Monday, June 08, 2009

Casino gambling not even a top five issue

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Casino gambling is getting all the attention in Frankfort right now, but we have much bigger fish to fry. Kentucky's unemployment benefi...
Sunday, June 07, 2009

Karl Marx would love this

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Ford Motor Company is about to pay the price for not bowing, scraping and begging to Obama.

ObamaCare weekend sales pitch

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Put your boots on before venturing into Pres. Barack Obama's latest HopeyCam. Or just skip it; I picked out the highlights right here. O...

KY GOP needs Virginia's guts on schools

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Kentucky could take a lesson from Virginia GOP gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell, who is pushing hard for school choice freedoms in his st...

Putting a real governor on Frankfort

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The Wall Street Journal's Paris and Berlin writers quote themselves this weekend spreading the silly idea that their countries should be...

Mitch McConnell involved in primary again

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Just pulled this comment off a message board for purposes of discussion: "I received the same email from the Trey Grayson campaign.&quo...
Saturday, June 06, 2009

Where's our saving and creating?

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Looks like big government economic voodoo is working out just about the same as it always does -- increasing dependency on politicians.
Friday, June 05, 2009

Fight for economic sanity is upon us

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U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy on Friday afternoon was passing around a copy of a socialized medicine bill he has worked up that will force all em...

Distancing myself from Obama Motors

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When I needed to buy a car recently, I went to my local Toyota dealership. Amid the auto bailout mania, the last thing I wanted was a Govern...

Beshear's economic development lip service

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In announcing today that he was expanding his special session call to include expansion of corporate welfare programs, Gov. Steve Beshear sa...
Thursday, June 04, 2009

Rand Paul gets a boost

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Not that this is a surprise, but Dr. Rand Paul's exploratory committee got a noteworthy shot in the arm today:

Dragging it out of Jack Conway

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Attorney General Jack Conway has been able to slink along quietly while the rest of Frankfort wrestles over what to do about horse racing in...

Williams calls Beshear out on slots

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Just two hours after Gov. Steve Beshear had a press conference to claim that video lottery terminals will save the horse industry and provid...

Are those jobs saved or created?

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State Budget Director Mary Lassiter just told the Joint Budget Committee that Kentucky is going to bring in an extra $18.5 million in FY 201...

Plumbing Newberry's information black hole

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Current and former Lexington jail employees will be surprised to learn that Mayor Jim Newberry's administration apparently hasn't be...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Trey Grayson in Lexington

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Secretary of State Trey Grayson will have a fundraiser for his federal campaign exploratory committee on Tuesday evening, June 30, at Mike S...

Confronting the nonsense in Frankfort

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There will be a June 17 state Capitol Tea party, noon to 1 pm. The overspending and the overtaxing continue to weaken our fiscal situation a...

Kentucky budget needs your input

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The Wall Street Journal has it right. State budgets, including Kentucky's, will probably get worse before they get better. Kentuckians a...

"Couldn't have been the unions and CAFE!"

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The Courier Journal editorial page blamed General Motors' failure on "atrocious marketing and production decisions." Yeah, tha...
Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Kentucky state sovereignty resolution filed

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Rep. Stan Lee filed HCR 10 on Tuesday, which would claim state sovereignty for Kentucky under the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ...

What, no pro-Obama rallies in Frankfort?

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As talk about a General Assembly special session the week of June 15 picks up, plans for small government rallies in Frankfort are coming t...
Monday, June 01, 2009

Dumbing down America 46 states at a time

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While busily trying to scare Kentuckians into making government bigger and more expensive out in front of everyone , Gov. Steve Beshear has ...

Taking the fight to Georgetown tonight!

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I'm going to Scott County tonight at 7:00 for the Freedom Rally there at the Courthouse. Here is some good advice for the grassroots mov...

The battle to come...

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Last night, Illinois taxpayers caught a break when legislators failed to pass a massive tax increase. Now the fun part starts and Kentuckian...

More people need to see this

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Watch these people keep straight faces talking about how socialized medicine will save $350 billion a year by putting everyone on Medicare!
Sunday, May 31, 2009

Associated Press' balanced coverage shortfall

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The mainstream media is clinging hard to the spin that Kentucky has a billion dollar "shortfall." Conveniently overlooked in stori...
Saturday, May 30, 2009

Having their fiscal irresponsibility and eating it, too

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Isn't it funny that so many of those Kentuckians who believe the spent Social Security Trust Fund IOU's equal real money and nothin...

History is on our side

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Friday, May 29, 2009

Grab your wallet: Legislature convenes June 15

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This afternoon, Gov. Steve Beshear called the General Assembly into special session beginning June 15. His statement included the following:...

