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Obama’s new White House press secretary given too little to say
WASHINGTON — There have been worse times to start a new job in Washington. When Abraham Lincoln arrived in the capital 150 years ago this week, for example, the South had already seceded. J...
Feb 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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‘Teach for America’ too vital to let die
WASHINGTON — For Princetonians, the senior thesis is a high hurdle before graduation. For Wendy Kopp, class of 1989, it became a career devoted to transforming primary and secondary education. Wha...
Feb 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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FAREWELL
Executive Inn was a jewel in its day The Big E is gone. We were beginning to wonder if the day would ever arrive. The final section of Paducah’s old riverfront hotel came down Tuesday. Heavy m...
Feb 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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FED UP
Taxpayers are through funding endless benefits Government has a new master: The taxpayer. Technically, taxpayers have always been government’s master. But government at every level has gro...
Feb 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Funding cut would lead to more abortions
WASHINGTON — House Republicans voted to increase the number of abortions, raise federal health care costs and swell the welfare rolls. That wasn’t their intent, of course, and certainly not...
Feb 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama’s bullet train economic fantasy
Nothing more clearly illustrates the utter irresponsibility of Barack Obama than his advocacy of “high-speed rail.” The man is not stupid. He knows how to use words that will sound wonderful to pe...
Feb 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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SHELL OUT
Mussels have become Paducah’s snail darter A critter lurking about the waters of the Ohio River at Paducah is costing the city a fat pocketbook full of money. So the little guy’s name, the fat p...
Feb 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Heaven right there at home for young mothers
There has been a whole spate of memoirs lately by young mothers searching for meaning. They go off looking for happiness in yoga and personal trainers and spiritual gurus. These are intelligent wo...
Feb 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Governor sits serenely at center of storm
MADISON, Wis. — Hitherto, when this university town and seat of state government applauded itself as “the Athens of the Midwest,” the sobriquet suggested kinship with the cultural glories of ancie...
Feb 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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INSANITY
Mideast unrest demands energy policy review The epicenter of Mideast unrest has shifted from Egypt to Libya, where the country’s mad-hatter of a leader, Moammar Gadhafi, has vowed to hold onto p...
Feb 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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