June 18, 2013
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Graduation, like life, can be hard
It is that time of year again. Some years ago, I was invited to speak at the graduation ceremonies of a liberal arts college. Later, many in the audience told me they expected a very political ...
May 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kentucky Democrats could use another Bert Combs in upcoming election
In the documentary “Bert Combs, Governor from the Mountains,” the late Thomas D. Clark, Kentucky’s most eminent historian, said Combs dragged Kentucky into the 20th century against its will. Sadly,...
May 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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REPRIEVE Lawmakers win battle to preserve fishing rights
Fishermen will have access to the headwaters and tailwaters of Barkley Dam for at least two more years — no thanks to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps stubbornly refused to reconsider...
May 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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ET TU, ERIC? AP finds sense of outrage now that own ox is gored
The Associated Press is righteously indignant. But why should it be? After dutifully carrying the Obama administration’s water through one scandal after another, faithfully giving credence to th...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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NLRB behavior reminiscent of Wallace
WASHINGTON — Early in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A. Raymond Randolph says: “Although the pa...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Offer brainwashed collegians a cure
This time of year, as college students return home for the summer, many parents may notice how many politically correct ideas they have acquired on campus. Some of those parents may wonder how they...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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BREACH Whatever its intentions, Infiniti failed to deliver
When Infiniti Plastics came to Paducah in 2004, the company promised to employ 106 workers by 2009. Four years past the deadline, the company has 20 employees. The fact that Infiniti failed to d...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Before fall term, students should arm selves with conservative classics
Rush Limbaugh frequently makes bombastic radio references to his Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. One wishing to learn about conservatism can occasionally glean a morsel of wisdom from ...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama ‘scandals’ little more than confluence of unfortunate distractions
WASHINGTON — Folks, deep breath time. This is not the end of the Obama presidency. It’s a bad stretch with an unfortunate confluence of unfortunate events. none of which will make the first paragra...
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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‘Trust government’ folly unmasked
WASHINGTON — Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates...
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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