David M. Drucker

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Rep. Tony Cardenas, D-Calif., blamed House Republicans for "forcing" Obama into the position of having to take potentially unpopular unilateral action to legalize a portion of the 11 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the U.S. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Tony Cardenas: ‘The disgusting, do-nothing Congress forced Obama’s hand’ on immigration

David M. Drucker · September 7, 2014 10:21 pm

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, left said Sunday that no strategy for decapitating the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria would be complete without attacking the extremist movement's command and control centers inside Syria. But Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who has previously called for President Obama to bomb ISIS "back to the stone age," stopped short of advocating for U.S. military action inside of Syria, which remains ravaged by civil war. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio differ on combatting ISIS

David M. Drucker · September 7, 2014 8:51 pm

In this Aug. 8, 2014, file photo, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take cover during airstrikes targeting militants of the Islamic State group near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

Top Democrats want Obama’s ISIS strategy to address Syria

David M. Drucker · September 7, 2014 8:33 pm

Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., indicated that Obama's move to delay immigration reform could hurt the Democratic Party on Election Day in states like California and Colorado even as it helps endangered Democrats running for Senate in red states. (AP Photo/Stacy Thacker)

Luis Gutierrez: Obama ‘walked away from our values’

David M. Drucker · September 7, 2014 7:33 pm

Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., said he doesn't believe the president needs to seek congressional authorization to target the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Key Democrat doubts Obama could get votes for ISIS military action

David M. Drucker · September 7, 2014 7:11 pm

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., questions national security and intelligence officials as they testify before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence regarding NSA surveillance in Washington last year. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Nunes: ‘The president doesn’t need any new authority’ for ISIS

David M. Drucker · September 7, 2014 6:53 pm

Immigration officials detain Central American migrants during a raid by federal police on a northbound freight train, in San Ramon, Mexico, just after midnight on Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Rubio: ‘We have to deal with immigration’

David M. Drucker · September 7, 2014 5:23 pm

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks to supporters during the fourth annual "Faith and Freedom BBQ" hosted by U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan in Anderson, S.C., Monday, Aug. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Marco Rubio more likely to run for president if Democrats hold the Senate

David M. Drucker · September 7, 2014 5:08 pm

A fighter with ISIS stands guard in front of the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party on Aug. 7, 2014, in the Christian village of Bartella, northern Iraq. (AP Photo, File)

Obama won’t ask Congress to authorize military action against ISIS

David M. Drucker · September 7, 2014 4:06 pm

Pro-Russian rebels stand next to their car with a heavy machine gun in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Examiner Q&A with Devin Nunes: ‘It might already be too late’ for Ukraine

David M. Drucker · September 7, 2014 3:38 pm

Romney: ‘My time has come and gone’

David M. Drucker · September 7, 2014 3:06 pm

President Barack Obama greets then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at his State of the Union address on January 24, 2012 in Washington. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty images)

Romney: Hillary Clinton and President Obama ‘two peas in the same pod’

David M. Drucker · September 7, 2014 2:56 pm