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Dave Boyer

dboyer@washingtontimes.com

Dave Boyer is a White House correspondent for The Washington Times. A native of Allentown, Pa., Boyer worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 2002 to 2011 and also has covered Congress for the Times. He is a graduate of Penn State University. Boyer can be reached at dboyer@washingtontimes.com.

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President Obama's remarks on concern when he listens to "less-than-loving expressions by Christians" drew both disapproval and laughter from the audience at an Easter prayer breakfast at the White House on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

Obama criticizes ‘less-than-loving’ Christians

Just days after avoiding any religious references in the slaughter of Christians by Islamist terrorists in Kenya, President Obama chose the setting of an Easter prayer breakfast Tuesday to criticize "less-than-loving" Christians.

April 7, 2015
Hillary and Bill Clinton (Associated Press)

Hillary and Bill Clinton’s fights at White House detailed in new book

Just as Hillary Rodham Clinton is preparing to launch her presidential campaign, a new behind-the-scenes book about life at the White House is providing a fresh look at her bitter fights with husband-President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, including a bloody clash in the first couple's bedroom.

April 6, 2015
Rep. Rob Bishop, Utah Republican, is a fierce critic of President Obama's plans to declare great chunks of the Beehive State as protected and thus off-limits to development and gas and oil exploration. Mr. Bishop is preparing a proposal to deviate from Mr. Obama's land-use plans. (Associated Press)

Obama holding off on Utah land grab

Property rights advocates and conservatives were breathing a sigh of relief after President Obama completed his first visit to Utah without turning vast chunks of the state into a new national monument.

April 5, 2015
Kenyan Muslims demonstrate against the attack and in solidarity with those Christians targeted in the attack, on a street in Garissa, Kenya, Friday, April 3, 2015. The Islamic extremists who slaughtered 147 people at the college in northeast Kenya as they shouted "God is great" appeared to have planned extensively, even targeting a site where Christians had gone to pray, survivors said Friday. Sign on left in Swahili reads "We are very sorrowful, because of the killings of the students, at the school at Garissa". (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Obama offers condolences to Kenyan president on massacre

President Obama called the president of Kenya Friday afternoon to express condolences for the massacre of 147 people at a college by Islamist terrorists this week, and said the violence won't deter his trip to the land of his father later this year.

April 3, 2015
President Barack Obama waves as he boards Air Force One, Thursday, April 2, 2015, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

Obama rails against GOP budget, elimination of death tax

President Obama railed against a proposal by congressional Republicans to repeal the estate tax Thursday, saying it would explode budget deficits and rob middle-class families of needed spending on job training.

April 2, 2015
President Obama will travel to Kentucky to discuss the changing economy and then fly to Utah, where he'll hold an event Friday on the economy as the government releases March unemployment statistics. (Associated Press)

Obama takes middle-class message to red states

Behaving as if he missed the memo about his party's midterm election losses, President Obama will embark Thursday on another trip to red states to promote his economic policies as a better alternative for the middle class than Republicans' proposals.

April 1, 2015

White House evaluating military-retirement proposals

The White House said Wednesday that President Obama and his advisers are still refining some of the proposals from an independent commission on military retirement pay before giving the recommendations to Congress.

April 1, 2015
President Barack Obama pauses in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 31, 2015, after signing a Memorandum of Disapproval Regarding S.J. Res. 8, a Joint Resolution providing for congressional disapproval of the rule submitted by the National Labor Relations Board relating to representation case procedures. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama commutes sentences of 22 drug dealers

President Obama commuted the prison sentences Wednesday of 22 people convicted of drug dealing, mostly crack cocaine, including some who were caught selling in school zones.

March 31, 2015
President Obama (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama vetoes NLRB legislation

President Obama vetoed a GOP-backed resolution Tuesday that would halt a National Labor Relations Board rule making it easier for workers to hold so-called "ambush" union-organizing elections, his second veto since Republicans took control of the Senate in January.

March 31, 2015
President Barack Obama listens as he is introduced by Rear Adm. Scott Giberson, Assistant U.S. Surgeon General and Public Health Service (PHS) Commander of Commissioned Corps Ebola Response in West Africa, before speaking about the Ebola outbreak response by the U.S. in West Africa, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, in the South Court Auditorium of the White House complex in Washington. Obama plans to withdraw most US military troops fighting Ebola outbreak in West Africa. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Obama supports reduction in military retirement pay

President Obama said Monday he supports the recommendations of a military commission that would reduce the size of traditional military retirement pay by about 20 percent and offer a new defined-contribution benefit for troops who leave before 20 years of service.

March 30, 2015