A couple of very interesting quotes from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Polwatchers Saturday night about political heat he is getting for supporting the bailout bill: ““It’s not fair to paint this as some kind of fatal vote when you’ve got such a huge bipartisan majority voting for it,” McConnell said in his first…
Kentucky Second Congressional District candidate Sen. David Boswell was asked recently his position on Sen. Barack Obama’s plan to abolish secret ballot union elections and allow unions to intimidate their way back into domination of not only the political process, but business operations as well. Watch Boswell as he sides firmly with Obama:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6u2QqJO-jI]
Beshear/Abramson/Yarmuth had a press conference this afternoon to announce that you are spending $68 million extra to the government so they can get credit for paying heating bills for Kentuckians who aren’t you. Oh, and they also wanted to remind you to vote for them. So turn your thermostat down this winter so others won’t…
This is pegging my irony meter:Is Steve Beshear seriously giving investment advice? How about “stop spending money you don’t have?” Governor? How about “stop paying too much for school construction?” Or maybe “get realistic about funding long-term liabilities?”
Lexington, Kentucky attorney Kent Masterson Brown, who helped blow the lid off Sen. Hillary Clinton’s secret healthcare planning commission in 1993, was back in the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. filing a lawsuit against the Bush Administration for preventing Americans from opting out of the moribund Medicare program. Brown is attorney for three Medicare-eligible…
The Kentucky Board of Education looked over the new CATS results early this week, but they shouldn’t have wasted their time. With the new scores release, it is now painfully evident that this testing program is hopelessly inflated. I took a look at the latest scores and compared them to what would have been predicted…
More evidence that Kentucky’s fiscal problems represent overspending rather than too-low taxes comes from Budget Director Mary Lassiter’s office this morning. Revenues for the first quarter of the 2009-10 fiscal year were $17,798,488 higher than they were a year ago. Even if you include the $15 million drop in the Road Fund, increased revenues point…
Couldn’t help thinking of the following clip from Star Wars when I saw the latest mortality calculator from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. They claim to have found a way to keep people from dying — and to be able to show you on a snazzy internet calculator.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R09jFWQVrE0]The RWJ people — and their hapless followers…
Internet Freedom Threatened For a nice summary from Derek Hunter of the Media Freedom Project on the problems with Kentucky’s ill-advised attempt to seize the Web Domain Names of more than 100 Internet poker sites, check out this video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl2JYBinBMw]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is out with her latest great idea: another $150 billion “stimulus” check. Good grief. If that worked, wouldn’t we already be out of the woods?