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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.

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A voter can be seen in a voting booth Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014 in Honolulu. Despite the rains and winds from Tropical Storm Iselle that pounded the state Friday, Hawaii will hold primary elections today. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

Hispanics supportive of Democratic agenda open to vote for GOP

Hispanic voters like expansive federal spending, want to see an increase in the minimum wage, say the deficit should be solved by raising taxes and view tackling global warming as a major issue -- but nearly half say they're still open to voting for a Republican in next year's elections, according to Latino activists and pollsters. Published May 12, 2015

President Barack Obama speaks at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty at Georgetown University in Washington, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. The president said that "it's a mistake" to think efforts to stamp out poverty have failed and the government is powerless to address it. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama after trade deal defeat: This is personal for me

Minutes after his former Democratic colleagues in the Senate filibustered his trade deal, President Obama sent a message to supporters declaring the fight was "personal for me" and pleading with liberals to rally around him. Published May 12, 2015

President Obama is pressing for fast-track powers now so that he can finalize an Asian trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that he's negotiating with 11 other countries. A European trade deal could also be on the horizon. (Associated Press)

Democrats filibuster Obama’s trade bill

Senate Democrats filibustered Tuesday to stop the first major free trade deal vote in years, administering an embarrassing setback to President Obama, who had pleaded with his own party to back him on his top domestic priority for his final years in office. Published May 12, 2015

President Barack Obama speaks at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty at Georgetown University in Washington, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. The president said that "it's a mistake" to think efforts to stamp out poverty have failed and the government is powerless to address it. E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post columnist and professor in Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy is at left. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama supports Patriot Act changes to nix NSA phone-snooping program

President Obama called for a rewrite of the Patriot Act Tuesday, including nixing his NSA's phone-snooping program, in a new statement of administration policy urging Congress to adopt reforms that would end warrantless bulk collection powers. Published May 12, 2015

A feared uptick in the number of illegal border-crossers coming into the U.S. from Mexico has so far failed to materialize, thanks largely to campaigns to refute the myth of "permisos" granting crossers a free pass to remain in the United States. (Associated Press)

Illegal immigrant children border crossings down 58 percent from 2014 surge

The renewed flood of illegal immigration children anticipated this year hasn't materialized, as children are crossing at far lower rates than last year and even lower than 2013, according to new Border Patrol statistics that suggest some of the things the Obama administration did are helping. Published May 11, 2015

A federal judge has reopened an open-records case trying to pry loose some of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails as Judge Reggie B. Walton agreed to a joint request by the State Department and Judicial Watch. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton email case reopened by federal judge

A federal judge has reopened an open-records case trying to pry loose some of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails, marking the first time a court has taken action on the email scandal. Published May 10, 2015

Rep. Charles Rangel, New York Democrat, takes questions from reporters in New York on June 23, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Charles Rangel’s bid to overturn censure tossed by court

A federal appeals court rejected Rep. Charles B. Rangel's effort to overturn his 2010 censure by his House colleagues, saying Friday that they don't have the power to get involved in a congressional dispute. Published May 8, 2015

President Barack Obama's new $4 trillion budget plan is distributed by Senate Budget Committee staffer Eric Chalmers as it arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, early Monday, Feb. 02, 2015. The fiscal blueprint for the budget year that begins Oct. 1, seeks to raise taxes on wealthier Americans and corporations and use the extra income to lift the fortunes of families who have felt squeezed during tough economic times. Republicans, who now hold the power in Congress, are accusing the president of seeking to revert to tax-and-spend policies that will harm the economy while failing to do anything about soaring spending on government benefit programs. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Feds set tax haul record: $472B in one month

The federal government set a record tax haul in April, taking in nearly a half-trillion dollars in one month alone, according to Congressional Budget Office statistics released Thursday. Published May 7, 2015

NSA phone record collection is excessive: U.S. appeals court

The NSA's phone snooping program is probably illegal and certainly can't be justified under the Patriot Act, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a momentous decision that could rewrite the way the government has to go about gathering intelligence. Published May 7, 2015

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, who, along with a review board must approve the decision to keep any employees deemed to have intentionally cheated on their taxes, has insisted things at his agency have improved over the last two years. (Associated Press)

IRS gave promotions to tax cheaters: Audit

The IRS refused to fire most of its own employees found to be cheating on their taxes -- and in some cases even quickly turned around and promoted them within the year, according to an audit released Wednesday. Published May 6, 2015

Speaking in Las Vegas at a Cinco de Mayo meeting focused on immigration, Hillary Rodham Clinton met with so-called Dreamers, or young illegal immigrants here under color of President Obama's initial 2012 amnesty, and said she will protect them from Republicans who she said are intent on deporting them. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton vows to expand Obama amnesty

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Tuesday that if elected, she would try to expand President Obama's deportation amnesty to more illegal immigrants, saying this administration has left out a number of aliens who deserve to be granted legal status. Published May 5, 2015

In this April 29, 2015, photo, Democratic presidential hopeful former Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the David N. Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum in New York. Clinton intends to draw an early distinction with Republicans on immigration reform, pointing to a pathway to citizenship as an essential part of any overhaul in Congress. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Dreamers demand White House hopefuls end deportations, halt arrests

Any presidential candidate who wants to win Hispanic votes next year will need to pledge to take unilateral action to halt deportations, to break the links that allow local police to help enforce immigration laws and to stop prosecuting rank-and-file illegal immigrants at the border, a group of Dreamers said in a new policy paper Tuesday. Published May 5, 2015

The Internal Revenue Service headquarters building is seen in Washington on April 13, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

IRS wasted $5.6B on bogus Obama stimulus tax credits: Audit

The IRS doled out more than $5 billion in potentially bogus college aid payments in 2012 under an Obama stimulus tax credit, according to a report Tuesday from the agency's inspector general that said the administration still doesn't have a good handle on how to root out erroneous claims. Published May 5, 2015

Bill Clinton was the strictest president in modern political times when it comes to immigration, signing bills cracking down on both legal and illegal immigrants — but it's unlikely that record will infect his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has promised a more lenient approach as she makes a push for Hispanic voters in her presidential bid. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton rejects Bill Clinton immigration crackdown, vows lenient approach

Bill Clinton was the strictest president in modern political times when it comes to immigration, signing bills cracking down on both legal and illegal immigrants — but it's unlikely that record will infect his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has promised a more lenient approach as she makes a push for Hispanic voters in her presidential bid. Published May 4, 2015