Wednesday, April 30, 2008

How long before Beshear taxes Big Macs?

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Since Governor Steve Beshear got his last big idea from Atlantic City, it is reasonable to guess that his next one may come from there as w...

Chandler/Obama on gas prices

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Or is it Obama/Chandler?

Kentucky Right to Life endorsements

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The Kentucky Right to Life endorsements are out . And here is an interesting video:
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Who will bite Leach first?

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The Fayette County Detention Center's mail-order Doctor Don Leach is the subject of a new City of Lexington investigation into his &quo...

What happens when a Dem stays in D.C. too long

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WKYT's Bill Bryant is suggesting Congressman Ben Chandler is going to endorse Barack Obama for President today in Louisville. PageOne ha...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Does anybody really know what time it is?

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According to the Kentucky Constitution, the General Assembly had to adjourn by midnight on April 15. They did not do so. According to the Ke...

Jack Conway gripes and swipes; Goettl responds

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Attorney General Jack Conway never complains when he gets his customary kid-glove treatment from the mainstream media. But as soon as a less...

Fayette Jail story just got harder to ignore

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Fayette County Detention Center Sgt. John McQueen has been placed on administrative leave for his role in the prisoner beatings scandal at ...
Friday, April 25, 2008

Blast from the past

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Remember blogger Mark Nickolas? Congressman Ben Chandler's campaign manager is now busily making enemies of Bill and Hillary Clinton. C...

Cry me a revenue stream

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A new report on state budgets coming up short has elicited at least a couple of skeptical responses ( here and here ) to the suggestion tha...

Why we need blogs

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I don't think Mitch McConnell needs my help beating whichever opponent he winds up getting in the fall. For the same reason, I didn'...

Start limiting pension abuse in Kentucky

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In a sane world, the retirement of Supreme Court Chief Justice Joseph Lambert would start a debate about cutting back on the outlandish pens...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Thanks unions: Volkswagen not considering KY

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Here's one for the good folks who are trying to unionize Toyota: "It really comes down to how much the states want it and how much ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Use transparency to end welfare abuse

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The government transparency movement caught fire when Republican U.S. Senator Tom Coburn and Democratic U.S. Senator Barack Obama worked tog...

Pick your poison Ben Chandler

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Congressman Ben Chandler is getting some pressure to pick a side in the U.S. Senate Democratic primary. And now that former Congressman Ken...

Republican party's stupid tax ploy

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If the latest fiscal policy idea from the McCain campaign is an indication of what lies ahead, the GOP nominee would do better to go back to...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Get used to hearing this

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Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer has polling data indicating he could pretty much run for emperor in Kentucky and win, so he is sittin...

MoveOn.org?

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Yes, that MoveOn.org has purchased an ad on this site. They are asking their readers to pick the next Barack Obama ad for them to run on tel...

A vote for fiscal sanity in Kentucky

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Will Terwort, candidate in the 63rd House district GOP primary, will report raising over $32,000 so far in his contest against moderate Rep....
Monday, April 21, 2008

The last man between us and President Obama

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Hillary Clinton is just about done . And John McCain is going to be on Leland Conway's radio show in Lexington Wednesday at 9:15 am. You...