May 24, 2013
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RIGHT IDEA Improper zone changes merit outside review
McCracken County Sheriff Jon Hayden is correct when he says that a disinterested third party ­ should investigate whether hundreds of county properties were rezoned illegally between 2007 and 2008....
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Benghazi ‘fog’ served political ends
WASHINGTON — In some cases, the fog of war is initially thick, then dissipates. Following the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens...
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Identity politics selectively off limits
At an investment conference last week, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson created a huge mess for himself. He glibly speculated that maybe because economist John Maynard Keynes was a childless, “effe...
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RETHINK Wilson should relinquish seat on city commission
We agree that the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce made an excellent choice when it selected Sandra Wilson as its new president. We do not, however, agree with the chamber and Wilson herself that i...
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Thinking adults back Plan B for teens
WASHINGTON — As a mom, I can’t help but cringe. As a thinking adult, I can’t help but reconsider. I’m referring to the continuing controversy over making emergency contraceptives available, w...
May 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Grimes really can’t make a case for why she should replace McConnell
If Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, a Democrat, decides to run against incumbent Republican Mitch McConnell for the U.S. Senate next year, her announcement might go something li...
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MUM DOE’s lack of clarity on plant efforts frustrating
It’s frustrating when a federally funded project is held up for no other reason than political gamesmanship or bureaucratic indifference. Especially to the workers whose livelihood depends on it. ...
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GROUNDED NASA a shadow of its former self
NASA has become like the poor sap who has to hitch a ride to work because he can no longer start his clunker, which sits on blocks in the yard. With the space shuttles retired and nothing to rep...
May 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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These days one must embrace identity politics to ‘qualify’ as minority
WASHINGTON — Enough with this “enough” business. Latest to the question of whether a person is sufficiently identifiable as belonging to a particular demographic is Ted Cruz — the conservative T...
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Winning House Obama’s driving focus
WASHINGTON — Thirty-one months ago Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell affronted the media and other custodians of propriety by saying something common-sensical. On Oct. 23, 2010, he said: “The ...
May 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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