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Dave Boyer

dboyer@washingtontimes.com

Dave Boyer is a White House correspondent for The Washington Times. A native of Allentown, Pa., Boyer worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 2002 to 2011 and also has covered Congress for the Times. He is a graduate of Penn State University. Boyer can be reached at dboyer@washingtontimes.com.

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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, pauses while making an announcement about immigration reform, Monday, June 30, 2014, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama worst president since WWII, new poll shows

Poll after poll shows President Obama's approval rating dipping recently, and one new Quinnipiac University Poll finds that voters say Mitt Romney would have been a better choice in 2012.

July 2, 2014
President Barack Obama speaks to the media during a meeting with his cabinet members in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. From left are, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, and the president. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama vows even more executive action

President Obama vowed to double down on his use of executive action Tuesday, a move that some constitutional experts say spurns the intent of the Founding Fathers to govern by consensus, however difficult.

July 1, 2014
President Barack Obama speaks about the economy, Friday, June 27, 2014, at Lake Harriet Band Shell in Minneapolis, Minn. Obama is pitching his ideas to boost the America middle class in Minnesota, a state that has already embraced a key component of the president's economic agenda by raising its minimum wage. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama mocks GOP lawsuit over exec orders

An increasingly exasperated President Obama ridiculed Republicans Friday for filing a lawsuit over his use of executive power, contending that the GOP is "suing me for doing my job."

June 27, 2014
** FILE ** This June 18, 2014, file photo shows young detainees being escorted to an area to make phone calls as hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz. Thousands of immigrant children crossing alone into the U.S. can live in American cities, attend public schools and possibly work here for years without consequences. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool)

Obama in political bind over border crisis with illegal children

The surge of illegal immigrants from central America is creating a political bind for President Obama, who's under increasing pressure from supporters to bypass Congress and slacken deportations, a move that could backfire by further inflaming conservative voters in this midterm election year.

June 26, 2014
Boys wait in line to make a phone call as they are joined by hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children that 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)

Obama, in midst of immigration crisis, hails refugees

With his administration scrambling to send back a surge of illegal child immigrants fleeing violence in Central America, President Obama Friday marked World Refugee Day by saying refugees "make our country strong."

June 20, 2014
Volunteers in the newly formed "Peace Brigades" participate in a parade near the Imam Ali shrine in the southern holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014, after called for by the radical Shiite cleric Muqtatda al-Sadr to form brigades to protect Shiite holy shrines against possible attacks by Sunni militants. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)

Obama to send 300 special ops forces to Iraq

President Obama said Thursday that he is sending up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to aid in the urgent fight against advancing Sunni militants, ramping up U.S. involvement in the country less than three years after he withdrew all American troops.

June 19, 2014