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Israel dramatically escalated its aerial assault in Gaza Thursday hitting hundreds of Hamas targets. The Health Ministry in Gaza reported 22 people killed in a single day. Israel's missile defense system once again intercepted rockets fired by militants. (Associated Press)

Israel rejects talk of cease-fire; Hamas targets suspected nuke site

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This image from video released by Funny Or Die shows President Obama, left, with actor-comedian Zach Galifianakis during an appearance on &quot;Between Two Ferns,&quot; the digital short with a laser focus on reaching people aged 18 to 34. The president urged young people to sign up for the new health care plan through an appearance posted Tuesday, March 11, 2014, on the comic website Funny or Die, bypassing TV talk show titans like Jimmy Fallon or Jimmy Kimmel for an online audience. (AP Photo/Funny Or Die)

Obama’s ‘Between Two Ferns’ interview nominated for Emmy

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

President Obama met with Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday but declined his offer to go to the Mexico border just 500 miles away. (Associated Press)

A series of missteps steers Obama’s trip off course

By Ben Wolfgang - 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

FILE - President Barack Obama reacts as he misses a shot while golfing on the first hole at Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Amid border crisis, Obama to take 15-day vacation in Martha’s Vineyard

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., bowls at Pleasant Valley Recreation Center in Altoona, Pa., Saturday, March 29, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

White House plans for bowling alley upgrades abruptly canceled

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., bowls at Pleasant Valley Recreation Center in Altoona, Pa., Saturday, March 29, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

White House bowling alley to get upgrade

The Washington Times

Texas Gov. Rick Perry will meet with President Obama in Dallas to discuss the situation at the state's border with Mexico. (Associated Press)

Obama, Perry to meet in Texas, talk border problems

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Two young girls watch a World Cup soccer match on a television from their 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)

HURT: With immigration, Obama lets a crisis go to waste

By Charles Hurt

Israeli missile strikes in Gaza on Tuesday could be the start of a long-term offensive against the Hamas-ruled territory. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appealed for calm, and President Obama wrote an op-ed calling for a "comprehensive negotiated settlement." (Associated Press)

Obama backs Israel’s strikes on Hamas after assault on civilians

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Obama, Perry to meet in Texas, talk border problems

The Washington Times

A demonstrator holds up a signs outside the White House in Washington, Monday, July 7, 2014, following a news conference of immigrant families and children's advocates responding to the President Barack Obama's response to the crisis of unaccompanied children and families illegally entering the US. A top Obama administration official says no one, not even children trying to escape violent countries, can illegally enter the United States without eventually facing deportation proceedings. But Homeland Security Sec Jeh Johnson basically acknowledged Sunday that such proceedings might be long delayed, and he said that coping with floods of unaccompanied minors crossing the border is a legal and humanitarian dilemma for the US. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama requests $3.7 billion to fight surge of illegals

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Texas Gov. Rick Perry will meet with President Obama in Dallas to discuss the situation at the state's border with Mexico. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s ‘Katrina’ moment

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this July 17, 2013 file photo, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., left, talks with President Barack Obama following a statement with Richard Cordray, the new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. As she enters her second year in Congress in 2014, Warren told The Associated Press she's focused on improving the economic futures of American families by reigning in student debt, easing what she calls the nation's retirement crisis, and doubling funding for federal research programs. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Obama ditching Hillary for ‘Mini-Me’ Elizabeth Warren: Edward Klein

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan visits a classroom at Brick Church College Prep in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Duncan also spoke to an association of education writers and to teachers at Vanderbilt University. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

Under fire from teachers union, Obama, Duncan sit down with educators

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said the U.S. should stay out of Iraq, and previous military action has emboldened extremists. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Rand Paul on Iraq: ‘What’s going on now, I don’t blame on President Obama’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Obama and former President Nixon. AP Photo

CURL: In Obama White House, echoes of Nixon

By Joseph Curl

President Barack Obama hugs Army Sgt. Stephanie Van Ausdall after she had trouble in leading the Pledge of Allegiance following a naturalization ceremony for active duty service members and civilians, Friday, July 4, 2014, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas applauds at right. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama welcomes new U.S. citizens, vows to fix ‘broken’ immigration system

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Texas Gov. Rick Perry talks to the media after touring the McAllen Border Patrol station, Monday June 23, 2014, at the Texas Department of Public Safety regional headquarters in Weslaco, Texas. Perry said the number of immigrants being arrested has created an "untenable situation." (AP Photo/The Monitor, Gabe Hernandez)

Rick Perry blasted by White House for playing politics on immigration

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (L) stands with fellow Justices Anthony Kennedy (2nd from L), Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan (R) prior to President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 28, 2014. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)

EDITORIAL: Rebuking Obama, recapturing liberty lost

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES