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Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots (Associated Press)

Tea party blasts Obama for ‘honoring illegal immigrants’ at White House

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** White House press secretary Jay Carney closes his briefing book as President Barack Obama makes a surprise visit to the Brady Press Briefing Room in Washington, Friday, May 30, 2014, to announce during the daily press briefing that Carney will be stepping down in June. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Jay Carney thanks press at his final White House briefing

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama meets with, from left, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Obama briefed leaders of Congress on US options for blunting an Islamic insurgency in Iraq. US officials say Obama is not yet prepared to move forward with strikes and is instead focused on increased training for Iraq's security forces, boosting Iraqi intelligence capacities and upgrading equipment. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama, Congress mull Iraq options; GOP slams president’s waffling

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Illustration on Hillary Clinton and illegal immigration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

TRACCI: Storm on the southern border

By Robert N. Tracci

President Obama has vehemently defended his decision to swap five Taliban guerrillas for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, but the president may no longer have control over the narrative and likely will face increasingly intense questioning over the deal. (Associated Press)

YOUNG: A question of presidential competence

By J.T. Young

From left: Marisa Falcon, Claudia Saucedo, and Yaquelin Lopez, all from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and all part of DREAMers' Moms, demonstrate outside the White House on April 28, 2014, to demand that President Obama stop deportation of immigrants. DREAMers' Moms is a National network of women and mothers who are in support of immigration reform. (Associated Press) **FILE**

White House hosts Dreamers as Obama grapples with flood of new illegal immigrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks at the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) fundraiser gala in Gotham Hall, Tuesday, June 17, 2014, in New York. The fundraiser comes a day after the White House announced plans for Obama to sign an executive order that would prohibit federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Inside the Beltway: ‘Time for Obama to be president’

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

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GOP to investigate IRS computer crash, claim of lost Lerner emails

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Mexican law enforcement officials watch on the Mexican side of the international border while Boston Archdiocese Cardinal Sean O'Malley leads mass, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, in Nogales, Ariz. O'Malley and several Bishops who serve along the U.S./Mexico were visiting the border town to bring awareness to immigration reform and to remember those who have died trying to cross the border in years past. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Feds: Armed Mexican troops, police regularly jump border to cross into U.S.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Unstoppable’

By John R. Coyne Jr. - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** U.S. Vice President Joe Biden delivers a speech during a joint statement to the press, alongside Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, May 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Octav Ganea, Mediafax)

Joe Biden to discourage illegal immigration surge of children

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

This image posted on a militant website on Saturday, June 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, appears to show militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leading away captured Iraqi soldiers in plain clothes after taking over a base in Tikrit, Iraq. (AP Photo via militant website)

Criticism of Obama mounts as Islamists sweep through Iraq

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

**FILE** President Richard M. Nixon is shown at his desk in the White House on Feb. 16, 1969. On Aug. 9, 1974, Nixon would go down in history as the only U.S. president to resign. (Associated Press)

CURL: IRS scandal gets Nixonian: The 18½-minute (or 26-month) gap

By Joseph Curl

HUMPHRIES: Liberal Bully of the Week? It doesn’t require ‘hard choices’

By Rusty Humphries

Illustration on Obama's role in the Syria crisis by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

BERMAN: Chaos in Syria is Obama’s own

By Ilan Berman

President Barack Obama talks about his administration's response to a growing insurgency foothold in Iraq, Friday, June 13, 2014, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, prior to boarding the Marine One Helicopter for Andrews Air Force Base, Md., then onto North Dakota and California. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama: No combat troops in Iraq; ‘We can’t do it for them’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama answers questions on violence in Iraq during his meeting with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Thursday, June 12, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama considers more aid to Iraq in fight against jihadis

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

HUMPHRIES: The liberal bully of the week is … Hillary Clinton

By Rusty Humphries

White House principal deputy press secretary Josh Earnest speaks to the media during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 10, 2014. Earnest answered questions including on the recent soldier deaths in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

White House outing of CIA officer results in no punishments

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times