When running for re-election in 2008, Sen. Mitch McConnell campaigned heavily on his ability to bring home bacon. He proved the point by voting for bailouts and massive piles of debt most Republicans realize we can’t afford. As the wind has shifted, so, of course, has Sen. McConnell. In fact, he took a break recently from caving in on the next debt ceiling deal to post a | Read More »
The federal government won’t be shut down next week in order to protect ObamaCare funding. And that’s supposed to be the good news. At least that’s the case if you get your Republican talking points from Senator Mitch McConnell. It’s a different story, however, if you ask Senator Rand Paul and Representative Thomas Massie. In the last 24 hours, Senate and House bipartisan majorities both passed the | Read More »
The late Gatewood Galbraith’s ardent advocacy of marijuana and hemp was easy to lampoon, but the endurance of his message can revolutionize American politics for those who now embrace it. In short, the Republican party should seek to become the party of cannabis. Most opinions about repairing the Republican Party now focus on tweaking messaging or more aggressively courting various demographic groups. This approach | Read More »
Competitors to a growing Lexington, Kentucky company would like to see Wildcat Moving forced to load up their trucks and their 31 employees and get out of the state. Unfortunately for all of us, some Frankfort politicians in both parties appear more than eager to make it so. At issue is a bizarre Kentucky law requiring anyone wishing to start a moving company to receive | Read More »
Readers will awaken Sunday to national news coverage of the most powerful Republican in Washington D.C. hurling a boulder at two liberal Louisville activists for suggesting erroneously on Twitter that his wife is from China. This is what passes for the “ultimate outrage” at a time in which we strain at petty slights but swallow whole imaginary fiscal crises like the sequester and big government blunders like providing funding for | Read More »
Sen. Mitch McConnell has never been a big fan of the Club for Growth, a fiscally conservative Washington D.C. group committed to replacing moderate Republicans with fiscal hawks. It’s about to get a whole lot worse for him. The Club has released its 2012 Congressional Scorecard which shows Sen. McConnell with his lowest score since 2008. Think bailouts. The 2012 votes that could cost Sen. McConnell dearly | Read More »
Kentucky’s Senate Republican caucus has agreed to approve all of Governor Steve Beshear’s executive branch appointments this year in exchange for nothing, President Robert Stivers’ office has confirmed. This will not do. Kentucky conservatives have a great opportunity to fight back against this cave-in mentality and exposing Frankfort’s ridiculous “new tone” nonsense, which is political speak for giving up the farm. Of fifty one confirmation resolutions filed | Read More »
Kentucky’s Health Benefit Exchange has finally coughed up the Budget Narrative from their monster $182 million ObamaCare grant application that came through for them on January 17. In it, they describe the titles, duties and cost of 119 employees for the web site purportedly designed to make it easier for us to buy health insurance. The average annual pay plus benefits for 119 employees comes out to $122,650. | Read More »
U.S. House Republicans’ effort to “resequence” the federal debt discussion needs a little help. I get the logic of Speaker Boehner’s “no budget, no pay” bill with the creation of a debt ceiling date set to May 18 so someone other than Obama knows when default occurs. Rep. Andy Barr, my Congressman, voted for the measure on Wednesday. I appreciate his logic and the idea | Read More »
Jackson County Sheriff Denny Peyman has some advice for federal officials attempting to confiscate legal guns held by citizens in his jurisdiction: “go ahead, make my day.” Sheriff Peyman says he is very concerned about proposed federal legislation that could result in massive gun ownership bans and orders of confiscation. “My office will not comply with any federal action which violates the United States Constitution | Read More »
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