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<title>Government against the people.</title>
<description><![CDATA[RATIONAL Americans balk at thinking the worst of their government. Surely, they reason, the people with whom I disagree mean well. They wouldnt actually try to suppress my political views.Would they.The Internal Revenue Services acknowledgement that it did...]]></description>
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<title>Suddenly, a slow explosion of color</title>
<description><![CDATA[AFTER what seemed like five straight months of winter, the dead of night was cold and silent. Spring had sprung, the Weather Channel assured us, but there was little sign of it.And then it happened.Sunrise was hours away. The alarm clock had not gone off. ...]]></description>
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<title>Entitlement undercuts education</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I am glad to see the Legislature sidle up to the states second most spectacular failure - public education. (Its related to the first most spectacular, which is poverty.) Good people are working hard to cut through a thicket of sta...]]></description>
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<title>Ill stick with the Founding Fathers</title>
<description><![CDATA[I admit it. I fear for the United States. The elegant, high-minded Constitution, with its soaring guarantees of individual liberty and its careful curbing of government power, is under attack by many people. My unease began when Republican Sen. John McCain...]]></description>
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<title>Heres to a fiscally sane 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- AMERICANS set aside workaday concerns between Christmas and New Years Day. Its a time for warmth of family, not worry. This year, though, a creepy sense of unreality crept in.It came through on two levels.The first lay in endless r...]]></description>
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<title>W.Va. policymakers can do this</title>
<description><![CDATA[AS Daily Mail Managing Editor Brad McElhinny noted recently, West Virginia is hostile to non-natives. The states insular political class - natives only - also has a bad habit of patrolling its borders and dispatching fresh policy approaches as if they were...]]></description>
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<title>What would Jefferson say today.</title>
<description><![CDATA[IT seems to me that whats wrong with America today stems from what can be summed up in a word - shortsightedness. Politicians promise us things to get our votes today and leave office knowing that their successors will have to tax our children to pay for t...]]></description>
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<title>What is happening to America.</title>
<description><![CDATA[COLUMNIST Thomas Sowell has come closer than anyone else to defining what this election is about. Its not just about the economy.Its about liberty as well - &quot;being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on ones way of li...]]></description>
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<title>Tis the season of our discontent</title>
<description><![CDATA[I do not pretend to understand Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored enterprises that politicians pushed to make home ownership possible for more people. I will no longer pretend that understanding is possible.Consider: Federal policy caused...]]></description>
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<title>Are Dems about working people.</title>
<description><![CDATA[PRESIDENT Obama sawed away recently on one of the Democratic Partys tattier strings: &quot;Tax the rich.&quot; This mantra is essential to Democrats because they cant sock it to working people, where the real money is, without hitting &quot;the rich&quot; ...]]></description>
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<title>Tuesdays votes clarify matters</title>
<description><![CDATA[THE Democratic Party has spent decades catering to organized labor and public employees to get votes, and for a long time, this has been a comfortable arrangement. Its become an article of faith - an integral part of what it means to be a Democrat.When Wes...]]></description>
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<title>Manchin, Tomblin create uncertainty lot of uncertainty going around</title>
<description><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, the most popular governor the state has ever had, said in April that he isnt sure whether he will vote for President Obama in November. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, the savvy former state Senate president who replaced Manchin as governor, ...]]></description>
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<title>W.Va. voters affect the Senate</title>
<description><![CDATA[DEMOCRAT Joe Manchin, one of the states most effective governors ever, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010 after the death of Robert C. Byrd. Manchin beat Republican challenger John Raese by about a 10 percentage-point margin - 53,300 votes.This fall, M...]]></description>
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<title>Oh, for crying out loud, growth</title>
<description><![CDATA[DEMOCRATS in the White House, the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate gave Americans another entitlement program -- health care -- that it turns out will cost working people close to $2 trillion more over the next 10 years. Democrats also gave us ...]]></description>
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<title>Right-to-work states work better</title>
<description><![CDATA[IN 23 states - Indiana is the latest to join the club - government lets workers decide for themselves whether they want to join a union and pay dues. Want to. You can.Dont want to. The state wont compel you to join or pay dues.West Virginia is not one of t...]]></description>
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<title>Thanks, Raese, for making it a race</title>
<description><![CDATA[WHEN Morgantown businessman John Raese, a longtime Republican activist, announced that he would once again challenge popular Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin this fall, the talking heads focused immediately on the &quot;once again.&quot; There was a ho-hum qual...]]></description>
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<title>Are we going to West Virginia this.</title>
