June 20, 2013
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Surrogate causing president headaches
Watching Bill Clinton act as Barack Obama’s “No. 1 surrogate,” in the words of National Public Radio, is as exquisitely painful as watching a runaway monkey with a paintball gun at a museum. Mos...
Jun 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Visit to old country reminder of why grandparents risked so much to leave
I have never seen so many mirrors in a hotel room before. Even the nightstands are mirrored. The switches for the lights aren’t switches but lighted panels. There is not an iron to be found. I am a...
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DEADBEAT Overextended Illinois dodging bill collectors
Illinois has an $8.5 billion backlog of overdue bills to be paid. And that’s an improvement. It was $1.3 billion higher before lawmakers trimmed the budget. Some vendors who are still waiting fo...
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Dominoes starting to fall on Obama
WASHINGTON — For the past year, we’ve been relentlessly reminded that Republicans didn’t especially love their front-running presidential candidate. Mitt Romney wasn’t conservative enough, they ...
Jun 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Plaza fountain color giving downtowners the blues
EDITOR: I’ve got a serious case of the blues. No, my baby didn’t leave me and my dog didn’t die. It’s worse than all that. Working downtown gives me a front-row seat to one of the most heinou...
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Local golf event has raised thousands for abused children
EDITOR: Sunrise Children’s Services would like to extend a very sincere thank you to Ken Hunt and A&K Construction for their continued sponsorship of the annual golf event that benefits the vict...
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ASSAULT Obama making good on pledge to kill coal
The president hasn’t kept all his promises, but he’s trying to make good on at least one: bankrupting the coal industry. In a 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, then-candidate Bara...
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Frauds committed by redefining words
Would anyone work to support themselves or their families — and then turn over a chunk of that hard-earned money to somebody else, just because of the words used by that somebody else? A few peo...
Jun 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ignore Newspeak: ‘Obamacare’ pushing us in wrong direction
To politicians fluent in Orwellian “Newspeak,” it’s known as the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (PPACA). But you and I know it more accurately as “Obamacare,” the controversial piece ...
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‘Defriending’ Canada on energy is not in our national interest
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — U.S. energy policies — specifically President Obama’s delay of a decision pending further environmental impact study for a part of the Keystone Pipeline — are pushing Canada into...
Jun 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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