"Only 3.35 million fake jobs to go!"

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ABC News has broken through the ignorance barrier to openly question Pres. Barack Obama's silly job-saving/creating claims . Who will be...

Don't Know Jack

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Attorney General Jack Conway wants to be a United States Senator, but doesn't seem to have any specific positions on the issues. How abo...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Courier-Journal botches American Flag story

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A Texas woman's Memorial Day observation in the workplace took an odd turn in the last few days involving Louisville-based Kindred Healt...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

A strange way to observe Memorial Day

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Last November, Fayette County Detention Center Officer Luke Valdez, a fifteen-month veteran of the jail, wrote two internal emails with spe...

Don't show this to Obama

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Turns out the surest way to cut electricity usage is to shrink the economy.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Almost time for a real fiscal discussion

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The House Budget Committee will hold a hearing on Rep. Bill Farmer's tax reform bill on June 4 at 1:00 pm in room 129 of the Capitol Ann...

When Massachusetts says it's too much money...

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Kentucky's corporate welfare cabal entered the state in a contest with several states and dozens of private entities for a piece of a $2...

Waking up sleepy Frankfort

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The most important state government meeting in months has been scheduled for two weeks from today. On June 9, the Education Assessment and A...
Monday, May 25, 2009

Twittering Lexington's corruption

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Word about Teresa Isaac and Jim Newberry's bad behavior has made it all the way to Louisville.

Can we do this and draw welfare, too?

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Has there ever been a U.S. President whose name has been invoked more often than the current one in internet scams and get-rich-quick scheme...

Memorial Day out with the family

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Working on some big changes for Kentucky Progress, but not today. I'm going to do some serious playing with my sons. Anything in particu...
Sunday, May 24, 2009

The real Voodoo economics

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This passage appeared on Sunday's New York Times editorial page: "Contrary to conventional wisdom, raising taxes may be better than...
Saturday, May 23, 2009

From the same people who like Obamanomics

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It's quite a leap from an old monkey fossil to "proof" of a 47 million year old evolutionary link to humans. Very similar to t...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Beshear cares more about unions than poor kids

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Kentucky could save hundreds of millions of dollars repealing prevailing wage and we are monkeying around with $4.5 million cuts on program...

See you at the Frankfort Freedom Rally

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Concerned citizens will gather Saturday, May 23, at Juniper Hill Park (800 Louisville Road) in Frankfort 1pm to 3pm to support public polici...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

Ready for your Dan Rather tax?

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Don't look now, but some people think it might be terrific to charge you hundreds of dollars a year in "news tax" to subsidize...

Bunning smacks Obama over Gitmo

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Sen. Jim Bunning said the following after the U.S. Senate voted 87-3 to spend another $73 billion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: "...

Calling big government's bluff

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There is a widespread belief in Frankfort that Gov. Steve Beshear will call a June 15 special session to raise revenue in the face of Kentuc...

Frankfort still treating us like mushrooms

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Alabama has become the latest state whose legislature wants its citizens to be able to see how their tax money is being spent. Kentucky sti...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Beshear governing by silly emotional appeal

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Here is Gov. Steve Beshear's latest plea for turning the state over to casino gambling interests: "I don't want Kentucky to be ...

Still looking for our efficiency study

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Attorney General Jack Conway is upset about shysters who organize as "charities" to steal money from unsuspecting Kentuckians, and...

Beshear and Chandler feed us to the unions

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Just as Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson did the math on prevailing wage costs in his city and decided to opt out, Congressman Ben Chandler ...

Welcome back, David Williams

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The Louisville Courier Journal has gone back to calling Senate President David Williams silly names on its editorial page: "Those numbe...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Audit the Fed bill is in federal budget

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Sen. Jim Bunning said Senate Democrats so far have not removed his " Audit the Fed " bill from the budget bill which could get a v...

Better talk about this now

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A weekend debate between South Carolina's two Republican U.S. Senators, as described in The State newspaper, should begin an important ...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Sitting next to Mica, I feel older and balder

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I like the sound of this

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In Tennessee, they are setting up Tea Parties for one of their Congressional representatives to remind him that he "works for Tennessea...
Saturday, May 16, 2009

Obamathon for socialized medicine

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Call it a tax-me-more fund for Canadian-style health care. Pres. Barack Obama wants you to send in money so he can run commercials to promo...

Let's make some news

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I'll be on Newsmakers Saturday morning at 11 am with Mica Sims talking about where the resistance to bloated government movement goes fr...
Friday, May 15, 2009

Food for thought for Appalachia

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Add one to the "no comment" brigade

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It's worth pointing out that the federal investigation into the Lexington jail inmate abuse scandal still has not been closed. As the sc...

