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Outliers and the Hillbilly Sterotype

Don McNay | Posted 12.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Gurney Norman, Civil Rights Movement, Obama Appalachia, Poverty, Blink, Kentucky Cycle, Outliers, Prejudice, Bob Dylan, Malcolm Gladwell, Civil Rights, Malcolm Gladwell Outliers, Appalachia, Stereotypes, Harlan County, Tipping Point, Bias, Kentucky, Discrimination, Beverly Hillbilllies, Hillbillies, Peter Frampton, Hogan's Heroes, Harlan, Media News
Don McNay

I would like to see Malcolm Gladwell test his theory about Southerners being more prone to violence than Northerners.

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Son of a Gambler's Guide to Holiday Books

Don McNay | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Ted Turner Book, Hugh Hefner, Ken Kesey, Holiday Season, Hugh Heffner Book, Books, Merry Pranksters, Poker, Grateful Dead, Kentucky, Don McNay, John Eckberg, Business Books, Joe Nocera, Warren Buffett Biography, Facebook, Joe McNay, Hippies, Holiday Gifts, Ed McClanahan, Hippie, Ted Turner, Gambling, Preparing for the Holidays, Martha Frankel, Donald Trump, Newport Kentucky, Cincinnati, Warren Buffett, Cincinnati Enquirer, Bill Moyers, Personal Finance, Business News
Don McNay

It's a lesson to me, the ablers and the beggars and the thieves -The Grateful Dead If you read my book, Son of a Son of a Gambler, you'll know that...

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Thanksgiving and People On The Wrong Side Of The Economic Table

Don McNay | Posted 11.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Casinos, Gambling, Lottery, Homelessness, Charity, Wall Street, States, Lottery Winner, Investment Options, Stock Market, Thanksgiving, Kentucky, Cincinnati, Personal Finance, Economy, Business News
Don McNay

When I passed the stockbroker's test many years ago, I called my father and asked, "Why is futures trading legal but betting on the Bengals illegal?" There is no logical answer.

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Victim of Racist Attack Awarded $2.5 Million

Kety Esquivel | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, Law, Law Enforcement, Hate Crimes, Kkk, Jordan Gruver, Lawsuits, Hispanics, Race, Ku Klux Klan Recruit, Racial Epithet, Immigration Reform, Latino Politics, Death Threat, Nclr, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Online, Kentucky, E-Mail, National Council of La Raza, Hate Speech, Bankrupt, Immigration Policy, Immigration Debate, Klansmen, Gruver, Politics News
Kety Esquivel

Gruver was attacked by Klansmen at a Kentucky fair in 2006. He was in line at a concession stand at the Meade County Fair when two Klansmen... threw whiskey in his face.

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CEOs Need to Run for Sheriff Just Once

Don McNay | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Automaker Bailout, CEO Pay, Big Three Automakers, CEO Salaries, Chysler, Ford, Republican Governors Association, Aig, General Motors, Ernie Fletcher, Ceos, Kentucky, Financial Crisis, CEO Compensation, Lyndon Johnson, Sam Rayburn, Sheriff, Automakers, Bailout, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Auto Industry, Business News
Don McNay

The financial system was supposedly broke. America wants the CEOs begging for cash to act like broke people.

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Fixing the Economy, from the Bottom Feeders Up

Don McNay | Posted 11.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Gamblers, Wall Street Bailout, Hank Paulson, Wall Street Crisis, Loan Sharks, Economy, Kentucky, Banks, Payday Loans, Credit Cards, Credit Card Debt, Tax Anticipation Loans, Helping the Poor, Business News
Don McNay

I'm not sure where the payday lending businesses came from, but they populate poor neighborhoods everywhere. It's time to help people on the low end, too.

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Devotion, Suspicion and Excitement in Louisville

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 11.04.2008 | Home

Read More: Female Vote, Indiana, Election Day, Get Out the Vote, Mccain Kentucky, Obama Kentucky, Christ Temple Christian, League of Women Voters, Black Vote, Sarah Palin, Jefferson County Board of Elections, Louisville, On the Ground 2008, Kentucky, Election 2008, African American Vote, Campaign 2008, Long Lines at the Polls, Home News
Gail McGowan Mellor

In the heavily African American area of well-kept middle class houses next to Shawnee Park, in Louisville, Kentucky, people across from the polls at ...

