​Obama immigration fiat as early as next week . . . President Obama is planning to unveil a 10-part plan for overhauling U.S. immigration policy via executive action -- including suspending deportations for millions -- as early as next Friday, a source close to the White House told Fox News. 

Climate deal has no binding language . . . The United States and China announced an agreement Wednesday that says both countries “intend” to cut carbon emissions in the coming years, but contains no binding language requiring that goal to be met. The deal also largely repeats China’s proposal from earlier this summer, and doesn’t commit China to move any faster as some had hoped. The Blaze

Plan faces lots of obstacles . . . President Barack Obama ’s plan to curb greenhouse-gas emissions alongside China sets the stage for lengthy confrontations with other nations resistant to making cuts, Republicans who want to roll back regulations and environmentalists pushing for bigger reductions. Wall Street Journal

Obama desperately wanted Holder to stay . . . Nothing Obama and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said could change his mind, none of the appeals to stay to the end of the term were overriding Holder’s job exhaustion or health concerns. Politico

HHS retweets celebration of birth control . . . The HHS Office of Population Affairs (OPA) re-tweeted a video entitled “Thanks, Birth Control” last week, and then apparently deleted the retweet today, Nov. 12. The video touts how birth control allows people to have carefree sex and includes references to drinking and staying out all night. CNS News

State official: U.S. did not live up to its values . . . A Department of State official told a United Nations panel Wednesday that the United States “did not always live up to our own values” after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and she announced that the U.S. now acknowledges that a ban against torture applies in areas beyond its sovereign jurisdiction, including Guantanamo Bay and on U.S.-registered ships and aircraft. CNS News

U.S. faces uphill fight in Anbar . . . The defeat was the most humiliating for the Iraqi military in months. Disguised in Iraqi army uniforms and driving stolen Humvees, Islamic State group militants stormed Camp Saqlawiyah in Iraq's western Anbar province, sending some 700 soldiers fleeing. At least 40 soldiers were killed and another 68 taken prisoner, later to be paraded through the streets of the city of Fallujah. Associated Press

GOP prepares to thwart Obama on immigration . . . Conservatives in the House and Senate want to stay one step ahead of President Obama, as he readies executive action to allow more illegal immigrants to stay in the country. The Hill

Senate maneuver aims to gut Obamacare . . . Senate Republicans will likely move to gut Obamacare after they assume the majority next year by using a parliamentary maneuver that would allow them to skirt an expected Democratic filibuster, GOP sources said. Examiner

Top Dem: GOP to impeach Obama out of racism . . . Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, the Assistant Democratic Leader, said Republicans will impeach Obama just because they can’t stand the fact that a black man was elected president. White House Dossier

Congress may call Gruber to testify . . . "We may want to have hearings on this," said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), an influential voice among GOP hardliners and a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in an interview at the Capitol. "We shouldn't be surprised they were misleading us." Breitbart

Oh, to see the haughty deceivers of Americans get their comeuppance!

Gruber remarks give GOP anti-Obamacare ammo . . . Comments about voter stupidity made by an ally of the Obama administration are turning into conservatives’ newest weapon against the president’s healthcare law. The Hill

Dems want Warren in leadership . . . The incoming Senate minority leader, Harry Reid, is engaged in private talks with the Massachusetts freshman to create a special leadership post for the former Harvard professor. Politico

Dems end Keystone opposition to help Landrieu . . . Long-stalled legislation to build the Keystone XL pipeline got new life on Wednesday after Senate Democrats suddenly abandoned efforts to block the measure in hopes of helping endangered Sen. Mary Landrieu keep her seat in energy-rich Louisiana. Reuters

Because who cares about the environment when a Senate seat is in play?

Wendy Davis's campaign: Even worse than thought . . . Consultants for Democrat Wendy Davis warned her campaign months ago that the Fort Worth senator was headed for a humiliating defeat in the Texas governor’s race unless she adopted a more centrist message and put a stop to staggering internal dysfunction. The Texas Tribune

Aww, sorry you lost . . .  Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) embraced a wan-looking Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), who Democrats thought would pull out a win last week. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) tried to console Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) by grabbing his shoulder and shaking it playfully. He kissed Hagan on the cheek, while Boxer hugged Begich. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) shook his hand and offered words of encouragement. The Hill​



Iran: "Hypocritical" Obama is nice in private . . . Confirming reports that President Obama sent a letter to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei relating to the nuclear talks, senior Iranian officials accused the U.S. of hypocrisy, saying the president adopted a warm and friendly tone in the secret correspondence, but a harsh one when speaking publicly. CNS News

Israel won't cooperate with UN Gaza probe . . .  Israel will not cooperate with a United Nations inquiry into its 50-day war with rocket-firing militants in Gaza this summer, a government spokesman said Wednesday. AFP

I'm sure the administration will criticize Israel for seeking not to avoid its own funeral, conducted by the pro-Palestinian crowd at the UN.

First Ebola treatment trials to start in Africa . . . Global aid agency Doctors Without Borders said on Thursday it would begin unprecedented trials within a month on Ebola drugs and blood from survivors using patients in west Africa. AFP​



Immigrants soaking up Medicaid dollars . . . Immigrants and their U.S.-born children make up more than 40 percent of new Medicaid recipients at a cost of $4.6 billion, according to an analysis of government data. Examiner

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Terrorists at the border? . . . Four men flew from Istanbul through Paris to Mexico City in late August, where they were met by a Turkish-speaking man who stashed them in a safe house until their Sept. 3 attempt to cross into the U.S. over the border with Mexico. Their capture by the Border Patrol in Texas set off a fierce debate over the men’s intentions. Washington Times

New York Times excuses Gruber . . . If you always expect the NY Times to bend over backwards to help Democrats in trouble, you'll rarely be disappointed.Not surprisingly, the Times' Neil Irwin has zero outrage to spare for a high-profile Obama adviser calling the American people stupid. Breitbart

Mika: Were Gruber Republican, press would pounce . . . Co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” went off the liberal script this morning, shaming the mainstream media for ignoring the story of Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber saying the “stupidity of the American voter” required them to lie in order to pass the bill. Daily Caller

Surprise! A new reason your premiums may rise . . . In a twist, an influx of lower-priced health plans on the Obamacare website could lead many Americans to pay more for coverage next year thanks to smaller insurance tax credits. Wall Street Journal

Happiness is a warm gun . . . Sixty-three percent of Americans questioned in a Gallup survey conducted in October and released this month said they believe having a gun in their house makes it a safer place to be. CNS News

Drones patrol half U.S. border . . . The U.S. government now patrols nearly half the Mexican border by drones alone in a largely unheralded shift to control desolate stretches where there are no agents, camera towers, ground sensors or fences, and it plans to expand the strategy to the Canadian border. Associated Press​

Keith Koffler
Editor
White House Dossier