Republicans in House Resist Overhaul for Immigration  —  WASHINGTON — Meeting for the first time as a group to hash out their approach to immigration, House Republicans on Wednesday came down overwhelmingly against a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's immigration laws …

TRAYVONGATE: NEWEST OBAMA SCANDAL IS 17 MONTHS OLD  —  The newest Obama scandal is seventeen months old.  —  Welcome to Trayvongate, where the President of the United States used both the bully pulpit, the Department of Justice and sly media manipulation to gin up charges of racism in the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin shooting.

Sudden Improvements in Egypt Suggest a Campaign to Undermine Morsi  —  CAIRO — The streets seethe with protests and government ministers are on the run or in jail, but since the military ousted President Mohamed Morsi, life has somehow gotten better for many people across Egypt …

Tim Huelskamp hits Barack Obama, Bill Clinton  —  Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp on Wednesday managed to jab both President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton in less than 140 characters.  —  The outspoken Republican tweeted that he doesn't trust Obama on border security any more than the 42nd president with women.

Release Detail  —  July 11, 2013 - American Voters Say 2-1 Stay Out Of Syria, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Drop In Foreign Policy Approval Keeps Obama Score Low  —  American voters say 61 - 27 percent that it is not in the national interest to be involved in Syria and oppose 59 …

Spitzer a no-show in 2012 election vote after writing column about voting for Obama  —  Eliot Spitzer failed to vote in last year's presidential election — just four days after penning a column proclaiming “Why I Am Voting for Barack Obama,” The Post has learned.

Man arrested for having sex with pool raft  —  HAMILTON —  A Hamilton man repeatedly arrested for public indecency has again been indicted after a child saw him engaging in sex with a rubber raft last month, according to police.  —  Edwin Charles Tobergta, 34, of 1320 Harmon Ave. …

Billionaire Koch Brother Says Eliminating The Minimum Wage Will Help The Poor  —  A conservative mogul worth $43 billion says he knows the secret to helping poor people.  According to Charles Koch, the U.S. needs to get rid of the minimum wage, which he counts as a major obstacle to economic growth.

Kane won't defend Pa. in gay-marriage suit, sources say  —  Attorney General Kathleen Kane is expected to announce Thursday that her office won't defend the state in a federal lawsuit that challenges Pennsylvania's ban on gay marriage, the Daily News has learned.

Time to Throw Out Second Best GOP Senators  —  Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi is a loyal Republican, a decent guy, and generally a good senator.  He also needs to retire from the Senate because he is not good enough, and I don't care if that makes him sad.  —  The New York Times probably thought …

Spitzer Leads Stringer in Comptroller Race: Poll  —  Former Governor Who Resigned After Scandal Is Frontrunner  —  Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer leads Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer by nine percentage points in the race for New York City comptroller, according to a Wall Street Journal-NBC 4 New York-Marist poll.

A Decade After McCain-Feingold, Election Spending Spikes  —  Next year's midterm elections expected to cost around $3.5 billion.  —  A decade after Sens. John McCain and Russ Feingold spearheaded sweeping campaign finance reform legislation, a series of judicial and legislative setbacks …

Americans More Pro-Immigration Than in Past  —  Record-low 35% want flow decreased; support for increasing it now 23%  —  PRINCETON, NJ — As House Republicans and Democrats each met separately this week to consider how to handle immigration reform, Americans remain more accepting of immigration than they were even a few years ago.

The Decline of Black Power in the South  —  To understand the depth of the damage that the Supreme Court's June 25 decision, Shelby County v. Holder, has inflicted on the voting rights of African-Americans, you have to measure it against the backdrop of the takeover of state legislatures, primarily in the South, by the Republican Party.

Carry Forward  —  Illinois joins the rest of the states in permitting concealed guns.  —  “This is a historic, significant day for law-abiding gun owners,” the Associated Press quotes Rep. Brandon Phelps as saying.  “They finally get to exercise their Second Amendment rights.”

House blocks enforcement of light bulb standards  —  The House on Wednesday voted to block the enforcement of light bulb standards that many say would effectively force people to buy more expensive compact fluorescent bulbs.  —  Just like last year, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) …

The ObamaCare Spin Machine Revs Up  —  Team Obama works hard to limit the political damage of the health law in the 2014 elections.  —  There's been a recent flurry of activities attempting to boost the Affordable Care Act.  In mid-June, for example, President Obama's “Organizing for Action” …