May 23, 2013
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INSPIRED Great stories accompanied Louisville’s hoops success
The University of Louisville’s defeat of the University of Michigan in the NCAA championship game was one of the most exciting victories in tournament history. But this year’s national champs will ...
Apr 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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MYTH Idea oil companies get sweet tax deal debunked
President Obama has called special tax breaks to Big Oil “inexcusable.” “I am asking that you eliminate this oil industry giveaway right away,” he said last year. “You can either stand up for th...
Apr 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Protecting sources often necessary
In a hearing earlier this week, the judge presiding over the trial in Colorado of accused mass murderer James Holmes deferred deciding whether Fox News reporter Jana Winter should be forced into th...
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‘Iron Lady’ turned back socialist tide
WASHINGTON — She had the eyes of Caligula and the lips of Marilyn Monroe. So said Francois Mitterrand, the last serious socialist to lead a major European nation, speaking of Margaret Thatcher, who...
Apr 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thatcher, like Reagan, showed that being underestimated can be useful
In 1975, when asked to explain why Margaret Thatcher was poised to take over the Tory Party, the irascible British satirist Malcolm Muggeridge replied that it was all due to television — and the fa...
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BALANCE County on right path with tweaks to dog law
The McCracken County Fiscal Court is taking the right approach by strengthening the county’s animal control ordinance rather than imposing a city-style leash law. The fiscal court’s approach would ...
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Nations that abuse women usually same ones that threaten world peace
NEW YORK — The striking juxtaposition of the preternaturally perfect Angelina Jolie, waifish and wispy in a ghostly gown, and the scrappy Pakistani schoolgirl Malala, her face cruelly misshapen by ...
Apr 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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STAGNANT Federal policy behind chronic unemployment
The unemployment rate dropped to 7.6 percent in March, the lowest since George W. Bush occupied the White House. But the current occupant isn’t boasting about the jobless rate. That’s because it...
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U.S. shouldn’t show its hand on Korea
Since when has it been considered smart to tell your enemies what your plans are? Yet there on the front page of the April 8th New York Times was a story about how unnamed “American officials” w...
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School choice gets big win in Indiana
WASHINGTON — The school choice movement — which germinated 50 years ago in free-market economist Milton Friedman’s fertile mind — recently counted its largest victory. The Indiana Supreme Court una...
Apr 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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