June 20, 2013
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SERIOUS County zoning probe needs outside direction
The discovery that 500 or more properties in McCracken County may have been rezoned between 2007 and 2008 without going through the legal process is no minor snafu. At least one member of the Fisca...
May 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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It’s naive to think terrorism will end because president says war’s over
WASHINGTON — It’s good to know that the war on terror is finally over. It was all so ugly, what with the beheadings and bombings. Wait. Weren’t we just talking about the IRS targeting conser...
May 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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GOUGE Obama’s new air fare tax takes aim at middle class
The president, who has many times broken his promise not to raise taxes on the middle class, wants to violate that pledge again. This time it is with a new tax on airline tickets. President Obam...
May 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Texas takes a pass on doggy tort idea
WASHINGTON — Lord Byron was, according to one of his legion of lovers, “mad, bad and dangerous to know,” but he also loved dogs, which explains his cameo appearance in a recent Texas Supreme Court ...
May 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Chamber: 2013 session good for business
The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce claims it “provides leadership as a catalyst, consensus-builder and advocate to unite business and advance Kentucky.” One way it does so is by influencing “policyma...
May 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bullying of Apple CEO was shameful
We have truly entered the world of “Alice in Wonderland” when the CEO of a company that pays $16 million a day in taxes is hauled up before a Congressional subcommittee to be denounced on nationwid...
May 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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CURIOUS IRS stonewalling calls for special prosecutor
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune May 23: “If you refuse to answer, you will leave us no choice but to ask for a special counsel or the appointment of a special prosecutor ...
May 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bigger IRS threat waiting in wings
WASHINGTON — Let us stipulate that now might not be the best time — with IRS officials exposed for abusing power, caught in self-serving deceptions, invoking their constitutional right against self...
May 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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We must not neglect surviving vets who suffer ‘invisible war wounds’
On this Memorial Day, as we remember those who have died while serving in the United States Armed Forces, it is also a time to remember those who served and are still living. The military members a...
May 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Journalists forget First Amendment also protects freedom of religion
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peacea...
May 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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