Industrial and Commercial Bank of China gets the nod to take over a US bank, the first such US approval for a Chinese firm. [BBC] Makers of flame retardants manipulate research findings to back their products and downplay health risks. [Chicago Tribune] Colin Powell says that Dubya didn’t bother consulting his national security council on [...]

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Go read this: The Sisyphean task of funding U.S. state and local-government retirement plans, a hidden risk for municipal-bond investors, will get even more daunting under proposed new accounting rules. Pensions in Illinois, New Jersey, Indiana and Kentucky may have less than 30 percent of the assets needed to cover promised benefits under the measure, [...]

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What’s that? Oh, yes, President Barack Obama announced his support for gay marriage this afternoon. [Freedom to Marry, The Advocate, NYT, HuffPo, BBC, WaPo, Yahoo] The president of a mail order bride company has been lobbying Republicans to water down protections for abused immigrants. [HuffPo] Lexington is still super-nervous about potential United States Postal Service [...]

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We told you last week that a truckload of Jim Higdon’s Cornbread Mafia was stolen outside Chicago. Now his hometown paper in Lebn’n is running a big ole front page story: This is going to be interesting.

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This wasn’t exactly the right story to be featuring on the front of the paper on the biggest tourism weekend of the year in Kentucky. Especially when it’s a hit on one of the state’s signature industries and sources of tax revenue. [The 'Ville Voice] A majority of Kentuckians favor a statewide smoking ban. Interesting [...]

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Naturally, we believe all children should be aborted forever and ever but people like Gary Moore can’t stop pretending that being “pro-life” is a thing. So here’s a direct mail piece we got our hands on: FRONT – CLICK TO ENLARGE BACK – CLICK TO ENLARGE It’ll really get the attention of all the meemaws [...]

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Ouch, this editorial took Steve Beshear to task over his growing Medicaid scandal. Beshear can’t outsource responsibility for poor, sick Kentuckians to low-bidding out-of-state companies or the courts, as much as he might wish he could. [H-L] At the bottom of its press releases the US Postal Service brags that if it were a private [...]

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Another d-bag in Frankfort is facing animal cruelty charges. Way to go, Kentucky. [H-L] Yeah, there’s absolutely no problem in America with bullying. Nothing to see here. Move along. [HuffPo] Don’t miss Comment on Kentucky tonight at 8:00 P.M. Eastern on KET. Scheduled guests: Tom Loftus, Janet Patton, Amanda Van Benschoten. [KET] Are you ready [...]

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Greg Stumbo is calling for an investigation of Coventry Cares. Now that it’s politically safe for him to do so. [H-L] Defense spending trumps poverty in the Republican Congress. That’s how it always works with people like Hal Rogers and Ben Chandler. [Politico] Whattya mean the white supremacists aren’t crazy as hell? Another instance of [...]

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Here’s another photo of Jack Conway trying to scare kids about prescription drug abuse in Western Kentucky last week: “Public awareness plays an important role in our fight against prescription drug abuse,” General Conway said. “I am traveling the state to make sure Kentucky kids know that when they take a pill that wasn’t prescribed [...]

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