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LIFE MATTERS: When you can't say it, sing it
She was struggling to tell me something but her words wouldn’t come. All she could do was mumble and that only with great frustration. I was holding her hand, trying as best I could to comfort her in her agitation. “Could you come to the...
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Ragan Clark named Clark County's first Distinguished Young Woman
Chances are, said Ragan Clark, someone suffering from a gunshot wound to the brain would not survive, but about a week ago, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., walked onto the House floor to cast her vote on the debt ceiling.
Clark, named the 2012 —...Tags: Teaching and Learning, George Rogers, Elections, India, Crime, Law and Justice
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Chandler visits newly expanded Mercer library
eruehs@amnews.comHARRODSBURG — During a tour of Mercer County’s Public Library on Tuesday, Congressman Ben Chandler was impressed when library director Robin Ison told him the facility, which was recently expanded, brings in around 400 patrons a day. “...Tags: Mass Media, Fox Broadcasting Company, Politics, Kentucky, Ben Chandler
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In defense of vitriol - somebody's got to say it
Journal columnistIn the wake of the Tucson, Ariz., shooting tragedy, some members of Congress, citing “vitriol,” are calling for legislation to “tone down the rhetoric” of our political debates. The problem is how do you define vitriol? When...Tags: Minority Groups, Sociology, Elections, Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice
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McConnell talks Arizona shootings, politics during Chamber/Rotary luncheon
jkleppinger@jessaminejournal.comU.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell made a stop in Nicholasville Monday during a brief stint away from the nation’s capital. The Senate Minority Leader spoke to a crowd of several hundred in the RJ Corman Railroad Group’s hangar during a lunch...Tags: Voting, Politics, Elections, Tucson, Arizona
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In defense of vitriol: Someone has to say it
Contributing columnistIn the wake of the Tucson shooting tragedy, some members of Congress, citing “vitriol,” are calling for legislation to “tone down the rhetoric” of our political debates. But how do you define vitriol? When King George III was...Tags: Minority Groups, Sociology, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Republican Party
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Spiritual ensemble was moving
Centre College offered a wonderful concert with the American Spiritual Ensemble to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I was so moved (literally and figuratively) by the music the ensemble sang. As I was leaving the concert, this thought crossed my...Tags: Martin Luther King Day, Education, Colleges and Universities, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Miller: Call to civic and civil action
The tragedy in Tucson has unleashed an absurdly hypocritical spectacle: Hyper-partisan pols, cable TV screaming heads and the blogosphere’s ideological flamethrowers, all decrying political vitriol. As a classmate of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a...Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Nobel Prize Awards, Oklahoma, Mass Media, Kentucky
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Patrick: Restore civility
Since the tragedy in Tucson on Saturday, there has been endless talk about violent rhetoric in the media and how it may be contributing to actual violence by people who come unhinged.
I don’t know whether Tucson shooter Jared Loughner’s anti-...Tags: Oklahoma, Harvard University, Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky, Facebook
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