Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Now THIS is what the tea parties are about

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Here and here .

Everyone likes a food fight...

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Fox News Channel will be in Louisville on Saturday night for the state GOP Lincoln dinner featuring Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. Jim Bunning,...

"Practically giving 'em away!"

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This is what happens when your federal government gets in the car business: flimflam money deals that sound great but benefit only the scam ...
Monday, May 04, 2009

Obama murders school choice hope

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You read that right. Now watch this.

What is Kristine Lafoe saying?

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With the Fayette jail inmate abuse trial one month away, attorneys for defendant Kristine Lafoe have been working overtime hunting down po...
Sunday, May 03, 2009

Cutting through the crap in Kentucky

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Did the Courier Journal on Sunday really whine and complain because some of us have had enough of their touchy-feely nonsense in our public ...

Rand Paul weighs in again

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Potential U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul just said the following: "Some politicians travel to Washington, DC to ask permission to run...
Saturday, May 02, 2009

Obama goal: destroy private industry

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Friday, May 01, 2009

Ready for Round Two?

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Wanna bet on sin taxes again?

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Can we all agree that saving the state with sin taxes hikes is a horrible idea? Perhaps not. But that is mainly because those who still thi...

"Can I run my Ipod on switchgrass?"

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One competitive advantage Kentucky has had for decades has been low energy prices. At the rate we are going, soon all we will have left will...

Road trip

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I'll be in Elizabethtown this morning speaking to the Rotary Club. Meanwhile, please check out a new blog -- Kentucky 912 .
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Grab your wallet alert

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Gov. Steve Beshear on Thursday urged Kentuckians to "put aside the labels of Democrat and Republican and the historical rivalry between...

Biden gaffes, lies about planes and subways

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Vice President Joe Biden started off his day on The Today Show telling America he would stay off airplanes and out of the subways because of...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

KY Senate losing one tax increase fighter

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One of only six Kentucky state Senators to keep his promise earlier this year to oppose tax increases announced today he will not seek re-...

Educrats spin, Herald Leader bites

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The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence put out a press release Tuesday as part of their continued effort to divert attention from th...

Some "Tea Party" perspective

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For all the reckless borrowing and spending, broken campaign promises, tax increases, and promises of more to come, President Barack Obama s...

Beshear following Mongiardo/Conway

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Senate candidates Dan Mongiardo and Jack Conway have been sending out silly attention-seeking press releases for a while. With today's ...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Which Senator will you support now?

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Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) said Tuesday he is going to officially leave the GOP. Now Sen. Mitch McConnell can stop giving him money and star...

Jack, be more nimble!

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Just spotted: Attorney General Jack Conway sneaking around with indicted former Gov. Paul Patton chief of staff Andrew "Skipper" ...

Hopey changey update for Kentucky

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President Barack Obama just sent out an email with a map showing the number of jobs "created or saved" by federal overspending on ...

Bunning: you'll be surprised

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Sen. Jim Bunning said Tuesday morning his fundraising is going much better now than it did earlier in the year, but he didn't give speci...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Round and round and round she goes...

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As Frankfort's schemers work behind the scenes on some kind of tax reform, they can look at neighboring Tennessee like Missouri and Ohio...

Taking the low road to Montana?

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Over the weekend Bluegrass Institute education analyst Richard Innes noticed two other education bloggers, Pritchard Blog and Kentucky Sch...
Sunday, April 26, 2009

Winchester project cost inflated by politics

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The Winchester Sun wants to know if readers support building a new $50 million high school in Clark County. Kentucky's Davis Bacon requ...
Saturday, April 25, 2009

Not what they call it, but what it does to us

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Activists on both sides of the socialized medicine debate understand that when they talk about universal health care, what they mean is univ...

Potential Senate candidate coming to UK

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University of Kentucky's Students for Liberty will host Dr. Rand Paul of Bowling Green Thursday April 30, 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm at Memoria...

Onward...

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There will be several meetings in central Kentucky next week to discuss where we go next with the Tea Party movement. Call me for details.
Friday, April 24, 2009

Making it easy for Jim Gray

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Lexington Mayor Jim Newberry seems almost to be purposely hastening the end of his political career with silly public statements like this: ...

A Mitch slap coming from the other direction

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Sen. Mitch McConnell's favored candidate in the 2010 Pennsylvania Senate race, Sen. Arlen Specter, is getting creamed in the polls amid ...

Stop taxing income in Kentucky

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Kentucky legislators will probably be back in Frankfort in late May to discuss tax reform. Meanwhile, Tennessee, a state with no income tax,...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Pres. Obama, don't ignore these kids

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President Barack Obama seems determined to cancel the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program . Disgraceful.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Party labels and bad politicians

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Congressman Geoff Davis, in an interview with WLAP's Leland Conway, expressed frustration with citizen groups who don't support bad...

This goofy rhetoric sounds familiar

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Newspaper columnist Dana Milbank sounds like the auto industry executives bemoaning the end of the world as we know it without bailouts to r...

