“Kentucky” on The Daily Caller

Despite the fact that the Republican caucus has sworn off earmarks, the Senate failed this week to receive the necessary 2/3 majority for a legislative ban on earmarks. A silly narrative emerged prior to this vote warning cities of all shapes and sizes that they would suffer colossal funding losses if earmark reform was enacted. Lacking in this analysis were basic facts that everyone should know. (more)

Melanie Sloan, the director of top watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), picked up the phone. It was Lanny Davis, former special counsel to President Bill Clinton, and he was mad. (more)

In July of 1958, Jim Bunning walked into Fenway Park and did what was seemingly impossible — he threw a no-hitter against Ted Williams and the Boston Red Sox. (more)

Kentucky’s chances for a deep run in the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament took a significant hit Thursday when the N.C.A.A. ruled that the freshman center Enes Kanter was permanently ineligible. (more)

LOUISVILLE, KY (WDRB Fox 41) – The man accused of killing a Sullivan University student faced a judge Wednesday morning.  At the same time, detectives continued combing a southern Indiana landfill for Andrew Compton’s body. (more)

A COUPLE OF kids figure to add even more juice to the North Carolina-Duke rivalry, a Hurricane hit the Great Wall of China and the Wall hit back, and does anybody know how to get to Iowa City? Watch those elbows, fellas. The annual college basketball primer is coming through. (more)

So, the 2010 election is over. Let the 2011 elections begin! (more)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -Workforce, the 7-5 early favorite, was scratched from the $3 million Breeders’ Cup Turf on Saturday morning because of the firm grass course at Churchill Downs. (more)

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said he believes he and President Barack Obama can work together despite the senator’s blunt calls that Mr. Obama be denied a second term. (more)

Election week on “Countdown”! I’ll give you three guesses as to whether it ended in elation or a splitting headache. Or perhaps it ended with the revelation just this morning on Politico that Olbermann made three $2,400 contributions in the recent election, violating both NBC policy and basic principles of journalism. One donation, to Arizona representative Raul Grijalva, took place on the same day Grijalva appeared on “Countdown.” The other donations went to Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway and another Arizona representative, Gabrielle Giffords. (You will definitely want to read this.) But meanwhile, here’s the week that was: (more)

Last week, while recovering from surgery, I pulled out my copy of The Federalist Papers and started reading. (more)

Trent Lott, the former senate majority leader from Mississippi, made news last summer when he said this of incoming tea party-backed senators: “As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.” Lott’s words have since been held up as evidence that the Republican establishment in Washington is corrupt and out of touch – as case made most recently by Sen. Jim DeMint, in a widely-read op-ed that ran in Wednesday’s Wall St. Journal. (more)

Kentucky’s new Senator-elect Rand Paul is already questioning whether establishment Republicans will take him and his fellow Tea Partiers seriously. (more)

Rand Paul, the Republican opthamologist and son of a libertarian firebrand, on Tuesday evening became the first Tea Party standard-bearer to be elected to the nation’s highest legislative body, defeating Democrat Jack Conway in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race. (more)

An 18-state survey of likely voters shows that President Obama’s approval rating is dropping in all states but Connecticut, according to Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm. (more)

Rand Paul, the Republican candidate for Kentucky’s Senate seat, said Tuesday that neither party has earned the trust of voters and that government is “broken.” (more)

Americans living in the most industrialized regions of the country have a special stake in the outcome of a California ballot initiative that would suspend implementation of that state’s global warming law until after unemployment drops, according to policy experts who favor a free market response to energy needs. (more)

LONDON, Ky. — A western Kentucky minister says that Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul is facing renewed attacks on his religion through automated calls to voters. (more)

Most folks fifty or older fondly remember the ritual of the family dinner. They remember them because, what with working late and rushing kids to and from school events, they rarely have family dinners themselves. (more)

President Obama says U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul should not be blamed for the actions of a supporter of his Republican campaign who was captured on video stomping on a Moveon.org activist. (more)