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  • A thousand words for your Thursday on Aug 20, 2009

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  • On a personal note... on Jul 2, 2009

    I am suspending publishing of the Kentucky Progress blog immediately to take a position as a consultant with the Rand Paul for U.S. Senate Exploratory Committee.More about that soon.This site has been both very hard work and a lot of fun. I expect to...

  • Next episode of Ben Chandler vs. voters on Jul 1, 2009

    Lost perhaps in the recent frenzy of Congressional pillaging is the fact that President Barack Obama's labor union payoff is not yet complete. That means card check is headed back to the front burner. U.S. Rep. Tom Price (R-Georgia), speaking on a na...

  • Mongiardo splits the baby on health reform on Jul 1, 2009

    Left-leaning Kentucky web sites Barefoot and Progressive and Page One are jumping all over U.S. Senate candidate Daniel Mongiardo for not cheerleading enough on government healthcare reform in the following video.In fact, they are calling him a "Repu...

  • Closing the barn door too late alert on Jul 1, 2009

    State Auditor Crit Luallen sures knows how to work the news cycle on an old story that is sexier than it is substantial:It's almost as if putting government checkbooks online and doing a full audit of the Kentucky Department of Education would be bad...

  • Wild (and misplaced) rhetoric on Jun 30, 2009

    The Lexington Herald Leader editorial board is mighty upset about the Kentucky Association of Counties misspending perhaps several thousand dollars. The funny part, really, is that they are worried about insufficient spending documentation of an orga...

  • Grover brings Big Mo to Lexington on Jun 30, 2009

    A top Washington D.C. Republican came to Lexington Monday with an optimistic message for local conservatives. "One of the things that has changed is that we have learned to react to the spending rather than waiting for the tax increases," said Grover...