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After three strikes, EPA should be thrown out the game
The crowd that traveled to recent public hearings in Frankfort and Pikeville for showdowns with the visiting Environmental Protection Agency overwhelmingly supported the home-team coal miners. T...
Jun 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Random thoughts on the passing scene
Many people may have voted for Barack Obama in 2008 because of his charisma. But anyone familiar with the disastrous track record of charismatic political leaders around the world in the 20th centu...
Jun 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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American sovereignty LOST casualty
WASHINGTON — There they go again. Like those who say climate change is an emergency too obvious and urgent to allow for debate, some proponents of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Se...
Jun 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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CLOSED Independent viewpoints unwelcome at university
Oregon State University’s motto is “Open minds. Open doors.” But the university closed the door on one professor’s career — apparently because his open mind was embarrassing the institution. ...
Jun 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Democrats haven’t changed with times
Is it time to start talking about the inevitable demise of the Democratic Party? Since the 1990s there’s been a thriving cottage industry of doomsaying about the Republican Party. The gold stand...
Jun 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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MONEY PIT   GOP right to crack down on food stamp rip-offs
It often plays out like this: Democrats push through a broad, budget-busting expansion of social welfare spending and call it compassion. Republicans blanch at the resulting cost explosion, attempt...
Jun 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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President’s immigration policy a ploy
President Obama’s latest political ploy — granting new “rights” out of thin air, by executive order, to illegal immigrants who claim that they were brought into the country when they were children ...
Jun 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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LIABILITY Illinois, Kentucky fail pension-funding test
The public employee pension predicament is worse than you thought. The Pew Center on the States has just released its most comprehensive report yet on the unfunded liability in state employee pe...
Jun 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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SQUELCHED First Amendment assaults go unnoticed by public
Free speech is perpetually under attack by those in power to quell opposition, protect their positions and hide their ill deeds. Silencing dissent is a mark of totalitarian regimes. But not the Uni...
Jun 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Beach Boys continue to ‘get around’
COLUMBIA, Md. — Three hours before showtime, Brian Wilson says: “There is no Rhonda.” Sitting backstage, gathering strength for the evening’s 48-song, 150-minute concert, Wilson was not asked about...
Jun 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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