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$24 billion is truly gone with the wind 12:30 am
After 20 years of wind subsidies, wind power is even less efficient
W.Va. needs to choose growth over poverty 12:30 am
The opportunity to win big plants comes rarely, and affects generations
Commitment laws and hospital beds
Society must face those issues to prevent more mass murders
The new EPA chief should obey the law
The agency cannot continueto ignore limits to its power
Looking ahead by looking behind
Short takes
W.Va.'s drug problem spawns child abuse
Collapse of personal responsibility poses big challenges for the state
Corridor G traffic does need attention
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Commentary

Amity Shlaes: Unions are feeding wage inequality
Older workers have sweetheart deals and the younger have lower pay
Patrick Fenimore: Let’s not let misleading terms take us astray
Classroom doors that lock would be a sensible step
Don Perdue: On valued colleagues reaching the ‘king row’
Their persistence and sacrifice will be felt for years
Mike Harman: The Second Amendment is just outdated
The Constitution has always been a work in progress
Caroline Baum: Medicare can't stay as we know it
President Obama should be straight with Americans
Joe Manchin III: Newtown demands everyone’s attention
We need to address not only weapons, but mental health and violent materials
Jay Mathews: Great teachers can simply work miracles
Jaime Escalante proved it conclusively with calculus classes
Skip Stiles: Abandon coastal areas? Government first
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Nanya Friend

Christmas memories: The gift of a baby
In defense of parents who care
People who will fight for schooling are all too rare
Woods are lovely, dark and deep
It's all the trees that can make life difficult at times
General elections are grueling
But what they reveal would not surface otherwise
The ancients were on to something
Nanya Friend: Seeking the calm after the storm
If you cannot stand the heat, get a wet cold towel
On Tax Day, we all report to them
On Election Day, government reports to us
Jahlil Clements still speaks to us all
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Johanna Maurice

W.Va. policymakers can do this
If the status quo is failure, why not risk success?
What would Jefferson say today?
The Founders tried to keep us out of this mess
What is happening to America?
Welfare states = personal tragedy, national failure
’Tis the season of our discontent
Are Dems about working people?
Or do they just want to control workers' money?
Tuesday’s votes clarify matters
Americans don't seem to want higher taxes
Manchin, Tomblin create uncertainty
Waffling about Obama leaves voters less sure
W.Va. voters affect the Senate
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Brad McElhinny

W.Va. should get more (bleep) real
Let's face it, 'Buckwild' is (bleep) tame
West Virginia stiff-arms ‘furriners’
Welcoming converts would be much smarter
Why Corridor G parents are upset
This district's issues go back quite a few years
An escape, and a new appreciation
Being trapped in this city has a silver lining
The Olympics have been a blast
Experiencing the spectacle together is fun
On the ball, on task, all the time
You get a little bit of focus, a little bit of wiggle . . .
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Don Surber

CNN's new boss needs some objectivity 12:30 am
What position of the Democratic Party is too liberal?
Gun control isn’t really the answer
That approach is more for power than protection
That Santa Claus had better watch out
He promotes obesity, is judgmental, and doesn't pay taxes
Sen. Manchin still makes a good governor
School reform, fighting MTV are good developments
Fight for the right to be left alone
Obamanomics failed the nation
Americans should be much better off by this point
We’re to trust in government now
Party platforms should reflect people's beliefs
State taxpayers are tapped out
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Hoppy Kercheval

The EPA is not going in the right direction
New York may shrug off the Pinstripe Bowl
Mountaineers will see the future in Saturday's game
The nation's capital is a rough neighborhood
As his gun remark proves, it's not easy being Washington Joe
Facts must drive gun-control talk
'Assault' rifles were involved in few shootings
Watching out for Nibiru, but so far, nothing
The end of earth was born at the ends of the earth
If right-to-work can pass in Michigan . . .
States should let workers decide for themselves
Davy Crockett never made it to YouTube
WVU's mascot learned a life lesson when he killed a bear
Hey, West Virginians, whatever happens, happens
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Charles Krauthammer

Finding balance will not be easy
Will Obama also target Hollywood and the ACLU?
Higher pay or lower joblessness?
Rust Belt states face a necessity for readjustment
Cliff jumping with the president
Democrats want tax hikes now, discipline later
Why a perpetual war in Gaza?
Because Hamas and Iran gain from terrorism
No whimpering, Republicans
Big government is failing; smaller is sustainable
A weak, dependent United States
Obama wants citizens to lead a supervised life
The Navy is horses, bayonets?
Romney should have hit Obama on Benghazi 
Obama slithered out of Libya
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Robert Samuelson

Let's not kill the shale gas boom 12:30 am
Selective schools raise new issues
How well are we serving the best of our students?
What if unemployment doesn’t recede until 2018?
The Fed rolls the dice on inflation
By 1980, inflation rose to 13 percent;  joblessness, 7 percent
The U.S. Statistical Abstract lives on
Census Bureau saved a national treasure of data
Could this become a lost generation?
A bad economy gives 20-somethings bad start in adulthood
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Thomas Sowell

Random thoughts on the passing scene
Gun laws touch only the law-abiding
Gun controls often correlate with high murder rates
Inflation is taxation by another name
Christmas books for people who think
Some programs help, and others actually do harm
Don't take any guff about the fiscal cliff
Democrats are talking good politics, not good economics
Obama is not what he seemed
Anti-American mentors were his role models
Democrats depend on dependence
Welfare statists expand benefits to win voters
The elderly needn’t fear change
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George Will

Changing the rules of the U.S. Senate
At cliff's edge, constructive questions
Yes, Social Security adds $165 billion to the 2012 deficit
We are all on a cliff of their choosing
Democrats using just one more crisis to expand government
Watch out for the bewitchment trap
Democrats' tax hikes will darken Americans' future
Comeuppance for a casket cartel
Louisiana Benedictines embark on crime
Curbing government run amok
The REINS Act requires Congress to OK regulations
The Super PAC flap is bogus
Quietly silenced by government
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