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Cynical politics a winner for Obama
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is the last of two columns on cynical politics. A small headline in the 2nd section of the Wall Street Journal last week told a bigger story than a lot of front page ban...
May 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Edelen deserves kudos for government transparency
Actor Ed Norton warned: “Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.” Unfortunately for Richie Farmer, star guard for the 1992 University of Kentucky Wildcats, a new r...
May 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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PINOCCHIO Fact checker needed in the White House
The president received four Pinocchios from The Fact Checker in the Washington Post Monday for what the newspaper called “Obama’s whopper about an Ohio River bridge.” The president should have k...
May 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Left sets sights on paring of rights
WASHINGTON — Controversies can be wonderfully clarified when people follow the logic of illogical premises to perverse conclusions. For example, two academics recently wrote in the British Journal ...
May 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gingrich made the race more interesting
Every four years, there is one presidential campaign that is much more fun to watch than the rest, even if it has no realistic chance of success. I loved watching Mike Huckabee four years ago. It w...
May 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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NOT DONE McCracken school system faces more hard choices
With 13 schools to operate, funding is going to be an issue for McCracken County Public Schools, regardless of what the future brings. But funding will become a huge issue if — or rather when — the...
May 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Candidates running vacuous campaigns as country needs real ideas
WASHINGTON — Maybe it’s a hangover — metaphorical, not literal — from the partying of White House Correspondents’ Association dinner weekend, but this is feeling like the most vacuous presidential ...
May 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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ATTITUDE Secret Service escapade reflects culture of contempt
The same federal government that is trying to control more and more of our lives can’t even control its own employees. As more details emerge about the Secret Service hooker scandal in Columbia,...
May 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Labor unions are not as they appear
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is the first of two columns on cynical politics. Labor unions, like the United Nations, are all too often judged by what they are envisioned as being — not by what they ...
May 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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World a better place with Jon Will
WASHINGTON — When Jonathan Frederick Will was born 40 years ago — on May 4, 1972, his father’s 31st birthday — the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome was about 20 years. That is understa...
May 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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