Friday, October 05, 2007

Tomorrow Is D-Day For Beshear's Legal Scandal

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The Conservative Edge has the latest on Steve Beshear's shoddy legal work on the Kentucky Central debacle.

We Might Want To File This Away For Gov. Beshear

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Michigan has wrecked itself with profligate unions and tax-raising politicians. The Americans for Tax Reform has the scoop and the effort to...

Romney's Charade Is Over

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One thing is clear from the presidential campaign finance reports: Mitt Romney is wasting his money and our time .
Thursday, October 04, 2007

Shameless Self-Promotion

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I just got my first post up on The Bluegrass Policy Blog , which will be a regular, full-time gig. Please check it out if you will and leav...

Market Solution Saves Kentucky Health Dollars

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Walmart's wildly successful $4 prescription drug program has been great for Kentucky consumers, who have saved more per capita than cons...

State Politicians Mugging Marathon Oil

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Attorney General Greg Stumbo will be making a big deal out of a federal court ruling that his unconstitutional "price gouging" law...
Wednesday, October 03, 2007

My New Responsibilities

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At some point Thursday morning I will take over publishing the Bluegrass Institute's blog. The purpose of that blog is discussion of sta...

Here Is A Real Issue For Candidates

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Haven't heard anything from the gubernatorial candidates about the president's veto of the SCHIP expansion/tax increase bill this m...

Herald-Leader's Proof-Free Higher Ed Editorial

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This morning's editorial about higher education started off badly: Kentucky's low-income families must now devote almost a quarter ...
Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Legal Defense Fund Bill Pre-Filed

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Rep. Darryl Owens pre-filed a bill today that, if it had been in place at the beginning of this year, would have required Governor Ernie Fl...

Huckabee Coming To Kentucky

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Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is coming to Centre College on October 10 . The biggest criticism of Huckabee comes from his tax-and-sp...

RGA Supports Half-Priced Socialism

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Hello? Are there any Republican organizations out there still supporting conservative fiscal policies? I'm just curious. The Republican ...
Monday, October 01, 2007

Pineville Knows Bruce Hendrickson

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Before former Pineville Mayor Bruce Hendrickson got demolished in his race for re-election last year, his greatest contribution to his city ...

Time To Get Our $100 Million Back

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Learning from others' experiences is always cheaper than waiting around to take the hit yourself. We have a golden opportunity to avoid ...

Taxing Their Way To Prosperity

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Don't laugh at Michigan's financial problems. Their tough votes will be in our future pretty soon as the much-ignored public pensio...

Another Great Reason For You To Move To Indiana

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Indiana has casinos and soon will add government health insurance for families earning up to 300% of the poverty level. So if you think out...
Sunday, September 30, 2007

Hey, Let's Make Another Law!

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The best thing about the Courier-Journal story on bogus campaign contributions is that anyone could have put this one together, but no one ...

Too Much Socialism For The Communists

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As Kentucky lurches checkbook-first into the world of heavily subsidized "energy production," the world's largest experimenter...
Saturday, September 29, 2007

No Newt In 2008

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Newt Gingrich ended speculation today that he might run for president in 2008. Over the past few months, Gingrich had stoked speculation he...

Splitting The Difference With Socialism

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Thanks to the Club for Growth for pointing out this one:

Honor Among Thieves

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I love this one : A request by Caesars Indiana to dismiss a Tennessee woman's lawsuit claiming that the casino took advantage of her gam...
Friday, September 28, 2007

Californial Dreamin' Makes Sense For Kentucky

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Newport Beach, California city council members killed a proposal this week to require a public vote before increasing pension benefits for ...

Better Yesterday Than Never

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They probably should have hopped on this wagon over the summer when everyone else was hot on immigration, but the Fletcher administration ha...

College Affordability Challenge

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In an email to constituents this morning, Congressman Ben Chandler repeated a bogus "statistic" that 200,000 students don't go...

Thanks To Bunning And McConnell

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Kentucky's U.S. Senators both voted yesterday against the liberal "Middle-Class Kids Need HillaryCare Now" bill. The bill pas...

