May 21, 2013
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Marriage Act case of federal overreach
“Under the Constitution, the regulation and control of marital and family relationships are reserved to the states.” U.S. Supreme Court Sherrer v. Sherrer (1948) WASHINGTON — The Defense o...
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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BLUNDER PPS customers paying for board’s ambition
It may be that Paducah Power System customers 30 years from now will look back and applaud the board’s decision to drop TVA as its power supplier and invest in Prairie State Energy Campus. Not m...
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Catholic Church remains bulwark against the devaluing of human life
WASHINGTON — All things considered, I’d rather be in Rome. Isn’t everyone? Tout le journalism monde has descended on Rome since Pope Benedict XVI’s surprise retirement last month. The ensuing Va...
Mar 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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SHELL GAME Hagel uses missile shift as cover for sop to Russia
Chuck Hagel, fresh on the job as secretary of state after a bruising confirmation process, announced Friday that the U.S. is abandoning the final phase of its Eastern European missile defense syste...
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U.S. alone in curbing oil exploration
While many have long seen America as the global bad boy, everybody likes Canada. If Uncle Sam tucks his pack of Marlboros under his T-shirt sleeve and plays by his own rules, the Canadian moose — o...
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America’s disengagement poses risks
WASHINGTON — Declining national influence is a choice, and America seems to be making it. What foreign policy practitioners politely call the “churn” of events is beginning to look more like cha...
Mar 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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DUBIOUS Murray State regents owe answers on Dunn
Constantine Curris has promised transparency in the search for a new president to lead Murray State University. Call us skeptical. The board of regents, which Curris chairs, was anything but tra...
Mar 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cutting congressional pay would hold lawmakers accountable for sequester mess
The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star March 12: Taking a populist approach, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill is leading an effort to cut congressional pay during the sequester. T...
Mar 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Medical review panel needed for frivolous lawsuits
“Woe unto you, lawyers,” Jesus Christ himself once said. Fast forward 20 centuries and Christ could have had the personal-injury, ambulance-chasing kind of lawyer in mind. You’ve seen these l...
Mar 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Science on same-sex unions inconclusive
WASHINGTON — When on March 26 the Supreme Court hears oral arguments about whether California’s ban on same-sex marriages violates the constitutional right to “equal protection of the laws,” these ...
Mar 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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