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Critics maintain that President Obama has spent far too much time engaged in leisure activities during recent times of national crisis. However, the president has, in recent days, canceled fundraising trips to Connecticut and New York to meet with his Cabinet in the hopes of addressing the deadly Ebola outbreak, which has claimed thousands of lives in Africa before recently spreading to the U.S. (Associated Press)

Leisure-prone Obama gets belatedly serious on Ebola

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Then-White House press secretary Jay Carney speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington in this June 2, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Jay Carney breaks from White House, calls for ‘travel restrictions’ to fight Ebola

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama meets with members of his public health and national security team about the response to the diagnosis of a second Ebola case in Dallas, Texas, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

CHRISTINE O’DONNELL: Obama’s going through a presidential phase that won’t last past mid-November

By Christine O’Donnell

FILE - This undated file image made available by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows the Ebola virus. In a second, smaller Ebola outbreak, at least 69 people, including eight health workers, are believed to have been infected according to a study that was led by the World Health Organization and researchers from France and Canada and published online Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, by the New England Journal of Medicine. The outbreak that began in July in the Democratic Republic of Congo is similar to earlier ones in that central African region, genetic testing of viruses shows. (AP Photo/Centers for Disease Control, File)

CHARLES: Ebola, more vital facts untold

By Robert Charles

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Intruder’s success shows patrol ineffectiveness

President Barack Obama, right, next to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, speaks to the media about Ebola during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, with members of his team coordinating the government’s response to the Ebola outbreak. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama’s Ebola response worries public, Democrats facing midterm elections

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama waves as he boards Air Force One at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014. Obama attend two fundraising events in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)

Inside the Beltway: Back to normal for White House fundraising

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken speaks about Russia, Ukraine as well as the Middle East conflict during an appearance at the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, July 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Top White House official secretly visited Iraq

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

conflagration: Thick smoke rises following an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition in Kobani, Syria, as fighting continued between Syrian Kurds and militants of the Islamic State group. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, has been under assault since mid-September. Story, A9 (Associated Press)

Obama strategy, legal authority for Islamic State offensive in question

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Millennials are breaking tradition by purchasing fewer homes. (Associated Press)

Millennials break with tradition

By Linsy Hunsaker - Deseret News

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks about Ebola during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, with members of his team coordinating the government&#8217;s response to the Ebola outbreak. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

JOSEPH CURL: Obama’s spectacular incompetence turns deadly

By Joseph Curl

White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. Earnest responded to questions regarding the government's response to the Ebola outbreak. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama: Ebola monitoring must be ‘more aggressive’

By JIM KUHNHENN - Associated Press

Thick smoke rises following an airstrike by the US-led coalition in Kobani, Syria while fighting continued between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, as seen from Mursitpinar on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Inside the Beltway: Michele Bachmann reinvents the tea party

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2012, file photo, Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, speaks to his running mate, vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, right, R-Wis., as Romney's wife Ann waves to supporters after Romney conceded the race during his election night rally in Boston. Romney and his wife Ann announce an initiative to accelerate treatment and cures for complex neurological diseases, in partnership with Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

Ann Romney: ‘Mitt and I are done’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama meets with members of his public health and national security team about the response to the diagnosis of a second Ebola case in Dallas, Texas, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama to meet with allies on militant fight

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan greets some schoolgirls who escaped abduction from the Chibok government secondary school in Abuja, Nigeria. Mr. Jonathan, who faces re-election in 2015, disclosed that he has authorized third parties to try to secure the rest of the girls' safe release from the extremist group Boko Haram. (Associated Press)

White House details efforts to find kidnapped Nigerian girls

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks said the U.S. is making progress in the fight against the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

‘We are succeeding’ in fight against Islamic State: White House

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Audience members applaud Attorney General Eric Holder, right, and President Barack Obama during an announcement in the State Dining Room of the White House to announce Holder is resigning, on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, in Washington. Holder, who served as the public face of the Obama administration's legal fight against terrorism and weighed in on issues of racial fairness, is resigning after six years on the job. He is the first black U.S. attorney general. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama waiting for midterm to name attorney general

By NEDRA PICKLER - Associated Press

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, left, arrives with Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley at a Merkley campaign rally, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Ore. It was Warren's second visit to Oregon in support of the incumbent Merkley who is running against Republican Dr. Monica Wehby. (AP Photo/The Register-Guard, Andy Nelson)

Elizabeth Warren slams Obama: He ‘picked Wall Street,’ not Main Street

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A nod from liberal hero Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts may prove important to Democrats eyeing a 2016 White House run. (Associated Press)

Elizabeth Warren endorsement could be critical in 2016 presidential election

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times