May 25, 2013
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TVA INC? Obama budget contains unexpected proposal
President Obama’s 2014 budget calls for privatizing the Tennessee Valley Authority. It is a reasonable idea, which we support. The president’s spending plan calls for “reducing or eliminating” t...
Apr 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama voucher plan would allow more hunger relief with same dollars
WASHINGTON — Since the Eisenhower administration, the United States generally has done food aid in a certain way: grow and pack it in America, ship it across the world on American-flagged ships, th...
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Freedom, safety can be a trade-off
I’m from Boston. Over the years, I lived in two apartments within a stone’s throw of Monday’s bombings. Over the years, I stood and cheered marathon runners countless times. I know every square inc...
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INFLEXIBLE Army Corps of Engineers forgets who it works for
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reflects a hubris all too common in government with its stubborn refusal to either alter its plans to barricade the headwaters and tailwaters of Barkley Dam or just...
Apr 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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As terrorist events multiply, challenge is not to accept them as ordinary
WASHINGTON — You know the feeling. You wake up filled with dread but, still groggy, you can’t put your finger on the reason. Possibilities flitter across the landscape of near-consciousness: An ...
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Regulators a source of hidden taxation
WASHINGTON — The regulatory, administrative state, which progressives champion, is generally a servant of the strong, for two reasons. It responds to financially powerful and politically sophistica...
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Nothing in Senate gun proposal would have stopped Newtown tragedy
WASHINGTON — The biggest obstacle to the Obama administration’s push for tighter gun control may be its own best argument: Newtown. This is because nothing proposed in the gun control debates wo...
Apr 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gun control just disarms good guys
Amid all the heated, emotional advocacy of gun control, have you ever heard even one person present convincing hard evidence that tighter gun control laws have in fact reduced murders? Think abo...
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CAN’T WAIT Prompt re-use decision a must if USEC departs
The U.S. Department of Energy needs to make a decision quickly about what to do with the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant if USEC, the current operator, elects to walk away. USEC could end uraniu...
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THUGS Dems bug McConnell and he’s the bad guy?
In any political race, campaign staff find the strangest statements potential opponents have ever made to use against them in the campaign. It’s ugly but effective. And every candidate does it. ...
Apr 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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