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Confiscate Frankfort’s shovels before we’re deeper in debt
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — There’s a lot to “dig” about being a Kentuckian this time of the year. The bluegrass is blooming and the national spotlight soon will shine on the Kentucky Derby. But t...
Apr 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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No one in Washington apparently heard grim news on Social Security and Medicare
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune April 24: No, we won’t be sending donations to the Campaign for Primary Accountability, the political action committee that fights the hug...
Apr 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Second-term socks in Obama’s drawer
WASHINGTON — Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner arrived in the Oval Office bearing socks. President Obama had admired Wenner’s flashy pair on a previous visit, and this gift fit the bill: one pair...
Apr 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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LBJ biography is an engrossing read
WASHINGTON — Around noon on Saturday, Nov. 23, 1963, almost exactly 24 hours after the assassination in Dallas, while the president’s casket lay in the East Room of the White House, Arthur Schlesin...
Apr 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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STOPGAP Sports complex alternative at best a short-term fix
The county school chief has made an interesting proposal to the McCracken Fiscal Court. But it may be more about the county bailing out the schools than the other way around. Although Superinten...
Apr 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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ABUSED Social Security Disability becoming new welfare
Social Security is going broke. OK, that’s hardly a revelation. But it’s happening faster than previously thought. The Social Security Administration has revised its projections. In a report ...
Apr 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Corzine keeps Obama, Wall Street cozy
Jon Corzine left Goldman Sachs with a net worth far exceeding even that of Mitt Romney today. Many accounts of his tenure at Goldman suggest he “failed up” the corporate ladder. Pushed out of Go...
Apr 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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History shows racial issues not a game
Whatever the ultimate outcome of the case against George Zimmerman for his shooting of Trayvon Martin, what has happened already is enough to turn the stomach of anyone who believes in either truth...
Apr 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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RESILIENT Quilt show perseveres in good times and bad
A prize-winning quilt requires creativity and originality, masterful craftsmanship from practiced hands, and an uncommon level of patience to see it through from concept to completion. Sort of l...
Apr 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Election debates over who’s meaner to dogs making U.S. a laughingstock
NEW YORK — I think it is fair to say that the shark has been permanently displaced by the dog. When scriptwriters have run out of mustard, the show hasn’t “jumped the shark,” as we’ve been sayin...
Apr 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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