May 19, 2013
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Mandatory sentences for teens dubious
WASHINGTON — In the summer of 1787, just 94 years after the Salem witch trials, as paragons of the Enlightenment such as James Madison, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin deliberated in the Co...
Apr 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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TOP-HEAVY Planned bureaucracy for new school troubling
The McCracken County School District plans to add six administrators when its new consolidated high school opens in fall 2013. Add, not move. Ordinarily when school systems consolidate school...
Apr 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Stay-the-course strategy Obama’s problem
“The choice in this election is between an economy that produces a growing middle class and that gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead, and an economy that continu...
Apr 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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ANOINTED Senate vote gets it right: Kentucky best hoops state
Sen. Mitch McConnell is known for his mastery of politics, admired by allies and feared by opponents. But what he did Tuesday was the piece de resistance. With little fanfare, the Senate minorit...
Apr 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama, Romney need to stop games, address meaningful women’s issues
WASHINGTON — The Mommy Wars are a conflict that is never really extinguished. It doesn’t take much, as Hilary Rosen discovered, for the embers to erupt. This mommy, for one, is tired of the stal...
Apr 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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CRUSADE EPA forgets its evidence in anti-fracking campaign
The Environmental Protection Agency appears determined to link fracking to groundwater contamination. But so far the evidence just won’t cooperate. The agency had to drop a lawsuit in Texas rece...
Apr 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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People don’t sort selves based on race
Apparently the soaring national debt and the threat of a nuclear Iran are not enough to occupy the government’s time, because the Obama administration is pushing to force Westchester County, N.Y., ...
Apr 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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WHO, ME? Obama on taxes: Do as I say, not as I do
Warren Buffett is not the only wealthy American who pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. Not that it’s the norm for high earners. Despite what President Obama would have you to believe, Buf...
Apr 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Judicial activism comes in 3 varieties
WASHINGTON — Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a Reagan appointee to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is a courtly Virginian who combines a manner as soft as a Shenandoah breeze with a keen inte...
Apr 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Students know nerds get things done
President Obama’s re-election largely hinges on his ability to play young voters for suckers — again — and whether Mitt Romney will let him. In 2008, Obama won the youth vote by better than a 2-...
Apr 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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