May 22, 2013
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God, guns, gays stereotype withering
Just because things can be put on the same list doesn’t mean they are necessarily similar. My attic contains within it thousands of comic books, an inflatable bed, some jigsaw puzzles, some family ...
Mar 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Report should be a GOP wake-up call
WASHINGTON — Recent brutal attacks on the GOP have claimed that minorities often think that “Republicans do not like them or want them in the country.” That younger voters are “rolling their eyes a...
Mar 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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HANDOUT Stumbo holding the bag in pay for no work row
Dennis Horlander is paid to review state government contracts. Someone needs to review his. The Democratic state representative from Louisville and co-chairman of the Government Contract Review ...
Mar 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Public defenders play vital role in protecting constitutional rights
This is a special time to honor the foundational right to counsel. In a criminal case, counsel protects “the fundamental human rights of life and liberty.” Our Sixth Amendment right to counsel “...
Mar 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Regulators steer state’s economy in wrong direction
When it comes to barbershops, moving companies and food vendor trucks, Kentucky regulators have a curious penchant for shielding established businesses from fresh competition. A recent Institute...
Mar 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Term limits alone inadequate plan for eliminating career politicians
The main thing wrong with the term limits movement is the “s” at the end of the word “limit.” What are advocates of term limits trying to accomplish? If they are trying to keep government from b...
Mar 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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SETBACK GOP, state hurt by corruption allegations
As Republicans chipped away at Democratic hegemony in Frankfort over the past two decades, they did so in part by promising to clean up the cronyism and corruption that permeated state government. ...
Mar 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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GOP needs to address substance first
WASHINGTON — Because of the grotesquely swollen place the presidency now occupies in the nation’s governance and consciousness, we are never not preoccupied with presidential campaigning. The Const...
Mar 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Conservative, libertarian ideas overlap
“At CPAC, the Future Looks Libertarian,” read a dispatch on Time magazine’s website. “CPAC: Rand Paul’s Big Moment,” proclaimed The Week magazine. Meanwhile, the New York Times headlined its story ...
Mar 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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HACKS House playing games with redistricting plan
The gerrymandered redistricting plan approved by the Kentucky House of Representatives in this year’s regular session would pit 1st District Rep. Steven Rudy against 2nd District Rep. Richard Heath...
Mar 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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