Two of Kentucky's largest utilities plan petition the state for 2 percent rate increases for electricity, saying the money is necessary to upgrade equipment.
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The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran
By: Seymour M. Hersh
Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership. The covert activities involve support of the minority Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups and other dissident organizations. They also include gathering intelligence about Iran’s suspected nuclear-weapons program.
Clandestine operations against Iran are not new. United States Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq, with Presidential authorization, since last year. These have included seizing members of Al Quds, the…
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By: Andrew Romano
According to Barack Obama, "change is coming to America." He must not be watching the same nominating contest as the rest of us. With the Democratic Party having long ago fractured into two warring factions--in this corner, Hillary Clinton's whiter, older, bluer-collar, more heavily female supporters;
in that corner, Obama's coalition of African-Americans and upscale, metropolitan, progressive Caucasians; any dunce could've predicted the outcome of today's primaries in Oregon (progressive, coastal) and Kentucky (working-class, white) simply by looking at the 2000 U.S. census: Clinton wins down south and Obama wins up north.
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(Chuck's Note: These people can go straight to hell! Kentucky and several other states haven't voted yet. Shouldn't Kentucky "have their say " like everyone else? This is such bullshit. Let the process play out.)
(Washington) While Hillary Rodham Clinton should win some of the six remaining primaries, including Kentucky's, she doesn't have enough money and time to prove herself a viable alternative to Barack Obama, political observers said yesterday.
And the Democratic presidential nomination, they said, is effectively beyond her reach.
"It's over -- it's over," said Peter Kirstein, professor of history at Chicago's Saint Xavier University. "She is in somewhat of a delusional state. I don't mean that literally, but she simply cannot accept the fact she has lost. … I don't think it's quite hit her yet that he's going to get the…
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By Timothy B. Lee
A federal magistrate judge on Thursday
chastised the Bush administration for failing to fully answer questions related to a long-running dispute over missing White House emails. The White House is facing lawsuits from two public interest groups,
Citizens for Responsibilty and Ethics in Washington and the
National Security Archive at George Washington University, demanding that the White House restore the missing e-mails and put in place systems to prevent further e-mail losses. Administration officials were ordered to provide detailed information about the burdens involved in taking immediate actions to preserve copies of hard drive, tapes, and other media that may contain copies of the missing e-mails.
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From: PageOne
This has absolutely got to be the most embarrassing campaign in the history of campaigns in Kentucky. Goes far beyond the inaccurate crap Fischer’s crew is trying to spread. (What a way to promote Democratic unity, right? And she’s on the Fayette Co Exec Cmte.) Today Greg Fischer’s campaign for U.S. Senate flipped out over a news post that Bruce Lunsford’s campaign put on his website about Andrew Horne’s endorsement letter printed in the Courier-Journal. Joe Gerth does a fine job telling this story, so check out what he has to say:
The story Lunsford’s website was linking to was actually a letter to the editor published in Sunday’s Courier-Journal from former Democratic candidate Andrew Horne who had announced his endorsement of…
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