June 18, 2013
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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 ...
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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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Romney struggles to bridge gender gap
WASHINGTON — Outsourcing the job to his wife isn’t going to solve Mitt Romney’s problem with women voters. Although that does seem to be the candidate’s first instinct. As when Romney, asked las...
Apr 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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KILLJOYS Shale gas, oil jobs boom attracts predictable foes
The United States has a natural gas glut. That’s a good problem to have. Hydraulic fracturing — “fracking” — technology has opened access to previously untapped shale gas deposits. The country n...
Apr 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Legalization of drugs has pros and cons
WASHINGTON — Amelioration of today’s drug problem requires Americans to understand the significance of the 80/20 ratio. Twenty percent of American drinkers consume 80 percent of the alcohol sold he...
Apr 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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MISLEADING Jobless rate alone doesn’t tell real story
The unemployment rate dropped to 8.2 percent in March, the lowest it’s been since January 2009, the month when President Obama was inaugurated. But stocks fell on Monday, and analysts attributed...
Apr 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama’s energy policy not ‘all-of-above’
In his speech before the Newspaper Association of America/American Society of News Editors, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney accused the president of changing positions to get re-elected...
Apr 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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CAN’T WIN Global warming solved: Clean Air Act blamed
Scientists think they’ve discovered the culprit in increased hurricane activity in the Atlantic: clean air over America. The British scientists whose peer-reviewed study is published in the late...
Apr 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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