May 22, 2013
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OVERKILL Leash law unnecessary if existing law enforced
The McCracken County Fiscal Court, at the suggestion of Commissioner Jerry Beyer, is considering a countywide leash law like the city of Paducah’s. The city ordinance requires every dog to be kept ...
Mar 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fed’s monetary policy will end badly
RICHMOND, Va. — A display case in the lobby of the Federal Reserve Bank here might express humility. The case holds a 99.9 percent pure gold bar weighing 401.75 troy ounces. Minted in 1952, when th...
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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WORN THIN Obama sequester hysteria met by skeptical public
The Sequester Apocalypse Tour took President Obama to a Pentagon shipbuilding plant in Newport News, Va., Tuesday to warn about the dire consequences of the spending cuts that will officially go in...
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Spending to grow, even with sequester
We are just days away from a cataclysm of biblical proportions. The cuts foretold in the Budget Control Act of 2011 are young as far as prophecies go, but apparently they are every bit as terrifyin...
Feb 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Special Olympics catapulted human rights for intellectually disabled
WASHINGTON — On a rainy Saturday morning, in the packed gym at the Blessed Sacrament School in Northwest Washington, a parade of middle and high school basketball players, many with Down syndrome o...
Feb 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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DECIDED Clerk should accept rulings, get on with office’s business
McCracken County Clerk Jeff Jerrell sued the fiscal court and lost, twice. But he may not be done. He has 30 days to appeal, and he says the decision whether to try to take his case to the Kentu...
Feb 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Republicans must be open to change
WASHINGTON — In the summer of 1999, George W. Bush chose the first major policy speech of his presidential campaign to pick a fight with Grover Norquist. Bush flatly rejected the “destructive” view...
Feb 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Some feminist revolutionaries find grass not always greener with career
WASHINGTON — Now is the time for all good women to pay homage to Betty Friedan, who 50 years ago wrote the game-changing manifesto “The Feminine Mystique.” With that book, Friedan helped propel ...
Feb 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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SYMBOLIC Sen. Paul teaching lesson Washington slow to learn
Sen. Rand Paul has returned $600,000 in unused funds to the U.S. Treasury, about 20 percent of the funds allotted for his office. It topped the $500,000 he returned last year. “I ran to stop the...
Feb 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Republicans can one-up president with pro-growth jobs program
Finally. After weeks advocating for illegal immigrants, placing our daughters in combat, obsessing with gun control, and devising new gay rights, President Obama devoted the early moments of his St...
Feb 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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