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States with nuclear power plants are grappling with a highly unusual conundrum. The plants are running significant operating losses, but allowing them to be shut down would, paradoxically, significantly increase electric bills, because new energy sources to replace them would be considerably more expensive.
September 17, 2016
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Phil Kerpen
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We might as well be watching a 30-car pile-up the way Americans are holding hands over their eyes trying to avoid the grisly bits of the most grotesque presidential race we have witnessed in this, the second decade of the 21st Century. Of course, it's only the 2nd election during that time, but still.
September 15, 2016
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Will Durst
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Does time really change people?
September 15, 2016
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Joseph Cotto
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Columnists
It was early in the summer. The phone rang. The caller I.D. read, "Publishers' Clearing House."
September 14, 2016
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Judi Tabler
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Columnists
It's after Labor Day.
September 14, 2016
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Michael Reagan
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Ah, the campaign season.
September 14, 2016
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Tom Purcell
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Columnists
In her recent address at the Jackson Hole monetary policy conference, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen suggested that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates by the end of the year. Markets reacted favorably to Yellen's suggested rate increase. This is surprising, as, except for one small increase last year, the Federal Reserve has not followed through on the numerous suggestions of rate increases that Yellen and other Fed officials have made over the past several years.
September 13, 2016
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Ron Paul
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If Wells Fargo was focused on bank charges and interest rates rather than political hot button issues, perhaps they wouldn't have had to fire thousands of employees for ripping off customers and be liable for millions in fines.
September 13, 2016
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Susan Stamper Brown
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What we learned from the "Commander-in-Chief" exercise the other night is: (a) neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump is fastidious about facts, (b) Matt Lauer is a nice guy but not up to presidential politics, and (c) voters expecting better in the "real" debate Sept. 26, should not hold their breaths.
September 12, 2016
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Peter Funt
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Columnists
So who's winning the Commander-in-Chief Election?
September 12, 2016
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John L. Micek
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Columnists
How refreshing it is, after weeks and months of faux Clinton Foundation "scandals," after all the fatuous media talk about "optics" and "perceptions," to finally have a real Foundation scandal to chew on. An actual example of pay-to-play, of money given and a favor granted. And it comes to us courtesy of Donald Trump.
September 10, 2016
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Dick Polman
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"Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials' correspondence be retained as part of the agency's record," Michael S. Schmidt wrote in his now-famous March 2, 2015, New York Times article.
September 10, 2016
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Joseph Cotto
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"Glory days, well, they'll pass you by/Glory days, in the wink of a young girl's eye/But fork over $125 and sign this waiver/and, my friend, you're still The Guy." (With apologies to Bruce Springsteen.)
September 08, 2016
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Danny Tyree
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Columnists
What's the next "big idea?"
September 08, 2016
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Rick Jensen
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Columnists
God bless America, and how's everybody?
September 07, 2016
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Argus Hamilton
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