May 25, 2013
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Candidates running vacuous campaigns as country needs real ideas
WASHINGTON — Maybe it’s a hangover — metaphorical, not literal — from the partying of White House Correspondents’ Association dinner weekend, but this is feeling like the most vacuous presidential ...
May 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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ATTITUDE Secret Service escapade reflects culture of contempt
The same federal government that is trying to control more and more of our lives can’t even control its own employees. As more details emerge about the Secret Service hooker scandal in Columbia,...
May 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Labor unions are not as they appear
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is the first of two columns on cynical politics. Labor unions, like the United Nations, are all too often judged by what they are envisioned as being — not by what they ...
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World a better place with Jon Will
WASHINGTON — When Jonathan Frederick Will was born 40 years ago — on May 4, 1972, his father’s 31st birthday — the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome was about 20 years. That is understa...
May 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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DROP IT Appealing judge’s ruling would waste public funds
The McCracken County Fiscal Court has had its day in court — and lost. It’s time to move on. The county sued the city of Paducah over the annexation of a tract of land where Paducah Power System...
May 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Whether regulations really kill jobs depends on who does the math
WASHINGTON — It is a seemingly immutable law of modern Republican rhetoric that the word “regulation” can never appear unadorned by the essential adjective: “job-killing.” As in nominee-in-waiti...
May 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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OOPS Reformed climate alarmist postpones global mayhem
The scientist who warned the world that billions would die this century as a result of global warming has a new message for humankind: Never mind. “All right,” said chemist, environmentalist ...
May 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Immigration, welfare policies clash
With the Supreme Court taking up Arizona’s “show me your papers” immigration law, we’re once again thrust into a useful debate over the role of the government and the obligations of the citizen — a...
May 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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LET’S VOTE Time to poll community on city-county merger
The voters should decide whether they are best served with city and county governments separate or merged into a single urban county government. The Paducah-McCracken County merger commission shoul...
May 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Reform Conservatism a clear winner
WASHINGTON — The last few years have been the most decisive and divisive ideological period since the early 1980s, perhaps since the late 1960s. Barack Obama has pursued Keynesian economics on a br...
May 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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