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The White House has apparently undermined the secrecy that protects U.S. anti-jihadi operations because it wants to aid Hollywood’s quick production of a movie about the killing of Osama bin Laden, according to a statement from Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. (more)

The controversial chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has resigned amid a stepped-up investigation by House Republicans. (more)

An analysis of the most recent visitor logs released by the White House shows frequent visits by lobbyists attending meetings and social events at the White House complex, The Washington Post reports. (more)

The Obama administration is plenty content with legalized abortion and funding abortions with taxpayer funds, but when it comes to Americans visiting the White House, they must register their unborn children when they check in at the front door. (more)

Indiana Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly told The Daily Caller on Tuesday that he supports the House oversight committee’s efforts to enforce the congressional subpoena of Attorney General Eric Holder over Operation Fast and Furious. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans defied a veto threat and the House voted Friday to prevent federal loan costs from doubling for millions of college students. The vote gave the GOP a momentary election-year triumph on a bill that has become enmeshed in partisan battles over the economy, women’s issues and President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. (more)

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told The Daily Caller that there is currently “nothing” that the State Department or “anybody” in the Obama administration can do on the Keystone XL Pipeline project until TransCanada files an application. (more)

Lengthy federal and state review of new business projects is delaying up to $1 trillion in new investments, according to John Engler, president of the Business Roundtable. (more)

White House spokesman Jay Carney carefully tried to swat down questions today about whether White House’s employees joined the Secret Service’s servicing by Colombian prostitutes. (more)

It will be up to Washington to save the country from what the Washington Post has dubbed “Taxmageddon” — the looming tax increase set to hit Americans on Jan. 1. (more)

(Reuters) – Instead of curbing government spending, President Barack Obama’s healthcare law could add up to $530 billion to the federal debt over ten years, a Republican expert on U.S. government benefit programs said on Tuesday. (more)

The Obama administration is quietly diverting roughly $500 million to the IRS to help implement the president’s healthcare law. (more)

A former science adviser to the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation was fired in February, shortly after he alleged that the Obama administration intentionally falsified scientific fact in a proposal for dam removal in the Klamath River. (more)

While Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. made the Obama administration’s case for the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health care law Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia interrupted and lectured Verrilli about American consumers, saying “These people [are] not stupid.” (more)

SANFORD, Fla. — President Barack Obama on Friday urged law enforcement officials probing the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin — at all levels, up through the federal government — to conduct a thorough investigation. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new clue in one of the 20th century’s most enduring mysteries could soon uncover the fate of American aviator Amelia Earhart, who went missing without a trace over the South Pacific 75 years ago, investigators said Tuesday. (more)

A Congressional Budget Office report shows that the cost of implementing President Obama’s health care overhaul will reach $2.6 trillion over a ten-year period, a dramatic increase from the White House’s original estimate. (more)

Texas’s Women’s Health Program provides preventative health services to more than 130,000 low-income women a year. Today the program is in jeopardy, with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announcing Friday that the federal government will stop funding it at the end of March. (more)

The Obama administration blocked Texas’s new law requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification at the polls, escalating a partisan dispute over voting restrictions. (more)

Let’s say that you were a politician who picked a gee-whiz concept car like the GM Volt and turned it into an icon of your administration. Let’s say that you were so confident, you predicted a million such vehicles would be on the road by 2015, and you promised to buy one yourself, once you were out of office. And let’s also observe that despite giving people (most of whom are wealthy) a whopping $7,500 subsidy to buy a $40,000 car, your union- and government-controlled car company couldn’t sell enough of them to justify keeping the assembly line open. What would you do? (more)