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By Congressman Robert Hurt

This past week, the House of Representatives adopted our fiscally responsible budget for the third time in as many years. At the same time, the Senate adopted its first budget for the first time in four years.

If you wanted to be reminded again of why Republicans lost the presidential election last year, all you had to do last week was watch this C-PAC thing they do every year.
    The Conservative Political Action Conference, it’s actually called, and, well, it’s always good for a laugh in my part of the world.
    But if you’re a good Republican who remembers a better party in earlier days, what you saw on display was indeed enough to make you cry.

By Ken Burger
Big Island

    There was a time when we were certain that asbestos was safe. We knew confidently that it was a great resource for insulation: cheap, easy to use and effective.  That was then. Now we know better, because science teaches us truthfully of the dangers that asbestos presents to anyone who inhales the particles.  Who of us has not seen the ads for “mesothelioma?”