Tom Eblen, a known America-hater and guy who rides a bicycle around Lexington sometimes, has hit the nail on the head with his latest.
Steal $100,000 in a University of Kentucky ticket scam, as former UK basketball star Ed Davender did, and you could get eight years in prison.
Steal five times that much from Blue Grass [...]

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In case you missed it last night? The Kentucky Democratic Party’s Republican chairman, Daniel Logsdon, was, uh… he was on teevee. Nice to finally have a spokesperson who isn’t awful, though. You have GOT to check the archive out when you get a chance. [Page One]
A majority of Republicans believe [...]

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Oh, hey, it’s Dick Armey calling Mitch McConnell a coward:

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Aren’t you proud of the folks who hate brown people, Kentucky?
Cause they were on national television last night:

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To continue our trend of negative news today, let’s dig into another nightmare.
Remember Paula Gastenveld, the OCTCS head that Helen Mountjoy apparently axed over some bitterness when she caught on to an alleged financial scheme?
Here’s a quick refresher:

AG: KCTCS Must Turn Over Records [October 28, 2009]
Does This Have Something to Do With Mountjoy? [October 28, [...]

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Really, what is Lexington mayor Jim Newberry trying to hide?

Lexington city officials won’t release an open-records request that is at the center of a controversy at City Hall, a decision that one First Amendment expert called “pure silliness.”
Bruce Sahli, director of the internal audit division, turned down a request under the Kentucky Open Records Law [...]

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Last evening’s Transforming Education in Kentucky (here & here) has drawn a lot of criticism from gasbags like me. No doubt. Were good things discussed? Sure. Was nearly everything discussed super-suspicious because of people like Sylvia Lovely and Helen Mountjoy? Of course.
So check this funny mess (WARNING: It’s behind a [...]

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A couple days ago I may have mentioned my frustration with the Transforming Education in Kentucky talks. It’s pretty easy to understand why after discovering how deeply involved both Sylvia Lovely and Helen Mountjoy are in the so-called transformation.
But after last night’s forum? I’m struck by just how ridiculous the entire affair was.
Steve [...]

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It makes me sick to my stomach to continually point out Jack Conway’s flip-flopping on the Bush tax cuts. And the mainstream media is strongly taking notice. Jack’s spokespeople are making matters worse by pointing out the flip-flopping galore in their reactions. I am hopeful that some day Jack will return to being [...]

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Gail Collins, of The New York Times, is just an expert on Kentucky who knows everything, forever, amen, but she has a you-know-what for Rand Paul.
From her latest:
But some of the current charges are trivial in the extreme. In Kentucky, Rand Paul has been attacked for failing to correct an interviewer who said Paul had [...]

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