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The White House is eager for the investigationofJoeBiden’smishandlingofclassifieddocumentsfromhis time as vice president and in the Senate to conclude. While it isreported Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation is coming to an end and is unlikely to include criminal charges, the HouseCommitteeonOversightand Accountability’s inquiry is accelerating. This investigation is anything but closed. …

The following two scenes speak volumes about where the 2012 presidential race currently stands. Picture first the White House basking in the glow of Friday’s jobs report that the unemployment rate has fallen form 8.5% to 8.3% while total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 243,000 in January – well ahead …

Although our government did not ultimately shut down this week, President Obama has to begin to show leadership over the budget process. Frankly, our long-term fiscal problems are too serious for the president to take a hands-off approach going forward. It is my view that the president must learn a …

Editor’s note: The following column originaly appeared on ToddStarnes.com. Linda Barnette has issued marriage licenses in Grenada County, Mississippi for 24 years. On Tuesday, she resigned. “I choose to obey God rather than man,” Mrs. Barnette wrote in her one paragraph resignation letter to the Grenada County Board of Supervisors. …

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:46:34 +0000 – By Kathleen Troia “K.T. “McFarlandNational Security Expert It’s official. Iran has enough enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb. It has a long-range missile capable of delivering that bomb. Now all it needs is the blueprint, which is usually complicated, but not if you’re …

They say no good deed goes unpunished. Well, the Libyan rebels are now complaining that NATO isn’t doing enough to stop Qaddafi! I guess they expected us to topple Qaddafi and hand the country over to them; like we did when we toppled Saddam and tried handing Iraq over to …

Thursday, somebody brought down a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over the Ukraine/Russian border. We know it was shot down by a sophisticated surface-to-air missile, but we still don’t know whose finger was on the trigger. We no doubt will know shortly, since that …

Hillary Clinton does no favors to her presidential campaign and her credibility bydeclaringthat, “I want to be the small business president — somebody who makes it easier for [small businesses] to get started, to grow… to try to optimize the opportunity side of the equation.” Neither the facts nor even …

I’m thankful for the anonymous heroes living among us, who grab our hearts and change our minds. I’ve been thinking about them a lot in the context of a story I love about a group of very adamant, anonymous men in the Gospels.I was reminded of it after a friend …

With just hours left until the first GOP presidential debate on Thursday, candidates and their campaigns are sequestered away studying and practicing on mock debate stages in hotel rooms and studios somewhere along the campaign trail. A lot goes into preparing for debates. Much like the “special team” that’s brought …