May 20, 2013
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Growing addiction to electronic devices makes powering down a challenge
WASHINGTON — Google executive Eric Schmidt offered some seemingly simple advice in his commencement address at Boston University last weekend: “Take one hour a day and turn that thing off.” This...
May 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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NO WIN Illinois won’t solve woes with still more gambling
Illinois state government’s gambling habit continues its downward spiral. Like a problem gambler desperately attempting to wager his way out of debt, the state of Illinois grows ever more desper...
May 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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‘Fauxcahontas’ exposes diversity sham
BOSTON — Blond, blue-eyed Elizabeth Warren, the Senate candidate and Harvard professor who cites “family lore” that she is 1/32nd Cherokee, was inducted into Oklahoma’s Hall of Fame last year. Her ...
May 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Non-ad creates a faux controversy
WASHINGTON — What a difference four years make. When Barack Obama was running for president, he successfully managed to distance himself from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, leaving his Chicago church...
May 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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BACKWARD Tax policy drives away American entrepreneurs
The Internal Revenue Service gave Eduardo Saverin millions of reasons to leave the United States. A pair of U.S. senators wants to give him millions more reasons to never return. Saverin, the 30...
May 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Europe a preview of our own future
WASHINGTON — Europe’s economic struggles are a consistent drag on American growth. A eurozone breakup, in chaos and acrimony, could be a Lehman-like shock of incalculable damage. For years, the ...
May 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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IF ONLY Paul’s budget sensible, so it’s DOA in Congress
Some in Washington might think it presumptuous for a freshman senator to draft his own budget for the federal government. But Rand Paul is not the sort to worry about what the political establishme...
May 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Occupational license regulations need more than trim
The randomness of occupational licensing regulations in Kentucky, especially for jobs often filled by lower-income citizens, has specific — and unfortunate — consequences. For example, the fact ...
May 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Political season generating little excitement
When my kids were young, about the worst thing they could say about something was that it was capital-b BORRRING. You know how they stretch out the word, as in why say more? When I used to work ...
May 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Law of the Sea Treaty deeply flawed; U.S. stands to lose billions in royalties
It’s bad enough when American tax dollars are blown on government-created debacles such as Solyndra and “Operation Fast and Furious.” But at least in those instances the expenditures carried a bare...
May 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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