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1 Bleep! Blurp! lsquo;Smart trash can,rsquo; choice recycling donrsquo;t compute - August 25, 2010 - rank: 553

Last year, Kentucky paid $200,000 to an environmental consulting group called the Center for Climate Strategies. At the grouprsquo;s request, Governor Steve Beshear appointed members to a committee called the Kentucky Climate Action Panel KCAP. This group,

2 Doinrsquo; the Jack jig of fiscal conservatism - August 18, 2010 - rank: 883

All of a sudden, Jack Conway seems to be doing the ldquo;dance of fiscal conservatism.rdquo; After previously ...

3 Tax reform: An idea worth fighting for - August 04, 2010 - rank: 553

My favorite quote of all time is attributed to Winston Churchill. ldquo;A principled man has but to stand his ground and the world will yet come round to him.rdquo; Those of us who believe that the ideals of limited government and individual liberty provid

4 The change we need is changing the character of government - July 28, 2010 - rank: 553

Some say we can fix Americarsquo;s problems by changing the party in power. I donrsquo;t agree. While strategically I do believe that some Republicans should be granted temporary access to power, from a long-range perspective, a much more important change

5 Your right to redress has potential to put nation back on track - July 21, 2010 - rank: 553

Independence justified the actions of our founders by claiming a long list of grievances perpetrated on the colonies by Englandrsquo;s monarchy. The top priority for the first congress was to enshrine in the constitution the possibility of a redress for th

6 Donrsquo;t vote blindly; all politicians are local - July 14, 2010 - rank: 700

For many election cycles, Americans have made a horrible mistake. We tend to educate ourselves on the positions and ideology of the national candidates in a nominal and general way, and we vote for our local officials based on family name or name recogniti

7 VP Joe plays stimulus shell game in Louisville - June 30, 2010 - rank: 553

Vice President Joe Biden AKA the Stimulus Czar was in Louisville Monday along with Rep. John Yarmuth and Gov. Steve Beshear to brag about the stimulus package. Specifically, they were touting a $24.8-million dollar tax credit to GE to make energy-efficient

8 If you want to save the gulf mdash; buy BP - June 23, 2010 - rank: 553

Irsquo;m as mad at BP aka: Big Problem as anyone else, but because I want to save the Gulf of Mexico, Irsquo;m going to buy gas from BP, and lots of it. ldquo;Lady Gagardquo; liberal pop musician ndash; and yes, her intelligence is on par with her name ...

9 Press needs to press Conway campaign - June 16, 2010 - rank: 1000

The media has enjoyed telling us all sorts of funny little stories about Rand Paul recently, even pretending that every day that he didnrsquo;t speak to them was a major news event. ldquo;Hersquo;s in hiding,rdquo; they repeated over and over again. At the

10 On second thought, letrsquo;s spread the wealth - June 09, 2010 - rank: 553

Lebron James may be one of the top five basketball players in the world. Economists have released a study showing that he would have a $2.7 billion impact on Chicagorsquo;s economy over a six-year period if he went there to play. Should he do so, hersquo;d

11 Critics of Arizona's illegal immigration law are off base - May 26, 2010 - rank: 553

It is embarrassing to see how liberals have been acting about the Arizona illegal immigration law. The President of the United States has been criticizing Arizonans and apologizing for them to our enemies, cities around the country are boycotting the state

12 The Nanny Grocer: An epidemic of governmental proportions - May 12, 2010 - rank: 553

The other day, I saw the funniest thing. A 300-pound man wearing a T-shirt that said, ldquo;I Beat Anorexia.rdquo; Now, anorexia is a serious condition and not a laughing matter, but because I like irony, I couldnrsquo;t help but chuckle at the big manrsqu

13 Itrsquo;s time for Frankfort to grow up - May 05, 2010 - rank: 553

Gov. Steve Beshear said that the results of not having a state budget could be ldquo;cataclysmic.rdquo; True. The failure of our state legislature to pass a budget is inexcusable, and it is time for Frankfort to grow up. It should be noted that Senate Repu

14 We owe President Obama no thanks - April 28, 2010 - rank: 553

President Obama showed his arrogance and disdain for the American free speech process last week when he made the following remark about Tea Party protests: ldquo;Irsquo;ve been a little amused over the last couple of days where people have been having thes

15 The health care bill mdash; the devil is in the details - April 07, 2010 - rank: 553

The individual mandate to purchase health insurance isnrsquo;t the only invasive thing in the health care bill. Some of the worst aspects of it are troublesome provisions that have absolutely nothing to do with providing access to health care. According to

16 The die has not been cast - March 24, 2010 - rank: 553

I do not accept what fates others may cast for me. I prefer to chart my own destiny. I am an American. As I watched the Democrats cheer loudly as they ushered in what could be the final bankruptcy of America, these were the words that echoed in my head. I ...

