Governor Patton’s Sex Scandal – And The Nursing Home Patients Affected By It     By Pat Pending     This week, we have been treated to a hot sex scandal involving Kentucky’s Governor, Paul Patton.  The accusation is that the Governor was trading government favors with Ms. Tina Conner in exchange for sex.  Ms. Conner is the owner of a nursing home and other businesses, which are subject to many government regulations and therefore can be seriously helped or harmed by the government.....

Light Rail Concept – Hard to Swallow     by Guillermo Camoriano     According to Bob Hill’s column on Sept. 21,  the light rail numbers are:.....

Rights, War, and Treaties     By Gordon Francis Corbett      We all love our freedom;  but to keep it, we must understand it.  The branch of philosophy that explains freedom is called, "ethics."  The section of ethics that covers how we should treat our fellows is called, "the natural law.".....

It's Time For Us To Defeat The Bullies - Part 2     by Theresa Fritz Camoriano     Last week, we reviewed the book Take the Bully by the Horns and discovered that an overreaching government is nothing more than a big bully.  This week, we are going to take some of the advice from the book to see how to deal with bullies......

Donna Mancini on the Louisville Mayoral Debate     The recent Louisville Forum Debate, to which only the republican and democrat candidate for Metro Mayor were invited, is a good example of why voters are so apathetic.  Why come out to vote when you are just voting for the “lesser of two evils”, and no candidate really offers anything positive or new for you to support?.....

Making enemies of America – Thanks a lot, Bush      by Ed Lewis      “Former president Nelson Mandela on Tuesday (September 17, 2002) continued his strong criticism of the United States over its threat to attack Iraq, declaring that the US wanted to bully the entire world.” (Africa.com News | 567MW Cape Talk, Johannesburg, South Africa......

Going Nowhere Slowly     by Paul Jacob     I hope you had a good Labor Day holiday.  Of course, if you did, it's probably because you didn't drive anywhere.  All over the country it seems that our transportation system is bottle-necked.....

Promoting Smoking     by Terry Gray     “...and this just out: A new survey concludes that tobacco ads are more influential than believed in promoting smoking to our youth.”.......

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency;
the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists." - Ernest Hemingway

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies.”  Groucho Marx