<description><![CDATA[WEST Virginia has, in shale gas, an opportunity to change the fortunes of individuals, communities and state government itself. When youre 49th in per capita income, your communities are crumbling in front of your eyes, and your state government faces at l...]]></description>
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<title>Seniors need to vote for children</title>
<description><![CDATA[AMERICANS, like Europeans, have been living in a politically constructed fantasy world. Sympathetic, smiling glad-handers politicians seeking re-election have promised us generous benefits.All the while, of course, they have been saddling us with fatal lev...]]></description>
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<title>The mad world of school lunches</title>
<description><![CDATA[YOU can lead a horse to water, said our elders, but you cant make it drink. Well, it turns out the federal government can direct every school in the country to serve good nutritional choices, but the result is the same:You cant make students eat it.They re...]]></description>
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<title>The first 9/11 decade is behind us </title>
<description><![CDATA[THE image of a Boeing 767 slicing into one tower of the World Trade Center in New York on a beautiful fall day caused horror. The image of the second 767 slicing into the second tower clarified matters.It was an attack, not an accident. Then the plane went...]]></description>
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<title>What are Democrats trying to do.</title>
<description><![CDATA[IT was the kind of week - one bombshell after another - that should make the American people angry, and it got downright puzzling in the end. Are Democrats in touch with reality. What in the heck are they trying to do.To themselves.After Democratic opposit...]]></description>
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<title>The future belongs to the nimble</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Twenty years ago, the overwhelming majority of the American public followed the politics of their own states to some extent, plus a bit of national and international news.  But policy developments in other states were off the radar scr...]]></description>
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<title>We dont talk about right to work</title>
<description><![CDATA[POLITICAL choices have economic consequences - really big ones. A series of columns in the Wall Street Journal in the last month shed light on one of those choices - states posture toward union membership.A little history: Late in 2009, in the middle of th...]]></description>
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<title>These are accomplished people</title>
<description><![CDATA[ALTHOUGH the candidates had their game faces on for the Daily Mails editorial board, they were a road-weary lot. The primary election campaign to choose candidates for the Oct. 4 governors race had been grueling. The eight Republicans and six Democrats had...]]></description>
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<title>What do W.Va. Dems stand for.</title>
<description><![CDATA[THE liberal wing of the Democratic Party, in control of both houses of Congress in the middle of the Great Recession, pursued gargantuan bailouts and created a vast new health care entitlement program. Normally sensible Democrats went along out of party lo...]]></description>
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<title>Charleston Daily Mail: Liberals have truly grand plans </title>
<description><![CDATA[YOU gotta hand it to liberals. They think on a truly grandiose scale. They have vast plans for everything. Troubled by rising health care costs.Perhaps because they cant fund existing budget-busters like Medicare and Medicaid, liberal Democrats designed a ...]]></description>
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<title>Weve been on a disastrous path</title>
<description><![CDATA[What Americans needed was a lotmore growth, notmore governmentIN April 1994, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., told an Associated Press gathering of West Virginia editors and reporters:&quot;Were going to push through health care reform, regardless of the vie...]]></description>
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<title>Senator on a very short string</title>
<description><![CDATA[IN June, Gov. Joe Manchin  created a federal political action committee, laying the groundwork to support &quot;centrist candidates.&quot;On June 27, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review headlined it this way: &quot;West Virginias centrist governor readies for na...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[FORMER Daily Mail Managing Editor Chris Stadelman was standing to my left. We were at an angle to the television in the newsroom.It was 8:45 a.m. on a beautiful September day. The sky was perfectly blue, and it was a pleasant 70 degrees. But there had been...]]></description>
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<title>Heres to fired-up West Virginians</title>
<description><![CDATA[ON Saturday, Aug. 28, West Virginia Republican and Democratic parties will hold primary elections to choose nominees for the U.S. Senate seat long held by Robert C. Byrd.West Virginians choose a new senator on General Election day,  Nov. 2.Will Senate Demo...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[WEST Virginias elected public managers got a couple of hard-earned compliments recently when bond ratings agencies applied their green eyeshades to some state bond issues.It also got unsettling reminders of how far it has to go.Standard &amp; Poors Ratings...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[GOV. Joe Manchin recently announced formation of his Country Roads political action committee and plans to begin soliciting contributions soon - from Democrats, Republicans and &quot;centrists.&quot;&quot;I am going for a centrist group of people who want ...]]></description>
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<title>Welfare statism is self-bankrupting</title>
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<title>Upper Big Branch answers trump all agendas</title>
<description><![CDATA[THE horrific explosion at Performance Coal Co.s Upper Big Branch mine ended the lives of 29 men.The mine is still too dangerous to enter, and the underground investigations into what happened have not even begun. Answers are many months away.That left a ne...]]></description>
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