May 20, 2013
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Voting Rights Act has outlived purpose
WASHINGTON — Progressives are remarkably uninterested in progress. Social Security is 78 years old and myriad social improvements have added 17 years to life expectancy since 1935, yet progressives...
Mar 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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CPAC’s hard line not helpful to GOP
What can you do with a man like Chris Christie? The answer, according to many with the conservative movement: Throw him overboard. And while we’re at it, let’s toss the gays over the side too. ...
Mar 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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TREASURE Columbia Theatre worth effort to restore
The Columbia Theatre has been empty and neglected for a quarter century. But it has not deteriorated past the point of restoration. So now is no time to give up. The Columbia is a treasure worth pr...
Mar 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rule by elites often leads to disaster
John Stuart Mill’s classic essay “On Liberty” gives reasons why some people should not be taking over other people’s decisions about their own lives. But Professor Cass Sunstein of Harvard has give...
Mar 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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