May 22, 2013
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VETTING Voters served when candidates scrutinized
What’s wrong with a prolonged primary season? If liberals could have looked into the future just a couple of years, they might not have gotten so worked up over the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling i...
Mar 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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The flower chairman
When I was at the absolute pinnacle of my professional career, I was the flower chairman for the Miss Kansas-Miss Missouri Beauty Pageant. I was 14 years old. I had other friends with jobs, and ...
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SAINTS? Football bounty system should draw stiff penalties
The New Orleans Saints are anything but. When the Saints defeated the Indianapolis Colts to win their first Super Bowl in 2010, it was a great inspirational story. The team’s success came to sym...
Mar 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Farewell to the smartest man in the U.S.
WASHINGTON — The most accomplished social scientist of the last half-century would occasionally visit his friend and Harvard colleague Pat Moynihan at the White House when Moynihan was President Ni...
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Early predictions of Romney losing to Obama ignore too many factors
WASHINGTON — It is the temptation of the columnist to universalize the moment — to present transient trends as exceptional, predictive and permanent. A direction is presented as a destiny. A snapsh...
Mar 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Breitbart ever a fearless truth-teller
Andrew Breitbart’s heart was too big to fail, but it did anyway. If you don’t know who Breitbart was, you haven’t been paying attention. A conservative activist, entrepreneur, author, muckraker,...
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WEAKNESS Iran keeps calling president’s bluff
This is what President Obama says: “I think both the Iranian and the Israeli governments recognize that when the United States says it is unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, we mean wha...
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Limbaugh’s rant undercut real issue
WASHINGTON — Who’d have thought that Rush Limbaugh would become the great uniter in this divisive political season? Indeed, he has united decent people of all stripes and persuasions with his vi...
Mar 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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RESCUE? Animal rights extremists have a dirty little secret
PETA loves animals to death. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals got its paw caught in a trap, so to speak, with a devastating report on the organization’s wholesale slaughter of dogs an...
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Courts remain best way to curb abuses in long-term care facilities
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is in response to Ruby Joe Cummins Lubarsky’s commentary in The Paducah Sun on Feb. 27. Ms. Lubarsky, president of the Kentucky Association of Healthcare Facilities,...
Mar 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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