Number of comments: 0 This video (courtesy of the Animal Agriculture Alliance), makes the obvious point that modern agriculture isn't like the Facebook game 'Farmville', and it is quite a bit different than how we produced food 100 years ago. Implicit in this statement is the fact that 98% of all farms are' [...]
Obasanjo joins bid to pick Nigeria’s new vice president
The battle to identify a successor to Nigeria’s Vice President Goodluck Jonathan has begun and is generating heavy steam.
President Umaru...
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Nigeria: Obasanjo, The North And The Politics of Presidential Health
Is'haq Modibbo Kawu
I returned to Nigeria on Monday facing the daunting task of trying to read the pile of newspapers of the...
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Another casualty of pain pills
The gunning down of Dr. Dennis Sandlin while he was writing on a chart outside an exam room at a Perry County medical clinic is almost too horrible to think...
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Political roulette
It may take a while to sort out some of the lessons of Tuesday's state Senate election in Central Kentucky, but one consequence is clear: Gov. Steve Beshear's effort to build a...
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Horse industry at a loss after election
By Janet Patton and Beth Musgrave
Kentucky's horse industry, which bet heavily on a Democratic win in Tuesday's special state Senate election, wasn't...
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Special election sends a message
By Scott Jennings
Jimmy Higdon's victory in Tuesday's Kentucky state Senate special election is a warning signal to Democrats running for office around the...
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Major Hasan and the Quran
Repentance is the only option for the Fort Hood killer.
By SALAM AL-MARAYATI
Maj. Nidal Hasan's lawyer is considering an insanity plea as a strategy for his client. That...
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Stimulus III
Democrats want TARP to become a revolving line of political credit.
If at first fiscal stimulus doesn't succeed, spend, spend again. That's the motto President Obama embraced yesterday,...
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Vice mayor will try to unseat Newberry
GRAY'S ANNOUNCEMENT CITES MAYOR'S 'BAD DECISIONS'
By Andy Mead
Lexington Vice Mayor Jim Gray, who has clashed with Mayor Jim Newberry on several key issues,...
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Jack Brammer has done a good job reporting on the twin elections, so I defer to him below:
14th Senate seat stays Republican
Higdon's win eases threat to GOP majority
By Jack Brammer
FRANKFORT —...
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Who's regulating coal industry?
Gov. Steve Beshear should explain who's regulating the coal industry — state government or the coal industry?
This question is prompted by a string of things we know...
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Governor sees nothing amiss in dismissal
By Jack Brammer
FRANKFORT — Gov. Steve Beshear said he sees no reason to investigate the recent firing of a state mining regulator who blames political...
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Much at stake in Tuesday’s special election
By Jack Brammer
FRANKFORT — Some Central Kentucky voters will go to the polls Tuesday in a special election that could help determine which political...
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E-mail raises questions about mine permits director's firing
By John Cheves - jcheves@herald-leader.com
An Alliance Coal executive wrote an e-mail to his colleagues Nov. 13 to announce the firing of...
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War costs, while high, are a small part of budget deficits
David Lightman
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama insisted last week that as the nation confronts record government debt and pressing...
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"No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means...
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Tickets still available for Music City Bowl
By John Cheves
It won't be as warm as the Outback Bowl in Tampa, but University of Kentucky football fans headed to the Music City Bowl in Nashville on...
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Gates Says No Good Intel on Bin Laden in Years
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the U.S. has not had good intelligence on the whereabouts of Usama bin Laden in years.
WASHINGTON -- Defense...
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'F' on the smell test
One of the gravest dangers in a coal mine, methane gas, is odorless and undetectable by unaided human senses. But in government, the peril is often sleaze, which is accompanied...
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Service with a smile
To news reports that state environmental regulators might have put accommodating coal interests above following the law, a lot of Kentuckians will shrug and say: "So, what else...
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Call for Yar’adua’s resignation: A call mired by political undertone?
. ..Plot for a fresh 8-year mandate for North begins
Perhaps, it would have had more impact had the polity not been poisoned as...
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Nigerians urge Yar’Adua to step down
By Tom Burgis in Lagos
Published: December 2 2009 23:03 | Last updated: December 2 2009 23:03
Umaru Yar’Adua, Nigeria’s ailing president, faced mounting calls...