Rep. Yonts Incentivizing Crime-Free Students

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Rep. Brent Yonts pre-filed a bill yesterday that is worthy of discussion. The bill offers a financial incentive for high school and college...
Thursday, September 27, 2007

Update On Jody Richards Paycheck Scandal

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He's giving himself a huge payday loan, I guess. Jody Richards keeps telling people he is going to turn in the excess taxpayer money Hou...

Would Governor Beshear Tax Health Benefits?

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Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm is threatening to shut down state government starting Monday if she doesn't get some tax increases, ...

Liberal Has-Beens For Beshear

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Let's Destroy All Farming Like We Did Tobacco

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A funny thing happened to the tobacco industry that was supposed to die with deregulation and the tobacco buyout. It is booming and there...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Carpet Bombing The Fayette County Jail

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The FBI hit the jail in Lexington again today to drop off subpoenas in the ongoing inmate abuse scandal . The grand jury meets tomorrow.

With $10 Million In The Bank, He Should Be Able To Do Better Than This

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Mitch McConnell has a blog .

While We're Talking About Gambling

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The Democratic party's candidate for Treasurer Todd Hollenbach actually wants to expand the money-losing KAPT program, which our legisl...

Supporting Republicans Who Act Like Republicans

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Kentucky's entire GOP delegation in the U.S. House voted yesterday against expanding government health insurance to more middle-class fa...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Acting More Like Democrats

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DNC Chair Howard Dean is pushing the Democratic party to the left through the organization that survived his run for president. He is raisin...

Is Beshear Playing Dumb Or Is It You?

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As Ryan Alessi's latest revelation about Steve Beshear's role in the destruction of Kentucky Central comes to light ... The court-a...
Monday, September 24, 2007

Beshear Campaign Staff Gains As UAW Strikes

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General Motors union employees across the nation walked off the job today in a massive strike larger than any seen in the automobile indust...

Jody Richards Agrees To Return Unearned Money

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The unearned checks distributed to legislators after the House Democrats surrendered the July special session will be returned today, House ...

Where Are Steve Beshear's Barking Dogs?

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Kind of funny to see the Beshear campaign still proudly touting their unsurprising support from former state Rep. Steve Nunn, who was run ou...
Sunday, September 23, 2007

Socialized Medicine Plans Shrink In Sunlight

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Maybe we should call California's ArnoldCare and Sen. Clinton's HillaryCare "the Shrinky Dinks ." Hillary couldn't tak...

"Let The Liberal Editorial Boards Decide!"

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Just heard Hillary Clinton describe public financing of political campaigns as her solution to her own campaign finance scandals. If Steve B...

Destroying Business As Fast As They Can

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Sen. Barack Obama's idea to save Social Security without paying a political price among the middle class would make HillaryCare look li...
Saturday, September 22, 2007

Frankfort's Own Frito Bandito

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Jody Richards still has the taxpayers' money he promised to return after the House Democrats surrendered the special session in July. M...

Reading Past First Paragraph For The Real Story

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Which do you think is more newsworthy, that Steve Beshear's law firm paid $100,000 for research into its role in the destruction of Ken...

Left Can't Stop Lying About SCHIP

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U.S. Census data clearly shows (page 19) that the rate of uninsured in America has been unchanged for almost fifteen years. But that doesn&...
Friday, September 21, 2007

Laptops And Library Cards

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Steve Beshear's education plan (spend more money and give kids library cards) would be pretty easy to ignore if he weren't 20 point...

Musical Chairs In Lexington's City Hall

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Some observers thought Lexington Mayor Jim Newberry might be serious about cleaning up the mess in Lexington's public safety bureaucracy...

Union Attorney Champions Government Healthcare

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Polwatchers just needs a different headline on this post .

Battling It Out In A Casino Town

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Since Ernie Fletcher reported from Aurora,Illinois, the town has been in an uproar. The hubbub isn't because of the controversy over its...
Thursday, September 20, 2007

Just Like Being Homeless, Except When It Isn't

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Cardboard box? Check! Outside all night? Check! Pizza, movies, and live music? Check! In what is easily the most ridiculous thing I have hea...

