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President Barack Obama speaks to the media during a meeting with his cabinet members in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. From left are, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, and the president. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama vows even more executive action

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Obama speaks about the economy and transportation Tuesday at the Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington. The president seeks new ways to act unilaterally without Congress given the stonewalling Republicans have continually set before him. (Associated Press)

Obama urges Cabinet to ‘be creative’ on finding news ways to use executive power

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

** FILE ** House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

LAMBRO: Exploring the depths of presidential approval

By Donald Lambro

SIMMONS: Lame duck D.C. mayor quacks up

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Jan. 28, 2014, photo, Vice President Joseph R. Biden and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio listens as President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Americans trust three branches of government less and less, poll says

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Obama and former President Nixon. AP Photo

White House censors and slows release of information, agencies’ workers say

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, speaks about immigration reform, Monday, June 30, 2014, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. House Speaker John Boehner told President Obama that the House will not vote on overhauling the nation&#8217;s troubled immigration system during this election year, the White House says. Officials say Obama will announce steps Monday to deal with immigration through executive actions without congressional approval. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama: I will bypass Congress to fix immigration

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - This Sept. 22, 2011 file photo shows Robert McDonald, CEO and president of Procter & Gamble, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. President Barack Obama is selecting the former Procter and Gamble executive as his choice to be secretary of Veterans Affairs, an administration official said Sunday, June 29, 2014. McDonald, 61, is a native of Gary, Ind., who grew up in Chicago. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Obama picks ex-P&G head to lead Veterans Affairs

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

The lawyer of former Internal Revenue Service official Lois G. Lerner said Repbulicans are using the the IRS probe to drum up support among GOP voters. (Associated)

Lerner’s lawyer dismisses IRS probe as election year politics

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

In this June 5, 2014 photo, a Border Patrol agent uses a headset and computer to conduct a long distance interview by video with a person arrested crossing the border in Texas, from a facility in San Diego. Hit with a dramatic increase of Central Americans crossing in South Texas, the Border Patrol is relieving staffing woes by enlisting agents in less busy sectors to process arrests through video interviews. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Border Patrol has lots of agents — in wrong places

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

House Speaker John Boehner announced June 25 that the House was going to sue President Obama. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP’s appeal to courts for resolution is a new tack that signals the rise of libertarians

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

HUMPHRIES: Liberal Bully of the Week: The EPA

By Rusty Humphries

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 25, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the League of Conservation Voters Capitol Dinner at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington. The Supreme Court on Thursday, June 26, 2014, struck a blow to President Barack Obama's ability to get around political gridlock in Washington by limiting his power to make recess appointments without congressional approval. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Obama: House lawsuit over executive actions a ‘stunt’

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

President Obama reacts during an Oval Office meeting in this file photo. (White House photo/Pete Souza) ** FILE **

Supreme Court strikes down Obama recess appointments

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

HUMPHRIES: The liberal bully of the week is … The EPA

By Rusty Humphries

** FILE** Syrian rebel fighter Tawfiq Hassan, 23, a former butcher, poses for a picture, after returning from fighting against Syrian army forces in Aleppo, at a rebel headquarters in Marea on the outskirts of Aleppo city, Syria, Aug. 26, 2012. (Associated Press)

Obama seeks $500M to train, equip Syrian rebels

By Julie Pace - Associated Press

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

IRS’s Lerner sought tax audit of Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley over his wife’s free meal

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This June 18, 2014, file photo shows young detainees being escorted to an area to make phone calls as hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz. Thousands of immigrant children crossing alone into the U.S. can live in American cities, attend public schools and possibly work here for years without consequences. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool)

Obama in political bind over border crisis with illegal children

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times