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• McClatchey: Skillful McConnell leads GOP opposition to health bill

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 579
  Heres what George Will wrote about Mitch McConnell shortly thirteen months ago: McConnell is Kentuckys most important politician since Henry Clay, "the Great Compromiser." Clays attempts to defuse the sectional crisis rooted in slavery failed, but they bought time for Northern strength -- in population and ...
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  Bildungblog — Authority: 450
  "Salagadoola mechicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo Put em together and what have you got Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo."
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• TGIF! Lieberries, Warring & Moral Hazards Galore

  
  Page One — Authority: 545
  Gas Station Governor Steve Beshear is holding a press conference at 10:00 A.M. this morning in Shelbyville at the Cooperative Extension Office. Wonder if the press will ask him why he is such a failure of a governor? Somebody needs to hammer the tax reform issue and somebody needs to give some airtime to his failed ...
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• Time Inc. Tablet Promo: So Slick You Almost Miss The Typos

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 791
  Everyone in the universe is excited about the Time, Inc.’s proposed tablet PC magazines . With some good reason – the demonstration video below, showcasing Sports Illustrated (and narrated with gusto by SI editor Terry McConnell ) is pretty snazzy. Think of a Kindle that is in color. And can play video. And ...
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• Firefighters tend to false alarms, deer vs. car accident

  
  DavidsonNews.net — Authority: 441
  Davidson firefighters responded to a variety of false alarms over the past week, as well as that incident Thursday in which a deer ran into a car on Concord Road. Those and other fire and emergency calls below. FIRE CALLS TUESDAY, NOV. 24 , 10:28 p.m., mile marker 28, I-77 Northbound – dispatched for vehicle ...
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• First Ladies Are Better Than Their Husbands

  
  Page One — Authority: 545
  Don’t you love it when chickenhawk legislators pontificate on the war in Afghanistan? Clearly, they’re experts. [ Elizabethtown News-Enterprise ] National media noticed that Jack Conway has differentiated himself from Lt. Dan. [ Politico ] First Lady Jane Beshear likes Kentucky gifts and wants you to buy ...
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• Jewelry thefts from hotel, West Side home under investigation

  
  DavidsonNews.net — Authority: 441
  Police are investigating the reported theft of jewelry worth $2,300 from a hotel room at the Homewood Suites, off I-77 Exit 30. They’re also investigating a break-in on the West Side where more than $2,100 of jewelry and valuables were taken. And last Friday night, a 23-year-old Davidson driver ran her car into the ...
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• McConnell Statement on McCain Amendment

  
  Purple People Vote — Authority: 411
  A Statement from Senator McConnell’s Office on the McCain Amendment… A Vote Against Medicare Democrats vote ‘to use Medicare as a piggy-bank to fund their new government programs’ WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement Thursday regarding Senate ...
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• Chao Praises Bush Economy, Rips Dems: Unemployment Was 4.7% In 2007

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 806
  Appearing on Fox News today, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao -- who is also the wife of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) -- said that the economy is entirely the Democrats fault, not the Bush administrations, by citing the low unemployment in 2007 . Chao dismissed Democratic objections that the Bush ...
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• Maddow rips McConnell’s ‘nonsense’ idea to use stimulus on war

  
  Raw Story — Authority: 815
  MSNBCs Rachel Maddow was all bubbling over on Wednesday about how after months of just being "the party of no," the Republicans now have "an honest to goodness plan -- a policy idea from the top Republican in the Senate." It seems that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has come up with a distinctively Republican ...
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• Deer hits car on Concord Road

  
  DavidsonNews.net — Authority: 441
  The deer was killed when it hit the drivers side of a car headed into town on Concord Road. (David Boraks photo) A 2-year-old girl was slightly injured Thursday morning when a deer bolted across Concord Road and into the side of the car she was riding in. The accident slowed traffic at morning rush hour near the ...
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• Thursday Morning Dept of Things Never Change

  
  Page One — Authority: 545
  Len Peters says it was solely his decision (because of performance - PROVE IT!) to fire Ron Mills from the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet as mine permits director. Multiple sources in Governor Steve Beshear’s office still insist otherwise when I ask. They all say his firing occurred because Alliance ...
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• Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid!

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 469
  Uh-oh, looks like Tom Coburn is taking some time off from being John Ensign’s marriage counselor and is doing some senatorin’. WASHINGTON, Dec 1 ( Reuters ) – The U.S. Senate made little progress on a broad healthcare overhaul on Tuesday, as members battled over cuts in coverage for the elderly and failed to ...
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• Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander Wants To Spend YOUR Stimulus Money On… Afghanistan

  
  BuelahMan's Redstate Revolt — Authority: 130
  At least according to Sen McConnell. From HuffPo : Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told his colleagues during a closed-door GOP lunch Tuesday that the best way to fund the war would be to use unspent stimulus funds, according to Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), the third-ranking Republican. Wonder ...
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• Wednesday Morning Dept of Distance Bravery

  
  Page One — Authority: 545
  If your audience isn’t laughing, it’s not funny. [ The Political Carnival ] Mitch McConnell is gonna send your stim-uh-liss dollars to kill all kinds of Afghanis. [ Politico ] Josh Sparkman is disputing the suicide ruling law enforcement made about his father, a U.S. Census worker. [ Jason Riley ] Told ...
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• Losing the Language of Happiness

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  If you haven’t read Daniel Everertt’s fabulous Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes about his work as a linguist in the Amazon—well, stop whatever you are doing, go directly to Amazon and enjoy. After 30 years living with and studying the Piraha, a tribe living in the Amazonian basin, Everett has concluded that ...
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• McCain challenges Obama in private meeting (on Afghanistan exit strategy)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Hours before he was set to address the nation on his new Afghanistan strategy, President Obama and members of his war council spent about an hour briefing senior members of Congress at a White House meeting. Three GOP sources told CNN that Sen. John McCain used the meeting to directly challenge the president on his ...
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• McConnell statement on Obamas Afghanistan speech

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 579
  Here is the statement from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) of President Obamas address on Afghanistan: I support the President’s decision to follow the advice of Generals Petraeus and McChrystal in ordering a surge of forces into Afghanistan. The additional forces in support of a counterinsurgency ...
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• Qualified Support From G.O.P.; Skepticism From Democrats

  
  The Caucus — Authority: 789
  Congressional leaders begin weighing in on President Obamaa speech.
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• Qualified Support From G.O.P.; Skepticism From Democrats

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Congressional leaders begin weighing in on President Obamaa speech.
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