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Obama Redeclares War
Can he fight and win without the support of his political base?
By PEGGY NOONAN
A deep and perhaps the deepest benefit of the speech was that a Democratic president asserted...
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Baucus Nominated Girlfriend for U.S. Attorney, Aide Says
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR
A spokesman for Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, said early Saturday that the senator nominated his girlfriend, a...
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Lexington lawyer is indicted in $34 million oil and gas scam
By Bill Estep - bestep@herald-leader.com
A Lexington lawyer took part in a long-running scheme to fleece investors of more than $34...
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Corrections will not appeal lethal injection decision
By Beth Musgrave
FRANKFORT — Death row executions in Kentucky will remain on hold through at least April 15.
The state Department of...
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2010: a daunting year
By David Broder
WASHINGTON — It is now as certain as anything can be in politics that 2010 will be a painful year for Democrats — a year of high unemployment, staggering...
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C.bank boss laments Nigerian "culture of corruption"
By Camillus Eboh
ABUJA, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Nigeria's "culture of corruption" contributed to the crisis which led to a $4 billion bank bailout...
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Ditty plans rematch against Webb for Senate seat
FRANKFORT – Republican Jack Ditty, a Greenup County dermatologist who narrowly lost a special state Senate election in August to Democrat Robin Webb,...
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Freedom’s Martyr
By DAVID S. REYNOLDS
IT’S important for Americans to recognize our national heroes, even those who have been despised by history. Take John Brown.
Today [December 1] is the 150th...
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Nunn's daughter added to wrongful death suit
By Stephenie Steitzer
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The family of Amanda Ross, the Lexington woman allegedly murdered by former state Rep. Steve Nunn, has sued...
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Number of comments: 0 US Senator Jim Bunning landed a parting punch Thursday against Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Bunning, who has railed against Bernanke's performance during the nation's financial crisis, became the second Senator to put a "hold" on Bernanke’s confirmation for a second term. The procedural move by Bunning and Sen. [...]
Scoring high on tests, doesn't mean you're smart, says Grawemeyer winner
By Nancy C. Rodriguez
Ever met someone who had a perfect score on the ACT college-entrance exam, but just wasn’t that swift...
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Yes, read the audit report here, and the H-L account below:
City audit finds adult materials, deletions on library CEO's computers
By John Cheves
A city audit of the Lexington Public Library turned...
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Obama Can Win in Afghanistan
If the president keeps his nerve, he'll get the country's support.
By KARL ROVE
President Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday night deserves to be cheered. Over the...
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War without end
By GEORGE F. WILL
WASHINGTON — A traveler asks a farmer how to get to a particular village. The farmer replies, “If I were you, I wouldn't start from here.” Barack Obama, who asked...
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A tragic mistake
By Bob Herbert
"I hate war," said Dwight Eisenhower, “as only a soldier who has lived it can, as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
He also said, “Every...
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Secret Service agents could be fired for White House breach
By Scott Wilson and Jason Horowitz
"Secret Service chief Mark Sullivan told a Congressional committee Thursday morning that the agents who...
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Reasonable option in a bad situation
Having inherited a badly botched mission, President Barack Obama has outlined as good a strategy as is probably possible for salvaging U.S. interests in...
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America's, not Obama's, war
By Cal Thomas
President Barack Obama should be commended for committing 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to root out al-Qaida and stabilize major portions of the...
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Afghan escalation
Even in the eternal fog of war, one thing about Afghanistan is apparent: It is now Barack Obama's conflict.
The President announced a military build-up Tuesday night, when he told...
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Conway and Mongiardo differ on Afghanistan troop surge
By Halimah Abdullah
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama's call for a troop surge in Afghanistan is shaping up as a dividing line in Kentucky's...
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Osi --
Last night, President Obama laid out his plan to defend our national interest by refocusing our efforts on three clear goals: defeating al Qaeda, stabilizing Pakistan, and breaking the...
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GOP's ideology test
By Kathleen Parker
WASHINGTON — Some people can't stand prosperity, my father used to say.
Today, he might be talking about Republicans, who, in the midst of declining support...
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For the Democrats, a generation in the balance
By Ross Douthat
Do downturns create Democrats? The Great Depression certainly did: The generation that came of age in the 1930s has cleaved to the...
