Sunday, November 30, 2008

Bailout spin to begin, again

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The Big Three automakers are going back to Capitol Hill this week to beg for a bailout. There is nothing they can say that will justify thro...
Saturday, November 29, 2008

Tell Beshear to drop tax increase plan

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Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has a history lesson both President-elect Barack Obama and Gov. Steve Beshear would do very well to pay attenti...
Friday, November 28, 2008

While you were hyperventilating...

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With all the current problems in Kentucky government to be concerned about, The Lexington Herald Leader is upset about this: God help us. Oh...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Special message for Fayette Jail head

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Fayette County Detention Center Director Ron Bishop is about to get more of a special greeting from federal investigators than the rest of ...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Numbers suggest Beshear expects GOP to fold

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I wish I had thought of this one, but credit goes to Andy Hightower at the Kentucky Club for Growth for adding up the numbers and finding th...

Will Obama cause food costs to rise?

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Harvard professor Dr. Greg Mankiw notes that President-elect Barack Obama's flip-flop on farm subsidies is the wrong prescription: &quo...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Really bad financial news closer to home

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Nearly a week after receiving the latest report on the financial mess that is the Kentucky Retirement Systems, the KRS has released their i...

Don't hate the brown people

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WHAS 11 reported on Mexican gangsters setting up shop in Kentucky which you may have already read about here . "Sutter said, “Now is th...
Monday, November 24, 2008

State investment experts play hide and seek

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The Kentucky Retirement Systems seems to have something to hide .

New, New Deal is no free meal

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America would be far better off if some of our elected "leaders" had to go to a car dealership and buy their own ride. Something m...
Sunday, November 23, 2008

Beshear misses out on another victim

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On a weekend in which a vampire teen chick flick, Twilight, featured a young girl almost getting eaten, University of Louisville freshman Jo...
Saturday, November 22, 2008

A belt for Jim Newberry to tighten

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Lexington Mayor Jim Newberry is joining the tax increase chorus we are now hearing at all levels of government. And yet, Lexington jail admi...

Rep. Ben Chandler, use your influence

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Congressman Ben Chandler deserved some credit for voting against the bank bailout when his vote didn't matter. Now he needs to step up w...
Friday, November 21, 2008

Labor unions don't deserve more power

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Union abuses have destroyed American auto manufacturers and mandated union wages on public construction projects cost Kentucky an extra $130...

Bipartisanship doesn't mean raising taxes

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A press release from Frankfort Friday afternoon proclaims "Gov. Beshear says spending cuts necessary along with bipartisan approach to ...

Kentucky bureaucrats too big for their britches

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Kentuckians should have no tolerance for government employees going around the law-making process to take rights away from citizens. That is...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Throwing good money after bad

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Let's kill the whole auto bailout. The guys in the private jets from Ford, Chrysler, and GM say if we give them "only" $25 bil...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Hillary with a hairpiece

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Looks like former Senator Tom Daschle is going to be the Health and Human Services Cabinet Secretary in the Obama administration. Hold on ti...

Killing the next bailout in its infancy

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While everyone else is talking about the proposed auto industry bailout, some are already kicking around a request for a newspaper industry ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Hide your arrogance, bloggers are everywhere

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From the Hey-are-you-guys-still-in-business? Department: Louisville Courier Journal Editorial Page Editor Keith Runyon defended the paper fo...