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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson on Wednesday said President Obama is poised to announce “comprehensive” executive action on immigration. “I do not want and will not get out ahead of the president and the announcement that he will make in the coming days," Johnson said at the Washington think tank New Democrat Network. “Legislative action is always preferable, but we’ve waited now for years to get Congress to act, and Congress has not acted.” The White House on Wednesday said the president will announce his “commonsense steps” on immigration in a prime-time address on Thursday evening. Johnson...

Some Republicans seeking to "rebrand" the party are looking to Meghan McCain -- daughter of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) -- as a figure who can attract younger voters, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. A prolific blogger and Twitter contributor, McCain in a recent blog post described herself as a "pro-sex, 'pro-life, pro-gay-marriage Republican,'" and some experts believe she could "be at the forefront of a new GOP breed: the 'Meghan McCain Republican,'" the Chronicle reports. However, some Republicans have criticized McCain's positions as departing too far from the party's core principals, while other critics have attacked her as a political...

A new book by David Horowitz and Richard Poe has enraged the Left and alarmed many conservatives. It exposes the machinations of a radical clique working at the highest levels of government and finance to undermine American power. That book is The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party. It hit the New York Times bestseller list in its first week in print. Here to tell us about The Shadow Partyis co-author Richard Poe, our esteemed colleague at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, where he serves as director of research. Mr....

  Return to the full list of Major PlayersNew Democrat Network, 2004 Election Cycle Formed: 1996 | Web Site Helps to elect centrist Democratic candidates that tend to hold liberal positions on social issues and conservative positions on economic and foreign policy issues. Uses a combination of express advocacy and issue advocacy to support selected candidates at the federal, state and local levels.   Affiliated Personnel: Simon Rosenberg, president and founder (former Clinton campaign aide) Donors: In 2003, the Democratic Governor's Assn gave $200,000, and Aetna Inc and August Capital each contributed $100,000.   527 Activity:  Total Receipts: $7,172,693   Total Expenditures: $6,970,070...

Rhetoric V/O: “At this pace, we would need 23 days to show the 12 million Latinos without health insurance.”CHYRON:  “More than 12 million without insurance.” The Facts Access To Health Care Has Improved For Children And Those Without InsuranceNumber Of Uninsured Children At “Lowest Level On Record” In 2003.  “The percentage of American children with no health insurance has dropped to the lowest level on record because of expanded state programs, the government said … Only 10.1 percent of U.S. children were uninsured last year, the lowest level ever recorded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In...

Rhetoric V/O: “Dear President Bush: It’s been a long day. My kids are in bed, and I would like to rest, too. But with a minimum wage of five fifteen an hour, it’s impossible. I have to go to my second job. The Democrats want to raise the minimum wage to $7 an hour. But you and the Republicans oppose it. What a shame. Sincerely, a hardworking Latino.”CHYRON:  “Join the Democratic movement.” The Facts Economy Improving Under Bush Democrat Commentator Said Bush Economic Policy “Stunning Empirical Success.” “I’m a Democrat … But I’m also an objective financial commentator. With...

<p>On a modest street in the flats of Berkeley there's a little yellow bungalow behind a shabby fence. It's one of those places you expect to find a pit bull, but instead you find a bright young mayor of a city of about 70,000 liberal activists, writers, kibitzers, kidders and some folks who clearly have a lot of time on their hands.</p>

<p>Go slow. That's the message from valley business leaders to politicians.</p> <p>At a Monday gathering of Silicon Valley tech executives and Democratic members of Congress, much of the buzz was about how to emerge from the wave of business scandals with as little new regulation as possible.</p>