"Honey, The Union Thugs Are At The Door Again"

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Kentucky's most politically active union members will be knocking on doors this Saturday to benefit the big government, high tax, anti-...

Don't Lose Jack Conway's Pants If He Wins AG

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Remember the story of the bozo judge who sued his Washington D.C. dry cleaner for $67 million after his pants went missing? Well, the bozo d...

George W. Bush The Fiscal Liberal

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Alan Greenspan says George W. Bush has been a big spender. Dick Cheney says it ain't so. The data says -- Republicans deserve to lose wh...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Taking A Break From The Action

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Still waiting for Jody Richards and the House Dems to pay back our tax dollars? Me too. While we are waiting, hit this link and play a litt...

Beshear Can't Back Up Education Statement

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The Louisville Courier Journal reports Steve Beshear wants to depend more heavily on CATS testing because, he says, it is a better measure ...

BIPPS Rips Questionable School Data, Spending

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The conclusion of this article is that Kentucky public schools don't need more money as much as they need more honesty and greater acco...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Following Through On Jody Richards' Political Stunt

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Remember after the aborted special session this summer when legislators promised to return the paychecks they didn't earn? Those checks ...

The 45 Million Uninsured Looks More Like 8 Million

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Before you run off to your next "Socialize Me More" rally, please watch this:

What The AG Race Poll Numbers Tell Me

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Attorney General candidate Stan Lee needs to start talking about why he voted against the budget bill that heaped over $2 billion in debt o...
Monday, September 17, 2007

Disappointing

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I just spent an hour watching our gubernatorial candidates not talk about the elephant in the room: our public employee benefit plans.

On Having, And Eating, Government Cake

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Ohio is considering a couple of bills to cut down on public employee double-dipping. We should do the same here.

Where's My Socialized Car Insurance?

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Despite existing laws mandating car insurance, Kentucky has as high a rate of uninsured drivers as it does of people without health insuran...
Sunday, September 16, 2007

Rewriting History Of Recent Fiscal Insanity

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The Club for Growth points out liberal former Senator Lincoln Chafee is no longer a Republican. There is one point in the article about Ch...

"Let The People Decide" Baloney

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The Lexington Herald-Leader has released another poll about how overwhelmingly the people of Kentucky want to vote on casinos. The only que...

Casinos + Cigarette Tax Increase = ???

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You wouldn't know it from reading the Lexington Herald-Leader or the Louisville Courier-Journal, but a couple of issues Kentucky will fa...
Saturday, September 15, 2007

Yellow Jacket Family Day Open Thread

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I'm in Atlanta for Georgia Tech's Family Weekend and don't expect to have time for getting online. By the way, my son just got h...
Friday, September 14, 2007

Is Steve Beshear Banking On A Cover-Up?

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Don't hold your breath waiting for the investigative report on Steve Beshear's law firm's actions to appear, despite the motion ...

Stumbo For Senate Fading Fast

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Disgraced Attorney General Greg Stumbo's bid for the Democratic nomination in next year's U.S. Senate race against Sen. Mitch McConn...

New England Governor Steals Steve Beshear's Idea

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Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick says his state may need a massive revenue infusion from casinos to fund state government. Apparently t...
Thursday, September 13, 2007

Eating Chicken, Making America A Better Place

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The American Family Association of Kentucky and the Family Foundation of Kentucky are joining forces Tuesday September 18 in Lexington at an...

Next Week's Big Frankfort Story

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Since the Executive Branch Ethics Commission dropped its investigation against Governor Fletcher, not much has been said about the previousl...

Gambling Issue, Not Opposition, Is Dead In State

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Okay, I'm ready to let the people decide on casinos in Kentucky. Bring it on. There is no support for casinos in the General Assembly. I...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

There Might Be A Slight Problem With Steve Beshear's White Knight Image

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Insiders are buzzing about a Lexington Herald Leader story coming out Thursday discussing Steve Beshear's role in the destruction of Ken...

Elian Gonzalez Hunting Practice

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From the folks who think guns are for arming jack-booted thugs to return six year-old Cuban boys back into captivity, we have a nice Jack &q...

If The French Can Do It, Shouldn't Kentucky?

