June 18, 2013
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COVER-UP Media complicit in Benghazi deception
Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings called the Benghazi hearings “a full-scale media campaign that is not designed to investigate what happened in a responsible and bipartisan way but rather a launch of ...
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Dickens speaks to immigration debate
WASHINGTON — Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is a gooey confection of seasonal sentiment. It also is an economic manifesto that Dickens hoped would hit with “twenty thousand times the force” o...
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Medicaid expansion cost will be crushing in end
More than 324 years after architect Sir Christopher Wren constructed fake pillars at Windsor Town Hall near London to satisfy building inspectors, tourists remain fascinated with the good-for-nothi...
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What others are saying
The following editorials appeared recently in Kentucky newspapers: Early voting measure unlikely until fraud issue is addressed The Independent, Ashland: Kentucky Secretary of State Alis...
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Empty rhetoric substituting for thought on topic of race
If there is ever a contest for words that substitute for thought, “diversity” should be recognized as the undisputed world champion. You don’t need a speck of evidence, or a single step of logic...
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Alcohol too often passed off as ‘excuse’ for men’s assaults of women
The report from the Arlington, Va., Police Department is, on its face, hardly newsworthy: “SEXUAL BATTERY, 05/05/13, 500 block of S. 23rd Street. On May 5 at 12:35 am, a drunken male subject app...
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RIGHT IDEA Improper zone changes merit outside review
McCracken County Sheriff Jon Hayden is correct when he says that a disinterested third party ­ should investigate whether hundreds of county properties were rezoned illegally between 2007 and 2008....
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Benghazi ‘fog’ served political ends
WASHINGTON — In some cases, the fog of war is initially thick, then dissipates. Following the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens...
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Identity politics selectively off limits
At an investment conference last week, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson created a huge mess for himself. He glibly speculated that maybe because economist John Maynard Keynes was a childless, “effe...
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RETHINK Wilson should relinquish seat on city commission
We agree that the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce made an excellent choice when it selected Sandra Wilson as its new president. We do not, however, agree with the chamber and Wilson herself that i...
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