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Two Messages for Two Sides
By PETER BAKER and ADAM NAGOURNEY
WASHINGTON — President Obama went before the nation on Tuesday night to announce that he would escalate the war in Afghanistan. And Mr....
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The Afghanistan Speech
Americans have reason to be pessimistic, if not despairing, about the war in Afghanistan. After eight years of fighting, more than 800 American lives lost and more than 200...
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Below is the full text of Tiger's "profound apology":
I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family...
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
“I support the president's decision to allow the advice of Generals Petraeus and McChrystal to guide him in making a decision to surge forces into...
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Baltimore mayor convicted on 1 gift card charge
By DAVID DISHNEAU (AP)
BALTIMORE — Baltimore's mayor was convicted Tuesday on a single charge she took gift cards intended for the city's poor....
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Supreme Court upholds sanity
It wasn't even close. A unanimous Supreme Court upheld the Beshear administration's early release of thousands of inmates.
The opinion makes clear that the legislature...
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Obama faces steep challenges in new Afghan policy
Steven Thomma and Nancy A. Youssef
WASHINGTON — With eight years of blood and treasure already spent and perhaps his presidency hanging in the...
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The U. S. Supreme Court today vacated and remanded a decision by the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that required the Pentagon to release photos of abused detainees in Iraq and...
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The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding Obama
A foreign policy of penance has won America no friends.
By FOUAD AJAMI
"He talks too much," a Saudi academic in Jeddah, who had once been smitten with Barack...
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Fighting extremism with civility
By E. J. Dionne
WASHINGTON — The most surprising and disappointing aspect of our politics is how little pushback there has been against the vile, extremist rhetoric...
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Lawson and Nighbert exchanged 357 calls in 2007
By Tom Loftus
FRANKFORT, Ky. — On his last night as secretary of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Bill Nighbert used his personal cell phone to...
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Number of comments: 0 The WKU College Republicans are celebrating 50 years of campaigning for GOP candidates, defending conservative values, and maintaining a fair and balanced campus. December 6th is a night to honor those who helped found the organization and inspire current and future students to continue this half-century tradition.
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Nigerian President's Health Fueling Political Tensions
Presidential spokesman says Vice President Goodluck Jonathan will represent him at official...
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"[R]eligion, or the duty which we owe to our creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally...
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He Can’t Take Another Bow
An icon of a White House that is coming to seem amateurish.
This week, two points in an emerging pointillist picture of a White House leaking support—not the support of...
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Read more from TMZ.
You can listen to the 911 tapes below:
The question I have is how Tiger knows about going "ghetto" considering ..., well, I'll leave it alone.
I still believe that Mrs. Tiger...
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Political clash expected soon over rising U.S. $12 trillion dollar debt
Rob Hotakainen
WASHINGTON — In the past, members of Congress never have been particularly eager to remind the public that...
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Number of comments: 2 This week our leaders in DC held a job summit, but I'm not sure how open they were to the current evidence about unemployment. Last October the Wall Street Journal reported that teenage unemployment in September was at 25.9%. (link). As reported this is very close to what economist' [...]
Kill the bills and do health care reform the right way
By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON — The United States has the best health care in the world — but because of its inefficiencies, also the most...
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Number of comments: 1 Recently, a lot of headlines have been made about hacked emails that involved questionable exchanges between climate scientists. Reading between the lines, the emails imply that there was a conscious effort among climate scientists to massage data (possibly omitting data that would weaken their conclusions) as well as blackball authors [...]
Christmas gifts: An economic calamity
By George F. Will
WASHINGTON — Another huge value-destroying hurricane is about to slam America, destroying billions of dollars of value. Another Katrina? No,...
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Why Obama Isn't Changing Washington
There is no way he can grow the government without attracting more lobbyists and more political acrimony.
By FRED BARNES
One insight distinguished Barack Obama...
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Seeking the right to vote automatically
After spending three years in prison and another seven years on parole, René D. Riley of Lexington knew she wanted a better life, a fuller life, the life of...
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A useful moratorium
The Kentucky Supreme Court performed a valuable public service Wednesday when it put executions on hold by ruling that the state's lethal injection procedure must be outlined in...
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