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Random thoughts on the passing scene
How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on, and stop getting swept away by rhetoric? Why should being in a professional sport exempt anyo...
Apr 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Time to close Tamms Correctional Facility
The following excerpt is from an editorial that appeared in The (Springfield) State Journal-Register on April 10: In survey after survey, Illinoisans want to see the state’s budget balanced by c...
Apr 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Too many days are spent working to satisfy the tax man
April 9 was Tax Freedom Day in the Bluegrass State — the day Kentuckians had finally earned enough to pay off this year’s tax burden and quit greasing the palms of the Nanny State. That means we...
Apr 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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NON-EVENT Cross-river coal terminal concerns seem overstated
Metropolis officials have every right to voice their opposition to a planned coal transfer terminal in McCracken County. But McCracken County officials should politely ignore the opposition. ...
Apr 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Romney should move beyond ideology test, show humanitarian side
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s electoral trouble with women — more precisely with college-educated women — is real enough. Recent polling has Romney trailing President Obama by 18 points among this gro...
Apr 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Market forces democratized air travel
DALLAS — From his office window, Thomas W. Horton, in his fifth month as CEO of American Airlines, can see in the distance the Manhattan-size footprint of Dallas-Fort Worth airport, where American ...
Apr 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Business’ real friends leave them alone
In his Wisconsin victory speech last Tuesday, Mitt Romney said, “Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.” This to me is a more worrisome statement than his ...
Apr 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama did not overstep bounds with comments on health reform case
There was much ado about not much when President Obama declared last week that it would be “unprecedented, extraordinary” for the United States Supreme Court to overturn the health care reform law ...
Apr 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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FLAWED Proposed ‘pill mill’ measure met the fate it deservedSNbS
The 2012 legislative session ended without a vote in the Senate on House Speaker Greg Stumbo’s bill intended to help curb prescription drug abuse in the commonwealth. As serious as the problem is, ...
Apr 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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CAVALIER GSA scandal shows why nation has runaway debt
The scandal surrounding the Government Services Administration’s 2010 conference in Las Vegas is disturbing not only because of the extravagant waste of taxpayer funds but because of the cavalier a...
Apr 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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