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On this day five years ago, a great man and a great mayor came together to announce a very great hotel that would sweep away the rabble and shower Lexington with jobs, prosperity, pride and a Hard Rock Cafe. Not so much, eh? But seriously, who could have predicted such a failure? (Besides us and Rob Morris.) Speaking of Rob Morris, today he marked the anniversary with much deserved derision and “I told you so’s” in this tour de force that you should go read in its...
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Let’s have one last post mortem for Progress Kentucky and then put them to bed. The other day, Progress Kentucky put out a racist tweet attacking Mitch McConnell’s wife. This caused some serious backlash (as it should) and a slew of national attention on McConnell’s reelection campaign. Joe already buried the group over at the LEO: In reality, those within the state familiar with Progress Kentucky knew they were never going to be a major player in this race, and now...
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So I woke up this morning to find a picture posted to Facebook, of a stylized US Constitution that asked me to share if I opposed Obama’s unilateral anti-gun executive action that would circumvent Congress and reminded me that the US was not a dictatorship and that we have Congress for a reason.  Now, normally, I would just ignore this, but the more and more I thought about it…well it really started to just piss me off.  So I decided that I would share my thoughts on the stupidity of...
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Let’s begin with a moment of silence for those who died and those were wounded in the shooting. … … … I’m kidding, kind of.  Unless you are Sarah Palin or think putting tea bags on your ears is a political statement, you probably didn’t read this out loud, so it was already a moment of silence. I want to say something about how we now grieve.  President Obama called for a moment of “silence and reflection.”  That feels right.  It’s beyond politics.  No matter...
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Let’s do this again, by category. If we’ve left anybody out, or think we got something wrong, let us know. (Oh, and feel free to vote here on the B&P Facebook page poll for your favorite candidate(s), as well.) Would be awesome, but not going to happen Crit Luallen- She’s going to be governor, and doesn’t want to live in the swampland. If she’s not going to run against Mitch, she certainly isn’t going to run for this busch league office. Would...
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