Assertions made by some that the president has the power under the 14th Amendment to unilaterally lift the debt ceiling to avoid economic catastrophe are misleading, mischievous and contemptuous of constitutional principles.
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The equality revolution in the workplace, ignited 50 years ago with the publication of Betty Friedan's best-seller, "The Feminine Mystique," and punctuated by President John F. Kennedy's signature on the potentially transformative Equal Pay Act, has stalled.
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The American presidency and how it fares is the subject of a presentation constitutional scholar David Adler will give Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Coeur d'Alene Public Library.
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Americans' anxiety over the ability of representatives in Washington to prevent the nation from falling off the fiscal cliff is yet another reminder of the failure of leadership in the nation's capital. Fears of rising taxes, indiscriminate, across-the-board spending cuts, a second recession and general fiscal calamity echo across our …
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In Tuesday's convincing defeat of the three educational reform measures, widely known as the "Luna Laws," Idahoans delivered a stinging rebuke to GOP leaders, including Gov. Butch Otter and Supt. Tom Luna. In their rejection of Prop 1, voters retained and protected the collective bargaining rights of teachers.
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