May 22, 2013
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MISGUIDED Washington to blame for latest pain at pump
When you fill up your gas tank this summer and curse Big Oil for the high prices, your anger might be misdirected. Oh, there’s no denying the oil companies are making a tidy profit. But they are...
Mar 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ovarian cancer treatment deserves same attention given to breast cancer
The last thing someone diagnosed with a serious cancer wants to hear about is politics. It’s bad enough to think that whether or not you will live to see your child graduate from college may depend...
Mar 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Expectations play big role in success
A remarkable book titled “Gifted Hands” tells the personal story of Benjamin Carson, a black kid from the Detroit ghetto who went on to become a renowned neurosurgeon. At one time young Ben Cars...
Mar 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Marriage Act case of federal overreach
“Under the Constitution, the regulation and control of marital and family relationships are reserved to the states.” U.S. Supreme Court Sherrer v. Sherrer (1948) WASHINGTON — The Defense o...
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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BLUNDER PPS customers paying for board’s ambition
It may be that Paducah Power System customers 30 years from now will look back and applaud the board’s decision to drop TVA as its power supplier and invest in Prairie State Energy Campus. Not m...
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Catholic Church remains bulwark against the devaluing of human life
WASHINGTON — All things considered, I’d rather be in Rome. Isn’t everyone? Tout le journalism monde has descended on Rome since Pope Benedict XVI’s surprise retirement last month. The ensuing Va...
Mar 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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SHELL GAME Hagel uses missile shift as cover for sop to Russia
Chuck Hagel, fresh on the job as secretary of state after a bruising confirmation process, announced Friday that the U.S. is abandoning the final phase of its Eastern European missile defense syste...
Mar 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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U.S. alone in curbing oil exploration
While many have long seen America as the global bad boy, everybody likes Canada. If Uncle Sam tucks his pack of Marlboros under his T-shirt sleeve and plays by his own rules, the Canadian moose — o...
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America’s disengagement poses risks
WASHINGTON — Declining national influence is a choice, and America seems to be making it. What foreign policy practitioners politely call the “churn” of events is beginning to look more like cha...
Mar 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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DUBIOUS Murray State regents owe answers on Dunn
Constantine Curris has promised transparency in the search for a new president to lead Murray State University. Call us skeptical. The board of regents, which Curris chairs, was anything but tra...
Mar 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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