May 24, 2013
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President’s policy on Syria better than his ability to articulate what it is
WASHINGTON — People who talk incessantly often talk imprecisely, and Barack Obama, who is as loquacious as he is impressed with his verbal dexterity, has talked himself into a corner concerning Syr...
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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hypocrisy Obamacare OK for you, but Congress wants out
Providing superfluous evidence that members of Congress are sneaky, self-serving hypocrites, Politico revealed last week that leaders in Congress have been meeting in secret for months to carve out...
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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FIASCO Fiscal court must act fast to address zoning debacle
If McCracken County Judge-Executive Van Newberry rezoned hundreds of properties with the stroke of a pen, he not only violated the law, he exposed the county to potentially hundreds of lawsuits fro...
May 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Politicians sell gullible the impossible
Someone called politics “the art of the possible.” But, in the era of the modern welfare state, politics is largely the art of the impossible. Those people morbid enough to keep track of politic...
May 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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pertinent War mission little served by infrastructure spending
The following editorial appeared in the Washington Missourian April 19: Why hasn’t this issue come up before? The inquiry is: Show me evidence that the massive infrastructure spending supports o...
Apr 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Blaming Islam for terror big mistake
WASHINGTON — In 2009, Ruslan Tsarni and his nephew Tamerlan Tsarnaev had a bitter argument over the implications of their faith. Tsarnaev announced he had chosen “God’s business” over work or schoo...
Apr 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Boston suspects don’t fit neatly into our idea of what makes a terrorist
WASHINGTON — As the manhunt for the Boston bombers reached its climactic conclusion, Americans of all hues and backgrounds heaved a sigh of relief. Thank goodness it wasn’t ... fill in the blank: ...
Apr 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Excess government ties directly to state’s lower incomes
Out of the 50 U.S. states and 10 Canadian provinces, Kentucky ranks No. 56 in economic freedom, as measured by the Frasier Institute’s Economic Freedom of North America Index. Among Kentucky’s surr...
Apr 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Philadelphia trial unmasks reality that late-term abortions not so rare
Melissa Ohden went through an abortion and lived to tell about it. That might not sound noteworthy in an era when more than 3,000 women a day have an abortion. But Melissa was the baby, not the ...
Apr 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Political correctness has replaced realism in immigration discussion
Britain’s late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said it all when she wrote that the world has “never ceased to be dangerous,” but the West has “ceased to be vigilant.” Nothing better illustrates...
Apr 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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