May 19, 2013
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Politicians act like kids chasing a ball
If you are driving along and suddenly see a big red rubber ball come bouncing out into the street, you might want to put your foot on the brake pedal, because a small child may well come running ou...
May 08, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Indecision on Syria boxes president in
WASHINGTON — On Syria, President Obama has sometimes seemed isolated within his own administration. As the atrocities have escalated — from the shelling of neighborhoods, to airstrikes on bread lin...
May 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Self-defeating public policy holds Kentucky back in economic horse race
Kentucky does some things brilliantly. Basketball, Bluegrass music, bourbon, and thoroughbreds are among the best examples. These are big businesses, but also forms of amusement and diversion....
May 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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IDEOLOGUE Poll: Obama, Americans at odds over Keystone XL
Pressure is mounting on President Obama to reverse his 2012 campaign-season decision blocking construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. A comprehensive new poll shows a healthy majority of both Ame...
May 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Universities indoctrinate rather than teach students to think for themselves
While it is not possible to answer all the e-mails and letters from readers, many are thought-provoking, whether those thoughts are positive or negative. An e-mail from one young man simply aske...
May 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jim Waters
Sen. McConnell right to press EPA for timely action
During recent stops in Pikeville and Hazard, Sen. Mitch McConnell took aim at the Environmental Protection Agency’s rope-a-dope policy that Kentucky’s senior senator rightly describes as an “illegi...
May 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Court should swat ticket tax bite reg
“The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.” — James Madison Federalist 48 WASHINGTON — But under tod...
May 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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JOE CITIZEN Ultimately, that’s what elected officials should be
Paducah Mayor Gayle Kaler apologized last week to City Commissioner Allan Rhodes for calling him an “ordinary Joe Citizen.” Why apologize? It was a compliment. Not that she meant it that way....
May 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama’s wishy-washy tap dances embolden foes in Congress, abroad
WASHINGTON — To be a good president requires the combined skills of chess master and middle school teacher. The chess master president possesses the ability to think several steps ahead. To take...
May 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jason Collins is first gay pro athlete to come out; there are surely more
It is almost unbelievable that this is a first. But it is. Jason Collins is the first male athlete playing in a major sport to “come out.” Yes — the first in any of the five major leagues. ...
May 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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