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Letters to the editor: March 24, 2011
Small things make a big difference
To the Sun:
This act of human kindness really hit home for me, so I wanted to share it with others.
Tonight a truly remarkable thing happened to my 4-year-old son and I here in Winchester at Walmart.
In the news, we...Tags: Mike Huckabee, Career and Workplace, Politics, Ice Hockey, Glenn Beck
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Finally, someone proposes something about budget cuts
The formula is simple enough. Unsustainable debt plus unavailable revenue equals expense cuts. But we’re spoiled — addicted to borrowing, averse to taxes, ashamed to do without. On Wednesday, the morning after President Obama’s...Tags: Harry Reid, Budgets and Budgeting, Career and Workplace, Congressional Budget Office, Retirement
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McNay: Who will lead Kentucky next?
In 1980, David Broder wrote an influential book, “Changing of the Guard,” about the upcoming generation of leaders in Washington.
Bringing the concept 30 years later, I asked a number of Kentuckians in the political know: Who do they see...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Parties and Movements, Politics, Radio, Rand Paul
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The drug czar's visit
The numbers are staggering: We’re losing 82 Kentuckians a month to drug overdose, from the cities to rural areas in Appalachia. Nearly 1,000 of our fellow Kentuckians died from drug overdoses in 2009, more than those killed in traffic crashes....Tags: Gil Kerlikowske, Prescription Drugs, National Government, Politics, White House
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Patrick: Tea partisan goes to D.C.
Truth be told, if Dr. Rand Paul had not won his race for the United States Senate against all odds, I probably wouldn’t have read his book or written this column about it.
But he is a leader in one of the most fascinating political dramas of the...Tags: Constitutional Issues, Washington (U.S. state), Parties and Movements, National Government, George W. Bush
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Waters: How the Commerce Clause has grown
In a speech on the United States Senate floor, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., joked that the definition of the Constitution’s Commerce Clause had expanded so much during the past 70 years that “you can drive a truck through it now, it’s so big.&...Tags: Constitutional Issues, National Government, Fines, Chicago Housing Authority, Politics
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McConnell: The Ronald Reagan century
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor Feb. 3 in honor of the centennial of Ronald Reagan’s birth, which was Sunday.
This month, Americans across the country...Tags: Helmut Kohl, Berlin (Germany), Politics, History, White House
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Cross: Primary to reflect on Beshear
FRANKFORT (May 14) - Gov. Steve Beshear isn’t on the ballot in Tuesday’s primary election, but he has skin in the game — and not just because the Republican primary will decide his opponent in the Nov. 8 general election.
It now...Tags: Politics, Journalism, Tea Party Movement, Primaries, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama)
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Primary election wrap up
Grimes, Johnson win secretary-of-state primaries
Secretary of State Elaine Walker, appointed as Kentucky’s chief elections officer in January, was denied a full term when Alison Lundergan Grimes won the Democratic nomination for the job Tuesday....Tags: Politics, Primaries, Science and Technology, Financially Distressed Companies, Human Mishaps
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Former IRS commissioner 'dismayed' by inspector general's report
WASHINGTON -- The former top official of the Internal Revenue Service told senators Tuesday he was “dismayed and saddened” by an inspector general’s report detailing how, during his tenure as IRS commissioner, the agency...
Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Taxation, Barack Obama, Orrin Hatch
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Latest Missouri news, sports, business and entertainment
SEVERE WEATHER-WARNINGS More tornado alerts in wake of deadly twister MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Missouri is on the tornado warning list — specifically the central part of the state — in the wake of the deadly twister that hit a suburb of...Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Medicaid, Politics, Transportation Accidents, Insurance
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Report: Apple avoided billions in U.S. taxes on foreign income
This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details WASHINGTON -- Apple Inc. has used an elaborate web of offshore subsidiaries to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes on $44 billion in foreign income over the past four years,...
Tags: Barack Obama, Tim Cook, Personal Income, Politics, White House
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