A Kentucky law passed this year to protect students of for-profit colleges mistakenly excludes many of those schools, including three that the attorney general has sued over allegedly misleading claims. [C-J/AKN]
A Kentucky-based organization that provides financial aid to veterans is seeing a spike in the number of requests as the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down. [H-L]
Goodness gracious, Anderson County/Kim King Land is just cold turning into a giant meth lab. [WKYT]
What happened with Occupy Wall Street? Nothing, just like we told you. Nothing happened. Nothing will happen. [HuffPo]
Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan launched a broad assault on President Barack Obama in a speech to social conservatives on Friday, accusing him of pandering to extremists on abortion and emboldening U.S. enemies in the Middle East. [Reuters]
The Federal Reserve wasn’t just trying to drive down interest rates when it announced a third round of bond purchases Thursday. [NPR]
Rehabilitating drug users. A more liberal approach to drug addiction gains support from Beijing. [The Economist]
Officials have canceled a proposal for commercial logging in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Rockcastle County that had caused concern about the potential impact on a pristine spring and trees hundreds of years old. [H-L]
It’s one of the oldest tricks in the Republican playbook: In times of political crisis, blame the liberal mainstream media. [Politico]
Here’s how the government talks about a drone program it won’t acknowledge exists. [ProPublica]
Republican lawmakers are grumbling about the direction of Mittens Romney’s campaign and say he needs to change course. [The Hill]
Turns out that Republicans are being challenged on Medicare and are losing a ton of ground on that front. [NYT]
The government’s monthly jobs report has become Washington’s most anticipated and studied economic indicator, pounced upon by politicians, economists and journalists for snap judgments as the presidential election nears. But in the real world, most everybody else just looks around and figures things out for themselves. [HuffPo]
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1 Polar // Sep 17, 2012 at 11:47 pm
Regards occupy, I got the idea of the 99% vs the 1%, but nobody has ever been able to coherently explain exactly what goals and legislation camping in public parks near city halls or Wall Street was supposed to enact or achieve. The teabaggers may all be half (if not more) crazy, but at least their legislative goals are crystal clear. If the occupy movement is to be more than a 2011 trivia question, they must come up with goals and direction, because, even to most liberal people, they’re a rabble camping in the park with Guy Fawkes masks on, and a couple good slogans.
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