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Obama Shuffle: Election Day Poetry

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.03.2008 | Media

Read More: South, Appalachia, Ohio, Swing States, 2008 Presidential Race, African Americans, Kentucky, Poetry, Barack Obama, Media News
Jeff Biggers

I've been on tour in the swing states of Appalachia these days -- southern Ohio, West Virginia, southwest Virginia -- having crisscrossed through Indi...

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An Election Day Planner

Eric Lurio | Posted 10.29.2008 | Home

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Eric Lurio

Find out where the parties are. Both sides. The Republicans usually have an open bar and the Democrats don't. If it looks like a landslide, nobody's going to be at the McCain parties, and you can get a few beers or cocktails before heading to the Obama bash.

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What is Mitch McConnell Hiding?

Michael Rogers | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kentucky, Mitch McConnell, Mitch Mcconnell's Military Record, Politics News
Michael Rogers

Like when I investigated and reported on Larry Craig after 26 years of rumors, I've turned fresh eyes on this case and recently noticed an interesting inconsistency with McConnell's public Army record.

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Call him Big Money Mitch

David Donnelly | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Senate, Mitch McConnell, Health, Clean Elections, Public Financing, Fair Elections, Kentucky, Big Money Mitch, Campaign Money Watch, Politics News
David Donnelly

The voters in Kentucky are beginning to sour on their Senator Mitch McConnell. Three polls in a week show him in a battle for re-election -- all show his lead within the margin of error.

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The Second Most Important National Election

Cliff Schecter | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, Kentucky, U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, Bruce Lunsford, Politics News
Cliff Schecter

Another race with almost as consequential national implications as the presidential campaign will take place this election day. It is the U.S. Senate race in Kentucky.

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Obama Volunteers Face Uphill Slog in White Rural Kentucky

Hilary Lambert | Posted 10.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Race Election Kentucky, Racism, Kentucky, Election 2008, Race, Kentucky Obama, Kentucky Racism, Barack Obama, Obama Race, Campaign 2008, Home News
Hilary Lambert

According to Lexington Democratic Party staffer John Malloy, Magoffin County in eastern Kentucky is the whitest county in the United States, but there...

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Ky Dems Look to "Ditch Mitch" in Clean Sweep of Incumbent GOP

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 10.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Ditch Mitch, Mcconnell, House, Blue State, Addison S. “Mitch” McConnell, Democrat, Kentucky, Conservative, Pitch Mitch, Obama, Mccain, Political Machine, Election, Republican, Progressive, Louisville, Bailout, 2008, Red State, President. Congress, Campaign Finance Reform, Senate, Lunsford, Yarmuth, Northup, Mitch, Home News
Gail McGowan Mellor

Voters on November 4, 2008, will be genuine Deciders, using the election not only to select a president but to clean house--to clear a path by gettin...

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Campaign Extremes in the Ohio-Kentucky Heartland

Hilary Lambert | Posted 10.02.2008 | Home

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Hilary Lambert

Filled with the surly envy of Kentuckians for the more fortunate, I listened to my son's description of camping out overnight so that he and about twenty-five others could be among the first to vote in Ohio ahead of Election Day.

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Obama and Democrats Fighting Hard on GOP Turf

Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

All told, 20 states are currently at high risk of loss by the Republican party in either the presidential election, the Senate race, or both. How is that for expanding the playing field?

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Mitch McConnell and Our Effort to Turn Around America

Stewart Acuff | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Afl-Cio, Kentucky, Stewart Acuff, Mitch McConnell, Labor Unions, Unions, Bruce Lunsford, Home News
Stewart Acuff

Remarks to the Kentucky Jobs with Justice Annual Dinner Louisville, Kentucky Thursday, September 18th, 2008 We gather tonight at a most precipitous m...

