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CHALLENGE France, Germany must keep focus on fiscal responsibility
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday, May 8: Sunday’s elections in France and Greece provided a jolting confirmation of some old verities. Such as: When times are b...
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Drone strikes a just defense
WASHINGTON — Scrolling through the headlines in The Long War Journal — a website dedicated to terrorism-related news — is an education in the global drone war. Mohammed Saeed al-Umda, one of Osama ...
May 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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U.S. should remain a beacon of freedom, protector of human rights
WASHINGTON — News that Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng and his family might be allowed to leave China for a university fellowship in the U.S. brought relief not only to Chen, but also to dissiden...
May 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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REVERSAL Illegal immigration down, still poses challenge
The following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News April 30: During the economic boom of the late 1990s, about 3 million Mexican immigrants entered the United States, the vast majority ...
May 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cynical politics a winner for Obama
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is the last of two columns on cynical politics. A small headline in the 2nd section of the Wall Street Journal last week told a bigger story than a lot of front page ban...
May 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Edelen deserves kudos for government transparency
Actor Ed Norton warned: “Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.” Unfortunately for Richie Farmer, star guard for the 1992 University of Kentucky Wildcats, a new r...
May 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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PINOCCHIO Fact checker needed in the White House
The president received four Pinocchios from The Fact Checker in the Washington Post Monday for what the newspaper called “Obama’s whopper about an Ohio River bridge.” The president should have k...
May 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Left sets sights on paring of rights
WASHINGTON — Controversies can be wonderfully clarified when people follow the logic of illogical premises to perverse conclusions. For example, two academics recently wrote in the British Journal ...
May 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gingrich made the race more interesting
Every four years, there is one presidential campaign that is much more fun to watch than the rest, even if it has no realistic chance of success. I loved watching Mike Huckabee four years ago. It w...
May 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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NOT DONE McCracken school system faces more hard choices
With 13 schools to operate, funding is going to be an issue for McCracken County Public Schools, regardless of what the future brings. But funding will become a huge issue if — or rather when — the...
May 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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