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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

The Media Mob

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There is a scene in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird  in which Atticus Finch has stationed himself at the door of the jail. Tom Robinson is a...
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Monday, November 14, 2011

We Interrupt this Kangaroo Court for an Important Message about What We Don't Know about the Penn State Scandal

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Armed with the hindsight of history and with a few scraps of fact (and plenty of fiction) in front of them, the media has embarked on the se...
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Friday, November 11, 2011

Ecce Homo: Why Penn State had to fire a guy who didn't deserve to be fired

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Joe Paterno was a good guy. No one denies it. That he made a mistake in not doing more in dealing with coach Sandusky is something even he a...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Paying for Mediocrity: More on public school teacher pay

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In response to my recent post on public school teachers salaries, a number of commenters came to the defense of the public education establi...
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A Heckuva Mandate: Beshear received 155,307 fewer votes Tuesday than he did in 2007

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Not only does no one know what Steve Beshear's claimed mandate is a mandate for, but unmentioned by any of the analysis I have seen is t...
Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Does Steve Beshear have a Mandate?

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The total number of registered voters in Kentucky is 2,944,603 according to the Voter Registration Statistics Report . Steve Beshear receive...
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Are public teachers overpaid?

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According to today's Wall Street Journal , "combining salaries, fringe benefits and job security, we have calculated that public sc...
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Monday, November 07, 2011

Ten Best Blogs (and a few other good ones)

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I suppose I should really call this simply, "The Blogs I Read the Most." That doesn't necessarily entail that they are the bes...
Saturday, November 05, 2011

Is Steve Beshear Untouchable? The KY media's double standard on religion

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Let's see if I've got this straight: Steve Beshear goes to a solemn Hindu religious rite and makes it into a cheap campaign photo op...
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Thursday, November 03, 2011

Gov. Steve Beshear, in the lotus position

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If you've been in the state Capitol building in Frankfort recently and thought you heard sitar music wafting out of the governor's o...
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Rush Limbaugh attacks the education of the founding fathers

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Yesterday Rush Limbaugh tied his whole brain, not just half of it, behind his back. In the process he ended up sounding a whole lot like the...
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Remember when personal character didn't matter for a president?

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I'm trying to remember CNN devoting almost a whole evening to the allegations of sexual harassment against Bill Clinton as soon as they...
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