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PROVOCATION Group burns its bridges with Reidland flag display
The Paducah City Commission took the rare step Tuesday of voting to condemn a war memorial. But this is no ordinary war memorial. The Sons of Confederate Veterans plans to raise an enormous Conf...
May 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Press censors racially motivated attacks
When two white newspaper reporters for the Virginian-Pilot were driving through Norfolk, and were set upon and beaten by a mob of young blacks — beaten so badly that they had to take a week off fro...
May 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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FEC ignores potentially corrupting influence of unlimited campaign contributions
WASHINGTON — The prosecution has rested in a case that should never have been brought: the ghastly soap opera better known as the criminal trial of John Edwards. The testimony has been salacious, ...
May 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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OVERKILL: How many studies are enough?
The federal government recently released a study of a study of other studies and determined that more study might be needed. Only in Washington. Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson quipped on his T...
May 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bipartisanship no scarce commodity
WASHINGTON — Bipartisanship, the supposed scarcity of which so distresses the high-minded, actually is disastrously prevalent. Since 2001, it has produced No Child Left Behind, a counterproductive ...
May 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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CYNICAL DOJ ‘profiling’ probe about votes, not abuses
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is used to being in hot water. He thrives on it. The controversial sheriff from metropolitan Phoenix has garnered national publicity on many occasions, earning th...
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Romney bullied by mainstream media
Perhaps Mitt Romney played it right when he was meek and contrite in response to the Washington Post’s front-page allegations that he bullied a kid half a century ago in high school. Romney no d...
May 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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DIVERSE Bigger not always better  in economic development
The 13 jobs that Shoreline Steel expects to create in Paducah this year might not be enough to draw state officials from Frankfort for a photo op, but those jobs represent the best form of economic...
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DELIVERED Shorter hours better than alternative fix
Rural postal patrons probably never thought they’d be happy to hear their post offices are cutting back on hours of operation. But when the United States Postal Service announced last week that tho...
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A generational shift in cultural attitudes
WASHINGTON — Principled or calculating or a bit of both, President Obama's choice on gay marriage is a bet on the political future — a wager on the views and values of the millennial generation mak...
May 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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