17 A new profile in courage - March 09, 2010 - rank: 553

Sen. Jim Bunningrsquo;s courageous one-man stand against the hypocrisy of the big-spending left should be included in the American profiles in courage. The media should be ashamed for deliberately misleading the public by not telling the whole story. They

18 Beware of fiscal diversions - February 24, 2010 - rank: 553

Kentucky State Sen. Kathy Stein, D-Lexington, has introduced a bill that would cut the pay of legislators and employees of the judicial branch by 10 percent. Nice mdash; but this is a distraction. While I support the concept of this bill, and applaud Kathy

19 Bluegrass should mimic Garden State - February 16, 2010 - rank: 553

America is now in so much debt that if we paid off one million dollars every day, it would take more than 28,000 years to pay it off. The time has come for tough choices. The process of getting out of debt requires that we start with priorities and elimina ...

20 Texting drivers are idiots, but ban would be frivolous - February 09, 2010 - rank: 553

Let me start by saying that if you text and drive, you are an idiot. That statement aside, the legislaturersquo;s idea of banning texting while driving is just another example of a redundant law. Perhaps itrsquo;s the fact that Frankfort is hopelessly out

21 Hey there, Nancy! Try jumping over this gate - February 03, 2010 - rank: 624

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made the following statement last week regarding the health care reform bill: ldquo;Wersquo;re going through the gate, if the gate is closed, wersquo;ll go over it, if itrsquo;s too high, wersquo;ll pole vault over it, and if itr

22 The question of fries and life - January 26, 2010 - rank: 553

Sen. Denise Harper Angel, D-Louisville, is sponsoring a piece of legislation that would force any restaurant chain with more than 10 locations in Kentucky to post the calories for their meals on the menu. Aside from the inconvenience and extra expense to t

23 What about mountain-top mining - January 19, 2010 - rank: 451

To the editor, In last weekrsquo;s column by Leland Conway, I was not surprised by the usual fears of ...

24 Haiti cursed Donrsquo;t be absurd - January 19, 2010 - rank: 553

Pat Robertson shouldnrsquo;t have said it. Last week, while raising money for Haiti Relief on CBN, Pat Robertson recalled a legend, not necessarily a fact, as though it were the truth. Robertson told the story that way back in the 1700s when the Haitians w

25 Insurance companies help the rich get richer - January 13, 2010 - rank: 350

To the editor, Reform to me, Leland Conway, is when insurance companies spend more than $200 million for commercials ...

26 The coal monster cometh - January 13, 2010 - rank: 553

A recent central Kentucky newspaper ran a headline claiming, ldquo;Coal Tax Breaks Cost State $115 million.rdquo; The article read more like an editorial than real journalism as it chased after the chief culprit of climate calamity mdash; the coal monster.

27 Speak now or forever hold these bad economic policies - January 06, 2010 - rank: 553

Act now while we still have the chance. Thatrsquo;s my message to the Kentucky legislature regarding what could be a $1.5 billion shortfall next year. Every year we hear the same old song. We donrsquo;t have enough money to cover our expenses. It never occ

28 Almighty may blow stack if we donrsquo;t work together - December 30, 2009 - rank: 350

Dear Editor, If McConnell, the Republicans and Leland Conway donrsquo;t begin to work on behalf of the ldquo ...

29 Yuletide blessings and a prayer for America - December 23, 2009 - rank: 553

God bless those who have lost their jobs in the current economic crisis. I pray for a return to fiscal sanity by our government and economic freedom so that Americans can once again build and sustain our dynamic economy. God bless those who have lost their

30 Focus: Tea movement is rising - December 16, 2009 - rank: 553

Staying focused is the single, most important ingredient of any successful movement. The Tea Party movement must regain its focus, or lose its momentum. On March 21, I helped organized the first Tea Party in Kentucky in downtown Lexington. No paychecks fro

31 Failure to stimulate - December 09, 2009 - rank: 553

There is no credible journalism left. If there were, the media would have caught the biggest political story of the year last week. Instead, we continue to hear about how many mistresses Tiger Woods may have had and story after story about the couple who l

32 The greatest scientific hoax - December 02, 2009 - rank: 553

With the news last week that scientists have been actively deceiving the public about global warming, I am hoping that Congressman Ben Chandler is feeling kind of sheepish about his vote in support of Cap and Trade about now. The University of East Anglia

33 The 2,000 page disaster - November 12, 2009 - rank: 553

If the Senate does not make fundamental changes to the House health care bill, this will be the first time in our nationrsquo;s history that our government has forced us to purchase something. Irsquo;m not sure which is scarier, the bill itself, or our lea

34 174 and counting: A broken fiscal promise - November 04, 2009 - rank: 624

The last time the United States spent less money than it took from taxpayers was 1835, when President Andrew Jackson made the final payment on a decade long pledge by congress to pay off the national debt. He accomplished the feat without an income tax. Ho

35 Ironically, our government misses point on education - October 21, 2009 - rank: 553

In one of governmentrsquo;s hilarious ironies, news was released last week that the state legislature may dip into the schoolrsquo;s rainy day fund to save us from deficit spending. Of course, I could do a whole column on the fact that we just came through

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