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Legal charade based on nothing but statistics
A long-standing legal charade was played out again recently, when Federal Express paid $3 million to settle an employment discrimination case brought by the U.S. Department of Labor. Federal Exp...
Apr 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Legalizing drugs creates new problems
WASHINGTON — The human nervous system interacts in pleasing and addictive ways with certain molecules derived from some plants, which is why humans may have developed beer before they developed bre...
Apr 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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CORRUPT Illinois lawmakers abuse tuition waivers
Some students earn scholarships for superior academic performance. Some receive scholarships based on financial need. But in Illinois students can get scholarships simply by being the offspring ...
Apr 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ginsburg redefines term ‘conservative’
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg likes the Indian Healthcare Improvement Act and other ingredients of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka “ObamaCare.” Why, she asked toward...
Apr 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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FOLLY Little good can come from EU carbon tax
China and India are advising their airlines not to pay a newly imposed carbon tax on commercial airline flights landing in European Union countries. The world’s two most populous nations have be...
Apr 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sometimes we discover grace at unexpected times amidst pain, suffering, loneliness
I opened the garage to back my car out on Saturday morning and silently cursed at the car blocking part of my driveway, making a difficult task (backing out onto a busy street, something I never th...
Apr 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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OVERTAXED This is a distinction the U.S. doesn’t want
The U.S. can now claim an ignominious distinction: highest corporate tax rate in the developed world. Japan, trying to jump start its own stagnant economy, lowered its corporate tax rate from 39...
Apr 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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‘Moderation in all things’ no longer expresses desire of hyper-partisan American public
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — As the sun rises and dabs Caesars Palace with morning rouge, irony struts down the strip of casinos, shops and nightclubs. What better place to contemplate moderation, the topi...
Apr 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ryan makes irreplaceable contribution
WASHINGTON — The first time Rep. Paul Ryan presented his budget, it was supposed to be fatal for the GOP. Ryan, after all, was not only touching the entitlement third rail but licking it. Even to s...
Apr 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obamacare may be wrong answer, but affordable care solution needed
WASHINGTON — By now you’ve heard it plenty: The Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka “Obamacare,” is like the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This creative bit of dot-connecting began with President Obama, and...
Apr 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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