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• GOA Alert November 20th 2009

  —Kentucky Political Watch

  Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
  8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
  Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
  http://gunowners.org
  
  
  
  Friday, November 20, 2009
  
  Tomorrow will be as important a day as any in our lifetimes in determining whether the anti-gun health care [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:09pm EST
  by L.F.Combs

• Former Kentucky Jail Supervisor Sentenced For Abuse

  —Kentucky Political Watch

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  FBI Release Louisville Office
  
  WASHINGTON—Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, announced today that Kristine Lafoe, a former lieutenant and supervisor at the Lexington-Fayette County Detention Center (FCDC), was sentenced in federal court for her role in covering up systematic detainee abuse. Lafoe was sentenced [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:07pm EST
  by L.F.Combs

• Rand Paul's Fringe Friends Could Hijack KY Senate Race

  —Cyberhillbilly

  An amazing phenomenon is unfolding in the GOP primary for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky. Rand Paul is running two campaigns: Paul is running as both a Kentucky conservative and as the national heir to the Ron Paul, libertarian, political machine.
  
  The first campaign involves reassuring Kentucky voters that [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:51pm EST
  

• Mind Your Own Business

  —Kentucky Political Watch

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  Well it looks like another bunch of celebrities are wanting to join in on the coal industry bashing of the liberal wing nuts. A group that has Robert Kennedy as an attorney has banded together with a group of country singers to attack mountain-top removal.
  You know the Kennedy's' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:21pm EST
  by L.F.Combs

• Confidentiality Of Census Information

  —Kentucky Political Watch

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  The 2010 Census is just around the corner, and we are going to do several posts aimed at clearing up many of the misconceptions about this required task of the United States Government.
  
  In this post we are going to clear up one of the biggest misconceptions about [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 7:17pm EST
  by L.F.Combs

• Tom Friedman: Give Up on Mid-East Peace

  —Cyberhillbilly

  Is it me, or shouldn't this be big news? One of the most astute and famous pundits on Palestinian-Israeli affairs has said, 'give up, U.S., they don't want peace.'
  
  A snip:
  
  The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has become a bad play. It is obvious
  that all the parties are [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 11:49am EST
  

• Congressman Rogers On Why He Voted Against Peloi's Government Run Health Care Plan

  —Kentucky Political Watch

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  WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Harold “Hal” Rogers’
  statement on why he voted against Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s government-run health care bill today and why he supports the Republican health care plan:
  
  “We can all agree that health care costs are too high and that we need to open [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:44pm EST
  by L.F.Combs

• Conservative Democrat Says Rand "Too Kooky for Kentucky"

  —Cyberhillbilly

  The following column appeared in the (Pikeville) Appalachia News Express and is reprinted here with permission by author:
  
  Paul’s Strange Candidacy, By T. J. Litafik
  
  Buoyed by his father’s aggressive, ragtag band of national followers, Rand Paul has raised a significant amount of money—over $1 million—for his quixotic [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:39pm EST
  

• Debut Novel By Frankfort Native Mixes Politics With Murder

  —Kentucky Political Watch

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  About Ron Rhody
  
  
  Ron Rhody was born and grew up in Frankfort, a small town nestled in a bend of a river in the heart of Kentucky’s lush Bluegrass country and the state’s capitol city.
  
  He attended Georgetown College then transferred to the University [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 4:36pm EST
  by L.F.Combs

• A Lump Of Coal For Christmas

  —Kentucky Political Watch

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  A LUMP OF COAL FOR CHRISTMAS
  Randy Walters
  
  Instead of taking our money to Lexington to shop for Christmas gifts, why not take a lump of coal and leave it at Hamburg Place. It would need a note with it saying, “Here’s your Christmas gift from the mountains, don’t [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 11:43am EST
  by L.F.Combs

• Rand Paul: Too Kooky for Kentucky Families on Child Porn, Amber Alert, Legal Heroin

  —Cyberhillbilly

  
  Too Kooky for Kentucky continues educating Kentucky voters on the Pauls’ kooky views.
  
  Paul Would Legalize Heroin: This week we’ve learned that, back in 1988 when Rand Paul was Ron Paul’s Presidential Campaign’s “aide de-camp”, the Pauls campaigned to legalize both heroin [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 10:39am EST
  

• VA's Bob McDonnell on Green Energy: An All of the Above Strategy

  —Cyberhillbilly

  
  McDonnell is running as adept a campaign for Governor in VA as anyone has seen in recent years. Among his campaign planks: more energy. While McDonnell doesn't neglect oil, coal and natural gas, he wisely takes some time to promote Green, that is Renewable, Energy.[...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 7:52am EST
  

• Crab Orchard (Lincoln County) Parody

  —Cyberhillbilly

  Funny parody of a quaint community in Lincoln County. Lesson: if you don't define yourself, some bored, young whipper-snapper with a video cam and a YouTube account will.
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 7:23am EST
  

• Garrard County Promo Video: IT'S GAR-AD COUNTY!

