Ky Gov, Big deal - small story

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Monday October 08, 2007 · 2:17 PM PDT

2007/10/08 · 14:17

There's been a 12 year old story brewing in Kentucky and it broke last week. I'm writing this not as an expert on the subject, but because no one else has done it. In the end you'll probably agree that it's a whole lotta hot air, and not a lot of substance, but this is the story that Republican Governor Ernie Fletcher has been hoping would rescue his flailing campaign.

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Monday September 24, 2007 · 4:14 PM PDT

2007/09/24 · 16:14

I'd like to talk about the MoveOn dynamic. With nearly 4 million active members, it's a formidable organization with a powerful lobby. Yet the recent controversy over their ad in the New York Times has brought them some not-too-welcome publicity and scrutiny.

On the one hand, they have fired up their members. But on the other hand, they have made some Democrats cautious about associating with them. The recent vote on the Cornyn amendment, which denounced the ad, illustrates the Democrats' apprehension.

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Would you be more or less likely to support a candidate who has come out in defense of MoveOn?

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Would you be more or less likely to support a candidate who has come out in defense of MoveOn?

I would redouble my efforts in support of that candidate.

44 votes

I think the pros equal the cons.

6 votes

I don't think it's wise for a candidate to get too close to MoveOn.

6 votes

It doesn't matter what the risks are, MoveOn helps the cause and should be supported, period.

18 votes

KY-Sen, Insight Cable Pulls Anti-McConnell Ad

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Thursday September 06, 2007 · 6:16 PM PDT

2007/09/06 · 18:16

Breaking from Page One Kentucky.

Senator Mitch McConnell, upset at allegations made in a new TV Advertisement, has gotten Insight Communications to pull the ad from Cable TV.

A representative from Public Campaign Action Fund tells Page One that Insight neither notified them of this decision nor gave them a chance to respond to/argue re: why they think their facts are accurate.

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Insight Communications pulled the ad because:

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Insight Communications pulled the ad because:

It was deceptive advertising

2 votes

They have no shame rigging the system

34 votes

They want the Senator's vote against Net Neutrality

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Unicorn Museum to Open Soon?

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Sunday August 26, 2007 · 10:49 AM PDT

2007/08/26 · 10:49

Because if it's in the Bible, it must be true

O.K., maybe this doesn't really qualify as news, more like entertainment, but it's just so damn snarkilicious that I needed to share.

By now, most of you have heard of the Creation Museum which opened to great fanfare earlier this summer, in Northern Kentucky. For those of you unaware, it pays homage to the historical narrative put forth in the Bible. You know, the whole literal interpretation of the Bible, the part where the earth is 6,000 years old, Adam and Eve rode around on Dinosaurs, and Noah's flood created the dramatic landscape of the Rockies and Grand Canyon.

See Cubswin39's excellent diary about his trip there.

Ready? Good. Now, put down your beverage and follow this link to the Unicorn Museum website.

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Sunday August 19, 2007 · 2:57 AM PDT

2007/08/19 · 02:57

I love this life, I really do. Despite the pollution, climate change, extinction of species, and outright corruption and greed during the time I'm living in, I wouldn't trade this experience for anything.

You see, I haven't always been a lefty radical. And while a part of me laments the current state of affairs - particularly the defilement of liberty and freedom as we once knew them, I now have the opportunity to be all the radical I can be. The resistance is needed, it's growing, and I'm grateful to be a part of it.

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Friday August 17, 2007 · 8:02 AM PDT

2007/08/17 · 08:02

Last night, Lt. Col Andrew Horne (ret), senior advisor for VoteVets.org, Professor Charles R. Figley, psychologist and expert on combat stress, and 1st Lt Pete Hegseth, exec director for VetsforFreedom.org, debated the rising suicide rate for troops serving in Iraq.

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Tuesday August 14, 2007 · 5:08 AM PDT

2007/08/14 · 05:08

Wikipedia has launched a new feature that tracks back anonymous edits to the IP from which they came.

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Sunday August 05, 2007 · 7:39 AM PDT

2007/08/05 · 07:39

Until now, FOX News has been content to focus its efforts on fluff and political propaganda. But Newscorp's recent acquisition of Dow Jones & the WSJ means the game plan is sure to change with the launch of Fox Business News. Forgive my cynicism, but I fear that Fox will put the same spin on the financial news that they put on all other potentially political events. Not that Fox is bound to reporting the truth, in the first place.

Regular readers of the dailykos will probably share my guess as to why now? That answer is, because now is the time when they need to control the message regarding the US economy.

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Monday July 23, 2007 · 1:49 PM PDT

2007/07/23 · 13:49

From the Louisville Courier-Journal

Attorney General Greg Stumbo today announced the formation of an exploratory committee to test the waters in a run against U.S. Senate minority leader and former whip Mitch McConnell (R-Softmoney).

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Wednesday May 30, 2007 · 7:09 AM PDT

2007/05/30 · 07:09

We Democrats blew a prime opportunity to reverse the frame last week. As I listened to Dubya sputter about measuring progress in Iraq, sans accountability, I saw the gaping hole in his argument.

By finally conceding that we actually need a metric by which to gauge our progress, but refusing to accept the consequences of a deteriorating situation, he is admitting ahead of time that the current course of action will not succeed. It's like establishing a rule but then not assigning a punishment - Bush is planning to evade his responsibility when the time comes, and it's the reason he's been avoiding the subject of gauging progress ever since the war began. Bush is planning on failure.

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Sunday May 06, 2007 · 3:55 PM PDT

2007/05/06 · 15:55

The most recent news in the Kentucky Governor's race is the launching of a 527 group, formed by the labor unions, designed to take down Bruce Lunsford.

Several labor officials have set up an independent, tax-exempt group that can raise unlimited dollars to work against Bruce Lunsford, a Louisville businessman who is running for governor in the May 22 Democratic primary election.

Working Families for Kentucky Inc. is the first so-called “527” group that has signaled it will get involved in the primary election.

A few weeks ago labor distributed a flyer citing the top 10 reasons to vote against Lunsford, not the least of which is his endorsement of Republican Ernie Fletcher during the last governor's race.

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Monday April 16, 2007 · 10:26 AM PDT

2007/04/16 · 10:26

Certainly by now we've all seen the Q1 presidential fundraising numbers. These reports make my head swim, but a curiosity has taken over me - to find the number of online contributors to Hillary's campaign. I can't find the information anywhere. It's not in Hillary's press release. It's not on the FEC's website. It's not listed at politicalmoneyline either.

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