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U.S. has lost its identity as a Christian nation
EDITOR: We can see the storm clouds hanging low over America today like we have never seen before. When we lost our identity as a Christian nation we lost our direction as well because we didn’t...
Sep 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Local waters do not escape state’s fish consumption advisory
EDITOR: No health organization will dispute that mercury is a toxin, a toxin that is dangerous to children and most other creatures. Some might even argue that it is the second-most-poisonous ma...
Aug 31, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kentucky should move away from defined-benefit pensions
EDITOR: Realistic change must come to the commonwealth pension system. Instead of a promise to pay a specific benefit in the unpredictable financial future, the pension system could promise to p...
Aug 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bring back some of the old residents of the Comics Page
EDITOR: Once upon a time in a newspaper land far away was a placed called “Comics Page.” It was a page peopled by familiar old friends. Among them were one of the wisest (and, probably oldest) w...
Aug 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Beshear’s Fancy Farm speech a disservice to Kentucky voters
EDITOR: I attended the Aug. 7 Fancy Farm Picnic to enjoy the spectacle, to eat the barbecue and hear the usually spirited political speaking. Because I believe that this year’s gubernatorial ele...
Aug 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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City-county merger pros and cons need to be presented, debated
EDITOR: Can the commission present in a methodical bullet-point format the justification(s) for merger? Each important point can be published in The Paducah Sun and on the Internet over several ...
Aug 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bring back Mary Worth, other favorite comic strips
EDITOR: Your comic strip has literally gone to the dogs. You have panels with dogs talking to dogs, babies talking to each other and to animals and extreme acts of cruelty and impossible situati...
Aug 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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If you stray from the liberal fold, be ready for smear tactics
EDITOR: To disagree with President Obama’s policies is the same as openly declaring yourself a racist. No matter that black entrepreneur Herman Cain is a favorite of the tea party, the group tha...
Aug 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Modern observances lend credence to events related in Biblical history
EDITOR: At the outset let me refer to myself as a Christian. However, a couple of thoughts really puzzle me. I preclude those puzzlements by reminding myself that most of us when we were chil...
Aug 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Elected officials show contempt when faced with just criticism
EDITOR: So Americans who entrust their votes to congressmen and senators and then hold them responsible for their campaign promises are “suicide bombers” and “terrorists,” according to Vice Pres...
Aug 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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