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Quotes of Note
“He has been a public servant for a long time. I respect him and the time he has put in, but I am looking forward to being the next mayor of Paducah.” Mayoral candidate Gayle Kaler commenting ...
May 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Republicans should take a page out of history to argue lower tax rates
Democrats have been having a field day with the cry of “tax cuts for the rich” — for which Republicans seem to have no reply. This is especially surprising, because Democrats made the same argument...
May 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Frankfort, like France, trying to spend its way to prosperity
Americans paying even cursory attention to what’s happening on the other side of the Atlantic are about to get a stark reminder of an economic principle that too often gets pushed to the side — esp...
May 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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BAD VIBES Campaign can’t spin president’s poor showing
President Obama had a bad showing in the Democratic primary in Arkansas Tuesday. The other candidate on the ballot, a political unknown from Tennessee, took 42 percent of the vote. Two weeks ear...
May 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Roberts’ spine given liberal squeeze
WASHINGTON — In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism’s first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, “I could carve out...
May 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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America doesn’t want Europe’s woes
“This is not a distraction, this is what this campaign is going to be about,” President Obama said Monday at the NATO summit. The “this” in question is Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital and what...
May 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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HYPERBOLE It should be ‘game over’ for climate alarmists
Global warming celebrity James Hansen has issued another apocalyptic warning. And he doesn’t shrink from the term: “If this sounds apocalyptic, it is” Hansen wrote in a recent op-ed on global warmi...
May 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lies the lifeblood of welfare state politics
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy th...
May 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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RECONCILE County, Humane Society should work together again
McCracken County officials are learning that running an animal shelter is an expensive undertaking. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, the county anticipates the shelter will cost more than a...
May 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Growing addiction to electronic devices makes powering down a challenge
WASHINGTON — Google executive Eric Schmidt offered some seemingly simple advice in his commencement address at Boston University last weekend: “Take one hour a day and turn that thing off.” This...
May 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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