May 23, 2013
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‘Normalcy’ of bombing suspect chilling
WASHINGTON — The bomber went to prom. OK, alleged bomber. As to those who believe the definite article is missing from the sentence above — the prom — my teenaged daughters inform me that phrasi...
Apr 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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MOTIVE Whatever drove them, Boston bombers failed
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune April 21. Maybe, if the rest of us were on intimate terms with the Boston bombing suspect who survived, he would confide to us their motiv...
Apr 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Internment episode speaks to present
WASHINGTON — Two of the three most infamous Supreme Court decisions were erased by events. The Civil War and postwar constitutional amendments effectively overturned Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), ...
Apr 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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HANG UP Free cellphone program a monument to waste
The federal government says it can’t afford air traffic controllers, but it spends more than $2 billion a year giving away cellphones. Sen. Claire McCaskill wants to put a stop to it. The Missou...
Apr 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sophistry thick in immigration debate
Most laws are meant to stop people from doing something, and to penalize those who disregard those laws. More generally, laws are meant to protect the society from the law-breakers. But our immi...
Apr 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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TEETH Open meetings violations need tougher penalties
Murray State University Regent Susan Guess is recommending that the board of regents undergo training on the Kentucky Open Meetings Law to ensure there are no more evenings like March 14. That w...
Apr 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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IN TROUBLE An Obamacare architect says it’s a ‘train wreck’
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a $3 million advertising contract to sell Obamacare to the American people. According to Advertising Age magazine, the advertising firm Weber...
Apr 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Overcoming tragedy a communal task
WASHINGTON — The sense of helplessness that follows a tragedy is too much for us. So we fill the silence after the sirens with explanations. This is very human — until it becomes inhuman. For so...
Apr 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Failed gun restrictions’ biggest fault: they didn’t go far enough
WASHINGTON — The way to stay sane in this city is never to expect too much. So the soothing mantras of the capital involve admonitions about the art of the possible, the perfect and the good, th...
Apr 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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‘Political courage’ should be more than a cheesy catch-phrase
Several years ago I found myself at a cheese-making operation in Wisconsin. While I had not traveled to the Badger State explicitly to observe Asiago delicacies being turned from fusty, amorphou...
Apr 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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