  —Cyberhillbilly

  Nice video with cameos from lots of celebs, including the Guv, Congressman Chandler, Justice Venters, Rep. Lonnie Napier, Judge Exec John Wilson and even me:
  
  
  
  PS- You're welcome in Garrard County, anytime.' [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 7:16am EST
  

• Rogers Announces More Funding For Projects Across Southeat Kentucky......

  —Kentucky Political Watch

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  WASHINGTON DC.—U.S. Congressman Harold “Hal” Rogers (KY-05) announced that Congress has approved federal funding to research alternative energy sources in southern and eastern Kentucky. Through Rogers’ efforts, the FY 2010 Energy & Water Appropriations bill includes $250,000 for Morehead State University (MSU) to conduct a study on the availability of [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 10:48am EDT
  by L.F.Combs

• Too Kooky for Kentucky: Ron and Rand's 1st Run for President

  —Cyberhillbilly

  
  While most of the press on Rand's efforts on his dad's political campaign for President (OK, admittedly, there's been little press at all when it comes to Ron and Rand's weird statements) has centered on his 2008 bid, Too Kooky for Kentucky is finding some [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 11:34pm EDT
  

• New Release: Rodney Stark Makes the "Case for the Crusades"

  —Cyberhillbilly

  
  Rodney Stark has written on the role of Roman cities in the rise of Christianity, the role the early Catholic church played in the development of capitalism, and a book on how monotheism led to science, with-hunts and the abolition of slavery. These works probably [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 11:21pm EDT
  

• Book Review: Berlin Noir (March Violets)

  —Cyberhillbilly

  
  Phillip Kerr’s detective Bernie Gunther is a sort of German Humphrey Bogart just trying to stay alive and make a few Deutschemarks as a wise cracking, fast with his fists, P.I. as Hitler’s Nazi Party forcefully saddles up the German people for a near suicidal [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 11:06pm EDT
  

• Rogers Announces $618,000 Grant to Keep Kids of Drugs

  —Kentucky Political Watch

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  WASHINGTON, DC.—U.S. Congressman. Harold “Hal” Rogers (KY-05) announced that Operation UNITE’s School-Based Adolescent Substance Abuse Counselor Program has received a $618,000 grant from the Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention to prevent students from using drugs and to help treat those who are currently [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 2:15pm EDT
  by L.F.Combs

• Rogers Announces $714,000 Grant to Treat Those Addicted to Drugs

  —Kentucky Political Watch

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  WASHINGTON, DC.—U.S. Congressman. Harold “Hal” Rogers (KY-05) announced that Operation UNITE’s Substance Abuse Treatment Voucher Program has received a $714,000 grant from the Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention to assist individuals seeking treatment for substance abuse.
  
  “Treatment is one of the most [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 12:58pm EDT
  by L.F.Combs

• Will Kentucky Republicans Endorse Rand Paul's Kooky Foreign Policy/Defense Goals

  —Cyberhillbilly

  
  As the latest foray into the proliferating and messy universe that is Kentucky’s political blogosphere has shown, Rand Paul, despite his impressive polling, is a new and unusual phenomenon in Kentucky politics. Too Kooky for Kentucky has, with video proof, shown that Paul is, [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 6:09pm EDT
  

• Congratulations Senator Stivers (and Clay County)

  —Cyberhillbilly

  
  Congratulations, Senator Stivers, on your election to the post of Senate Majority Leader. This is a great day for Robert and his family, but it's also a great day for Clay County. The county's gotten a bad rap in recent weeks but it's guys like' [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 10:29pm EDT
  

• Too Kooky for KY: Rand Paul is from Venus, Not Kentucky

  —Cyberhillbilly

  
  Trey Grayson got it partially right when he cast Rand Paul as a non-Kentuckian. In fact, after looking over some of the things that Ron and Rand Paul have been for over the years, it appears they're actually from Venus. (As in Robert Kagan's seminal [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 10:53pm EDT
  

• Rand Paul Must be Kooky: Surrender on War on Drugs Not an Option in Appalachia, KY

  —Cyberhillbilly

  Not that it's a surprise, but Rand Paul is Too Kooky for Kentucky. Literally. Last year he served as the one of the principle spokesmen for a Presidential candidate who wants to decriminalize… perhaps legalize… drugs. Here's the Courier Journal's Joe Gerth on Rand and the drug war:
  
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 8:49pm EDT
  

• October 16th GOA Alert

  —Kentucky Political Watch

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  Harry Reid Tries To Ease Passage Of Anti-Gun "Health" Bill Through Procedural Fraud Scheme
  
  Gun Owners of America
  8001 Forbes Place Suite 102
  Springfield VA 22151
  Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
  www.gunowners.org
  
  Friday, October 16, 2009
  
  We have been keeping you posted on the [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 3:19pm EDT
  by L.F.Combs

• October 15th GOA Alert

  —Kentucky Political Watch

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  Anti-gun ObamaCare Now Moves to the Senate Floor
  -- But Obama does not yet have the 60 votes he needs
  
  Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
  8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
  Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
  http://gunowners.org
  
  
  Thursday, October 15, 2009
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 3:17pm EDT
  by L.F.Combs