Saturday, February 28, 2009

A new campaign, an old dirty trick

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The most popular post on Kentucky Progress in the last week was the breaking news about Rand Paul weighing a run for the U.S. Senate. The m...

Jessamine Co. Lincoln Day 2009

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The evening started with a little nervous laughter when a letter was read from Sen. Mitch McConnell expressing his appreciation of the Kentu...

AP: What overspending problem?

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The Associated Press read Warren Buffett's famous annual letter to his shareholders today and managed to miss the part in which he predi...

Saturday reading assignment

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Christina Romer, Chairwoman of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, makes the case for Spendulus 2009 and beyond. You ...
Friday, February 27, 2009

What you already knew about Jim Bunning

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National Journal's Congressional Conservative/Liberal ratings are out for the 2008 session . Sen. Jim Bunning leads the way for the Kent...

Beshear's "Weekend at Bernie's" policy

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Looks like Gov. Beshear sat around all week trying to think of something to make a YouTube video about and could only manage to re-float a f...

Now you see them, now you don't

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Tuesday night, President Barack Obama said this: "But let me perfectly clear, because I know you’ll hear the same old claims that rolli...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Ron Paul's son may run for Senate from KY

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Congressman Ron Paul's son Rand is going to run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Jim Bunning if Bunning ultimately decide...

Stop feeding them...

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... and the Left turns to eating each other. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman isn't happy with the bank bailouts that the rest of ...

Eliminate these middle men

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Why in the world are we trusting a bunch of bureaucrats who can't balance their own books with picking our winners and losers in the cor...

How's your new hope and change going?

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It's funny how every time a bunch of politicians get together and claim a grand victory for bipartisanship, what really happens is that ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Drinking our way to prosperity

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The Hartford Courant reports Republicans in Connecticut want to solve their state's overspending problems by expanding drinking hours in...

Obama, the flesh-eating zombie?

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When President Barack Obama talked about curing cancer last night, I couldn't help thinking of the movie "I am Legend" in whic...

Beshear spins for Big Ed and Big Health

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Gov. Steve Beshear went on the Leland Conway radio show in Lexington to explain why he raised taxes and raided the state employee health fu...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Bad news, Bishop

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Fayette County Detention Center Director Ron Bishop has been trying for two and a half years to get rid of federal whistleblower Cpl. John ...

Mr. Obama, tear down your campaign web site!

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As President Barack Obama addresses the nation tonight, it might be worthwhile to look at some of the promises he made before the election t...

Bunning: Williams owes me $30,000

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Senator Jim Bunning said KY Senate President David Williams came to him last year and asked for financial help for the campaigns of Sen. Jac...

Who are you and what did you do with KY Senate President David Williams?

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A month ago, we had a Kentucky state Senate determined to hold the line on taxes and a House minority that usually showed evidence of a spin...
Monday, February 23, 2009

Where's the rest of the cavalry?

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Secretary of State Trey Grayson has just issued the following statement in support of Senator Jim Bunning: "Recent news reports change ...

Mr. Tax Raiser, where are you?

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Casey County Republicans report Taxpayer Protection Pledge breaker Sen. Vernie McGaha failed to show up for last Friday's Lincoln Day D...