May 19, 2013
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Excess government ties directly to state’s lower incomes
Out of the 50 U.S. states and 10 Canadian provinces, Kentucky ranks No. 56 in economic freedom, as measured by the Frasier Institute’s Economic Freedom of North America Index. Among Kentucky’s surr...
Apr 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Philadelphia trial unmasks reality that late-term abortions not so rare
Melissa Ohden went through an abortion and lived to tell about it. That might not sound noteworthy in an era when more than 3,000 women a day have an abortion. But Melissa was the baby, not the ...
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Political correctness has replaced realism in immigration discussion
Britain’s late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said it all when she wrote that the world has “never ceased to be dangerous,” but the West has “ceased to be vigilant.” Nothing better illustrates...
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Adults may yet emerge in Congress
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, chairman of the Financial Services Committee, has told Richard Cordray not to bother. This is part of the recent evidence that government is getting some ...
Apr 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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DEPARTED Google leads in handling post-mortem accounts
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune April 22: Google has launched a settings feature that allows people to specify what happens to their accounts after a long period of “inac...
Apr 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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To left, ‘right wing’ equals ‘terrorist’
“If history were to repeat itself,” warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, “and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain ...
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‘Normalcy’ of bombing suspect chilling
WASHINGTON — The bomber went to prom. OK, alleged bomber. As to those who believe the definite article is missing from the sentence above — the prom — my teenaged daughters inform me that phrasi...
Apr 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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MOTIVE Whatever drove them, Boston bombers failed
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune April 21. Maybe, if the rest of us were on intimate terms with the Boston bombing suspect who survived, he would confide to us their motiv...
Apr 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Internment episode speaks to present
WASHINGTON — Two of the three most infamous Supreme Court decisions were erased by events. The Civil War and postwar constitutional amendments effectively overturned Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), ...
Apr 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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HANG UP Free cellphone program a monument to waste
The federal government says it can’t afford air traffic controllers, but it spends more than $2 billion a year giving away cellphones. Sen. Claire McCaskill wants to put a stop to it. The Missou...
Apr 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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