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Politico: Obama, Paul Ryan ‘Covert Collaborators’

President Barack Obama and House Speaker Paul Ryan haven’t had a face-to-face meeting in more than two-and-a-half years. And despite Ryan’s election this week and Obama’s congratulatory call to him in advance of the vote, there still isn’t one scheduled.

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Obama to Boehner: ‘Man, I’m Gonna Miss You’

In an interview now-former Speaker of the House John Boehner conducted with Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” host Bill Hemmer that aired on Friday, Boehner revealed President Barack Obama admitted he will miss the Ohio congressman. “He said, ‘Boehner, man, I’m

President Barack Obama addresses the International Chiefs of Police (IACP) annual conference at McCormick Place on October 27, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. The event is the largest gathering of law enforcement leaders in the world.

Obama: America Going Through ‘Spasm of Fear’

“We’re going through a spasm of fear.” Obama says, referring to the emergence of “far-right parties” in Europe and America. Obama made his remarks in a conversation with writer Marilynne Robinson published by the New York Review of Books.

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Obama Complains About Decentralized New Media

“You can argue that that’s part of the reason why our politics has gotten so polarized, is that—when I was growing up, if the president spoke to the country, there were three stations and every city had its own newspaper and they were going to cover that story,” President Obama says. “And that would last for a couple of weeks, people talking about what the president had talked about.”

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All Talk: Fewer Gun Crime Prosecutions Under Obama than George W. Bush

Syracuse University’s TRAC Reports recently revealed that Obama’s tough talk about increasing prosecution of federal gun laws was just that—talk. In fact, Obama’s annual prosecution of gun crimes has never reached the levels of prosecutions seen during George W. Bush’s last five years in office.

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Rep. Chris Smith: For Obama, ‘Everything Is Subordinated to the Abortion Agenda’

While even illegal immigrants and their supporters will complain President Obama has let them down, the same cannot be said for Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry. Co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Life caucus Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) said last Wednesday that, for President Obama, “everything is subordinated to the abortion agenda.” Smith referred to Obama as “the abortion president.”