May 23, 2013
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Lawmakers need to commit to schedule on making up pension deficit, stick to it
Kentucky’s public employees — past, present and future — deserve a secure retirement. Yet Kentucky has one of the worst-funded retirement plans in the country with a total unfunded liability in the...
Mar 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Paul’s filibuster sent a strong message to Obama
What began as a simple, straightforward question on Wednesday concerning the White House’s secret drone program eventually turned into the boldest stance taken by any lawmaker — whether from Washin...
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Social scientists’ skewed data aside, America still the land of opportunity
Most people are not even surprised any more when they hear about someone who came here from Korea or Vietnam with very little money, and very little knowledge of English, who nevertheless persevere...
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ABUSIVE Lawmakers should step up, rescind pension cash grab
With two days left in this year’s regular session of the Kentucky General Assembly, lawmakers haven’t reached an agreement on how to reform the state’s public employee pension system. Heck, they co...
Mar 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Government runs amok over pastry
WASHINGTON — Rodney Francis is insufficiently ambitious. The pastor of the Washington Tabernacle Baptist Church in St. Louis has entered the fray over guns, violence and humanity’s fallen nature wi...
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Sen. Paul’s filibuster gives growing civil liberties complacency needed jolt
I’m not your usual Rand Paul fan. But intellectual honesty is a pretty refreshing trait in Washington, and in this case, it had the added attraction of being a much-needed jolt to a sort of complac...
Mar 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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NIMBYS Wind energy is great if it’s somewhere else
When the environmentally conscious city of Falmouth, Mass., wanted to prove it was on the cutting edge of clean energy use, the city erected two wind turbines in the city in 2010 and 2011. Last ...
Mar 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Greatest generation the most entitled
One thing nearly everybody agrees upon is that the “sequester” is a silly sideshow to the real challenge facing America: unsustainable spending on entitlements. Ironies abound. Democrats, with larg...
Mar 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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JOB BOOST Obama can’t justify further Keystone delay
The State Department again finds itself at odds with the green faction of the president’s supporters over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The department has just released a supplemental envir...
Mar 08, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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President banking on alarm over cuts
Back in my teaching days, many years ago, one of the things I liked to ask the class to consider was this: Imagine a government agency with only two tasks: (1) building statues of Benedict Arnold a...
Mar 08, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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