May 20, 2013
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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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DROP IT Appealing judge’s ruling would waste public funds
The McCracken County Fiscal Court has had its day in court — and lost. It’s time to move on. The county sued the city of Paducah over the annexation of a tract of land where Paducah Power System...
May 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Whether regulations really kill jobs depends on who does the math
WASHINGTON — It is a seemingly immutable law of modern Republican rhetoric that the word “regulation” can never appear unadorned by the essential adjective: “job-killing.” As in nominee-in-waiti...
May 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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OOPS Reformed climate alarmist postpones global mayhem
The scientist who warned the world that billions would die this century as a result of global warming has a new message for humankind: Never mind. “All right,” said chemist, environmentalist ...
May 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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