, said he is looking to restore balance. (Associated Press)

Democrats take aim at First Amendment rights

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Boys await medical appointments in a holding area where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center on Wednesday, June 18, 2014, in Nogales, Ariz. CPB provided media tours Wednesday of two locations in Brownsville, Texas, and Nogales, that have been central to processing the more than 47,000 unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally since Oct. 1. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool)

DeLAY: Failed policy the real reason Obama skipped a border trip

By Tom DeLay

Women from Honduras traveling with their children are stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Services agents after crossing the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas. About 90 Hondurans a day cross illegally into the U.S. from Mexico. (associated press)

Obama seeks brisk passage of border children funding bill

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - This March 5, 2014 file photo shows former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. A federal judge is ordering the IRS to explain _ under oath _ how it lost a trove of emails to and from a central figure in the agency's tea party controversy. U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan gave the tax agency a month to submit the explanation in writing. Sullivan issued the order Thursday as part of a freedom of information lawsuit by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group. The IRS says it lost the emails in 2011 when Lois Lerner’s computer crashed. At the time, Lerner headed the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Stockman wants House to arrest Lerner over IRS case

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

House Speaker John Boehner, right, has dismissed what he says is President Barack Obama's flippant attitude. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

GOP to sue Obama first over health care employer mandate

By Ben Wolfgang and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 5, 2014. (Associated Press)

GOP: Lerner warned IRS employees to hide information from Congress

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This June 24, 2014, file photo shows House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

John Boehner disagrees with calls to impeach Obama

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times