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MUCKRAKER: August 2005
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005. Pardon-moi - Frankfort French. Predictably, the state’s two largest newspapers, left-leaning to the extent that they make the leaning Tower of Pisa look ramrod straight, have begun their long-term program of Fletcher-castigation, now that that the short-term program has been short-circuited by the governor’s pardons of a gaggle of guys who should have done business the same way former democrat-patronage czar Doc Beauchamp used to do it by phone, stupid! For instance, what was ...
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MUCKRAKER: February 2006
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006. HB 236 and the Kentucky Council of Churches. The Kentucky House has just passed HB 236, a bill that would allow citizens the right to protect themselves in their homes and cars by use of deadly force before being attacked, when such attack is judged to be certain. It also grants significant immunity from civil lawsuits to a citizen who has had to use deadly force in the protection of life, limb, and property. The bill, of course, is the outgrowth of the simple use of common se...
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MUCKRAKER: October 2005
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005. Has lately been on one of its favorite harangues having to do with racism, of course and has chosen the University of Kentucky as the target. It seems that enrolment among black freshmen has dropped precipitously in percentage of those qualifying for entrance from the numbers of last year, ergo, the university is at fault. Columnist stated flatly that UK has scared. These qualified freshmen (should one say freshpeople, the better not to commit political-correctness hara-kiri?
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MUCKRAKER: December 2005
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Saturday, December 31, 2005. God and the Nation in 2006. Here is a recent paragraph by the resident political blogger of the Lexington Herald-Leader. Boy Columnist (aka Larry Keeling): "I feel this is what the Lord wanted me to do," Carroll Rousey, who put up a display that includes the Ten Commandments in the Mercer County Courthouse and who has been asking businesses and other organizations to hang the Decalogue as well, told the. It is doubtful that his degree of wisdom surpasses that of the 6. Now no...
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MUCKRAKER: July 2005
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Friday, July 29, 2005. Make the Guv Walk! At first blush, it appeared that the main editorial on July 29 in the Lexington Herald-Leader. Would cover something besides the so-called hiring scandal in Frankfort. The subject was the unthinkable notion that the state needs to significantly upgrade its fleet of aircraft, never mind that in a news article of the day before there ran an account in the H-L. Of the state’s fleet, averaging between 32 and 34 years in age. That line constituted the whole paragraph.
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MUCKRAKER: May 2005
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Saturday, May 28, 2005. Frankfort's Tempest in a Teapot. Sometimes, the best thing to do when observing the antics of politicians is to pay attention to what some of the politically savvy pros have to offer. While the Lexington Herald-Leader. WHAS TV’s Mark Hebert got in on the fun, too, as did astute observer Lowell Reese, editor of the Frankfort-based Kentucky Gazette. Smith ended the program with an anecdote describing how one of the masters of patronage of yesteryear, Emerson Doc Beauchamp, operated,...
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MUCKRAKER: January 2006
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Monday, January 30, 2006. Founding Fathers.Always Right? In a recent column, I claimed that the democrats have decided to make as their major campaign appeal concerning the November elections the desperate need for voters to return the Senate and the House to democrat control in order for the House to impeach the president and the Senate to vote him out of office. In Iraq, the figure since March 2003 is about 2.2 deaths per day. In that column, I made this statement: The "wiretapping" matter will be the ...
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MUCKRAKER: September 2005
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Monday, September 26, 2005. The Tale of Two Hurricanes. Witnessing two dangerous hurricanes within weeks of each other in essentially the same part of the country, but in quite different circumstances, both demographically and geographically, furnishes the opportunity to make comparisons between the reactions and actions with respect to the behavior of citizens, local and state officials, federal-government officials, and the military. Perhaps the key to understanding why the New Orleans episode was such...
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MUCKRAKER: November 2005
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005. H-L columnist stings WASP guv! The resident race-baiter at the Lexington Herald-Leader. Is Merlene Davis, who also writes columns concerning other things, a favorite target being WASPMs (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant men). In her column of 29 November, she attempted to ridicule Governor Fletcher, a WASPM (also getting in a racial lick), but in the process did herself no favors. Her column is in both print and online. You got it backwards.too much navel-staring maybe? The corpor...
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MUCKRAKER: June 2005
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Thursday, June 30, 2005. Those of a conservative bent mostly the republicans have been gnashing their teeth for a long time now with regard to the activism that has become the hallmark of many judges, even some entire courts of appeal, such as the federal Ninth Circuit in the wild and wooly far west, that is overturned by the SCOTUS 75% of the time. Those Florida beauties exhibited more criminality than many of the criminals to whom they apply the law. Elements) may or may not be physically in place.