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What's The Matter With Kentucky? (Republicans Want To Know)

Mark Nickolas | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2004 Election, 2006 Election, Constitutional Amendment to Ban Gay Marriage, Voters, Kentucky, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Demographics, Politics News
Mark Nickolas

There are some unmistakable signs that the pendulum is swinging back sharply to the Democrats, even in a red state like Kentucky.

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Next Toyota Prius to Be Built in US, But "Karoshi," or Death By Overwork," Tempers the Company' s Announcement

Steve Parker | Posted 07.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Energy, Toyota Camry, Karoshi, United Nations, Kentucky, San Antonio, Toyota, Honda, Blue Spring, Japan, Toyota Prius, Solar Panels, Environment, Death by Work, Mississippi, Health, Kyocera, Nagoya, Tupelo, Business News
Steve Parker

Trying to make death by overwork acceptable to any society, because survivors are able to get some monetary benefit is ridiculous, repulsive and outrageous.

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What Fifty State Strategy?

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 07.02.2008 | Home

Read More: Obama South, Obama 50 State Strategy, Fifty State Strategy, Jerry Abramson, Senator Obama, Kentucky Obama, Obama Fifty State Strategy, Kentucky Democrats, Obama Appalachia, Democrat, Obama, Redneck, Webb, Jo Anne Crawford, Barack, Kentucky, Home News
Gail McGowan Mellor

Seated in the Kentucky headquarters with her blue eyes, tightly curled white hair, turquoise earrings and a rainbow-colored pullover, Party Director Jo Anne Crawford looked as lonely as the Maytag repairman.

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Sonny Landham, Ex-Action Star, Guns For Senate

AP | BRUCE SCHREINER | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sonny Landham, Sonny Landham Senate Bid, Libertarian Party, Kentucky, Politics News

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Sonny Landham carved out a tough-guy reputation in a series of big-screen roles, from roughing up Sylvester Stallone to gettin...

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Kentucky Bible Belt Patchwork Politics

R.T. Eby | Posted 06.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Southern Voters, Republican Kentucky, The South Democrats, Rural Voters, Bible Belt Politics, Scottsville KY, Kentucky, Allen County KY, Franklin KY, Nashville Bible Belt, South Democrats, Democratic Kentucky, Simpson County KY, Home News
R.T. Eby

Just above the buckle of the Bible Belt lie Simpson and Allen Counties. The demographics of the two counties are nearly indistinguishable. Except that one is Republican and the other Democratic.

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No Longer Staring Into the Abyss of an Obama-Clinton Ticket

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Lloyd Bentsen, Vice President, Gas Prices, Jack Kemp, Latinos, West Virginia, Democratic Party, White People, California, John Kerry, Ohio, West, John Edwards, Health Care, Jewish Voters, Bill Clinton, Women, John McCain, Karl Rove, Florida, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Wisconsin, Presidential Campaign, South, Arkansas, Michigan, Iowa, Hispanic Voters, Tennessee, Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman, Gay Issues, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Clinton's increasingly desperate quest to show something for her decades of campaigning has taken on a vaguely insane turn, for which we should be grateful, even as it makes us queasy.

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Barack Obama and the Unmaking of the Democratic Party

Sean Wilentz | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama White Voters, Sean Wilentz Barack Obama, Sean Wilentz, Democratic Primary, Sean Wilentz Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Democratic Nomination, Kentucky, Kentucky Primary, Obama Democrats, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, White Voters, Politics News
Sean Wilentz

The Obama campaign and its sympathizers have begun to articulate what they mean by their vague slogan of "change" -- nothing less than usurping the historic Democratic Party, by rejecting its historic electoral core.

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Fear of Islam Hurts Obama in Kentucky

Matthew Palevsky | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Islam, Bradley Effect, Democratic Primary, Politico, Barack Obama, Matthew Palevsky, Kentucky, Racism, Rumors, Election 2008, The Real News, Politics News
Matthew Palevsky

One might have thought that the Wright scandal would have extinguished Obama's rumored connection to Islam. Instead, it has only strengthened the spurious claims about his faith.

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