June 19, 2013
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Immigration, welfare policies clash
With the Supreme Court taking up Arizona’s “show me your papers” immigration law, we’re once again thrust into a useful debate over the role of the government and the obligations of the citizen — a...
May 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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LET’S VOTE Time to poll community on city-county merger
The voters should decide whether they are best served with city and county governments separate or merged into a single urban county government. The Paducah-McCracken County merger commission shoul...
May 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Reform Conservatism a clear winner
WASHINGTON — The last few years have been the most decisive and divisive ideological period since the early 1980s, perhaps since the late 1960s. Barack Obama has pursued Keynesian economics on a br...
May 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Confiscate Frankfort’s shovels before we’re deeper in debt
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — There’s a lot to “dig” about being a Kentuckian this time of the year. The bluegrass is blooming and the national spotlight soon will shine on the Kentucky Derby. But t...
Apr 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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No one in Washington apparently heard grim news on Social Security and Medicare
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune April 24: No, we won’t be sending donations to the Campaign for Primary Accountability, the political action committee that fights the hug...
Apr 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Second-term socks in Obama’s drawer
WASHINGTON — Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner arrived in the Oval Office bearing socks. President Obama had admired Wenner’s flashy pair on a previous visit, and this gift fit the bill: one pair...
Apr 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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LBJ biography is an engrossing read
WASHINGTON — Around noon on Saturday, Nov. 23, 1963, almost exactly 24 hours after the assassination in Dallas, while the president’s casket lay in the East Room of the White House, Arthur Schlesin...
Apr 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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STOPGAP Sports complex alternative at best a short-term fix
The county school chief has made an interesting proposal to the McCracken Fiscal Court. But it may be more about the county bailing out the schools than the other way around. Although Superinten...
Apr 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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ABUSED Social Security Disability becoming new welfare
Social Security is going broke. OK, that’s hardly a revelation. But it’s happening faster than previously thought. The Social Security Administration has revised its projections. In a report ...
Apr 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Corzine keeps Obama, Wall Street cozy
Jon Corzine left Goldman Sachs with a net worth far exceeding even that of Mitt Romney today. Many accounts of his tenure at Goldman suggest he “failed up” the corporate ladder. Pushed out of Go...
Apr 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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