Think before you kiss your sister

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Saving money by consolidating Kentucky's 120 counties into some smaller -- and less accountable -- number of governmental units is the p...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Choosing sides in 2010 Senate races

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The Kentucky Club for Growth has made a name for itself calling out Republicans who go squishy on keeping government from growing out of con...

Bunning says Dem primary helps him

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Senator Jim Bunning just said the intense primary battle between Lt. Gov. Dan Mongiardo and Attorney General Jack Conway will make the 2010 ...

Very interesting email

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Just got the following message on Facebook: Subject: Upcoming McConnell Protest - Read Disclosure though! This group is made up of a diverse...
Monday, April 20, 2009

Movement marches on

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Working on details for Freedom Rallies in Frankfort on May 23 and Lexington on July 4. The naysayers will only be right if we quit. So, gues...

Keeping our kids safe on campus

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A Missouri legislative bill that would allow college students with concealed carry permits to possess firearms on campus passed that state&...

Jack in the (mail) box

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Lt. Gov. Dan Mongiardo has sent out a steady stream of press releases reading like Twitter entries recently, publicizing his his every move ...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

Bailing out Big College next

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The Obama Administration is threatening to turn 529 college savings plans into a federal version of the disastrous Kentucky's Affordable...

Leland Conway uncovers fear on "Big Left"

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The Leftist Myth about the Tea Party Movement By Leland Conway First they accused us of racism. When that didn’t work, they said we were or...

Narrowing the focus in Lexington

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Please join a discussion Thursday, April 23, at 6:30 pm about the need for school choice in Kentucky. We will be meeting at The Inn on Broad...
Friday, April 17, 2009

A unique chewing out

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Can't stop this

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Lexington's July 4 Freedom Rally has been scheduled for the Fayette County Courthouse Plaza. It will start at 3:30 pm. Spread the word. ...

A merit hiring mess of their own?

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You may have missed a little "isolated accident" merit hiring story in the Louisville Courier Journal Thursday. Sources report the...

Missing some Big Ed propaganda

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Back in 2007, Kentucky's big newspapers picked up their pom poms and cheered on a state report using very questionable data to promote K...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

Time to reopen the Worley file

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Kentucky's Senate Minority Leader Ed Worley is about to get a primary opponent. A "conservative Democrat," Mike Cope of Madis...

Richmond April 11 Tea Party

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Here is some video from last week's rally.

It's the reckless spending

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Decide to do more

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The splash made by yesterday's Tea Parties will mean nothing if we don't soon start planning more such events. An easy next step, of...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Thanks, but no thanks, Congressman

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National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, a Congressman from Texas, weighed in on the Tax Day Tea Parties with the...

Louisville Tea Party coverage

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Fox 41 in Louisville did a good report on their city's event. Click here to watch it.

CJ tactics take a turn for the worse

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The last few weeks I have seen left-wing writers go from dismissive to beyond vulgar in their description of those of us who don't like ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Still not minding the store in Lexington

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Disgraced former Lexington jail administrator Don Leach has been given permission by Director Ron Bishop to take three FCDC passenger vans...

Pres. Barack Obama doesn't hear you yet

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Here's the latest from the Teleprompter-in-Chief: "To begin with, economists on both the left and right agree that the last thing a...

Awesome Tax Day video

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Please watch and share this video by Kentuckian Caleb Brown.
Monday, April 13, 2009

Pot v. Kettle

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Kentucky Republicans are really going to have to do more than just say they are different .

Save money by axing Kentucky Treasurer

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One funny part of Pat Crowley's recent profile of state Sen. Damon Thayer suggests Thayer may run for Treasurer in 2011. Sen. Thayer is...

Is honest transparency a political winner?

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It's too early to tell what Gov. Steve Beshear's cynical approach to government spending transparency will cost him politically. Co...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

What happens when everything is a casino?

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West Virginia's legislature on Friday sent a bill to their governor that would expand casino dependency past race tracks and on to a ban...
Saturday, April 11, 2009

Rolling through Richmond

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Thanks to everyone who participated in a great Tea Party event in Richmond on Saturday! I'll be back in Madison County on Wednesday, Apr...

Thanks to the Richmond Register!

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It's great to see the Richmond Register newspaper promoting today's Tea Party in Richmond .

Leland Conway speaks to GOP breakfast

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Since LBJ declared war on poverty in the 1960's we have spent more than $12 trillion on that effort and have seen the number of people i...

Stan Lee speaks about 2009 General Assembly

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"In the midst of a recession, we voted to raise taxes on Kentuckians nearly $300 million." "We passed a $1.2 billion road pla...
Friday, April 10, 2009

How media misreports government overspending

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The state reported Friday morning that General Fund revenues are higher for March and for the first nine months of the current fiscal year. ...

Taking Richmond by storm

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The Richmond Tea Party for Saturday, April 11, is all set. Should be a great time. Details are here . Check back for video coverage. I am co...

