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Changing of Kentucky's Political Guard

Posted: 11:32 PM In 1980, David Broder wrote Changing of the Guard, an influential book about the upcoming generation of leaders in Washington.

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How Serious are You about Saving?

Posted: 2:13 PM I've often compared being financially secure to being physically in shape - fiscally fit and physically fit. Most of us want to be physically fit, but very few of us are. The same holds true with financial security.

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Josh Hamilton, Pete Rose, and the Power of Redemption

Posted: 2:09 PM Before he played in his first major league baseball game in 2007, I wrote a column about an unknown player named Josh Hamilton. The same Josh Hamilton who was just named Most Valuable Player in this year's American League Championship Series. Josh is on his way to the World Series.

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Third World America: Is Living a Normal Life a Political Statement?

Posted: 2:07 PM I was in Louisville last week and saw Arianna Huffington and Howard Fineman tape a segment of the Kentucky Authors Series. Arianna was discussing her book, Third World America, and referred to her recent appearance on The Daily Show in which Jon Stewart asked her, "Isn't living a normal, stable life a political statement?"

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Be the First In Your Age Group to Embrace Technology

Posted: 12:55 AM I've always been an "early adapter" in the technology world. I had a personal computer long before any of my friends did. Same with the cell phone, fax machine, email, website and PDA. I got an iPad the first day they hit the market, just like I did with the iPhone.

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Eat, Pray, Love and the Economic Crisis

Posted: 12:52 AM I could be the last person in America to read Eat, Pray, Love, but the movie got me interested in the book. There is a segment in the book that keeps running through my mind.

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What Does the "Recovery" that Washington envisions look like?

Posted: 5:48 PM Since the collapse of the economy in 2008, economists and politicians keep talking in term of "recovery." One television commentator kept bleating about "mustard shoots". He was inventing positive signs in his head.

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Rick Robinson's Political Thriller

Posted: 12:25 AM One of my favorite writers is Fletcher Knebel. Knebel was a writer in the 1960's who mastered the art of political fiction. Knebel wrote 15 books (all which I read) and many were best sellers. Seven Days in May went to number one and became a major motion picture starring Burt Lancaster and Kurt Douglas.

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Hangover from the Bailout Party

Posted: 9:52 PM Let's face it, we screwed up. In the decade before 2008, the financial world was like a presidential inauguration ball.

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Money, Medicine and the Magic Pill

Posted: 11:25 PM I was talking to a person in the medical profession who said, "It seems like some patients are looking for a magic pill that will solve all their problems." I said "welcome to my business." The same analogy holds true in finance.

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Bank of America and the Whopper

Posted: 11:23 PM A Bank of America call center "tantalized" its employees. Management offered Burger King Whoppers to call center workers as a reward for hitting a quota set for peddling Bank of America products.

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The Debt Relief Rip-off

Posted: 2:26 AM Desperate people want to believe it's true. They want to believe that there are companies that can easily get rid of their credit card debt.

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A New York Times View of Kentucky

Posted: 10:37 PM The headline on the Rural Blog, for the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues,based at the University of Kentucky, said "NY Times misses point in story on Main Street versus Wall Street in regulatory battle."

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Is Kentucky Sentencing Kids to "Life or Meth?"

Posted: 10:42 PM I walked by a car in a parking lot that had a sticker on it that read, "Drug Courts Work." They don't work in Kentucky, anymore. At least, not for juveniles. The state has shut down the juvenile drug court program.

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Harry Moberly: Lawmaker Making a Difference

Posted: 10:51 PM I met Harry Moberly in 1979, the day before my 20th birthday. It was the first meeting I had in my new capacity as president of the Eastern Kentucky University Young Democrats. Harry was a 29 year-old lawyer, running against an establishment incumbent for a seat as state representative.

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When to take a Severance Package

Posted: 6:11 PM In 1991, the IBM plant in Lexington, Ky. became Lexmark. IBM offered employee severance packages. People could take the package or take a chance that Lexmark would keep them on.

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Wall Street and Legalized Loan Sharks

Posted: 6:07 PM In my childhood, Northern Kentucky was a hot spot for organized crime. In a town full of hustlers, prostitutes and gamblers, the profession they looked down on was loan sharking.

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Congress and the Ghost of Sam Ervin

Posted: 8:51 PM After a recent Congressional hearing concerning Goldman Sachs, Congress did something I thought was impossible. They almost made me feel sorry for the gang at Goldman Sachs.

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