June 18, 2013
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Watergate damaged American spirit
WASHINGTON — Forty years ago, all of America learned the name of a particular condominium, hotel and office complex along the Potomac in the nation’s capital. “Watergate” has been irrevocably ta...
Jun 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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‘Hope’ and ‘change’ a mirage to hide blatant class warfare
Among the people who are disappointed with President Obama, none has more reason to be disappointed than those who thought he was going to be “a uniter, rather than a divider” and that he would “br...
Jun 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Legislators strike gold in their taxpayer-funded pensions
For Kentucky legislators, the gold rush isn’t an historical phenomenon of sunny California’s past. It’s happening here and now in the Bluegrass State. That’s largely because of House Bill 299, a...
Jun 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Election may have big impact on court
WASHINGTON — Because judicial decisions have propelled American history, and because a long-standing judicial mistake needs to be rectified, the most compelling of the many reasons for electing Mit...
Jun 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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CONFLICT CCC board shouldn’t oversee probe of itself
The law firm hired for phase two of the investigation into the convention center embezzlement scheme is the same firm that conducted phase one. That much is known. What’s not so clear is who the...
Jun 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Neither Obama nor Romney an ‘ordinary American’ — thank goodness
WASHINGTON — Among the lessons of this presidential election season, perhaps most salient is that the so-called Ordinary American is dead. Or, should I say, the ordinary-American trope as politi...
Jun 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Same-sex marriage issue puts court in box on states’ rights question
One way or another, the issue of gay marriage seems squarely headed to the Supreme Court. Two federal appellate court decisions, one in Massachusetts and the other in California, have set the stage...
Jun 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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KNIFED Clinton undercut of Obama on economy no accident
The popular take on Bill Clinton’s recent habit undermining President Obama is that the former president is undisciplined, that he speaks without thinking, that he is getting old, sort of like the ...
Jun 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama flails, fails to walk back gaffe
The 1990 Italian film “Everybody’s Fine” is one of the most depressing films I’ve ever seen. Starring the late Marcello Mastroianni, it’s the story of an old man who tells his wife he’s going to vi...
Jun 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Elitism by any name a liberty threat
It bothers me a little when conservatives call Barack Obama a “socialist.” He certainly is an enemy of the free market and wants politicians and bureaucrats to make the fundamental decisions about ...
Jun 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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