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Many area farmers, business leaders, and dignitaries were busy Tuesday morning at the 2013 Logan County Farm Bureau Policy Development Meeting.

Bob Gibbs is a hands-on guy who enjoys the tangible achievements of hard work, like rewiring light fixtures, installing plumbing and rehabbing a three-unit apartment building by himself.

In the weekly Republican address, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said, "The U.S. Department of Education has become so congested with federal mandates that it has actually become, in effect, a national school board," pushing for more local control and state-level flexibility on education reforms.

House Republicans are resigned to the fact that the investigation into the IRS's targeting of conservative groups has gone underground.

In the latest scandal to rock the Obama White House, the Director of the FBI doesn't even know the basics of the investigation into the IRS targeting centrist and right-of-center grass roots organizations, and to make matters worse, amid the allegations that Obama's Department of Justice has illegally seized upwards of 100 million telephone and ... (more)

Not that it absolves them from blame, but one contributor to the Big Three establishment TV networks' utter failure to report on or keep up with developments in the IRS targeting scandal -- failures which have been noted by Geoffrey Dickens at NewsBusters , as well as by the Media Research Center's Brent Bozell on Sean Hannity's TV show last night ... (more)

Being a father is "the best job I've got, and I know that all the fathers here feel the same way," said President Obama Friday during a Father's Day luncheon at the White House.

The country's top investigator seemed to be in the dark Thursday when pressed to provide details of the IRS investigation into the tax agency's targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups.

Earlier Thursday Rep. Jim Jordan confronted FBI Director Robert Mueller on the agency's investigation of the IRS.

Conservative activist and former Cincinnati Mayor Ken Blackwell - the Ohio delegate among 500 "lobbyists" from the Faith and Freedom Coalition's annual conference in Washington - found an ally Thursday in Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, who said a constitutional amendment is the next best step if the Supreme Court next week overturns the Defense of ... (more)

Faith and Freedom Coalition Founder Ralph Reed told CBS News his annual conference is a good way for possible presidential candidates - like Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rand Paul, R-Ky.

Faith and Freedom Coalition Founder Ralph Reed told CBS News that though Chris Christie couldn't make the group's annual conference due to scheduling conflicts, the moderate New Jersey governor demonstrates what religious conservatives value.

Rep. Jim Jordan on Thursday grilled a seemingly uninformed FBI Director Robert Mueller on the IRS scandal.

"We know it didn't originate in Cincinnati," Camp said, according to an article in the Hill newspaper .

Republicans are warning the new IRS chief that his honeymoon will be short unless he does more to clean up the agency and explain how and why the targeting of conservative groups began.

Acting IRS commissioner Danny Werfel told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday that he would encourage Lois Lerner to testify before the Committee.

Republican members of Congress took aim at an environmental regulation requiring that gasoline be mixed with biofuel, claiming it kills jobs and is hurting American families.

The Environmental Protection Agency is monitoring the U.S. ethanol market to see if refiners will be able to comply with a mandated increase in targets for biofuel use in 2014, an EPA official told lawmakers on Wednesday.

A third House committee joined the stampede to examine the IRS on Monday, and its chairman did exactly what you would expect somebody to do before launching a fair and impartial investigation: He went on Fox News Channel and implicated the White House.

Former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman has some explaining to do. An outcry from Shulman's former bosses, the American taxpayers, should shame him into honestly answering five simple questions about his role in the most threatening scandal engulfing the Obama administration today.