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A rather bizarre event unfolded Friday.  Basically, the Republicans tried to force a vote on drilling for more oil.  The Democrats stifled it.  Then, the Democrats decided that accomplishing nothing to help the United States deal with soaring gas prices was better than debating, or even worse yet, voting to allow more drilling.
It didn’t stop [...]

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Last year Kentucky elected a new governor to replace the one we had. The one we had had been accused of inappropriate hiring practices. That never was resolved since the person making the charges decided to drop the charges so he could run for governor, and lose.
So, Kentucky ( not me ) elected a guy [...]

Tags: budget, constitution, democrat, donation, Ethics, governor, impeach, kentucky, lawyer, steve beshear, veto

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Hillary Clinton had a fundraiser hosted by Sir Elton John.  It went well, raising a couple of million dollars.  It should have, Sir Elton has quite a bit of money and hangs around people with a lot of money as well.  Only problem is, someone had a problem with it:

Judicial Watch has filed a complaint [...]

Tags: 2008 presidential, bitch, british, campaign violation, elton john, Ethics, foreign national, hillary clinton, judicial watch, lawyer, legal, madonna, misogynistic

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I read this post on Independent Sources and loved it so much I thought I’d run with it here.  Namely:
37-year old Arelia Margarita Taveras is an attorney with a serious ethics problem. She also has a gambling problem and lost her law practice, her apartment and her parents’ home, and she owes the IRS $58,000. [...]

Tags: addiction, arelia taveras, boz scaggs, gambling, governor, kentucky, lawyer, lido shuffle, steve beshear

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Well, not exactly.  But they did drop a lawsuit against it citing "improvements to the law".  Here’s the ONLY part that was changed that appease the ACLU:
The lawsuit, filed in July 2003 on behalf of the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor, Mich., and five other nonprofit groups, was the first legal challenge to Section [...]

Tags: aclu, appeasement, bush, change, communism, demand, federal, Government, lawyer, legal, muslim, patriotism, People, policy

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