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The Congressional Budget Office has released its score on how President Barack Obama’s $4.3 billion emergency request on immigration will be spent. The big news? The CBO score confirms that the president’s $4.3 billion emergency request is not warranted. CBO reports that only $25 million of the president’s request would be spent in fiscal year…

File it under “things you don’t see very often.” A press release from Republican Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, declaring, “I appreciate the efforts of Secretary Kerry….” Accolades from across the aisle have been few and far between for an administration that has suffered an almost endless string of foreign-policy reversals…

It became her mantra. The U.S. border with Mexico, Janet Napolitano would say, “has never been more secure.” First uttered in 2010 during Congressional testimony, she repeated it often for the remainder of her tenure as Homeland Security Secretary. Even four years ago, not everyone agreed. True, illegal border crossings had dried up in some…

In July, the Obama administration announced a renewed effort to ensure high-quality teachers are equitably distributed among schools. The administration asked states to create and publish plans that detail how they will ensure disadvantaged children have access to effective teachers. Specifically, the administration is encouraging states to revisit No Child Left Behind’s Title I requirement…

Winston Churchill once said “an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” The U.S. has been negotiating a deal that will leave Iran—which the State Department calls the leading sponsor of international terrorism—on the threshold of becoming a nuclear state. This is not just bad policy. This is deeply dangerous…

In 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama inspired supporters with talk of a new direction in foreign policy, promising to end wars and improve relationships with allies. As president, Obama claimed in 2012 to have ended hostilities overseas and made America stronger—points that ultimately helped him continue into a second term. But throughout it all were warnings that Obama’s policy…

“We know the human traffickers throughout Central America are using the president’s pledge of amnesty to actually get these payments to bring these kids here.”

Considering its participation in the new Palestinian unity government, Hamas’ rocket attacks on Israel should lead the U.S. to cut the hundreds of millions in assistance it gives to the Palestinian Authority each year. The Palestinian Authority’s recent decision to form a unity government with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas raises questions about the significant…

Hong Kong may sound remote and exotic to many Americans, but what happens there affects many here and its continued success and prosperity is in our national interest. So when China, Hong Kong’s ruler for 17 years, behaves with truculence toward this former British colony, the Obama administration should do better than shrug its shoulders…

The past weeks have brought an avalanche of disasters for the United States in the wider Middle East. Unless the Obama administration changes course, the coming months will bring worse. The administration’s premise is that radical Islamist groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS pose a greater threat to the United States than Iran. As the…