June 18, 2013
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Sophistry thick in immigration debate
Most laws are meant to stop people from doing something, and to penalize those who disregard those laws. More generally, laws are meant to protect the society from the law-breakers. But our immi...
Apr 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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TEETH Open meetings violations need tougher penalties
Murray State University Regent Susan Guess is recommending that the board of regents undergo training on the Kentucky Open Meetings Law to ensure there are no more evenings like March 14. That w...
Apr 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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IN TROUBLE An Obamacare architect says it’s a ‘train wreck’
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a $3 million advertising contract to sell Obamacare to the American people. According to Advertising Age magazine, the advertising firm Weber...
Apr 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Overcoming tragedy a communal task
WASHINGTON — The sense of helplessness that follows a tragedy is too much for us. So we fill the silence after the sirens with explanations. This is very human — until it becomes inhuman. For so...
Apr 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Failed gun restrictions’ biggest fault: they didn’t go far enough
WASHINGTON — The way to stay sane in this city is never to expect too much. So the soothing mantras of the capital involve admonitions about the art of the possible, the perfect and the good, th...
Apr 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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‘Political courage’ should be more than a cheesy catch-phrase
Several years ago I found myself at a cheese-making operation in Wisconsin. While I had not traveled to the Badger State explicitly to observe Asiago delicacies being turned from fusty, amorphou...
Apr 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Amash newest GOP-libertarian hope
WASHINGTON — America’s most interesting development since November is the Republican Party becoming more interesting. Consider the congressman from Grand Rapids, Mich., who occupies the seat once h...
Apr 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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DOWNSIZE Smaller boat launch area would help funding pinch
It’s no surprise that the bids for Paducah’s riverfront development came in higher than projected. The discovery of mussels on the endangered species list near the originally planned site delayed t...
Apr 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama overestimates his persuasiveness
“You know, I actually believe my own bull——.” That’s what President Obama once told a reporter. If the man ever uttered a statement that spoke more to his approach to politics, I haven’t heard i...
Apr 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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AWOL Media silence on trial exposes ideological bias
Kermit Gosnell has been compared to Josef Mengele, infamous for the unspeakable “experiments” he performed on living children in Nazi concentration camps. The biggest difference between the two is ...
Apr 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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