Wednesday, July 27, 2011

See no, hear no, speak no political stunts in KY

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A perfect example of what is wrong with Frankfort presented itself this afternoon when Gov. Steve Beshear put out a press release proclaimin...
Friday, July 22, 2011

More than one mandate to kill

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One element of the federal debt limit debate seems to be turning to a Republican effort to repeal ObamaCare's requirement that all peopl...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

One way to solve debt standoff

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There were rumors this afternoon that the White House and Senate had worked out a budget deal with spending cuts and without tax increases (...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Other states should follow Kentucky on this

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We don't yet know how the federal debt ceiling debate will be resolved, but we can tell how poorly it has gone on the state level. That&...
Friday, July 15, 2011

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Starting Kentucky debt ceiling conversation

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Kentucky needs its own debt ceiling; there can be no question about that . Frankfort politicians in both parties have been too eager to hide...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Beshear upsets everyone on ObamaCare

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The strange sight of Kentucky's effort to escape the ravages of ObamaCare without appearing to do so continues during the public commen...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Is Kentucky Pro-ObamaCare or not?

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The federal government rolled out proposed regulations for ObamaCare's state health insurance exchanges yesterday, leaving Kentuckians w...
Monday, July 11, 2011

Kentucky media still missing ObamaCare story

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Another development in Kentucky's uneasy political tapdance around ObamaCare today highlights the continued failure of state mainstream ...
Saturday, July 09, 2011

Kentucky makes another short list

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Twenty six states' attorneys general have joined legal efforts to stop Obamacare and ten states have signed on in support of it. Kentuck...
Friday, July 08, 2011

End taxpayer funded primary elections now

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You don't often hear complaints in Kentucky about public financing of political party primary elections, despite the millions of dollars...
Thursday, July 07, 2011

Take debt ceiling fight to the states

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The federal debt ceiling has been raised 74 times since 1962. I'm sure someone at this very moment is whining that the Tea Party was sil...
Friday, July 01, 2011

Aetna bails, Beshear wails

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A frantic letter from Governor Steve Beshear's Insurance Commissioner to the Obama Administration today paints a clearer picture of how ...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Just a $30 million political game, this time

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One week ago, Kentucky state finance officials went to New York and spent $30 million on a bipartisan campaign stunt. You probably haven...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Solving Kentucky's felon legislator problem

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Kentucky has made national news today by paying a bloated legislative pension for life to former Beshear administration official and former...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Blago loses pension, Steve Nunn keeps his

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Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, found guilty of trying to sell President Barack Obama's old U.S. Senate seat, will lose his st...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Walking back Weiner's wild wages

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Now that Congressman Anthony Weiner is taking his photography and social media skills home from his illustrious legislative career, the next...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

They must be joking update

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The Lexington Herald Leader covered Governor Steve Beshear's big announcement today that he sold a 2.1 acre lot in Frankfort to Franklin...
Thursday, June 02, 2011

If Mitt Romney governed Kentucky...

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Consider the interesting way in which Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is both against ObamaCare and for it on the campaign tra...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011

The sincerest form of quackery

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Anyone who remembers the mess Kentucky made of its health insurance market in 1994 forcing insurance companies to ignore pre-existing condi...