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While Kentucky is Blue-Ribboning its way around the dire need to spend less on state public pensions, France is going head-first into necess...

The Way For The Republican Party To Win

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I went down to City Hall in Lexington yesterday to show support for my friends who rallied to keep what's left of the city's blue la...
Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Time's ... Up?

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Our liberal friends are going to have a field day with this one. The Kentucky Association of Manufacturers will hold a six city tour startin...

Time To Ask The Question

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If Governor Fletcher loses in November, who will lead the Republican Party/Conservative Movement in Kentucky and why?

Would Beshear Fix Kentucky If He Knew How?

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Steve Beshear's answer to a gambling question veered quickly onto turf a Republican governor should be taking him apart on, namely, soc...
Monday, September 10, 2007

Thanks, And A Request

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Thanks to Senators McConnell and Bunning for voting against the mis-named College Cost Reduction Act of 2007, which will do nothing to redu...
Sunday, September 09, 2007

We're Off To A Bad Start With Promise Grants

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Well, that didn't take long. Friday, Congress passed an anti-accountability bill for college students and by the next day Eastern Kentuc...

Kentucky Must React To Promise Grants

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The U.S. House and Senate passed a higher education spending bill Friday that requires an immediate response from Frankfort. It is the large...
Saturday, September 08, 2007

Cato/Goldwater Saturday

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Friday, September 07, 2007

NewsFlash: Socialized Medicine Not A Panacea

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It seems RomneyCare isn't meeting everyone's expectations . "That is discrimination," said Evelyn Hartrey, a 60-year-old w...

What's Six Million Dollars Between Friends?

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Looks like we are about to pay EDS $33.2 million over the next five years to set up an automated income tax payment system. If the state go...
Thursday, September 06, 2007

A Very Bad Traffic Day

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Next Tuesday afternoon on Main Street in Lexington around 4 pm won't be a very good time or place to be driving. That is because hundred...

Two Buses For Fred Update

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The unofficial effort to send two busloads of Kentuckians down to Tennessee to see Fred Thompson on Septempber 15 now officially has two bus...

Fletcher Campaign Calls Stumbo's Bluff

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Good move . Will AG Stumbo really sue to force a couple of political appointees to change their party registration from Republican to Democr...

Protest Like A Pervert

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Leave it to Che Guevara wannabe Daily Kos to suggest if only Senate Democrats were more like Sen. Larry Craig, they could surrender the war...
Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Beshear Is Re-Inventing His KY Central Role

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The Courier-Journal reports on a minor dust-up between the Fletcher and Beshear camps about court records in the case of the defunct Kentuc...

Economic Development Idea: Big Bread

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Now that Kentucky taxpayers are going to be funding all these carbon capture-ready facilities, maybe we should start building bread factorie...

Destroying Federal Property One Beer At A Time

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If you are looking for one reason why socialized medicine won't work in America, look here . Some British pols want to reward good healt...
Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Beating The Casino Gambling Horse To Death

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I understand the strategy of keeping the gubernatorial race on casino gambling. But the lack of issue discussion in this race is driving me ...

Thinking Before We Double Expenditures

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There are two Kentucky bills coming up in January, HB 12 and HB 22 , to double the dollar amount of Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholar...
Monday, September 03, 2007

On The Bus To Go See Fred Thompson

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Thanks to Mark Hebert for the link about the Kentucky bus caravan to the Fred Thompson rally Saturday, September 15, in Lawrenceburg, TN. I...

More Mess In Transportation Cabinet

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The braintrust running the state Transportation cabinet has cooked up another fine mess and they are just about to jump into the soup and pu...

American Cancer Society Needs More Dead People

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Last week we learned China is crediting its forced government abortion program with slowing global warming because dead Chinese babies don&...
Sunday, September 02, 2007

Poverty Is A Great Motivator

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An editorial about "poor kids" in the Lexington Herald Leader this morning is thought-provoking. I have some things to say about ...
Saturday, September 01, 2007

Kentuckians For Fred Road Trip

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A group of Fred Thompson supporters will rent a bus Saturday, September 15 in Louisville to head down to Lawrenceburg, Tennessee for a rally...

Kentucky Needs Entrepreneurs

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