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  • Obama’s ‘girl power’ foreign policy boosts UN aid

    By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org The U.S. government’s ‘girl power’ foreign policy has been signed into law, boosting support for a UN aid project to empower girls in developing countries. Just last month, President Barack Obama signed the Girls Count Act, promising government resources “to effectively address the needs of birth registries in countries where…

  • Seizer-in-chief: Obama sets eyes on cyber hackers’ goods

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    THE PUNISHER: President Obama signed an executive order declaring hacking a “national emergency” and offers sanctions to seize their property and effects By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org If cyber hackers are aiming their malicious code at American companies or government bureaus, they now face the wrath of brutal U.S. sanctions. That’s the latest law of…

  • Top GOP contenders seek to change nation’s tune on immigration

    By Yaël Ossowski  / February 27, 2015  / Watchdog.org In the wake of a Texas judge’s decision to halt President Obama’s temporary amnesty for illegal immigrants, derided by most House and Senate Republicans, a quartet of top GOP leaders are bringing fresh perspective to the idea of positive immigration reform within their party and, if…

  • States don’t want illegal immigrants, but could they need them?

    By Yaël Ossowski  / Watchdog.org / February 19, 2015  A coalition of 26 states fought and won a battle to freeze President Barack Obama’s deferred action plan to give temporary work visas to illegal immigrants with children born in the United States. Judge Andrew Hanen’s injunction order, issued Monday, makes certain eligible illegal immigrants won’t…

  • Obama’s immigration plan may be his only worthy act

    By Yaël Ossowski  /   November 19, 2014 / Watchdog.org NOTHING TO SAY HERE: President Barack Obama listens during a 2009 meeting with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in the State Dining Room of the White House. By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org The New York Times and others are reporting that President Obama will sign an…

  • ‘Nation of random enforcement’: Is America’s chief executive too powerful?

    By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org When President Barack Obama chooses to enforce select portions of federal law, is he playing the part of chief executive or skirting around Congress and, by extension, the U.S. Constitution? That’s the question House Republicans put forth in a House Judiciary Committee meeting Wednesday, stacking the witness panel with four fellow House GOP members and three law professors all too…