Ronald Reagan on ObamaCare

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Thursday, May 14, 2009

The politicians are the real story here

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Wonder what former Mayor Teresa Isaac has to say about the Fayette jail inmate abuse scandal now that three of the five indicted officers h...

Birds of a feather...

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In 2011, when Gov. Steve Beshear is pretending he never heard of Pres. Barack Obama, remember that just as Obama was breaking his transparen...

Begging for a lightning strike, Jennifer?

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Funniest news item of the day: Michigan's Governor Jennifer Granholm is going to speak in a church about how great the Obama stimulus pl...

A full schedule

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I'm in meetings much of today and will host a tax reform forum tonight at 6:30 pm at The Inn on Broadway. Check back for updates.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Fayette jail pucker factor update

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Ahead of next month's federal trial in the Fayette County Detention Center inmate abuse trial, sources report three of the five defenda...

Senate race update

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I'm headed to Lexington for a meeting of the Women Republicans of Central Kentucky. The speaker today is Secretary of State Trey Grayson...

A little skepticism would go a long way here

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As the political effort to ram through a total federal takeover of the healthcare system marches on, Kentucky's big-spenders are using ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

The "fix" is in

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The radical left now suggests going to socialized medicine will "fix" health care, "fix" the economy, and create 3.5 mil...

For stabilizing the art market?

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It's a whole lot less taxpayer money than we are pouring into, say, bad real estate investments , but it seems that if we are going to e...

Bunning in Lexington in June

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Sen. Jim Bunning said on his weekly media conference call that he has a Lexington fundraiser scheduled for the first week of June. He declin...
Monday, May 11, 2009

Going around again on "home" economics

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Gov. Steve Beshear has a big cardboard $2 million novelty check for Bowling Green today for your children to redeem later. A quick check of ...

Leland Conway is NOT a jerk

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I am a Conservative, Not a Jerk By Leland Conway I recently gave a speech in which I stuck around to answer questions from the crowd. One q...

Changing your state with better information

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More than just a place, it's a state of mind .

Supersized socialism for lunch

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I'll be on a White House conference call this afternoon with Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius talking about Pres...
Sunday, May 10, 2009

Is a new message breaking through?

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Sen. Damon Thayer spoke this past weekend at the Scott County GOP Lincoln Day dinner. He addressed Pres. Barack Obama's wild spending an...
Saturday, May 09, 2009

David Williams speaks

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Senate President David Williams started his speech by thanking Jim Bunning for his service and said that if there was any question about Bun...

Mitch McConnell speaks to state GOP dinner

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Sen. Mitch McConnell said he thought the decade-long Republican majority in the Kentucky state Senate was probably the most important achiev...

Jim Bunning speaks to state Lincoln dinner

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Sen. Jim Bunning echoed many of the same economic points he made at earlier GOP Lincoln dinners . He repeated his line about not being "...
Friday, May 08, 2009

Preparing for the tax battle ahead

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Please join a public discussion of Kentucky tax reform in Lexington on Thursday, May 14, 6:30 pm, at The Inn on Broadway.

Where's your press release, Dr. Dan?

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Lt. Gov. Dan Mongiardo is keeping some strange company -- for a Dem in a U.S. Senate primary -- this weekend in Danville. And he doesn't...

Should we believe David Williams now?

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In February, Senate President David Williams said that if Republicans voted against tax increases, Democrats would cut spending in political...
Thursday, May 07, 2009

Run, Ronnie, Run!

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Sources at the Fayette County Detention Center report Director Ron Bishop was deposed recently related to some of his activities at the Lex...

Conway seizes an opportunity

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About the last thing we need right now is Attorney General Jack Conway lecturing us via press release about "swine flu" scammers. ...

National Day of Prayer in Louisville

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I'm headed to Louisville for a National Day of Prayer event. Check back for updates later today. UPDATE: Here is my speech. "The k...
Wednesday, May 06, 2009

U.S. Senate primary opponents in Lexington

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Possible U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul will be in Lexington Saturday morning for a Republican party breakfast at the Hilton Suites. Cost...

Kentucky Post falls into Steve Beshear vortex

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This afternoon when Gov. Steve Beshear put out a bogus press release stating falsely that Kentucky has the 5th most competitive economy in t...

Change a policy, fix a school building

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The Kentucky Opportunity Coalition pointed out Wednesday that repealing the state's expensive Davis Bacon requirements would save enou...
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 .