What do Democrats do when they have a candidate in a special election they don’t want to be tied to Barack Obama? Have Obama’s CAMPAIGN MANAGER serve as a consultant on the race so the candidate is tied directly to the president. Smooth move. [Bluegrass Politics] Just how bizarre-o crazy is the NRCC? It published [...]

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What the hell is going on in Scott County These days? A chocolate lab named Darcy ended up at the Scott County Animal Shelter after her owner says she escaped from the yard. [WKYT] With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration [...]

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Kentucky’s change to a managed care system of delivering Medicaid services continues to rile lawmakers, although they’re the ones who demanded cost-savings measures for the health care system for the poor and disabled. [Ronnie Ellis] Huxley Sommerville, group managing director at Fitch Ratings, increasingly fears another massive financial crisis. Ask him why and he tells [...]

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Rand Paul was 2:48 worth of concerned with the Department of Homeland Security budget and arming pilots: Because he is an expert on national security, military, race relations and whatever other delusion from which he’s suffering at the moment.

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An Alaska-based military policeman will serve 16 years in prison and will be dishonorably discharged for selling secrets to an FBI undercover agent who he believed was a Russian spy, a panel of eight military members has decided. Spec. William Colton Millay, of Owensboro, Ky., pleaded guilty last month to attempted espionage and other counts. [...]

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About the only thing this McConnell audio scandal is missing is ominous banjo music humming in the background. Or maybe banjo with a gay escort electronica beat. [Deep Thoughts] Curtis Morrison launched a legal defense fund plea. Go take a look for yourself. [Click the Clicky] “The so-called super PAC is two basic amateurs ” [...]

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Police said a shooting in downtown Lexington Saturday night appeared to be the result of a robbery victim fighting back. [H-L] Opponents and supporters of the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline are intensifying their PR campaigns as the White House decision on the project inches closer. [The Hill] The U.S. drone war remains cloaked [...]

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Sounds like the late 70s and early 80s when elected officials were operating a drug ring. A Lexington attorney has been charged with investing $100,000 in an alleged drug ring while his brother and fiancée have been charged with trying to obstruct an investigation into the lawyer’s financial doings. [H-L] Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy (D) [...]

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Goodness gracious, what’s going on in Frankfort these days? An internal investigation led to felony charges against a Franklin County Regional Jail officer accused of bringing contraband into the facility and illegally using another person’s food stamps. [H-L] Only a few senators are planning to forfeit a portion of their salaries to charity or the [...]

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Two key bills that supporters say would help protect nursing home residents and other vulnerable adults failed to pass again this legislative session — even though there was money in the budget to implement both measures. [H-L] The Supreme Court has declined to take up a lawsuit filed by a trio of U.S. airlines against [...]

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