May 21, 2013
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Romney struggles to bridge gender gap
WASHINGTON — Outsourcing the job to his wife isn’t going to solve Mitt Romney’s problem with women voters. Although that does seem to be the candidate’s first instinct. As when Romney, asked las...
Apr 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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KILLJOYS Shale gas, oil jobs boom attracts predictable foes
The United States has a natural gas glut. That’s a good problem to have. Hydraulic fracturing — “fracking” — technology has opened access to previously untapped shale gas deposits. The country n...
Apr 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Legalization of drugs has pros and cons
WASHINGTON — Amelioration of today’s drug problem requires Americans to understand the significance of the 80/20 ratio. Twenty percent of American drinkers consume 80 percent of the alcohol sold he...
Apr 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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MISLEADING Jobless rate alone doesn’t tell real story
The unemployment rate dropped to 8.2 percent in March, the lowest it’s been since January 2009, the month when President Obama was inaugurated. But stocks fell on Monday, and analysts attributed...
Apr 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama’s energy policy not ‘all-of-above’
In his speech before the Newspaper Association of America/American Society of News Editors, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney accused the president of changing positions to get re-elected...
Apr 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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CAN’T WIN Global warming solved: Clean Air Act blamed
Scientists think they’ve discovered the culprit in increased hurricane activity in the Atlantic: clean air over America. The British scientists whose peer-reviewed study is published in the late...
Apr 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Romney engaged in an uphill battle
WASHINGTON — Recent endorsements by Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan have solidified Mitt Romney’s status as the presumptive Republican nominee. They have also systemically highlighted Romney’s ...
Apr 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Roberts, Kennedy potential pivot points in outcome of Obamacare case
As was clear in last week’s arguments on the constitutionality of the health care reform law, today’s Supreme Court is as political as any institution in Washington. It was not always so. I don’...
Apr 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Coal that never leaves commonwealth outside EPA’s purview
“What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” is meant to comfort those who commit big sins at Sin City’s gambling venues. But I have a better one that’s more positive to Kentuckians: “What happens in ...
Apr 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Trayvon Martin case should be decided by the rule of law, without regard to race
What happened to Trayvon Martin? The short answer: I don’t know. I know that he was shot by George Zimmerman while wearing a hoodie and carrying a box of Skittles. No weapons of mass destruction...
Apr 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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