Irony escapes another industry in transition

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The Radio-Television News Directors Association gave WHAS11 in Louisville its prestigious Edward R. Murrow Investigative Reporting Award for...
Thursday, April 09, 2009

Hoping for better from Karem

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After failing to place a top teachers union official on the state school board last month, Gov. Steve Beshear appointed Thursday one of the...

While Kentucky sinks deeper into debt

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Kentucky's debt problem is Frankfort's big secret . Meanwhile, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford keeps fighting back.

Doesn't stand for "fantastic"

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The National Taxpayers Union released Thursday it's latest Congressional report card for tax and spending votes. Rep. Ben Chandler earn...

Obama the Restructurer

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The White House announced Thursday a plan to buy up thousands of cars for the federal government's fleet. "I will continue to ensur...

Kentucky Tea Party List

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I think this is all of them up to the April 15 events. Then comes the one at Applebee's Park in Lexington on April 18. APRIL 11TH: City...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Replacing Hebert with everyone

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Louisville's WHAS investigative reporter Mark Hebert, widely regarded as one of the best at digging up official secrets, is leaving his ...

You're kidding, right, Gov. Beshear?

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Gov. Steve Beshear was out Wednesday afternoon pimping a DVD about avoiding fraud. From the press release: We don't know (though I was s...

Kentucky Tea Party just getting started

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Last month's tea party in Lexington helped generate a lot of interest across the state in citizen activism. It's just going to get ...
Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Shut up and eat your stimulus, part two

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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is targeting Republicans who voted against the Spendulus bill by saying they oppose tax cuts...

All he needs is a "kick me" sign

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The President of the United States shows the Saudis who is boss.

Speak up, Mayor Newberry

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With less than two months before the start of a three-week federal trial against five former Fayette County jail officers accused of abusin...
Monday, April 06, 2009

More Tea with Leland

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Plan on making the trip to Richmond this Saturday, April 11, for a Tea Party featuring WLAP's Leland Conway. Starts at 4pm. Details here .

Wonder if Gov. Rell would take pork IOU?

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Ahead of Tuesday night's NCAA women's basketball championship game between University of Louisville and University of Connecticut, K...

Mongiardo retires part of 2004 campaign debt

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The breathless media coverage Monday about Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo raising $420,000 in the first quarter of this year to run for U.S. Sena...

Obama bows to international outrage

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Sunday, April 05, 2009

Leland does the math

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Obamanomics 101 By Leland Conway Uh-oh, the ideological left is bragging about President Obama’s big “middle class” tax cut that has just ta...

Tea Party revolution won't be televised

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If you can't get the mainstream media to cover your political movement, you just might have to do the job yourself. Click here to see o...
Saturday, April 04, 2009

Gotta be kidding alert

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As hard as it is to believe, some people think President Barack Obama isn't far enough to the left .

Good question

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Here is a letter to the editor of the Lexington Herald Leader in Saturday's paper.
Friday, April 03, 2009

Congressman Mike Pence

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U.S. Rep. Mike Pence (R-Indiana) said Rep. Brett Guthrie -- who introduced him -- is the first freshman congressman to chair a subcommittee ...

Trey Grayson speaks

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Secretary of State Trey Grayson began his speech by thanking Senator Jim Bunning, calling him a mentor and friend, and wishing him well in h...

Jim Bunning speaks

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Sen. Jim Bunning said "Believe me, the bailout plans are not helping the economy get back on track. They are not." "It's ...

David Williams speaks

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Senate President David Williams started out speaking about the education initiatives that have come out of the Senate the last few years. Go...

Innes takes on the establishment and wins

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The Bluegrass Institute's Richard Innes has been one of the primary drivers behind starting to clear the deadwood out of our education ...

Jefferson Co. Lincoln Dinner

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I'm in Louisville for the GOP Lincoln Dinner. Should be interesting. Stay tuned for updates. ---- Sen. Mitch McConnell sent the same stu...
Thursday, April 02, 2009

As Obama spends, we brew tea

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I will be on the Kruser Radio Show (WVLK 590 AM) Friday at 12:30 talking about the upcoming Bluegrass Tax Liberation Day in Lexington and t...

Another federal investigation for Jim Newberry

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Lexington Mayor Jim Newberry gets pretty squeamish when someone tries to ask him about the waste , fraud , and abuse going on at the Fayett...

Now they care about money

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The Lexington Herald Leader sat on their hands while Kentucky governments spent us to the brink ( here and here , just for starters), but w...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Sign the petition

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Free trade makes people freer, wealthier, and promotes peace. Great essay and free trade petition right here . Check it out and sign it!

Thanks a lot, Ben and John!

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Remember back in January when Reps. Ben Chandler and John Yarmuth voted to expand SCHIP by raising the federal cigarette tax? We don't ...

Another wild homeschool story

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A family from Germany is seeking political asylum in Tennessee so they can homeschool their children, a practice that's been illegal in ...